Fix the Roads to Fix the Economy

Cross-posted from Huffington Post; by Teamsters President Jim Hoffa.

There is work to do in America, and Americans who need work.

President-elect Barack Obama wants to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild this country's neglected infrastructure. He's right. It's really a no-brainer.

We bailed out the banks. We can certainly repave Main Street -- and help out the working families who live there.

I travel around this country a lot. Everywhere I go, I see streets and highways that need resurfacing, bridges about to fall down and airports in dire need of new runways.

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