jknowgood, post: 17773148,
Kinda like Obama's shovel ready jobs?
Of the $800 billion spent from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act only $27 billion was spent for infrastructure projects.
The "shovel ready" attack line against Obama is overblown and out of touch with reality.
It's a sound bite for stupid Obama haters to reuse over and over when they are unable to think for themselves and understand what is exactly going on in the world around them.
the truth:
"about 35 percent of the expenditures went for tax cuts for individuals and businesses; about 18 percent went for aid to cash-strapped state governments to offset cuts to health and education programs; and about 14 percent went for "safety net" expenditures paid to individual Americans, such as added unemployment payments."
Fox's Eric Bolling exaggerates shortcomings of stimulus
Shovel ready project Roads and Bridges were a small part of the remainder spent on Federal longer term investments in things like solar energy etc, electric cars etc.
The overal act was successful yet you had Republican propagandists claiming on national TV TGAT Obama spent a trillion dollars on a failed highways and bridges program.
See how they lie and so many suckers fall for it.