[Vasilli22]

Money quote: "Maybe it’s unfair for people to think Obama is just another tax-and-spend Democrat. After all, some tax-and-spend Democrats are actually competent at it."

[dajeeps]

The only thing shovel-ready to that louse is the American taxpayer.

[DustyMoment]

Unfortunately, what zero meant by “shovel-ready” is shovel-ready for more sh!t!!

Somehow, he thinks that if people are building things, that produces jobs. He doesn’t grasp the difference between jobs and work.

[ThunderSleeps]

The whole notion of "shovel ready" projects was a complete farce from the beginning. Consider, to make any kind of significant difference the project would have to have some defining characteristics: be relatively large, large enough to matter; be infrastructure or significant capital-investment; etc.

Now, what do we know about big projects like that? They aren't just started on a whim. There is a fair amount of planning, zoning, environmental impact studies, support systems (roads/utilities) etc. that has to happen up front.

All that up-front work represents a fair sized investment. You think anyone would go that far into a project if they hadn't already secured funding for the entire project - knew they could finish and get some return? Of course not. So projects that were near ramping up and taking off were already funded. Projects that weren't funded, weren't very far along the process. In other words, there are no projects prepped and planned and just waiting to start. Just doesn't work that way.

Hence the whole notion of these "shovel ready" projects out there just waiting for the benevolent despot hussein to bestow our tax dollars on in his infinite wisdom...was yet another lie from the liar in chief.