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ajm3s writes:

in response to Fossil:

"The project was made possible through the federal stimulus, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009". Thank you President Obama, without the country's help, the residents of Marco Island would have had to pay to leave and return to our own homes via tolls. What has the Repubican Party done to improve the infrastructure of Southwest or all of Florida? What bills have they advanced to improve the unemployment problems we have? What bills have they initited to bring our property values back? When is the U.S. House of Representatives going to start working to dig us out of this recession? When is our Governor going to fullfil his campaign promise and improve the economy enough to increase jobs? Jobs is what the American people want, NOT cuts in taxes for the richest amongst us. NOT 15% tax rates for capital gains. NOT a tax system in which Corporations like GE evade their obligation to pay any tax at all. The new bridge span was built and paid for by the combined efforts of ALL the people of the United States and our great State of Florida. Wouldn't it be nice if the Corporations of America and the richest of us had helped in this effort? Today, only the wage earner contributes, the rest give their money to political campaigns and lobbyists to ensure their continued control of all the wealth of this great nation.

Yeah! Obama broke some of his own campaign slogans:

Spread the wealth: So build a second parallel bridge to a community that by all standards is much wealthier than the average city. So in essence, he provided federal monies for the benefit the wealthy class.

Shovel ready projects: This was only one of the less than ~6% of the stimulus monies for infrastructure and shovel ready projects. [the bulk of the monies was to support states' deficits, and maintain bloated government bureaucracy] And which by Florida's own priority standards, was way down the list.

And the biggest secret, employment costs (benefits) are small for infrastructure projects. So the goal of employing folks is small in light of the $25M costs for building the bridge.

I say stimulus was the most inefficient, or is it ineffective use of government dollars? Followed by the "cash for clunkers" program.

I believe Americans got it, now that they have seen Progressives at their zenith. And it is a wasteful slow painful path to mediocrity for its citizens.

And please, don't tell me it could have been worst. There are many mainstream venues that are now making the claim, that in some areas, we have exceeded levels when compared to the Great Depression:

1. in terms of housing valuation
2. in terms of unemployment

Reference:

1. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.ph...

2. http://www.zerohedge.com/article/unem...

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