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I’m having a fun time sorting through the stimulus package. In fact, I’m especially liking this site called Stimulus Watch. It helps remind me what really matters in our economy. Who knew that bike paths and golf courses are the way to get the American economy back on track?
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Jeremiah| 2.3.09 @ 4:30PM
If you were to move to a city with great bike paths, you might come to see that they have a point.
In my hometown, I can easily glide all over town on direct, safe bike paths. When it's not so cold, hundreds of people are on them at any given time.
They're great. I'd happily see tax dollars spent on them. Their "value added" (to use the horrible, language-torturing argot of the market capitalist) is well worth the investment.
Come on, reactionaries. Get off your fat asses and ride a bike! You'll feel better, I promise.
Doug| 2.3.09 @ 5:08PM
Your comments on MSNBC rang hollow, insipid and ridiculous. To lie publically about the stimulus plan is incredulous. After eight years of nonsensical government growth and recless spending by the Repubs, in a time of need, you offer zero solutions, only the your limp wick of criticism.
Corbett | 2.3.09 @ 7:55PM
Doesn't stimulus imply sparking some process that keeps producing? How does a dog park in Chula Vista, CA stimulate our economy? The sod they install should, hopefully, produce an urge in my dog. Maybe that's what the new New Dealers really mean. Not Stimulus Package but Urging Package. Sure feels like we're getting piddled on!
J. Peter Freire | 2.4.09 @ 3:49AM
Doug, we'll make note of your ip address, and delete whatever comments you post that are anywhere near as meanspirited. It's not because we dislike dissent. It's that we dislike mean people.
Jeremiah -- I'm a cyclist myself. I'd really love bike paths to be built all over the place. Especially in DC, where a bike path isn't a guarantee on safety, but it's a step in that direction. (Our cab drivers seemed to consider pedestrians like Golden Coins in a video game.)
Problem is: Why stimulus spending? And isn't this something local people should pay for, not, say, somebody in Idaho?
Thomas| 2.4.09 @ 11:05AM
Sorry that I am late to this discussion, but will someone kindly explain to me why I should pay for bicycle paths in Des Moines or Vail when I live 2000 miles away? If you want bicycle paths in your town, please pay for them yourself. I'll pay for what I desire in my community... and somethings that I don't particularly want.
Biker| 2.11.09 @ 10:07PM
Bike "paths" are cheaper than roads (think of them as bikeways if you like) - but those of us in larger cities would rather see stimulus dollars putting people to work building mass transit options like bikeways than the much more expensive option - bigger roadways.
It's not like we're building paths around lakes, we've had those for years in our city. Google "The bike superhighway" and you'll see what my city is doing with our precious tax dollars.
I'm sure there is some stimulus money moving to your city as well, and I'm not about to judge how you spend it - I'm sure it's needed, as are our bikeways.