Remember all those shovel-ready jobs that weren't?

Democrats plan to spend $2 trillion on infrastructure. Before we do that, let's look back on the $787 billion Democrats blew the last time they controlled Congress and the presidency.

The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act was supposed to save jobs and improve our roads, bridges, and airports.

Obama sold it as a preventative to further job losses. He told ABC, "Here's what we know though, that the sooner a recovery and reinvestment package is in place, the sooner we can start turning the economy around. We can't afford three, four, five, six more months where we're losing half a million jobs per month.

"And the estimates are that if we don't do anything, we could see 4 million jobs lost this year."

Instead we blew nearly a trillion bucks and lost 3,443,000 jobs anyway. The numbers are here.

He said if we did nothing unemployment would hit 9%!

It hit 10%.

In fact, the recovery act slowed down the recovery. The unemployment rate was 7.8% when he took office, and 7.8% when he was re-elected.

In between times was a lot of pain and misery for the people, and pockets lined with cash for Democrats.

Contrast and compare to the 14.7% rate last April that President Trump cut to 6.3% when he left office 9 months later.

That is the difference between a capitalist and a socialist. A capitalist solves a problem while a socialist prolongs it to expand his power. They never let a crisis go to waste.

Speaking of waste, here is what Citizens Against Government Waste said on October 14, 2011: "There is little evidence for any correlation between infrastructure spending and short-term job growth.

"Analysis of the economy 10 months into President Obama’s first economic stimulus plan, cited in a January 12, 2010 Associated Press article, found that, 'A federal spending surge of more than $20 billion for roads and bridges in President Obama’s first stimulus has had no effect on local unemployment rates…, it didn’t matter if a lot of money was spent on highways or none at all: Local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless. And the stimulus spending only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry.'

"When questioned at a June 13, 2011 meeting with his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness about the tortuous permitting process for construction projects, President Obama quipped, 'Shovel-ready wasn’t as…uh…shovel-ready as we thought.' While this explanation might satisfy a room full of friendly supporters, it is doubtful that the millions of jobless across the nation are finding much to laugh about in this dismal economy."

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The only shovels ready were those of investors, er donors, who shoveled their pieces of the pie into their bank accounts.

And who headed the project?

Biden.

A 12 years younger and unsenile Biden at that.

Defenders of this boondoggle say, well, part of that $787 billion went to tax breaks, which only underscores how bad this went.

President Trump's tax breaks took unemployment down from 4.7% to 3.5% in three years.

That means that in three years, the unemployment rate should have dropped from 7.8% to 6.6% using tax breaks alone.

Instead it rose to 9%.

What should have been a 1.2-point drop became a 1.2-point increase. 

On the third anniversary of the shovel-ready jobs act, Reince Priebus pointed out what the press refused to say: Obama failed.

Priebus wrote, "First, Obama's economic advisers promised the stimulus would keep the unemployment rate below 8 percent. In 2012, the unemployment rate was supposed to fall below 6%. The prediction was not meant to be taken lightly. In a January 2009 radio address, Obama announced he was releasing a report based on rigorous analysis that charted unemployment through 2013 so 'the American people can see exactly what this plan will mean for their families.'

"Today, 12.8 million Americans are unemployed, 8.2 million cannot find enough work, and 1.1 million have given up looking for work altogether. Unemployment still remains above 8%, the supposed maximum rate, and certainly above 6 %. For 36 straight months, unemployment has been higher than what the president promised. That's more than a rounding error; that is a failure of leadership."

Obama lied. He got the money. His bag man, Biden, handed it out. The press never held him accountable.

Chairman Xiden thinks it is his turn now.