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Originally Posted by raymor
That's new? Obama said those projects were "shovel ready" in 2009 and we each gave him $3,000 to do that. Was he lying in 2009 when he said he was going to do it then? What did he do with our trillion dollars? I'm pretty sure that's not new, but "more of the same". I'm also pretty sure that if we give him another half trillion he won't fix any more bridges than he did in 2009. Maybe the "new" part is that THIS time he won't give bridge repair money to the renamed ACORN?
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What happened last time is that money just got tossed around and was never really properly designated for. The Daily Show had a woman on whose job it was to follow where all the stimulus spending went. She resigned when the process got so convoluted that she could no longer follow it. There was a city in Oklahoma that was giving a few million dollars supposedly for a "seaport" renovation. I'm not a scholar, but last time I checked Oklahoma was not on the sea. What became of that money nobody seems to know.
In theory if this money actually puts people to work and gets them out there doing these jobs it isn't a terrible way to spend money, but I won't be holding my breath.