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The magic of rail and transit investments is their multiple benefit. In the short term, they’re excellent recession fighters. Upgrading rail lines, for example, requires lots of blue collar labor. Public transit employs so many people that $1 billion in transit funding creates 22,000 jobs, 70 percent more than defense spending and 30 percent or more than a tax cut.
— Robert Pollin, University of Mass. Economist
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Green Party Canada 2010 leadership race?»
I hope so. To put it bluntly, Elizabeth May is an idiot. She has alienated too many members who were attracted by the balance of fiscal conservatism/market capitalism/social & environmental libearlism championed by Jim Harris. Here’s the onishenko.net endorsement and hopful candidacy for a Frank De Jong leadership.
-onishenko.net
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New Urbanism - Built to Last
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Interesting: “The 20% of homes with only cell phones compared with 17% for residences with landlines but no cell phones. In the first six months of 2003, just 3% of homes were wireless only, while 43% had just landlines.
