resulted in another petition in to withdraw. anything can happen. you can see where this is going. but there s one petition on the site that we here at the ed show can certainly get behind. it s a substantial stimulus project that would create millions of jobs, boost america s steel industry, got to love that, expand our space program, and basically guarantee our national security. what could be better? someone has petitioned the administration to build a death star. the fictional moon-size space base capable of destroying entire planets from star wars. just under 2,000 people have signed the petition to ask president obama to secure the resources of constructing a death star. which means it still needs about
to withdraw. anything can happen. you can see where this is going. but there s one petition on the site that we here at the ed show can certainly get behind. it s a substantial stimulus project that would create millions of jobs, boost america s steel industry, got to love that, expand our space program, and basically guarantee our national security. what could be better? someone has petitioned the administration to build a death star. the fictional moon-size space base capable of destroying entire planets from star wars. just under 2,000 people have signed the petition to ask president obama to secure the resources to construct a death star. which means it still needs about 23,000 signatures before the
make those investments, at least some of us, i m not. governor dan malloy, we know you re in the thick of it. thank you for your time tonight. we appreciate it. thank you. i have a modest proposal. how about this, so sometimes power goes out because of transformer explosions or because of innun san diegos of water. more frequently because a tree falls down on the power line. how about we do a big stimulus project for the country, infrastructure structure project wherein all of the places where the power went out because of hurricane sandy or something else in the past year, the trees are going to fall on the lines again, how about in all of those places we have a big nationally funded investment in infrastructure to bury the power lines. how about that? who would think that s a bad idea? just throwing it out there. we ll be right back.
he wants to invest in infrastructure on things that can make a difference today and put people to work for a long period of time. neil: normally when you invest you have money to invest. guest: whether it is human capital, like education, whether it is jobs, skills, training, or information structure, these are long-term investments and when you build a miscellaneous or a road you have to borrow. neil: are you disappoint wed have not seep more bang for the buck? guest: first of all, we saw plenty of people working on a lot of the stimulus project as couple years ago and when it comes to infrastructure, roads and bridges these are long stem long-term investments. neil: but we are down net-net. we have been building back over two years but even by your math that is weak number for recovery. guest: we should all be
we never did that. we were terrible at spinning the good things in stimulus and also spinning things in health care. as a result, those things which i think were significant achievement, he got no credit for. ever time i m driving and i see a big sign on a the side of the road that says this improvement project funded by the american recovery act, which is the name of the stimulus project, i tend to think of that as cutting both ways because on the one hand you are trying to attribute a tangible benefit to taxpayers. i know what you re going to say. at the same time the reason someone is seeing that sign is because they are sitting in traffic. what i would have done, i would have got a mascot. put him right on the side. number two, i would add jobs created by this revitalization project. big letters right underneath it. can we interpret on this gas pump deregulation issue the