[quote=briansd1][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]The existing public works system doesn’t need reform, it needs to gear up to handle the extra money and best determine it’s allocation. This all takes time, NOT reform, and that’s what you and Krugman have no clue about. [/quote]

Are you saying that, with the right determination to do so, we can’t gear up quickly? So it’s not worth doing?

What about the American work ethic and can-do mentality that can move mountains?

I have more faith in America than you do.[/quote]

Brian: Nice try, but no cigar. Again, specious and fact-free in both content and approach. Dude, I do government work every day and I understand how the system works. You clearly do not. It doesn’t have shit to do with determination or “can-do” spirit (and believe me, I know about and have both). It also has dick to do with faith in America, of which I have plenty.

What it has to do with is a system that is in place to ensure that money is correctly spent in the best public interest by those qualified to do the best possible work for that money. I know you enjoy your magical thinking and buy into Obama’s lie that we have excess construction workers just lying around waiting for work (we do, but they are the WRONG kind of construction workers, meaning you don’t take a former residential construction drywall taper from Lake Elsinore and put him to work doing a heavy civil bridge retrofit in Minnesota), but the reality is far different from clicking your special little red shoes and saying “Go, America, and let’s do this!”.

Nope. You have to be qualified, you have to understand FAR and CFR (go look ’em up) and prevailing wage and certified payroll and Davis-Bacon and how to manage a SureTrak or Primavera P3 CPM schedule and on and on and on. Residential construction is a walk in the park compared to Commercial Class-A, which is pretty easy when compared with public works compliance.

Again, you open your mouth and come up with simplistic and quite ignorant little bon mots that have nothing to do with how Civil/Heavy Civil/Structural public works projects and programs are done in the US. Hope is NOT a plan, nor is invoking that can-do bullshit, which has nothing to do with nothing.

Like I said, educate yourself on the process and the system before opining. You’ll save yourself some significant embarrassment. Too bad Biden and Obama didn’t, huh?

I am all for WAY more public works infrastructure programs and have openly advocated for same on this board for years. Don’t twist my words or meaning. Just because you’re ignorant on how things are built, don’t try to turn this around and make it out to be that I’m somehow un-American. Far from it.