Who advised him to say something that stupid?
We spent 300 billion on “stimulus” under Bush’s last year, about a trillion on “shovel ready jobs”, and all anyone can say is infrastructure is old and falling apart.
Where did it go if not to critical infrastructure? Buy land for parks and put in biking paths, put in fountains and art, stuff that looks good in an article at an opening ceremony and is done quickly, not bridges, roads, sidewalks.