Lesh
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/——-/ I’m trying to establish your tolerance for lies coming out of a democRATs mouth. Obozo lied about shovel ready jobs and laughed about his minions who believed him.
What the fuck do you think "shovel ready" actually means?
If a multimillion dollar project begins in 6 months to a year from the day funding is approved, that's quick. I'm a project manager. It's what I do. There are all sorts of things from engineering to procurement that has to happen.
But those projects did happen. In fact, the Transportation Department's website still carries a rundown of stimulus projects, saying that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act "initiated more than 13,000 projects through the Federal Highway Administration, improving more than 42,000 miles of road and more than 2,700 bridges." (Emphasis theirs.)
Many opponents of the stimulus did criticize its efficiency, pointing out that many of the infrastructure projects it promised weren't "shovel ready." And that's true, as investigative journalist Michael Grabell told NPR's Fresh Air in 2012.
"There was this famous scene ... in Tuscumbia, Mo., where the minute the stimulus package is signed there's a makeshift board meeting, they bang the gavel and sparks fly on this Depression-era rusty truss bridge. But a lot of projects were not like that," he said. "A lot of projects took six months to a year to get off the ground."
And all through that process...jobs are being created....
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