President Joe Biden PHOTO: White House Yes, this week’s topic and questions are based on the legendary baseball film, “Field of Dreams.” Actor James Earl Jones said repeatedly, “If you build it, they will come!” He was talking about building a baseball stadium in an Iowa cornfield. I thought about that a lot this past week as President Biden offered a major infrastructure plan, and then Senate Republican offered a more slimmed-down alternative. Will they come? “Let’s “brunch” on that this week.
“Biden Channels FDR” – The president’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan may be one of the most ambitious public works projects since President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which included the CCC and WPA, which built a lot of stuff. “These are investments we have to make,” Biden said of his plan. “We can afford to make them. To put it another way — we can’t afford not to.” Many presidents (and governors) have employed big infrastructure spending because, a) needed public works projects get done, and b) it usually stimulates the economy by creating jobs and construction spending that ripples throughout the economy.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST