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The King: America 'Can Do Better'

Whitewing

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At a speech today in Miami, President Obama urged America to "do better."

"We still have all kinds of deferred maintenance. We still have too many ports that aren’t equipped for today’s world commerce. We’ve still got too many rail lines that are too slow and clogged up. We’ve still got too many roads that are in disrepair, too many bridges that aren’t safe," said the president.

"We don’t have to accept that for America. We can do better. We can build better. And in a time of tight budgets, we’ve got to do it in a way that makes sure taxpayer dollars are spent wisely."

Obama announced today his plan. "I’m expanding on a proposal I made in the State of the Union. I’m calling it a Partnership to Rebuild America. It’s a partnership with the private sector that creates jobs upgrading what our businesses need most -– modern ports to move our goods; modern pipelines to withstand a storm; modern schools worthy of our children," he said.

But, whatever happened to this?

OldFullBlownEconomyIn2009 said:
The Jobs/Stimulus bill is not even 6 months into what is a 2 year plan...Many of the local jobs just started because of weather- others are held up because the factories can't get geared up fast enough to make the steel needed....

You don't just go from a country on the brink of oblivion (where Bush had taken us) to a full blown booming economy overnight.....

Talk to me about it 2 years down the line...

:lol:
 

Steve

Well-known member
very little of the porkulus went towards infrastructure..

When they passed the $787 billion stimulus bill in February 2009, they promised an historic investment in roads, bridges and rail. It would put Americans to work quickly and raise productivity in the long term,

The stimulus bill's spending on infrastructure may have been doomed to mediocrity from the start. First, and most important, a relatively small share of the bill was actually devoted to infrastructure.

Mr Obama called the bill “the largest new investment in our nation's infrastructure since Eisenhower built an interstate highway system in the 1950s.”

But even on the broadest definition of the term, under a fifth of the total. Just $64 billion, or 8% of the total, went to roads, public transport, rail, bridges, aviation and wastewater systems.

the other 92% went for bribes, payoffs, paybacks and outright waste..

so why give him another dime?
 
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