Posted on 11/08/2013 1:12:03 PM PST by mdittmar
Reuters) - President Barack Obama made a pitch on Friday to create jobs by fixing roads, dredging ports and modernizing the air traffic control system, urging Congress to focus on these investments as it tries to work out a budget deal by a January deadline.
The visit the Port of New Orleans was an opportunity for Obama to focus on the economy and take attention away from the controversy around the launch of his signature healthcare insurance program, widely known as Obamacare.
Obama pledged, however, to fix the malfunctioning Healthcare.gov website, and took a veiled jab at Louisiana's Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, who was in the audience, for failing to support a key plank of Obamacare.
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Obama kicks off campaign with infrastructure plan. Reuters September 7,2010
Is he starting his playbook all over again?
Uh, wasn’t that what Porkulus was supposed to do?
What did he do with that $800B stimulus package? Not one bridge fixed if I remember correctly.
Hey, we already did all that stuff?
What? We blew it on useless Shiite?
Never mind.
Wasn't that what that TRILLION DOLLARS was supposed to do?!
I urge the president and all the thieves in DC to stop stealing the money we already pay to do these things and actually do them.
Apparently he built the Obamacare website.
Government can never tax too much, or spend too much.
I vote for the latter.
Canada is building the new bridge over the Detroit river because they’re tired of waiting on us. They had their connecting highway spurs built 30 years ago.
Ya, remember Porkulus, going back to the earliest days of the Obama era??? If I recall, it was supposed to go to beefing up infrastructure. How was that money spent?? Do we know? Will we ever know???
So, was $800 billion then not enough???
I think at a minimum we should be able to know where the Porkulus money went, what spending was effective, what spending may not have been effective, in order to assess whether we need more Porkulus type bills.
Good way to look at it.
Infrastructure--built at prevailing (union) wages by minority (women, gay, black) constituency-owned firms. A twofer on wealth transfer to O-pets.
ROFL and look how that turned out. Well probably wind up with more pot holes with this crap.
Well he started out okay giving the ACA website to Moochells school buddy.
Why would Canadians come to Detroit? Those smug b*stards always are so verbally satisfied with what they have in Ontario.
lol. good point. Maybe it’s the Canadians that cripplecreek referenced above.
Worse, that was sold as a one-time expense, but they rolled it into the annual budget and have used continuing resolutions to keep spending at that level. So he already has his $800B stimulus package. He just needs to redirect it to something useful.
Assuming Biden would oversee things again, he could put up a website called the Dredge Report
WPA, historic solution in dire circumstances, ended only when those men were needed for war.
Is Obama finally admitting how bad off we are?
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