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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShepard Smith, "there's a silver lining..."
There are billions and billions of $$$ in jobs on the way.
Licking his chops. The Shock Doctrine never applied more.
SubgeniusHasSlack
(276 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)NYC is a union construction city. The Jersey shore, too.
It sucks like anything to come in this way, but there will be a construction boom.
opiate69
(10,129 posts)The government, and (more importantly), the cash-hoarding insurance industry will be dumping billions of dollars into the economy. Much of which will be going to union workers, who will be spending that money in their community, thus potentially driving ancillary job growth.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)And currently unemployed tradesworkers.
So the fucking banks and Wall St and GOP military-spending motherfuckers better not sit on their hands when POTUS tries to get that funding flowing ... As horrible as it is, here is the US's opprtunity to both reinvigorate the economy and address our aged infrastructure ( oh and think about building green, too) ...
RichGirl
(4,119 posts)Aside from jobs, I always love it when insurance companies have to write big checks.
onenote
(42,296 posts)insurance rates go up. Ask folks in Florida who basically have to self-insure as a result of the string of hurricanes that hit that are a few years back how pleased they are with that situation.
onenote
(42,296 posts)Which thus raises the question of what point you are trying to make. Maybe "silver lining" isn't the term I would choose to use, but the fact is that the rebuilding projects necessitated by Sandy will create construction jobs.
EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)Good union jobs would be at risk under his administration.
And "silver lining" is not a term I would choose to use.
http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/What-s-Mitt-Romney-s-Plan-for-Unions-and-Workers
onenote
(42,296 posts)EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)insensitive and inappropriate. No one directly affected by this storm feels there
is a silver lining. Sorry I have to point that out.
As far as responding to your point If for some reason Rmoney were elected, I see
him turning this into an opportunity to change the right to work laws and create a
war of sorts with the unions. He said in the video that would be his goal on day
one.
I'm reminded of cheney's connections to Haliburton and how they benefitted from
911 and the Iraq war disproportionately due to bush/cheney's immoral business
practices. Under an Obama administration I'm not suspicious of how recovery would
be handled. Under Rmoney, recovery, fair and honest distribution of contracts, any
thing that would be in the best interests of the people would be at stake. That was
the reason for bring up Klein's "Shock Doctrine." Romney in office would be The
Shock Doctrine on steroids.