I Have the List of ‘Shovel Ready Projects’ Used to Create the Stimulus Bill. Interesting.?

Question by intuitiv: I have the list of ‘Shovel Ready Projects’ used to create the Stimulus bill. Interesting.?
With the statement from Obama that there is no pork. Can you find any? How do they assess the number of jobs created. I see many here that would last maybe a week but have several jobs created.
If you get a job for a week out of one of these projects, is that one of the 3 million jobs created?

The guy that adored Obama and has worked for McDonald’s for the past 4 1/2 years got a one day job announcing a game for $ 25. Does that count as one of the jobs created?

http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state

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Answer by Susie T
If you (or your parents) were one of the 17 MILLION people who’ve lost their jobs in the past two years and can’t find another one, I don’t think you’d care what projects are shovel-ready. All you’d care about is whether YOU could get a job. And whether the stimulus package would keep you from LOSING your job.

Grow up. It’s taking an average of 10 months to get another job in this economy. That’s unheard of in American history except for the Depression, when 25% of people were out of work and couldn’t find jobs.

Answer by Bethney
The following was copied from the FAQ at the website you gave. We don’t know which of these will be funded.

It is expected that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be signed by the President on February 16. That legislation won’t list the projects to be funded. Instead, it will appropriate money for federal grant programs, such as the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) or Surface Transportation Program, which will then use the appropriated stimulus money to make grants to cities. In the case of CDBG, for example, the Department of Housing and Urban Development will be the agency that will decide (using a formula) which of the projects requested by the mayors will be funded.

That said, the funding Congress approves for these programs, and thus how much money cities will actually receive for their projects, may exceed or fall short of the mayors’ suggestions. This means that not every project requested by the mayors will be funded. And that is why it’s important for citizens to register their opinions on which projects they believe are critical and which are not. By the same token, it is also likely that many projects not yet proposed by localities (and thus not listed on this site) will receive funding via federal programs.

After searching the text of the bill, I was unable to find any applicable block grants except for the ones listed below. None of these had any specific projects listed.
These are the relevant grants over $ 1 Billion within Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. Most of these grants have to be allocated within 2 years.

NATIONAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM $ 5.5B
AIRPORT INVESTMENT $ 1.1B
HIGHWAY INVESTMENT $ 27B
HIGH-SPEED RAIL CORRIDOR PROGRAM $ 2B
PUBLIC TRANSIT INVESTMENT $ 8.4B
PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND $ 5B
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION FUND $ 1.5B
ASSISTED HOUSING STABILITY AND ENERGY
AND GREEN RETROFIT INVESTMENTS $ 2.25B

These total up to $ 50.5B which is a small part of the total stimulus.
Tracking down these grants is very time consuming. It’s difficult to find anything that can be considered pork, but there’s lots of places to hide inside of $ 787B.

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