Put Americans to work providing fire protection infrastructure and
energy independence for San Diego's fire-ravaged East County region
By Miriam Raftery, Editor, East County Magazine
December
7, 2008 (San Diego's East County) —President-Elect Barack
Obama is expected to propose the largest infrastructure-rebuilding program
since Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated the Works Progress Administration
(WPA) during the Great Depression. The goal is to put Americans back
to work and revitalize the economy while also repairing roads, bridges, levees
and other public projects.
While fiscal conservatives may oppose massive spending on public works projects,
the reality is that with a Democratic-controlled Congress, the President's
proposed infusion of capital into infrastructure rebuilding is guaranteed to
pass. "So why not have San Diego County's bipartisan Congressional delegation
propose that a portion of those infrastructure dollars be spent to improve
fire safety right here in East County, where the worst wildfires in California
history struck in 2003 and again in 2007?"
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