re: The media GUSHED over Obozo's "shovel-ready" 1 bil infrastructure plan

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Tell everyone why the overwhelming majority of those projects were not able to start.

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Tl/Dr version:
They were not shovel ready.

Long version:
If a job was "shovel ready" there was already funding lined up for that project. These large projects can take years to design. Engineers are not going to complete a set of plans and cover all the costs without a contract in place. The "Owner" is not going to sign a contract without assurances that the money is available. The government is not going to fund the design without having the funds available for the construction. In some cases the government will give the go ahead on design with a year gap between design and construction, but there again the funding is already allocated in the future year. Shovel ready jobs was just a tag line to sell a crap bill.