Because we tend not to entrust this sort of critical public infrastructure to the private sector.
This way, at least the government can use that money to invest in public infrastructure projects.
That and the sense, especially in California, that the public infrastructure is falling to pieces.
He hailed Plaid's plans for the economy, including a proposed not-for-profit company that would fund public infrastructure projects.
Geithner also wants to see more investment incentives for businesses, more U.S. exports and growth in public infrastructure.
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Economic activity is expected to receive a boost from accelerated approval of public infrastructure projects, the IMF said on Tuesday.
One bipartisan measure would have withheld federal aid to states and localities that confiscate private lands for something other than public infrastructure.
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Some senators have said they want to see more in the bill such as extending unemployment benefits and more investment in public infrastructure.
Later, the government money is likely to help rebuild two schools and the city's hospital, along with other public infrastructure damaged by the tornado.
About thirty years ago, Motorola hooked up with Nextel to bring national two-way push-to-talk service to businesses and government through a public infrastructure network.
It's hard to find an economist or pundit who does not want to see more public infrastructure investment in Britain to support the economy.
Like Barack Obama, Mr Rohatyn is an unabashed advocate of more public infrastructure spending and has proposed a National Infrastructure Bank to finance it.
The most serious example is Haiti, which is particularly vulnerable to extreme events because of deforestation, difficult topography, poverty and a lack of public infrastructure.
The chancellor has argued that for a country like Britain with relatively low debt and a run-down public infrastructure, it makes sense to borrow to invest.
Independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, dreamed of a socialist society and created a vast public infrastructure, much of which became a burden on the state.
Then there is the public infrastructure market, a mobile market.
In other words, a foreign inflow, as well as financing good things such as public infrastructure and corporate investment, is also associated with debt defaults, inflation and currency crises.
However, even tropical states can be water-constrained when the public infrastructure is so poor that inundation causes bacteria to run off from sewage and other sources and spoil the vital supply.
Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, a staunch advocate of gun control and public infrastructure and a champion of the Amtrak railroad system, announced Thursday he will not seek re-election in 2014.
The government regulations also call on travelers to follow public orders, protect ecology, public infrastructure and utilities, maintain a clean environment, respect the rights of others and show them courtesy, Xinhua reported.
America may boast highly efficient labour and capital markets, but these advantages are partly offset by poor primary and secondary education, run-down public infrastructure, and inadequate saving that makes the country dependent on foreign capital.
Washington state has a superior highway infrastructure spending for example twice what Colorado was spendign for maintenance per mile when my family chose to retire here before Colorado started its share public infrastructure decline under the its Tabor Amendment.
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"It combines the investments that MCC has made in many sub-Saharan African countries in agriculture and public infrastructure such as roads and irrigation to complement Agra's investments in providing the rural poor with seeds and fertilisers, " he told the BBC.
"If the public infrastructure is out there, it makes people feel more comfortable, particularly the people who aren't very familiar with electric cars, " said Paul Scott, vice president of Plug In America, a coalition of electric car advocates and drivers.
Recovery was only possible because we took action to repair our financial system, driving down borrowing costs for homeowners, consumers and businesses, and put in place the Recovery Act, which increased demand by cutting taxes for families, helping unemployed workers, and investing in public infrastructure.
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But this is also the chancellor who courts private financiers to build public infrastructure, who stuck to the Tories' tight spending plans in his first two years in office, and who fiddles and fusses with the tax and benefit systems to ensure money goes to the deserving, not the idle, poor.
But most seem to accept that Brazil will need to build a prosperous future the hard way: cutting current spending to invest more in public infrastructure (a lot more), and, finally getting to grips with some regulation and red tape that probably does more to hurt Brazil's competitiveness than the high exchange rate.
It's one thing to have a national vaccination campaign--easily enough done--but quite another to rebuild public infrastructure, offer care for maladies ranging from AIDS to obstructed labor (which requires, of course, a Cesarean section, which in turn requires electricity and an operating room and someone who can perform the procedure), and to recruit and train that army of community health workers.
The potential for this sort of attack and the number of iPad users on the list we saw who were stewards of major public and commercial infrastructure necessitated our public disclosure.
Less than 5% of all health dollars in the U.S. go to public health infrastructure.
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