from the boy not smart enough to understand the business model of a lemonade stand...
Posted on 07/25/2013 4:26:01 AM PDT by onyx
President Obama will push for new infrastructure projects and investments as he hits the road again Thursday, traveling this time to Jacksonville, Fla., for his third consecutive speech on the economy.
The event at the city's port comes fresh on the heels of the president's much-hyped economic address Wednesday in Illinois, where he claimed credit for the economic recovery and argued that his progressive economic policies would benefit the middle class.
He also challenged congressional Republicans, daring them to propose alternative solutions to aid in the recovery and accusing them of obsessing over "phony scandals" for short-term political gain.
Obama will continue to target the GOP in his speech Thursday, according to a White House official.
"While in Jacksonville, the president will continue to talk about the cornerstones of middle-class security and discuss specifically how the House Republican budget approach poses a risk to the progress we’ve made in each area, including jobs, education, housing, and healthcare," the official said.
The White House chose the port as the site of the speech because it is home to two projects — a container terminal and a rail yard — that the administration expedited last year as part of a broader infrastructure push.
"Expediting permitting projects through executive action is just one example of how the president can and will act through his own authority to promote our economic progress, while still pushing Congress to pass legislation to grow the economy and create jobs," the White House official said.
In his speech in Illinois on Wednesday, Obama said his remarks would "offer new ideas for doing what America has always done best, which is building things."
"We’ve got ports that aren’t ready for the new supertankers that are going to begin passing through the new Panama Canal in two years’ time," Obama said. "If we don’t get that done, those tankers are going to go someplace else."
The president made a similar visit to the Port of Miami in March, when he touted a series of tax breaks and loans designed to stimulate private investment in infrastructure. He also called on Congress to fund a $10 billion infrastructure bank to aid in those efforts.
At the time, House Republicans said they also wanted to upgrade the nation's roads and bridges — if the costs were offset in other parts of the federal budget.
“It’s easy to go out there and be Santa Claus and talk about all the things you want to give away,” Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said. “But at some point, somebody has to pay the bill.”
Before speaking in Jacksonville, the president and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will tour the container terminal that was expedited under executive order.
Hmmmm. That sounds like prison labor. Not a bad idea when you think about it.
I thought he fixed the infrastructure with the shovel ready jobs?
Pray for America to Wake Up
So what exactly is the “White House Democrat budget approach”?
-——sounds like prison labor——
I don’t think so. I think there was a contractor(s)
Leni
from the boy not smart enough to understand the business model of a lemonade stand...
I caught a few clips of him from yesterday. He looked angry and vindictive pointing his finger and shooting those evil dirty looks at us while giving us his lecture of lies.
We already spent enough money to build a bridge over every river, lake, stream and puddle in Acirema. I guess dry lake beds and the Grand Canyon are next.
Meanwhile, in Old Joe Biden’s plantation, there is a much needed bridge that won’t get built. A community focus group met with DE DOT to provide input on the design. They opted for a less expensive, quicker to build design, which DE DOT didn’t want. So nothing gets done. So much for community input.
And for the NSA trolls, FU.
what economic recovery is that?
You are right! This is probably only open to Longshoreman union sorts there is some snafu in red tape to do some dredgeing and opening up the Jax Port to larger container ships. Obama will probably issue an EO opening up this blockage.
FREEGARDS
LEX
In 1953 Americans undertook the building of the 5 mile long Mackinac bridge between the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan. Its a truly impressive structure with towers that stand nearly 1000 feet tall from the lakebed and it stood as the longest single span suspension bridge in the world for nearly 30 years. It took 3 years to build with no winter construction and nearly 8000 people were employed on the project in some form or another. It cost around $100 million to build.
Today such an infrastructure project could not happen. There would be decades of environmental impact studies. Lord knows how many billions it would cost over the 20 years or so the unions managed to milk the project and the final cost would likely run into the 10s of billions.
As far as democrat stupidity goes you can again look to Detroit where the city has fought against the building of a second bridge over the Detroit river for 30 years. They even fought (and lost thank God) against Canada paying for a new bridge. They fought the Canadian funded bridge because they won’t have control of the money.
Any time I hear a democrat say the word infrastructure, I want to knock their teeth down their throat.
You could remove his brain and replace it with a tape recorder with a few statist slogans and no one would be able to tell.
“what economic recovery is that?”
Two on food stamps for every one job created.
With nearly 9 hundred billion dollars in tax-payer money for the "Stimulas Program", we still haven't fix those bridges? Where did all that money go? There needs to be an accounting by the GAO and other non-partisan entities.
This marxist pretend Potus reminds me of the the days phonograph records would skip back to a certain point due to a defective groove on the LP.
We need to rebuild and we will with this Stimulas Pack...skip...
We need to rebuild and we will with this Stimulas Pack...skip...
We need to rebuild and we will with this Stimulas Pack...skip...
and on it goes until you lift the needle arm and change the record to something that actually works.
Along with plenty of crony capitalism for the contractors and lots of extra payoffs to the unions.
There's absolutely nothing new here; y'all can go home now.
It’s the same record that has been playing since 1930, Marxism will work this time.
Look for the union thugs to engineer a bridge collapse someplace within the next seven days.
The Ring has that effect on humans...
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