With all the Democrats screaming that when an engineer takes a train around a 50MPH curve at 106MPH and people are killed that it’s Republicans’ fault for only spending billions and billions on AMTRAK instead of billions and billions and billions and billions, it’s important to consider a little lesson about politicians and infrastructure spending.
A week ago, voters in Michigan rejected a massive tax increase earmarked for road improvements, despite the politicians’ (of both parties) insistence that the tax increase was the only way to fund desperately needed infrastructure improvements.
After the referendum failed, all of a sudden, the legislature found a way to fund a billion dollars in road improvements by reallocating money from other programs.
Weird, huh?
Of course, states have to find money if they want to spend it, they don’t have access to printing presses and a limitless debt card. They’re not like the Federal Government that can spend damn near $900 Billion on stimulus, with nothing to show for it except some bankrupt green energy companies and some professors who got grants to teach Africans to wash their pee-pees, and then can insist that the need even MOAR MONEEZ to fix the infrastructure they promised to fix with the first 900 XL.
Blacks need 24/7/365 boarding schools to compete with privilege
“Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday proposed the idea of public boarding schools, saying there are “just certain kids we should have 24/7.”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/education-secretary-backs-public-boarding-schools-certain-kids-we-should
Baltimore schools solve discipline problems, obviously ignored last months news.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/05/14/baltimore-schools-behind-the-curtain/
More money spent, bigger failure rate. It’s not just Baltimore. Our tax dollars built a beautiful school because, uhh, inner city said it was needed so they would stop destroying other schools. It lasted two years then was closed. It was destroyed.
Tilly that’s because they no longer teach people respect for property and community.
Cut money spent in the military industrial complex and move it to transportation and infrastructure. Voila!
In February, shortly after being inaugurated, Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Paul Krugman recommended a stimulus deal of at least $600 billion. Obama and his Democrat Congress raised that amount by more than 30% to $830 billion.
That money was sold as an employment stimulator for “shovel ready” infrastructure jobs.
We are told that infrastructure repair in the USA needs a trillion dollars of capital infusion. Funny, by my math that should be $170 billion which is the difference between the one trillion and $830 billion Obama already poured into the infrastructure back in 2009 when he was a puppy President.
But we all know that the 2009 $830 billion dollars did not go to failing bridges and Amtrak. Nope.Much of it went to reward the Unions who mobbed the polls to vote for Obambi. And the quid pro quo of the rewards was to return much of the thank you money to Democrat coffers. It was a classic money laundering scheme more brazen than anything Tony Soprano ever thought to do.
So, here we are crying about poverty, a huge number of people who have dropped out of the workforce, infrastructure decay and Amtrak needing some computers in their engines. Which part of $830 billion dollars couldn’t be used to help out?
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At this moment in time, Obama and his cronies complain that the 2009 $830 Recovery and Reinvestment Act wasn’t big enough and bold enough.