All Yur Stimulus are Up in Smoke!!!
Not up in smoke -
LAUNDERED through gov’t employee unions
back into the democRat coffers.
If only one would collapse while Obama was crossing it.
$877B was simply not enough.
I'm sure that the faceless people who actually received stimulus funds at least had some good parties.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Otherwise, with the exception of the federal entities indicated in the Constitution's Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I as examples, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for building and maintaining roads and bridges. The states uniquely have the 10th Amendment-protected power to tax and spend for such intrastate infrastructures.
In fact, note that President James Madison had vetoed a bill passed by the 14th(?) Congress to build roads and canals, Congress noting that such things would benefit both commerce and the military. But Madison had noted in his constitutionally required veto letter to Congress that the states had not included in Congress's constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers the specific power to appropriate funds for building roads and canals.
Veto of federal public works bill
Note that Benjamin Franklin had suggested that canals be included in Clause 7 of Section 8 of Article I which authorized Congress to build postal roads, but his fellow delegates at the Constitutional Convention had ultimately decided against the idea.
And with all due respect to the family and supporters of the late President Eisenhower, he was wrong to sign into law a highway bill in the 1950s, both Congress and Eisenhower "overlooking" that they still needed to petition the states for an amendment to the Constitution which would have granted Congress the specific power to appropriate taxpayer dollars for a national highway system.
Interstate Highway System
As a side note concerning the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, please consider the following. The states would sure be a dull, boring place to grow up and live in if parents were to make sure that their children were taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood. /sarc
Thomas Jefferson had put it this way:
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)