Why Weren't Jobs "Shovel-Ready"?

Rush, and quite a few other Republican-leaning talk show hosts and news outlets (and probably a few Dems as well) was excoriating Obama for a comment he made at a press conference. "The jobs weren't as shovel-ready as we thought."

What I'd like to know is, why not????

The US infrastructure is crumbling - i.e., bridges and roads, the money was out there...why wasn't it used for what it was intended? I know some states rejected the stimulus money because it came with strings attached...but what about those states that did accept it?

I'm afraid that the one endemic problem in American government - from city government right up to federal government - is incompetence. Entrenched incompetence.

REPORTER: I'm sure that when you implemented the Recovery Act, your staff briefed you on many of the challenges of the permitting process and the impact on putting Americans back to work, and that's exactly what we see in American businesses --

OBAMA: Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.

RUSH: And they laughed about it. We cut it but there's laughter. Immelt and these members start laughing about this, yeah, shovel-ready was not as shovel ready as we expected. This is from The One. This is from The Messiah. This is from the expert. This is from the man who gave us almost $800 billion to pay people to do these shovel-ready jobs. There weren't any shovel-ready jobs. The council member admits it. Oh, yeah, well, shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected. Laughing about it, after passing himself off as the lone expert here, he's the guy that's got the only way out of this mess. He's admitting that he didn't know what he was talking about, and now he's laughing about it, as did all the other members of the commission.

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