Ohio wants $57M in stimulus for highway studies
No joke:
Ohio wants to spend $57 million in federal stimulus money on highway projects that won’t begin for years, an unusual strategy for money that President Barack Obama said should be used to give the economy an immediate job-creating jolt.
“Unusual” is a terrific understatement. It is not merely “unusual,” it is exceptionally strange. This money is meant to “stimulate the economy” (or so Obama said), not to fund highway studies. It is meant to create jobs now. Not to pay for fancy research that will not do anything to even remotely stimulate Ohio’s economy.
‘Strickland said studies of long-term projects, as well as some types of preliminary work, position the state for future economic growth.’ Perhaps. But the point is that this is not what the economic ’stimulus’ plan was supposed to be all about – again, it was meant to pull the country out of the recession it currently finds itself in.
What Strickland plans to do is unacceptable and immoral. These big government types know no shame, do they?
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It happens that I grew up in Ohio, live in Ohio and drive on Ohio’s highways. Our infrastructure (roads & bridges etc…) needs improvement. Some of this money might even come to me.
wrong place for it Holly,
I’d recommend contacting your Federal Representatives and ask for a reason as to why 40% of fuel taxes are being used for unrelated uses. This so-called stimulus is unnecessary
we’ve already paid for this infrastructure improvement.