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| -Election 2012 |
| Obama Directs Unspent Earmarks to His Projects |
| 2012-08-20 |
| President Obama today [Friday, 08/17] ordered that $473 million in "unspent earmarks" be made available to states for other construction projects. Shovel Ready! "My administration ... which is also shovel-ready... will continue to do everything we can to put Americans back to work," Obama said in a statement. "We're not going to let politics stand between construction workers and good jobs repairing our roads and bridges." In a statement, the administration says it has identified $473 million in unspent earmarks between fiscal years 2003 and 2006. Bush wasted the money! left it unspent! Not the Obama adminstration! Spend it all! More than we have! More than we had! |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #1 If states follow their own contracting law, most of it won't be appearing till after the new year. Of course in less than transparent states much of that will be gathered up through the usual |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-08-20 17:35 |