Last night on Hardball Matthews offered a great idea for creating jobs that I think we all ought to support.
It's all about our broken infrastructure. He focused specifically on the thousands of bridges throughout the country that have been designated as "unsafe". His idea and suggestion to the Administration:
Take pictures of the bridges
Name the Districts where they are located
Name the elected Congress-people from those Districts
Ask them point-blank if the safety of their constituents, and of their own
families, is truly a priority for them
Consult local engineers as to how best to repair the unsafe bridges
Contact local media outlets - newspapers and television - to print the
pictures and do high profile stories on the safety issues and need for repairs
In other words - force members of Congress to say "Yea" or "Nay" that they are willing to let school buses filled with children continue traveling on these bridges.
"Yea" or "Nay" whether a catastrophe is more acceptable than FIXING the dang things.
The publicity will rile up all Americans to say that such a catastrophe is NOT acceptable.
Take it to the very people who are driving on those bridges. The people will demand that funds be made available to get to work doing what we all know needs to be done.
And jobs in all these places will be immediate.
Talk it up, write the White House. Support this great idea. It's the right thing to do.