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Shelly.Cox
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Location: Frederick, USA
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The surveyor's role in Obama's infrastructue revitalization plan |
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In the February issue we'll be printing an Intersect column about how surveyors can prepare to take part in infrastructure revitalization if Obama pushes forward with his rumored massive stimulus plan. What do you folks think of this potential plan and surveyors' roles?
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Will
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Location: Allentown, PA USA
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Re: The surveyor's role in Obama's infrastructue revitalization plan |
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| This really isn't a question of politics. Government involvement in the economy, in this case by paying for public projects, is a principle of Keynesian economics. Unfortunately, politics will play a role in the choice of some of these projects. But it shouldn't. Regardless, engineers and surveyors should reap some benefits.
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k-bob
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Re: The surveyor's role in Obama's infrastructue revitalization plan |
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| I'm skeptical of the "plan" - The free market tends to self-correct over time. . .looking at the Great Depression, it was over 10 yrs before the market started coming back around, aruably not through FDR's similar Keynesian stimulus alone. I'm hopeful Obama's plan can result in much needed infrastructure revitalization, but his plan has so much pork in it, its hard to weed out the true stimulus measures that our economy really needs
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