DUers did the stimulus bill have 200 millin for resodding the mall?

[roseBudd]

I am responding to a freeptard on an MSM site

[Warren Stupidity]

1. That would be a lot of sod. nt.

[KittyWampus]

5. I'm from Landscaping professional. Lot's of preperation involved. Wonder if there's irrigation

involved.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. 200M? That is a ridiculous landscaping bill.

[sandnsea]

9. It was $20 million

and everything is insanely ridiculously expensive. That's the free market.

[Warren Stupidity]

11. See the OP.

20M is still a lot, but it is a big mall. 200M is off by an order of magnitude.

[RB TexLa]

2. And doorbells for housing projects in Mississippi. It's got lot's of things in it.

[KittyWampus]

3. actually, I think so. Wouldn't any patriotic American want our National Mall in Washington

to look its best?

[spanone]

4. i beleive that was taken out....due to freepers outrage....

[Better Believe It]

6. What's wrong with that?

I'm sure it involves a lot more than just planting grass.

[sandnsea]

8. It was stupidly, insanely, idiotically, CUT

Ask the freeptard where his patriotic pride in his country is and then tell him to get a volunteer group together to put new sod in the mall or stfu.

[malletgirl02]

14. Freepers

Who wants to bet if they ever visit the Mall, they would complain about how bad it looks, and how Obama is unpatriotic for not fixing it?

[acmavm]

10. 200 mill while we have people living in cars, on the streets, kids are the

majority of the homeless. Hungry people everywhere, jobless over 10% in MANY American communities.

[Bandit]

12. Where do you imagine that $200 million was to be spent?

It takes workers to dig up the old sod and prepare the ground. It takes delivery drivers, hardware stores, construction workers, and just plain old people on the other end of an idiot stick. The money was for jobs, jobsd and more jobs. Resodding the Washington Mall is a BIG Job..

[acmavm]

13. Resodding the mall is not the only way to get that money out there. And

resodding the mall commits to NOTHING permanent.

And neither did any of the other dead weight attached to that bill.

[roseBudd]

15. But the resodding needed to be done and it was about as shovel ready as about anything right?

Sodding can occur in winter before it is safe to plant seed?

[acmavm]

16. If you look upstream, you'll see that I said sodding the mall was the wrong

place to put the money. Put it in a permanent program. And I said that the accompanying pieces of pork were just as bad.

Now someone has shown that the resodding job was only for 20 million. ONLY 20 mil.

The whole proposal was a fiasco.

[Bandit]

17. Building highways is not a perment job either nor is maintenance on any infrastructure project.

They are all necessary though and they do put people to work immediately. That is the entire point of "Stimulus" or don't you get that? Nothing defined as "Stimulus" is a permenent situation, just immediate. I suspect by your talking points, the only thing you consider "permenent" is tax cuts. Food Stamps are not permenent nor is extended unemployment benefits but they are very stimultive in direct opposition to "tax cuts".

[acmavm]

18. Yes, it is. The highway department has NEVER FINISHED the interstate

in this part of the country and they started building it in the late 50s or early 60s. Put more money into this area, create PERMANENT jobs because as soon as the highway is fixed in one place, work is necessary (upkeep and upgrades) somewhere else.

edit: I wasn't going to say anything about how nonsensical your remark was, but it has to be done. This country is currently suffering from infrastructure damage that is the direct result of neglect for years and years. Lack of fund is the cause. Bridges are falling down or about ready to fall down. Parks are being closed. Some stretches of highway are being put into private hands because of lack of money. Our water ways are unmonitored and therefore being polluted to the point that we are going to be hurtin' for certain one of these near days.

The time for special feel-good projects is OVER. We need to get serious about reclaiming and rebuilding our country. And we need to quit dumping millions into projects that are short sighted and don't have any permanent or long-term effect on the problems we need to solve YESTERDAY.

[Bandit]

19. One can say exactly the same thing about maintaining Government property

which the Washington Mall is. Once it is completed they move on to another piece of Government Property such as National Park building or some such. They are all one and the same. The same highway workers will not work in another state on an Interstate project and once the project in their state is complete their job is done. They will need to find another job on another highway or construction site.

[acmavm]

20. Oh lord help me. Another one. I explained below or above or where ever.

Please look for it.

[sandnsea]

21. It's $20 million, and they won't support poor people either

That's just a lame ass excuse the right uses - until it comes time to support the poor and then they say the poor need to do something constructive - like put sod on the mall or something.