Back To Work! No Argument About Stimulus Dollars As These States Get the Shovels Out

[babylonsister]

So the stimulus package won't work? Tell that to these states. :eyes:


No Argument About Stimulus Dollars As These States Get the Shovels Out
By Colby Itkowitz, CQ Staff


Less than a week after President Obama signed the economic stimulus bill into law, some states are moving quickly to take advantage of transportation funding.

Missouri had construction crews working on a bridge replacement within minutes of Obama signing the bill (PL 111-5).

Iowa awarded contracts Feb. 20 on 19 projects ranging from bridge replacements to resurfacing roads worth $56.6 million.

In Utah, transportation officials solicited bids for six highway repavement projects. Contracts will be awarded in early March, said Nile Easton, a spokesman for the state’s department of transportation.

“Every Tuesday and Thursday for the next six to eight weeks we’ll advertise chunks of projects,” Easton said. He said all of the projects will be awarded contracts by late spring and the state’s entire list will be completed by the end of the calendar year.

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http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=news-000003058710

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And Barbour is fighting the stimulus while this is going on. Go figure.


http://www.mcclatchydc.com/260/story/62663.html

Water project springing up in Biloxi area

By J. R. Welsh | Biloxi Sun Herald


HANCOCK COUNTY — Ground was broken last week on millions of dollars’ worth of water and sewer projects that will help the Coast continue hurricane recovery as it prepares for future growth.

Local and state officials in Hancock and Jackson counties hefted golden shovels to celebrate ground-breaking projects in locations ranging from Kiln to Gautier and elsewhere. Included in the new work are improvements to regional wastewater-treatment plants and a production facility that will provide new water sources to Kiln and points south.

“It’s going to be amazing to the public what’s about to happen in Hancock County,” said Trudy Fisher, executive director of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.

[Hissyspit]

1. Kick

[Jokerman]

2. Replace bridges BEFORE someone dies?

What a radical concept.
:sarcasm:

[dysfunctional press]

3. states that don't have income taxes should get less stimulus money...

they need to start showing some fiscal responsibility.

[Why Syzygy]

4. We have sales taxes, tyvm.

Does my state already get more money from the federal government than it sends to the federal government?
No. Texas gets $.94 for every dollar it pays in. Rank: 35

[dysfunctional press]

6. we have the highest sales taxes in the country AND a state income tax.

and illinois gets even less federal money back than texas for every dollar it pays in.

btw- tyvm? :shrug:

[Why Syzygy]

7. tyvm = "thank you very much" nt

[madokie]

5. Obama knows what he's doing

and once the talking heads quit harping on this it'll move on and even the governors complaining now will be falling all over themselves to get the money