Jack Burns Lives!

The New Deal, Abbey and Obama

The Gravy Train To Nowhere

“While shoring up infrastructure is good, many projects remain sketchy for economic, policy, and environmental reasons. Despite the immediate economic boost, we might be better off if some projects were never built, and we’re certainly being rushed toward policies on infrastructure (like tolling and congestion pricing, even privatization) that carry with them larger societal implications. The new New Deal is still predicated on the idea that growth is good, that building big and more is our destiny. Edward Abbey said that’s the political philosophy of a cancer cell. It’s certainly the kind of over-reach that’s helped put us in the dire straits we’re in now.”