Obama Wants 5-Year Plan: ‘I Guarantee You This Is Not How China’ Handles Its Infrastructure

Cybercast News Service ^ | August 1, 2015 | 3:07 PM EDT | (CNSNews.com Staff)

[Olog-hai]

When President Obama signed a law yesterday funding federal transportation projects for the next three months, he lamented that the United States did not have a five-year federal plan for transportation—and warned Congress that “big, powerful countries” like the Peoples Republic of China did not do it the way the U.S. is doing it now.

“I guarantee you this is not how China, Germany, other countries around the world—other big, powerful countries around the world—handle their infrastructure,” Obama said. …

[mikey_hates_everything]

brand-spanking new Three Gorges Dam

The dam body was completed in 2006. My bet has always been 10 years before something happened with it. One more year...

[GingisK]

There are many articles like this one:

Cracks appear in Three Gorges Dam

So, I figure that the cracks are already showing.

[DannyTN]

I got to agree with Obama on that. I don’t know why they are funding 3 months at a time.

[Tired of Taxes]

Stalin’s Five-Year Plan(s) must’ve been the first thought we all had when we read the headline.

Did his advisors not tell him that “Five Year Plan” sounds reminiscent of Stalin’s? Or maybe they want it to sound that way...

[VeniVidiVici]

“I guarantee you this is not how China, Germany, other countries around the world—other big, powerful countries around the world—handle their infrastructure,” Obama said. …

Someone needs to tell Junior that other countries have a budget.