Posted on 10/17/2010 1:08:31 AM PDT by ransomnote
Back in early 2009, President-elect Barack Obama was asked on “Meet the Press” how quickly he could create jobs. Oh, very fast, he said. He’d already consulted with a gaggle of governors, and “all of them have projects that are shovel-ready.” When Obama revealed the members of his energy team, he explained that they were part of his effort to get started on “shovel-ready projects all across the country.” When he unveiled his education secretary, he assured everyone that he was going to get started “helping states and local governments with shovel-ready projects.”
In interviews, job summits and press conferences, it was shovel-ready this, shovel-ready that. Search the White House Web site for the term “shovel-ready” and you’ll drown in press releases about all the shovels ready to shove shovel-ready projects into the 21st century, where no shovel is left behind.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Thanks for the encouragement, it is much appreciated.
Wow...thanks for the link. I am really enjoying reading the excerpt and I am a Sowell fan anyway. It is dead on accurate.
Most college/university students today have been nurtured with with other people’s sweat and labor a la money. Don’t expect much more than demands by them until they find out someone is trying to get the easy life by their time and money. Not arguing that all students have an easy life but that in todays world many students just going for the life support of others.
The only shovel ready stuff went to unions and now the people are going to shovel out the govenors and others who stood with Obama on this poop.
I am in CA too.
I remember when, just after the Stimulus passed and ‘shovel-ready’ projects were said to have their kick off, a friend of mine drove from Lake Tahoe to Lawrence Kansas. The trip took twice as long as it normally would because there was road construction slow downs literally every 15 miles. My friend and her family would crawl through miles of road construction, reach the other side and speed up before hitting, in 10 - 15 miles, another road construction crew. This occurred the entire distance shortly after Lake Tahoe and then all the way to Lawrence Kansas. Numerous Stimulus signs dotted the roadway. My friend and her husband, computer and math geeks, estimated that the US could not have relocated every piece of road equipment to one corridor - regardless of shovel ready bragging rights. No, they deduced that the US had to have outsourced equipment and crews to foreigners in order to sustain, long term, that kind of construction. I wonder if we were able to ‘stimulate’ growth in outsourced companies?
I just spent a couple hours lazing on a beautiful hotel pool deck in NOLA (yeah, life if rough) and read another chapter or two. You need to read this book, is all I have to say. The whole book is just dead on accurate, again and again and again. It just destroys Liberal shibboleth after Liberal shibboleth.
Update on the address to help Christine on the phone banks.
http://call.christine2010.com/an/landing
Thanks again for everybody’s help.
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