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You are not talking to Bush or Cheney.




So you spent $1 million to save roughly $40K a year.   In order to break even, you'll have to wait 25 years, assuming you can actually trust the reports are accurate.  Not that'd I'd ever accuse politicians of lying.  (seeing as how you recently went through a number of high-profile scandals)


How much you want to bet that within 25 years, they'll upgrade the building again?


But again, that may or may not have created wealth.   Wealth is only created when the finished product is actually worth something.   Only if the building is sold, or if the value of what was done, exceeds the cost of doing, was wealth created.   Unless your government sells the build, and it's worth $1 million over how much it would have sold for otherwise, or if in 25 years, you don't upgrade the building further and it does in fact save money, would there be wealth.


As for the contractors, unless their economic activity was sustained, then nothing was improved by it.




Illegals are already pouring over the border and taking jobs from otherwise qualified American's even with the pro-union mandates.  So that is a red herring.


A bigger problem is the Union caused crash of the auto industry that results in more immigrants getting auto manufacture jobs.   Unions have a vastly larger negative impact, than positive.




So your theory is that by having a bridge built, your economy will be better, when they already are able to buy things, it just requires an extra step?




No actually it's not.  You can draw a clear consistent comparison between policies enacted in those locations, and their result, to policies enacted in our country, and the results.


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