Blocked? You mean that money was not in the stimulus bill that was authorized and touted by Obamaafter all, when his Dems held both houses?
The total size of the plan is about $750 to $800 billion – roughly $300 billion is for tax cuts for businesses and individuals,” CBS correspondent Chip Reid said on CBS’s Jan. 12 “The Early Show.” “The rest will be spent on everything from roads and bridges to renewable energy to create three to 4 million jobs. Republicans are raising red flags about the amount of spending.”
In reality, little of the $850 billion American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 proposed by congressional Democrats will actually be spent on actual road and bridge projects – the sort of things most people think of when they hear infrastructure spending, according to the office of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.
The recent proposal distributed by congressional Democrats will provide only an additional $15 billion in 2009 and 2010 for road construction and repair. And of that $30 billion total provided, some funds are earmarked for narrow uses such as technology training or construction of roads on Indian reservations and in national parks.
According to those calculations, that’s just a little more than 3 percent meant to be spent on actual road and bridge construction. Compare that $30 billion allocated in this bill to the most expensive road project in U.S. history – the infamous “Big Dig” of Massachusetts. The final tally puts the cost of this road project to $15 billion and estimates say it will end up costing $22 billion by the year 2038. The $30 billion in this package would just be enough to cover the costs of that one project and a few smaller plans.
“This $900 billion economic stimulus is being sold as a massive highway infrastructure bill, when, in truth, only 3 percent of this money is committed to highway construction,” Sessions said in a statement. “This is the largest spending bill the Congress has ever considered, and the American people – who ultimately are going to pick up the tab – need to know exactly what they are getting, or not getting, for their money.”
Debunking Stimulus Myth: Only 3% Allotted for Road, Bridge Infrastructure Spending
Scoop: Read the draft White House infrastructure plan
will be interesting to see how this is twisted to be all bad because of trump or all good for same reason.
Trump's a Democrat. Of course he has an infrastructure plan. That's been a core Democratic bone for over a decade now.
It's like LBJ getting arising from the racist Southern Democrat bloc to pass the biggest civil rights bill in history.
It takes a real chameleon to get shit done.
what did obama do to fix it then?
He was blocked by the GOP.
Don't tell me you have forgotten all the ridicule over "shovel ready" projects!
