At last, a little transparency from the Obama Regime. After spending $1 trillion that we don't have on shovel-ready projects, he admits that they do not exist. To quote the Taxer and Spender in Chief:
"[T]here's no such thing as shovel-ready projects."
Great. So can we have our $1,000,000,000,000 back? I didn't think so.
Jonah Goldberg comments:
Back in early 2009, President-elect Barack Obama was asked on Meet the Press how quickly he could create jobs. Oh, very fast, he said. He'd already consulted with a gaggle of governors, and "all of them have projects that are shovel-ready." When Obama revealed the members of his energy team, he explained that they were part of his effort to get started on "shovel-ready projects all across the country." When he unveiled his education secretary, he assured everyone that he was going to get started "helping states and local governments with shovel-ready projects."
In interviews, job summits, and press conferences, it was shovel-ready this, shovel-ready that. Search the White House website for the term "shovel-ready" and you'll drown in press releases about all the shovels ready to shove shovel-ready projects into the 21st century, where no shovel is left behind. …
It's not that Obama was lying when he said all that stuff. It's just that he didn't know what he was talking about. All it took was nearly a trillion dollars in stimulus money and 20-plus months of on-the-job training for him to discover that he was talking nonsense.
Goldberg is too kind when accuses Obama of gross incompetence. The Manchurian Moonbat isn't even trying to be competent.
But the Anointed One did finally manage to find a shovel-ready project:
