I think @Jaxk argument would be on point if he was looking at military spending. There is really no purpose in military spending. It can’t be recycled. It has the lowest job multipier rate of any kind of spending there is. On the other hand, he points at road building spending and completely ignores the benefit to the overall economy that occurs when goods and services can be delivered more efficiently.
Just about all federal infrastructure building projects are of this nature. They are subsidies for private business, not revenue generators on their own. You have to wonder why businesses all cluster near the major exits to roadways or to train stations or airports or other major transportation routes. Or do you? Without public infrastructure, the economy would suffer horribly.
In fact, one has to wonder the economy’s current woes aren’t due to a lack of federal spending on infrastructure projects in the last decade or so since the Shrub got elected. We know he was willing to spend a lot on Defense and Homeland Security, but we already know that is the least job producing work there is. Our misplaced priorities has done more to give the terrorists an ongoing victory than anything they managed to do themselves.
Anyway, there will be no new deal because the Republicans have selective vision and let ideology prevail before scientific data. Hell, they don’t even believe in science. I wonder where they think technological advances come from. Never mind.
There will be no change in Washington, or if there is change, it will be for the worse. If the Republicans get in, we can expect a recession that lasts and lasts. Scary, eh?