coolwalker
10-16-2012, 09:45 AM
Four years ago, Senator Barack Obama promised that if he was elected, he would create thousands of new construction jobs. When he was inaugurated, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a total of 6,558,000 construction jobs (http://news.newsmax.com/?ZKCDXtpj-IORhBMrCYkHt3MmkQrfxlvAZ).
Obama’s immediate action to boost construction jobs and just jobs in general was to push through the first stimulus bill. At the time he signed the bill in February 2009, construction jobs dropped to 6,448,000 and Obama told the crowd in Denver (http://news.newsmax.com/?ZKCDXtpj-IORhBMrCYkHt3MmkQrfxlvAZ):
“Because we know we can’t build our economic future on the transportation and information networks of the past, we are remaking the American landscape with the largest new investment in our nation’s infrastructure since Eisenhower built an Interstate Highway System in the 1950s.
“Because of this investment, nearly 400,000 men and women will go to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, repairing our faulty dams and levees, bringing critical broadband connections to businesses and homes in nearly every community in America, upgrading mass transit, building high-speed rail lines that will improve travel and commerce throughout our nation.”
Read more: http://godfatherpolitics.com/7509/1-million-construction-jobs-lost-under-obama/#ixzz29TPm5CtT
Obama’s immediate action to boost construction jobs and just jobs in general was to push through the first stimulus bill. At the time he signed the bill in February 2009, construction jobs dropped to 6,448,000 and Obama told the crowd in Denver (http://news.newsmax.com/?ZKCDXtpj-IORhBMrCYkHt3MmkQrfxlvAZ):
“Because we know we can’t build our economic future on the transportation and information networks of the past, we are remaking the American landscape with the largest new investment in our nation’s infrastructure since Eisenhower built an Interstate Highway System in the 1950s.
“Because of this investment, nearly 400,000 men and women will go to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, repairing our faulty dams and levees, bringing critical broadband connections to businesses and homes in nearly every community in America, upgrading mass transit, building high-speed rail lines that will improve travel and commerce throughout our nation.”
Read more: http://godfatherpolitics.com/7509/1-million-construction-jobs-lost-under-obama/#ixzz29TPm5CtT