  Goldmark: Barack Obama should push his infrastructure plan
Peter Goldmark  Peter Goldmark, former publisher of the
International Herald Peter Goldmark  Peter Goldmark writes a
weekly column for Newsday. He is  bio | email  We're in the
middle of a painfully halting recovery that may well turn into
another recession. The president and Congress concocted an
amateurish scheme of across-the-board cuts they thought no one
would ever dare implement -- which has just taken effect.
Corporations are making bigger profits as a percentage of gross
domestic product than any time since the 1950s, but they're
sitting on those profits, not investing them. Despite last
week's jobs numbers, more than 20 million Americans are out of a
job or can't find enough work. State and local governments are
cutting back employment and services. Millions have been forced
out of their homes or had their budgets squeezed as the result
of small print in misleading mortgages. Our government is
paralyzed by political polarization, and the