2008 GOP debate in Boca Raton Florida: on Technology


Mike Huckabee: $150B for highway infrastructure is better stimulus package

If we’re going to spend $150 billion [as in Bush’s economic stimulus package], I’d like to suggest that maybe we add two lanes of highway from Bangor all the way to Miami on I-95. A third of the United States population lives within 100 miles of that. This nation’s infrastructure is falling apart. And if we built those lanes of highways--with American labor, American steel, American concrete--I believe it would do more to stimulate the economy.

And the reason I say that is because when we were going through a recession in my state, we were in the middle of a billion-dollar highway construction program that brought about 40,000 jobs and brought a billion dollars of capital into the economy. That’s a long- term stimulus package that I think would have more impact on the American long-term future. And it would keep social capital from being wasted, fuel wasted. A lot of people sit around in traffic every day, and we’ve done nothing about it.

Source: 2008 GOP debate in Boca Raton Florida Jan 24, 2008

  • The above quotations are from 2008 Republican presidential debate in Boca Raton, on Jan. 24, 2008, the eve of the Florida primary. Moderated by NBC's Brian Williams; hosted by the St. Petersburg Times..
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