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Article: The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa, John Van Nostrand column: Where will ag spend Obama billions?(Column)
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- The Hawk Eye (Burlington, IA)
- Article date:
- January 18, 2009
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Byline: John Van Nostrand
Jan. 18--And that's in addition to the yet-to-be spent $350 billion from the $700 billion, October 2008 bank bailout.
How do you spend $1.1 trillion to get as big a bang -- jobs, public infrastructure, economic turnover -- as quickly as possible?
No one really knows but one outcome is fairly certain: Billions will be wasted through either incompetence or fraud. If 10 percent is wasted, that's $100 billion; 3 percent waste is $30 billion.
Imagine what a wise investment of, say, $30 billion in U.S. agriculture could return today and tomorrow.
How about the lock and dam upgrades on the Mississippi and ...
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