After yesterday’s celebration of how swimmingly everything is going with the stimulus bill, Fox News tried to stir up some controversy with Secretary LaHood over the fact that $57 million is being spent on unspecified “studies” in Ohio.
“I’m not trying to pick nits here, but there is $57 million in Ohio that’s going to studies of something — that’s not exactly fixing infrastructure now [...] is it?” asked host Stuart Varney.
LaHood stuck to his talking points. “There will be hundreds of thousands of people out working this summer, building infrastructure, rebuilding infrastructure,” he said, and offered a personal guarantee that the money will be spent right.
Thus far, it’s proven difficult to make the case that stimulus funds are not being well managed — and efforts to find examples that argue otherwise just seem to highlight the overall competence of the Obama administration in getting the money out quickly and carefully.
(Note: There seems to be a technical glitch in stopping the video — if you want to do so before you have enjoyed it in all its glory, right click on it and select “Rewind”.)
April 14th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Hopefully those “studies” are about getting the Ohio Hub rail project up and running in the next couple of years.