Posted on 06/09/2016 6:53:34 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
When is SOMEONE in the National News Media going to ask Hillary! or Obama about infrastructure spending in the 2009 stimulus?? Every time I hear a Dem talk about 'investing in the infrastructure' I want to puke. I believe Hillary! used that phrase with Bret yesterday. I was screaming at the TV, 'ask her why didn't the infrastructure get fixed with the Stimulus money'??
$1 trillion for shovel ready infrastructure projects...
Gone.
Where did it all go?
As I recall, Obama put Joe Biden in charge of tracking the porkulus money.
Liberals don’t really want to talk about porkulus anymore.
The only references I’ve heard to it the past few years, have been liberals lamenting that the $800 billion just wasn’t enough money to accomplish the goals. And how the GOP just won’t allow them to spend more, yadda, yadda, yadda.
That’s liberalism for you. The failure of any government program is due to not having spent enough, not due to problems with bureaucracy, or problems with the program itself.
But WHY don’t interviewers ask about the failure of the Stimulus to FIX IT?? The Dems always get away with talking about ‘investing’ and are never asked ‘how much do you want to raise taxes to cover what the American people were told would already be covered’??
Obama still uses that phrase whenever he is wanting budget increases — it is for the infrastructure.
I am still wondering whether the check arrived for Gulf War II. W told us the Iraqi oil would pay for that war.
Kasich was on FoxNews this morning hitting the buzz-words: he is for reducing the size of government; he is conservative.
It’s all lies. It’s all political propaganda they play over and over. They get away with enough of it to keep them in power.
My neighbor’s dogs create more shovel ready jobs, on a daily basis, than Obie from Nairobi ever has.
Due to baseline budgeting and the lack of a budget for the last 7+ years, the stimulus has been re-spent, with a slight incremental increase, every year Obama’s been in office.
Because interviewers don’t want to make Obama and other liberals look bad??? So they don’t ask the tough questions??? Because these interviewers have lives and families, and don’t want to deal with an IRS audit????
There are many obvious questions about many matters, not just porkulus, which simply never get asked by the media.
Stimulus was a bailout for over-extended State and local governments who saw property values and tax revenues drop precipitously. The tool was Fed.gov’s power to print money and the Federal Reserve’s power to created debt out of thin air and manipulate interest rates to zero.
You have to protect the power and continuity of the Government, at all costs. Its that simple
Its ancient history now.
I got tired of asking and gave up. It should come as no surprise that the GOPE not only enabled it, but then abandoned all interest in the $1,000,000,000,000
I suppose there was nothing in it for them, other than getting reelected.
According to all the official records laws we keep hearing about regarding the Fat Ugly Cow, aren't there record trails of when, where and how Omugabe's "infrastructure" stimulus funds were spent?
Isn't anyone besides me and the author of this thread interested?
Seriously?
Perhaps not the largest Omugabe taxpayer robbery of the last 8 years, but it's right up there among the top 5.
Accountability means somebody doing jailtime for the supermega scam.
Might any of that trillion$ been hidden in the multimillion dollar accounts that the Obamas are rumored to have?
I’ll cut to the chase.
It was stolen.
If none of us are busy next weekend, it would be a great opportunity to grab shovels, travel to certain places of abode and proceed to start digging in a number of back yards. To date California and Alaska have had the largest gold rush but that could be revised quickly. If not in the back yards, check in their sock drawers or the bank accounts. Bound to see something. That’s a great deal of money to attempt to hide.
In 2009 I was in Vermont State government, in th Labor Dept. People kept asking me about the stimulus program, employers with ideas about infrastructure fixes they saw were needed. I passed their ideas up the pipeline and pressed for answers. After months, the answer came back down. The money would be used to continue funding for state and local government employees. In other words, shut up and focus on how your bread was being buttered, and forget about infrastructure. The “least costly” way to stimulate was to create and maintain government jobs. Real jobs would require costly equipment and logistics. It was shortly after that I took. Buy out and an early retirement.
That would make good satire if it weren't for the fact that it is absolutely 100% true.
Because the stimulus money went to all their well connected buddies.
Here’s a link not many people see:
https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en/
I posted a few weeks of stimulus spending here on FR in 2009, not that many comments or views - so I stopped.
It was easier to access stimulus spending back then - you could download excel sheets. Now you have to dig around.
You wouldn’t believe how much was spent on Big Pharma, GM vehicles and picnic tables...
It went to line the pockets of politicos.
Wow, that’s depressing. Our money went to people already employed. Not to fixing anything.
Absolutely right - after pushing for almost a trillion dollars in 2009 for those “shovel ready jobs” to stimulate the economy, Obama was seen laughing only a year later because “there weren’t as many shovel ready jobs as we thought there were” - so what happened to all the funding that was appropriated for the jobs, and why now all of a sudden do we need more money to do the jobs that were supposed to be done back then - politicians at all levels are yapping about funds to fix the roads and bridges and tunnels that have been neglected, but they should get not one cent until the 2009 money is accounted for - and Republicans should be leading the way in finding answers.......
Or ask them what they spent the $17 trillion of new debt on.
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