MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, scrambling to jump-start job creation in a sluggish U.S. economy, proposed a six-year plan on Monday to rebuild aging roads, railways and runways with an initial $50 billion investment.
"We are going to rebuild 150,000 miles (240,000 km) of our roads -- that's enough to circle the world six times. ... We're going to lay and maintain 4,000 miles (6,400 km) of our railways -- enough to stretch coast-to-coast," Obama told a labor rally in Milwaukee where several thousand supporters cheered his every line.
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