Mark Kirk to Business Leaders: It's Time to 'Cherry-Pick' Best Ideas
Speaking at Tuesday's legislative breakfast, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk offers short-term action to turn the economy around.
Before a crowd of hundreds of local business leaders on Tuesday morning, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk offered his ideas to turn the economy around. The Illinois Republican was the guest of a dozen chambers of commerce, who organized Tuesday’s legislative breakfast at Pipers Banquets in Aurora. And though Kirk led off with some dire words about our current economic situation, he did come to the table with several ideas. Kirk has already introduced one of them, the Lincoln Legacy Infrastructure Development Act, in Congress. Co-authored with Republican Rep. Randy Hultgren, from Illinois’ 14th District, the bill removes roadblocks to public/private partnerships in the rail, highway and aviation industries. The idea, he said, is to get those projects …
robert poznanski
10:33 am on Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Just what the country needs, more Capitalistic Socialism, in the form of providing tax money, for private concerns! If he thinks jobs are going to be created by "giving taxpayer money to corporations", think again! This has not happened, as they prefer to spend their money on emerging markets overseas, and will continue to do so, at the expense of the American labor market! It is time to bring … more ›