[Nick Danger]

Didn't the government already spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready projects"? How can there possibly be a single shovel-ready project left?

Somebody needs to explain to the White House that there are a lot of people in this country who are not union construction workers.

[mrsmith]

"Didn't the government already spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready projects"? How can there possibly be a single shovel-ready project left?"

"Pave 'em again! Pave 'em again! Harder! Harder!"

[dalereed]

Shovels will be banned from all new projects!

[Brookhaven]

“There’s no such thing as shovel ready projects” — Pres. Obama in NY Times

They should just throw that quote right back at him. He admitted the basis of his previous stiumlus plan was a fraud, now he wants to do it all over again.

Or, they could just point out that a fence would also count as a construction job, so let’s just build the border fence.