Obama's infrastructure bill?

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I remember shortly after Obama took office and with a Democratic Congress a bill passed. I think that it was limited to roads. I remember driving by a construction zone and there was a sign identifying it as the result of this legislation.

Did it achieve the goal(s)?

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1. You're probably thinking of the Recovery Act stimulus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009

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3. Thank you, yes. Nothing changed, No R vote

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2. it was the american recovery act.

and yes, it succeeded. part of the package was bailing out the car companies, which clearly worked.
i dont know about where you are, but here w got a bunch of new municipal vehicles. cops, fire, city workers, all in new suburbans. i remember seeing them in every town i went to.

it was the basis of the great obama economy.

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4. Yes it did achieve it's goal, most economists I have heard from

credit it for turning the economy around. It wasn't large enough though, the economy recovered much too slow.
I personally knew two people at the time that owned asphalt paving companies. At the beginning of 2010 they had
absolutely no work. It paid for paving of a local highway that kept them from going bankrupt and kept their employees
working in 2010. Both are Republicans and still hate Obama and Democrats. The Republicans will take their welfare but don't think anyone
else should get guvmint money.

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7. Yes. Republicans fought to keep the stimulus inadquate, having promised

to allow the Democrats no achievements and people in general still hurting after the 2008 Republican great recession and worried about the future. Creating the conditions for their great electoral wins of the 2010 midterms. Anxious people are more conservative people.

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5. Those signs were great!

Remember the Con that complained that the signs were a waste of money. He put out a call to have everyone send him pictures of them. That worked great until someone pointed out that someone got a job making the signs. The more pictures he got the more proof that the infrastructure bill was working. Cons are not the brightest people, are they?

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6. Tax Relief

That bill was heavy on tax relief, thanks to Lieberman and other DINO's, it was not close to as ambitious as Biden's BBB in regards to infrastructure.

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8. Thank you for this addition. Of course, roads and bridges have deteriorated since then

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