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Todd – Stop playing the fool I believe you aren't.
If the recession that we are now officially living in could be solved in less than two months of government, then it wouldn't be a RECESSION.
Everyone was warned that things would get worse before they got better. And it's a simple thing to realize why it will happen that way. The economy is a very complicated thing, you cannot simply WISH that it changes its 'down and under' course to 'above and beyond', you have to act for it. And those actions take time to produce its effects.
You want to criticize the president's actions. Do it, we're no longer under an administration who demanded kinglike powers and subordination from the people, check the memorandums released today if you don't believe me on that one, we're back to a normal democracy, in which a president has boundaries to his powers and he knows that very well... so you have the whole right to criticize him but please, do not insult YOUR intelligence.

Mike March 3rd, 2009 3:22 pm ET

@ Todd

"I mean, we're almost at 6500!!!! I've never seen that in my lifetime…NEVER…."

Hey Todd, are you only 12 years old? The DOW was this low in 1997 so how can you say you have never seen this in your lifetime?

John March 3rd, 2009 2:22 pm ET
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This is an inaccurate report. The first infrastructure project started a couple of minutes after the stimulus bill was signed; in Tuscumbia, Missouri to replace a decrepit bridge built in 1933 across the Osage River in Miller county Mo.

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4 years of progress......don't care who you are. In this current economy, Americans will take what they can as long as some illegals aren't keeping them from a job. 150k a year professionals working $10 an hour jobs. You'll soon find people will do anything to feed their family so don't act like people are above doing certain things.

It's a start, one job at a time, one state at a time. At least he's doing something, instead of handing over the country to his oil rich friends like our last president did.

A few trillion dollars and he got shovels to work. With alot more trillions maybe he can get a dump truck to work. He,obamby,has already spent our grandchildrens taxes.

@ Todd

"I mean, we're almost at 6500!!!! I've never seen that in my lifetime…NEVER…."

Hey Todd, are you only 12 years old? The DOW was this low in 1997 so how can you say you have never seen this in your lifetime?

Obama is the smartest President this nation has ever had compared to the Presidents from the past excluding the good civil acts of a few more recent Presidents ie... Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton. I believe if the congress and senate will work with him America will have a re-surgence from the status where we are now. Obama knows how to listen to the brightest of minds America and countries abroad have. The American people were smart to choose him and they won't regret it.

60 down, 3,499,940 to go. That's 30 jobs for every month of his presidency. At this rate, everyone should have a job by the year 11731. Way to go Obama! I see our tax dollars were well spent.

We have to start somewhere......

Where do the 60 jobs go when the work is done?

Back to the unemployment line until the gov't. spends more to keep them employed, meanwhile taxing the private sector even more to come up with the funds.

Then I would expect toll booths (pay for the maint.). Just like Chicago, IL., the stinking armpit of the great lakes.

This is an inaccurate report. The first infrastructure project started a couple of minutes after the stimulus bill was signed; in Tuscumbia, Missouri to replace a decrepit bridge built in 1933 across the Osage River in Miller county Mo.

Great news!!! Let's see the rest of the states step up with using the stimulus money wisely. At least we've got some progress since November, considering we've had nothing the prior 8 years.

I live in the Washington DC area and the workers on the construction sites here are almost always Latinos.

Asking how many are illegals is a relevant question. I don't want to see my stimulous dollars going to people who shouldn't be in the country in the first place. Moreover, it hardly stimulates the economy when illegals pay nothing in taxes and send most of their earning back to Mexico or El Salvador.

Dimes & Rick

Obama is trying to get the economy moving. The money is for jobs. If you don't see it then ask your senators who may have turned the money down. Bush tore this country up for eight years and you want the President to fix it in 2 months? Sit down!

This seems like a great way to get more jobs and money into the economy, and also improve our day to day life. Highway 650 in Maryland is definitly i good option to choose for repair, and i'm glad that Obama is actually doing good on his promises. However, this article boasts that the stimulous plan "will ultimately help steer $28 billion in new federal funds to highway construction and repair — part of the "largest new investment in America's infrastructure since President Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System,"" but i find it hard to believe that the 200 small projects around the country are going to have as prfound an impact as the interstate highway system. That project was revolutionary for transportation in America and i do not believe these small projects will transform our transportation system. However, i am hopeful nonetheless that these projects will improve our economy and beautify our country.

I thought his first project was constructing a tunnel to mexico so we can inherit more wetbacks. Remember as he said, we are a Country with open arms.

Start caring about your neighbor Republicans. The selfishness I see oozing from the Right is unbelievable.

At least it is a start! I need positvie news. Please, we are still under 30 days.

We saw what the GOP has done lately. RUSH and STEELE are in a dog fight! That is 2 jobs! And a lot of folks leaning on shovels, watching. At CPAC, you had a hate fest, nothing more, no ideas. Were you there?

I'm an independent Obama supporter, but I disagree with him on a few things. I questioned George Bush when he was president and I will question Obama. It is our right and our obligation to question our leaders. So to the fools who want to follow blindly, keep your comments to yourself. Every citizen has the right to oppose and question authority. If you don't question and just go along with everything then you are sheep.

No wonder so many people, early on, were applying for jobs in the Obama Administration. They were just trying to get out of paying his higher taxes....OR ANY OTHER TAXES !!!!

MORE WASTE. MORE SPENDING.

Give Michelle the checkbook and walk away barack.

You cant balance anything.

@Rick March 3rd, 2009 11:36 am ET

That doesnt put jobs in Iowa , Where are the IOWA JOBS Obama??????????

Iowa is allotted $358B, why don't you ask your legislature?

Hey, RNC chairman Michael Steele did Rush threaten to take away the keys to the RNC executive toilet? I sure could see how this would bother any figure head leader placed atop an organization as a puppet and forced to apologize or lick Rush's... *pilonidal cyst.

'Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain'

*Pilonidal Cyst Overview (WebMD)

A pilonidal cyst is a cyst at the bottom of the tailbone (coccyx) that can become infected and filled with pus. Once infected, the technical term is pilonidal abscess. Pilonidal abscesses look like a large pimple at the bottom of the tailbone, just above the crack of the buttocks. It is more common in men than in women. It usually happens in young people up into the fourth decade of life.

Amazing. You gave the last guy 8 YEARS to make the country better all the while sticking your heads in the sand about the exploding national deficit and debt. Bush did not veto a single spending bill until 2006(hmm wonder why) but you never questioned it. Now you want Obama to fix in 3 months what it took Bush 8 years to screw up.

Hey David, make sure you teach your children that they have to clean toilets in hotels, wash dishes in restaurants, pick up trash in the streets of America, pick crops because these are the jobs Americans don't want or I should say refuse to do so if there are illegals working the streets it is because we as a society are above getting our hands dirty.What is funny about the crops a lot of them are owned by other illegals or I should say were brought here after the war (s) By the way I am not an illegal so don't even go there.

OBAMA NOMICS , WATCH IT CRUMBLE . FULL SPEED AHEAD .

Unfortunately the damage has been done, HUGE by the way and these earth is flat repukes are still in the way and they will say anything to obstruct. They should just stick to farming and stay down to earth is flat way, let us take care of businesse and complicated urban issues.

The DC area could use some help. There are too many major water main breaks in an area that is supposed to be the national capital. The last one nearly caused people to drown in their cars and authorities are blaming this on outdated infrastructure. Obama can now pick up the slack because Bush's eyes were fixated on Iraq and not not the area right under his nose.

G Street – EXACTLY!!! WE are hurting too!! It's time that this do-nothing President does something to CHANGE what's going on with the economy and stock market. I mean, we're almost at 6500!!!! I've never seen that in my lifetime...NEVER....

Are you kidding me he is so full of it........Hey Obama, address the stock Market and our 401K's.

Well here it goes, the end of high profits in wheel alignment shops. I think the shops need lobbyists or substidies to cover their lost revenue. There's always some special interest groups whining about something.

The stimulus officially begins today so everyone can monitor Recovery.gov to see where the money is flowing and hopefully witness the results in the economy. April 1 is when taxpayers will begin seeing increases in our take-home pay. We can only hope these things help somewhat but all Americans can help NOW by buying energy efficent appliances and energy star products. Even replacing light bulbs with CFLs or LEDs helps the economy and the environment!!!

Darn socialist! Building roads and all that stuff....

Pretty good for 1 1/2 months in office !!! EH!!! -- Get`er done, Obama

Be interesting to see how many illegals working on this project.

Big deal, resurfacing one road does nothing.

We need to see some real results.

Get the economy moving Obama!

You have now spent almost 3 TRILLION dollars in less than 2 months and have failed all of us. Forget the pork and tax increases, real people are suffering. Show us that you are not a clown and do something or go down as the worst president in US history.

"If its not in my backyard, I'm against it." That seems to be the attitude of many of the posters to this site. I regret we seem to care little about our neighbors. America, get a heart! People are hurting!

Great start PRESIDENT OBAMA. And I know there are more jobs to come. Thank you for CHANGE!

Let the Jobs Begin.

Can you send $2000 to help fix the potholes in my town?

yes.

THANK GOD, I know highway 650 (also known as New Hampshire Avenue – begins at the DC line) and straddles Montgomery Prince George's county and it seriously needs repairs!!

For those that don't live in MD/VA/DC, Do us a favor, please don't make any negative comments of something you have no idea about.

Two good news!

That doesnt put jobs in Iowa , Where are the IOWA JOBS Obama??????????

Yeah..., let the unemployed shovel! In this kind of a crisis there's no such thing as underemployed!!