Can you say BUSTED?
Five weeks before becoming president, Barack Obama urged passage of a massive economic stimulus package, vowing that it would “create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s.”
But the bill passed by the House yesterday dedicates only about 5 percent of the $819 billion measure to highway, mass transit, and rail projects, analysts said.
I know I’m a partisan and thus blinded by ideology, but I’m not seeing all this “change we can believe in”.
This is pathetic. The funds allocated for infrastructures is so tiny that Canada has beaten it per capita by 47.5$.
I was assuming the total population of the US is 300 million, versus a 32 million population in Canada
Harper’s government invested 12 billion over two years (thus I only counted 6 billion, since the Obama plan is not spread out over a number of years) for infrastructure investment to create jobs.
This gives the Obama plan a per capita investment of around 140$ for the whole plan, while Canada invests 187.50$ per capita THIS YEAR ALONE..
Pathetic…
SHOW ME THE CHANGE!!!!
SHOW ME THE CHANGE!!!!
white boy can’t do a good cuba gooding, jr.
Ouch.
The man never convince me of “Change” anyway..especially a guy who stole lines from a rap song & Cesar Chavez among other sources…still amazes me people “trusted” his vague voting record and that people followed him only after 100 some-odd days in the senate, after he launched his presidential exploratory committee and announcing his run.
the past inexperience is starting to hurt him, me thinks
Yeah but there’s the 335 million for contraceptives to consider…
Why not, Machine? They want less people, it’s easier to control them that way. Every step they’ve made has been for less people and for more control. While Conservatives are not as bad (my opinion), they’ve for the most part helped out that move.
As for infrastructure, it would be, in a truly free market, less costly and of better quality, providing that their customers paid attention and those customers would be much more likely to do so because the government would not be there to say “with authority” this was good or in the case of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ensure rates that can’t be sustained.