Comment Re:In other words (Score 1) 481
1-3% of which was spent on the shovel ready jobs.
and of that money, at least in my state, it was dumped into repaving a road nobody drives, that was repaved just 10 years prior.
the problem is they don't employ somebody like me to drive around all day and figure out which ones needs fixing and which don't. There's a lot of highways that get repaved but were originally paved so well that even after 15 years, scratched and scuffed and noisy as the asphalt is, it's still 100% operable and, in fact, safer in wet weather than newly paved roads. That money could be spent converting our other roads that need repaving every 2 years to concrete.