Posted on 12/02/2015 2:52:27 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
When Hillary Clinton announced her $275 billion infrastructure spending plan, she said what every politician says when they try to get more money spent on roads and bridges — that the nation's infrastructure is falling apart.
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It smells like Dem spirit: here the teachers talk up how they need more money “for the children” so they get a school bond passed.
Next thing you know, the teachers are driving new cars.
If the nation's infrastructure really is, as she claims, in such a "sorry state," then what happened to all that money President Obama dumped into those "shovel ready" infrastructure projects on the promise that it would make a huge difference?
... and now you know.
How did that last “Stimulus” go?
Hillary wants to do it again .....
IIRC, less than 5% of the original “stimulus” was spent on roads and bridges.
Make all checks payable to the Clinton Foundation...
The old “crumbling roads and bridges” ploy.
The only shovel ready project is the one along our border.
The dems froth themselves with glee over a $275 billion “infrastructure” boondoggle, in addition to Obama’s $970 billion Porkulus spend-a-thon back in 2009.
Yet, somehow...
$3.5 billion to erect a border fence is “too costly.”
Hundreds of billions for YET ANOTHER government “jobs” program?
Wait! Don’t tell me! It’s gonna be for bridges, and “infrastructure” and chit like that, right? You know, “shovel ready” projects. Hey, I know! How about building a pyramid instead! You know, to store wheat and chit like that in. Even better maybe a bunch of little wheat-storing pyramids spread throughout different voter districts and such. You know, to spread around all of those new, temporary government jobs and such.
Oh, yeah, and let’s not forget calking, either. Maybe when those little government pyramids start to fall apart Hillary could initiate a NEW government jobs-creation program where the government hires platoons of pyramid calkers.
But sadly enough, Hillary, Obama tried all of this six years ago. And guess what? We didn’t get squat except for a lousy T-shirt that says: “Another 800 billion in debt!”.
Still, we can’t really blame Hillary for coming up with the same failed plan of spending hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowed money to “create” jobs that every Democrat has tried for the last 50 years, now can we? After all, pretty much the ONLY Democrat idea involves a BIG government program financed with LARGE amounts of borrowed dollars. Why would anyone think a Democrat could come up with some other idea besides that one? (Well, yeah, I know; Democrats DO have a couple of other “ideas”: free college and other free chit for everyone, confiscate everybody’s guns except the ones the Democrats use to protect themselves with, and “free” medical care run by the government.)
Damn generous of her to putting her own $$ up like that.
Wait, what?! It’s TAXPAYER $$? Didn’t the LAST $1T in ‘stimulus’ FIX all the infrastructure? You know, shovel ready and all... /s
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