Kentucky Lock replacement is one place where hundreds and hundreds of job would be financed immediately with the stimulus bill passed by Congress last night. Is Ed Whitfield going to take credit for the money coming to Kentucky for the project or is he going to be saddened because the federal government overlooked Kentucky because of the vote by Mitch McConnell, Jim Bunning and Ed Whitfield.
***
We have three large federal projects that were put on hold for lack of money in Western Kentucky.
One is clean coal.
Two is building a better lock at Kentucky Dam which will lower the cost of transporting coal to power plants.
Three is finishing a lock and dam at Olmstead which has been on hold since 2000.
One other project which may be helpful is the cleanup of the area around Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
***
Hopefully the passing of the stimulus bill will put Kentucky employees back to work on these projects.
The Senator and Congressional links (their names) above tell you why these men failed to fund Corps of Engineer projects in the last 8 years plus the stimulus package voted on yesterday.
When the Corps of Engineers Built Smithland locks and dam over 1000 employees were hired to build the project over a 10 year period.
It doesn't matter what they voted because the stimulus bill passed and the locks should get their money for repairs. You no longer need Republicans to get anything passed except for those three from the east. Who is Ed Whitfield anyway...I never heard of him?
ReplyDeleteI don't see where any republicans had anything to do with the stimulus bill. I heard that they weren't even allowed into the room while it was being finalized and that nobody even read the bill anyway...not even dems. I guess that's how business will be done from now on...I will call them "sticky note bills" because handwriting in margins and sticky notes attached to the sides of pages is how the final bill was presented for the vote. In this day of electronics this seems so archaic.
No longer will the company who makes Monopoly money hold the record for most money printed in a year. They have a new competitor...our U.S. Government. Enjoy the token $13 per week you will receive because by next year the token will be cut to $8. Obama should have given each family in the US $one million so we could all go on a spending spree too. I wouldn't of cared how much they spent on that stimulus bill if I had a million dollars to spend in addition to their trillion dollars. Maybe the million dollars for each family will be included in the next stimulus package.
The reason I put the amount at one million dollars per family is because anything lower and families would just hold on to it and save it. When you have to wonder if you'll still have a job next week you tend not to spend any money, not even money that is given to you. You save it for the time that you might need it to pay your bills or put food on the table. With a million you might let go of some of it for that needed new car or TV and maybe even a house and some might even spend all of it... and talk about that stimulating the economy.
Hope Obama's stimulus plan works and works soon because far too many are losing their jobs now.
Ed Whitfield is at your end of the state...no wonder I never heard of him.
ReplyDelete