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Instead we have traffic pileups for hours and hour as we sit and do nothing. if now is the time to do it, why aren't we doing it? >> senator sanders, thank you for being with us tonight. >> great for being with you. >> why aren't 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 don't have to do constant repairs as we've just seen. the simple reason is i'm afraid that you have a republican mindset that says, hmm, let's see we ...

That's 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 we're 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 aren't productively employed. the unemployment rate in that sector is about 14%, it's a depression. the global slowdown has meant a slowdown in construction costs because raw materialss are cheap because countries like china and india aren't using as ma...

Aren't we doing it? >> senator sanders, thank you for being with us tonight. >> great for being with you. >> why aren't 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 don't have to do constant repairs as we've just seen. the simple reason is i'm afraid that you have a republican mindset that says, hmm, let's see we can repair the infrastructure, save money long time, create millions of jobs, bad idea. barack obama will look...

That's 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 we're 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 aren't productively employed. the unemployment rate in that sector is about 14%, it's a depression. the global slowdown has meant a slowdown in construction costs because raw materialss are cheap because countries like china and india aren't using as ma...

That discussion but you can't 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 it's 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. it's one of the things we need to do no matter what. now is not only as good a time to do it, it's a better time than almost ever to do it. instead we have traffic pileups fo...