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

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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.

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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?

I mean, not all of them of course, but I think a good chunk of them, yeah. When a project is denied due to lack of funding, it's usually gotten to the point where one has planned it carefully enough to actually have cost projections.