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The shovel ready thing was questionable because i saw parts of the northeast just a lot of repaved roads not new project, not transformational projects. it got people to work but it didn't change any of the elemental stuff that we need fixed. >> look, brian, i don't disagree with that. we followed the law. the law said spend the money in two years. get the money out the door. put people to work. so we used our good partnerships with governors and others to fix up some roads and fix up some bridges, and, you know, really do what we could and people were put to work over that two year period. sh...

Olympics as a vast pork barrel project well before the 9/11 attacks took place and it involved money being pumped in for all sorts of things, not just security. repaved roads to the snow basin ski resort. light rail for salt lake. weather forecasting. a whole range of what is often described as pork barrel projects. now, to be fair to romney, most of that was put in by bob bennett the utah senator who was on the appropriations committee well before. but romney defended it. wrote a letter to the gao saying this is all entirely appropriate to promote peace was his words and he stepped up the acc...