http://www.shopfloor.org/2009/01/13/shovel-ready-or-just-lawsuit-ready/ The National Association of Manufacturers Premier Manufacturing Blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:17:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.shopfloor.org/2009/01/13/shovel-ready-or-just-lawsuit-ready/#comment-7930 Stimulating Who, Exactly? | OpenMarket.org Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:07:37 +0000 http://www.shopfloor.org/?p=8379#comment-7930 [...] Great point by Carter Wood over at the excellent Shopfloor blog of the National Association of Manufacturers. Building on my point at NRO about the tension between infrastructure projects and existing regulation, Carter says: There is good reason to fear that any significant project that promotes both quick economic investment and long-term competitiveness — say, modernizing and expanding the nation’s electrical grid — will immediately be hit by litigation lasting years and years and years. In which case the only thing being stimulated is the fundraising drives of alarmist, anti-growth environmental groups. [...] [...] Great point by Carter Wood over at the excellent Shopfloor blog of the National Association of Manufacturers. Building on my point at NRO about the tension between infrastructure projects and existing regulation, Carter says: There is good reason to fear that any significant project that promotes both quick economic investment and long-term competitiveness — say, modernizing and expanding the nation’s electrical grid — will immediately be hit by litigation lasting years and years and years. In which case the only thing being stimulated is the fundraising drives of alarmist, anti-growth environmental groups. [...]

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