ryan29 ryan29:
Woodhead Woodhead:
I'm in construction. Actually, I'm an estimator. I have not priced one project related to the stimulus package yet. Actually, I have hardly priced a project yet.
Unless you count the Walmart expansion, and you have to work for free on those projects anyway. There ain't much work out there, and what there is, its going cheap.
well maybe it depends where you are as in my travels there seems to be alot of construction work taking place in some areas but not as much in others . like i've been to parts of northern ontario like north bay and there was alot of construction there some examples included the highway 11 expansions , a new hospital is being built there and also a new childrens hospital/centre is being built . the hwy 11 and hospital were more provincial projects but the childrens hospital was being built with a mix of federal and provincial funds . the economy would be very dead there if not for these projects from what i saw . so there definity providing a boost .
None of those projects as far as i know are "stimulus projects"
The hospital was started 2 years ago.
If a project started a month or so ago, it may be a stimulus project. Anything already under construction was just regular spending.
Running us into a 30 or 50 billion dollar deficit for stimulus is stupid in my opinion. Stimulus projects have to be complete by 2011. Thats just too fast to plan anything worthwhile. Our city is trying to get stuff going with the money and they are going to run our city into deep financial troubles.