Obama: Santa to Cities?

As reported by Politico:  "To the nation’s mayors, Barack Obama seems a little like Santa Claus — with a big sack of federal money to build local projects that would help stimulate the nation’s faltering economy.

"With infrastructure investment a key tenet of the economic stimulus plans being discussed by the president-elect and congressional Democrats, the U.S. Conference of Mayors has released a list of more than 4,600 projects that could be completed quickly next year, adding more than 261,000 jobs in 154 cities around the country."

Read the article here.

Read the plan here.  (Go to link at right for .pdf)  Note $64 billion for "City Streets and Metro Roads Infrastructure" but only $18 billion for "Transit Equipment and Infrastructure."

  

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