Cal Thomas was one of the idiots on the National Review “Against Trump” cover.
The reason that the jobs weren't shovel-ready was all those environmental regulations. It can take more than a decade to get the environmental reviews completed and approved by the EPA for a simple highway overpass. The bigger the project, the more hoops you need to jump through to get from project inception to the first shovel.
Obama could have issued an executive order suspending all those regulations for the projects intended, but that would have enraged the green lobby, which was critical to his election.
The final result was that certain big-ticket rail improvement projects were financed in Illinois, California, North Carolina and Washington state where all the necessary studies had been completed years ago and were sitting in DOT file cabinets awaiting a check.
Most of the money went unspent and was refunded to the Treasury in the 4th quarter of 2017.
This kind of thing never meant to be engineering project. It’s always political project. Using infrastructure as cover, they loot treasury and enrich themselves. If you don’t believe, try to memorize or take photo of major infrastructures that need improvement in tour area. Wait for 10 years to see if they change. I bet they never change
The Biden trillion dollar Steal and Swindle Bill
is subtitled
The Biden Crime Family Billionaire Enabling Bill.
Even the littlest Bidens get to be billionaires.
<>No Member of Congress read it all before voting on it.<>
Heh, heh.
Just keep voting. Pretend we still live in a democratic republic.