Romney: "Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" Answer: "Yes."

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It did not include shovel ready jobs.

I hate that meme.  What shovel ready jobs?  What government bureaucracy is going to have plenty of constriction plans and environmental permits in hand for projects that they had no funding to achieve?  And if they did why weren't they being lambasted back before 2009 for wasting money on excessive planning and permitting when they could have used some of those funds to have less plans lying around and more construction already done?

The idea that infrastructure spending is something that these days can be quickly turned off and on is ludicrous.  Now perhaps if we had realized back in early 2009 that we'd still be in a bad spot we could have had a long term program that provided for stimulus spending over a four year period, but probably not because of the politics involved.  What politician of any party wants to say things are going to be that bad that long?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I hate that meme.  What shovel ready jobs?  What government bureaucracy is going to have plenty of constriction plans and environmental permits in hand for projects that they had no funding to achieve?

Actually, from my work experience, we actually had a lot of prospective projects lined that basically went "we're only going to do them if we get more money." Like a lot of stuff.

But then again, we didn't get sh**t from the stimulus. Well, besides a new office, which was actually quite unnecessary because the old office was quite fine.

And these projects were ones you could have put into immediate effect if you had the money?  No need for additional planning, permits, or qualified personnel to oversee them?

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Obviously you have never heard of the Militia Act of 1792.

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Granted this requirement for citizens to buy firearms was within the scope of the Federal government's power "to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia", but wouldn't ensuring that the Militia is healthy and able-bodied be within that scope as well?