The Obamanation

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Where are all the "shovel ready jobs" being stimulated?.....Where are they?

John Boehner, the Republican minority leader in the House said the same thing last month and came off looking like an idiot:

In Ohio, the infrastructure dollars that were sent there months ago — there hasn’t been a contract let, to my knowledge. And the fact is is that I don’t believe it will create jobs."

The OHIO DOT stepped right in and called him out:

With the awarding of more than $36.9 million in construction contracts today, the Ohio Department of Transportation is spurring the creation and retention of hundreds of construction-related jobs by investing federal stimulus funds into 29 roadway and bridges projects across the state.

Combined with the contracts awarded so far using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ODOT has awarded more than $83.9 million in contracts for work on 52 projects - a combination of interstate, local roadway and bridge modernization projects.

http://www.dot.state.oh.us/news/Page...latedJobs.aspx

So Boeher was either lying to make political points or was clueless.