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REMARKS TO THE CONFERENCE
ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND INVESTMENT

Economic Policy Institute
Washington , DC
January 19, 1995

by Robert A. Georgine, President
Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO

I’m pleased and honored to be here with all of you. We’re going to be talking about a subject that rarely makes headlines but ought to . . . a subject that everyone’s for but no one wants to pay for. Nobody in this room has to be reminded that infrastructure is the very conduit of our economy, the blood vessels that bring us everything from food to knowledge. Right now, it stands in need of open-heart surgery.

For me, infrastructure is a personal and historical issue. Franklin Roosevelt used public works as the major means to pull the country out of the Depression. Why didn’t he use investment in education or health care or housing? Well, he did put money in those things, but he knew that investment in concrete and steel would have a better payoff. It would grow the economy . . . help all business activity. . . and that’s what needed to be done.

In addition, it would put large numbers of people to work, help train them in viable, long-term skills so they wouldn’t be back on the street and on the dole after the projects were done. The point is: Creating infrastructure creates quality jobs.

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