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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Congress passed Porkukus early in Obama’s first term. It was supposed to have gone to infrastructure. Where the heck did that money go????

So I would note that congress didn’t exactly do nothing. They did pass porkulus but for unknown reasons we have nothing to show for it.


3 posted on 06/23/2016 9:45:26 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Actually, only a small portion of the Porkulus was dedicated to infrastructure.


9 posted on 06/23/2016 9:48:13 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Where the heck did that money go????

It went to state and local governments, to keep their unionized workforces employed, so they would not suffer layoffs like so many did in the private sector.

Mass layoffs of unionized public employees would have pulled the power cord from the Democrats' money machine and put a serious crimp in their electoral viability.


10 posted on 06/23/2016 9:48:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“So I would note that congress didn’t exactly do nothing. They did pass porkulus but for unknown reasons we have nothing to show for it.”
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I’ll take a wild guess: corruption?


13 posted on 06/23/2016 9:49:10 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It went to bailing out the big three and supporting unionized government workers in the states and cities.


22 posted on 06/23/2016 9:58:23 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They did build a bunch of overpass on the I-10 in the Coachella Valley. And on the I-215 though San Bernardino.


24 posted on 06/23/2016 10:06:24 AM PDT by ThomasThomas (Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It’s not for unknown reasons at all. It was nothing but a $1T payback to local and state political patrons who supported Obama in the 2008 election.


40 posted on 06/23/2016 12:43:28 PM PDT by huckfillary
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