Congress to Crist: Speed up the stimulus spending
by Michael C. Bender | August 6th, 2009From Reuters in Washington:
Florida ranks last among all states in spending its share of highway money from the U.S. economic stimulus plan, a congressional committee said on Thursday.
In a letter to Florida Governor Charlie Crist, the committee’s chairman, Rep. James Oberstar, wrote that as of June 30, Florida had begun construction on highway projects totaling only 2 percent of the $1.346 billion set aside for it in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
“I strongly urge you to refocus your efforts to implement the Recovery Act and use the available funds to create and sustain family-wage jobs,” said Oberstar, who heads the House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
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August 6th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Choo Choo Charlie is a total disaster and he wants to be a Senator. He sits on
money that can give people jobs having to repair roads-what is with this jerk???By the time he starts using the
money-the state of Florida will lose said stimulus. What does he sit on his
brains or lack thereof? Anyone who votes
for him is out of their minds.For the life of me I just don’t get this guy.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
But Shucking Chuckles says he’s governor all day every day, even when he’s gallavanting around the country raising obscene amounts of money.
Apparently, if he is the constant governor, he doesn’t know how to govern well. But it is his modus operandi to start running for his next office, the day he gets his current one.
You’d think this Dumbocrat who bent down low to suck up the Demobamacrat stimulus package would be more diligent about using this money.
Or maybe our great state bureaucracy just can’t get anything done.
August 7th, 2009 at 1:52 am
Obviously he doesnt care about the high level of the unemployed or improving our roadways…among other things. Or another political ploy to say the stimulus plan is not working. of course its not beause you are letting the money sit dormant, another Republican ploy. Its easier to do nothing rather than do the work the title Governor requires.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:08 am
This state is remarkably slow on all stimulus spending, not just transportation. No suprise our state is at 10% unemployment.