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    Cal Thomas: Swindled again

    by Cal Thomas, Tribune Content Agency Nov 18, 2021 2 minutes

    Remember those “shovel-ready jobs” promised by the Obama-Biden administration in 2011? When many failed to appear after passage of this spending boondoggle, President Obama joked, “Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.”

    That law, noted (CAGW), cost $787 billion, of which $48 billion was supposed to go for infrastructure. It was disingenuously called the did not dispute the figure, saying, “the price tag is the wrong way to measure the bill’s worth.” We’re hearing similar assertions about the new law.

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