America's crumbling infrastructure going to be our nail in the coffin

[rdean]

You getting your talking points from rdean or something? The Stimulus was meant to spent to build infrastructure. Maybe if Obama hadn't used it to pay back campaign donors and used it as intended, we wouldn't have "crumbling infrastructure".

Oh who am i kidding. Even if he had rebuilt the infrastructure you guys would be claiming it's crumbling.

This is a perfect example of the gullibility and ignorance needed to swallow the GOP hate media talking points. It is the governors of each state that decide where the stimulus money is to be spent, and the 31 Republican governors spent as little as possible on anything that might create jobs, like infrastructure, to make sure Obama was a one term president. If the 31 GOP governors spent their money on infrastructure what the remaining 19 Dem governors did would have been insignificant.

For example, in my state of NJ the stimulus money was earmarked for digging a desperately needed new tunnel to NYC and money was turned over to GOP governor Christie. But Christie nixed the deal at the last minute, keeping the money which he redistributed to his election chronies, killing 6,000 construction jobs at a time when NJ's UE was one of the highest in the nation. That BTW is why he expects the GOP establishment to award him the presidential nomination because of the sacrifice he made to support the GOP play book for getting rid of Obama.

So it was the 31 GOP governors who refused to spend the stimulus on infrastructure, instead using the money to pay down the state debt run up by public pensions.

Worse are the Republicans who took credit for stimulus projects while trying to block the stimulus:

After Voting No, Republicans Tout Funds

Stimulating Hypocrisy: 114 Lawmakers Block Recovery While Taking Credit For Its Success

Republicans Take Credit For Successful Stimulus Project On House GOP Website