Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Trains
It would be nice to have high speed rail service from DC to RI. I saw this at Tree Hugger and wanted to post it. How we spend tax dollars is important.

8,555 -- Number of jobs created by spending $1 billion on defense.

10,779 -- Number of jobs created by spending $1 billion on health care.

17,687 -- Number of jobs created by spending $1 billion on education.

19,795 -- Number of jobs created by spending $1 billion on public transportation.


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