It wasn't "shovel ready" then and it isn't "shovel ready" now, either - Granite Grok

It wasn’t “shovel ready” then and it isn’t “shovel ready” now, either

PorkulusInfrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure!  I am getting to the point where I hate the word.  Why?  I have come to realize that it’s only a political talking point and that for all the talk and all that money, it’s simply about political posturing (at best) and cronyism (at worst).  We were promised an ROI on that Trillion Stimulus that turned out to be spent on, pretty much, boosting the size of government and not so much on asphalt, concrete, steel and…..wait for it……finished USABLE product.  You know, like the Hoover Dam and other public works stuff done in the 1930s?

And I’m not the only one asking this question – it did nothing before so why does Obama believe that we’ll believe him this time?

YEAH, HOW ABOUT THAT? “Quite aside from the problem of new taxes on business, what bothers me here is that Obama’s old and extremely expensive ‘stimulus’ package — back in ’09 — was presented as a transformation of the ‘infrastructure’ — with lots of talk of roads and bridges — but where are all those improvements we were gulled into thinking we were getting for our money?”

Well, they stole that money, but this money will all go to roads and bridges, honest! Well, unless someone complains that it creates too many jobs for burly men.

The Stimulus turned out to be the Porkulus – the money went to unions and other Obama allies and government; the latter grew at rates not substantiated by actual need.  This time, I hope a lot more people have a lot more cases of “jaded eyes” and not falling for the existential crisis that we were sold the first time.

Same thing here in NH: roads and bridges, roads and bridges.  Now to be honest, at least it is at a lower level of responsibility – closer to that infrastructure.  Problem is, that’s all we heard here, too: “Something Must Be Done!”.  Yet, for all the nonsense rhetoric  bandied about by both Rs and Ds, they were not willing to make the hard political decisions to, you know, actually deal with the problem.  Sure, it was a “crisis”, but I will point out that it was a crisis entirely created by Government…

…because they ignored the problem in the first place.  And because of it, we all now pay higher gas taxes to pay for their mistakes to fix those bridges.  Once again, they screw up with misplaced priorities and we have to pay “their toll”.

(H/T: Instapundit)

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