...he's very well connected and let's us listeners "in" on a lot of "behind closed doors" stuff.
So this guy "let you in" on the "fact" that $8B was in this bill for the purpose of engineering studies, and he "let you in" on the "fact" that these engineers are not middle class people, and employing them to study feasibility and implementation of high-speed mass transit would not stimulate the economy?
He's on AM radio. I wouldn't expect him to tell you the truth.
Folks here have enough sense to recognize that creating jobs for engineers creates jobs for middle class people, that "shovel ready" does not necessarily mean ready for uneducated blue-collar workers to come along and lean on their shovel handles while one of their ten co-workers operates a machine, that engineers spend money on their families just as much as anybody else in the middle class, that high-speed transit is crucial to our nation's future, and that before the shovels hit the ground, their work is absolutely essential to a successful project.
Apparently Mr. Gross (what an unfortunate name) is not aware of those things, and therefore it never occurred to him to make his listeners aware of them. Could that be the reason why he is on AM talk radio, rather than posting on the Rant?
Oh BTW.
The living wage in San Francisco for a single adult is about $26K annually.
