infrastructure
GRITtv: The F Word: Philanthro-Feudalism is the Future!
China's new economic plan is a relic of the past. It focuses on raising standards of living. How quaint! When China's leaders unveiled their latest five-year plan recently, they revealed that their focus is on lowering inequality, investing in railroads, and highways and hospitals, and expanding domestic demand through income subsidies. Fancy that! http://www.grittv.org Distributed by Tubemogul.
Email this pageGRITtv: The F Word: Obama Should Be Ashamed of His Budget
“This freeze would cut the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade, bringing this kind of spending -- domestic discretionary spending -- to its lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was President. Let me repeat that...." That was our president announcing his 2012 budget. And indeed let's repeat that — and note a few things he didn't say. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Making Infrastructure Sexy Again
After our terrifying experience with a manhole explosion and fire at the office last Thursday, the pressing need for infrastructure investment was brought home to us here at GRITtv in a very real way. Years of budget cuts and tax cuts have led to public safety hazards around the country, and the stimulus bill isn't enough to fix all the electrical, structural, and other problems. We talk to Fabiola Carrion of the Progressive States Network, Amanda Little, Grist contributor and author of Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells---Our Ride to the Renewable Future, and Glenn Von Nostitz, former director of the Office of Policy Management, Office of the NYC Comptroller and Senior Fellow in Policy Research and Development at the Center for an Urban Future, about the problems with infrastructure and ask where our priorities should lie: with public safety or green technology.
GRITtv: Thomas Frank: Confront the Wrecking Crew
Author Thomas Frank has spent a lot of time thinking about why people are Republicans or Democrats. His study of conservatives has left him convinced that having anti-government people in charge of government leads only to destruction. With a Democrat in charge in Washington, is there a way to fix the wreckage left behind? Frank sits down with Laura to discuss.
GRITtv: The F Word: Man-Made Disaster in New Orleans
This week a federal district judge finally ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers was indeed responsible for part of the devastation in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and parts of St. Bernard Parish. The failure of the Corps to recognize the hazards wetland destruction had created was "clearly negligent on the part of the Corps," said U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. No judgment, of course, will bring back the Ninth Ward, which years after Katrina and Rita is still largely a ghost town. But this acknowledgment that the destruction didn't have to happen is important. You want national security? Stimulus? Jobs? That's it, and this is the time.
