stimulus spending

High-speed half-truths from Washington

by Charlie Leocha on January 29, 2010

If you ask anyone with any experience in railroad administration, railcar construction or laying railroad tracks, the current administration hoopla about starting to move toward constructing high-speed rail and putting people to work, is just that — hoopla. $8 billion is not enough to construct even one high-speed rail line, let along grants to 31 states for 13 rail projects.

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Can the FAA spend the stimulus money?

by Charlie Leocha on February 20, 2009

One wouldn’t think that warnings of too much money to spend would be heard during a House Subcommittee on Aviation hearing in Washington, DC; but they were. The passing of the stimulus bill means there is a lot of money, but the U.S. and the stated don’t have the mechanisms in place, nor the controls, to efficiently spend that much.

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