The Obama stimulus package should be spent on transformative investments, not bridges and roads. - By Eliot Spitzer - Slate Magazine
The Obama stimulus package should be spent on transformative investments, not bridges and roads. - By Eliot Spitzer - Slate Magazine (flag)
slate.com — The incoming Obama administration and Congress are planning a huge fiscal stimulus package. They hope that such a stimulus will catalyze an economic turnaround and be a cornerstone of a "New New Deal." If the early reports are reliable, the stimulus will include a huge tax cut and will fund ...
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The Next Voice in the Chorus
The Glittering Eye — ... Eliot Spitzer is the latest voice in the chorus advocating something other than bridges and roads for the stimulus package the Obama Administration is sure to roll out, advocating “transformative investments” in energy, healthcare, communications infrastructure, and education. ...

How Best to Stimulate the Economy?
PoliGazette — ... Eliot Spitzer is writing for Slate after his fall from grace a few months ago.  Spitzer says that the Obama government’s stimulus plan should focus not on essential infrastructure refurbishments but rather on “transformative investments” that might springboard the American economy ahead of its competitors.  More than that, Spitzer says that it’s incumbent on Obama’s second New Deal to act in this manner in order to “transform our economy and, in turn, some of the fundamental underpinnings of our society”. ...

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