The stimulus efforts have seemed to slow down for a variey of reasons but often cited is that there are very few truly shovel-ready projects. The infrastructure needs to be fixed. Our roads are certainly in need of improvement and not so long ago a bridge collaped with loss of life and many of our bridges were inspected and found to be sorely lacking. The power grid could use updating too. Remember the black-outs. It would be a long list if I tried to list all the needs and even then I’d surely miss some. Lots of infrastructure improvements are needed in this country.

A project does not need to be shovel-ready to be a stimulus to the economy. The planning stage requires much work (jobs!) and is followed by construction jobs. So we need to fix our infrastucture and stimulate our economy at the same time.