Arent Productively News Today

Instead we have traffic pileups for hours and hour as we sit and do nothing. if now is the time to do it, why arent we doing it? >> senator sanders, thank you for being with us tonight. >> great for being with you. >> why arent we? >> everything you said is true. everybody knows you have to invest in infrastructure. we can create millions of decent paying jobs in the long term and i speak as a former mayor, you obviously save money because you dont have to do constant repairs as weve just seen. ...

Thats the bad news. the good news, there has never been a better time to fix it than right now. things like aging and broken water main, that is exactly what were talking about when we talk about infrastructure. and infrastructure just happens to be the best deal in the economy right now. here are the reasons: we have construction workers who arent productively employed. the unemployment rate in that sector is about 14%, its a depression. the global slowdown has meant a slowdown in construction ...

Arent we doing it? >> senator sanders, thank you for being with us tonight. >> great for being with you. >> why arent we? >> everything you said is true. everybody knows you have to invest in infrastructure. we can create millions of decent paying jobs in the long term and i speak as a former mayor, you obviously save money because you dont have to do constant repairs as weve just seen. the simple reason is im afraid that you have a republican mindset that says, hmm, lets see we can repair the i...

Thats the bad news. the good news, there has never been a better time to fix it than right now. things like aging and broken water main, that is exactly what were talking about when we talk about infrastructure. and infrastructure just happens to be the best deal in the economy right now. here are the reasons: we have construction workers who arent productively employed. the unemployment rate in that sector is about 14%, its a depression. the global slowdown has meant a slowdown in construction ...

That discussion but you cant say that doing this evenings like fixing water mains is sugar high economics. you get something tangible in the end. you get a new water main. not all infrastructure is what you can see with your eyes. roads and bridges. sometimes its the stuff under your feet, bringing water to your family. even if tomorrow the economy recovered completely, we still as a country need to fix our water mains. its one of the things we need to do no matter what. now is not only as good ...

Billion over the next 20 years. thats a lot of money. thats the bad news. the good news, there has never been a better time to fix it than right now. things like aging and broken water main, that is exactly what were talking about when we talk about infrastructure. and infrastructure just happens to be the best deal in the economy right now. here are the reasons: we have construction workers who arent productively employed. the unemployment rate in that sector is about 14%, its a depression. the...