Shovel Ready
The term shovel ready
is a political neologism
used as an adjective to describe a construction
project (usually larger-scale infrastructure)
where project planning, engineering
and funding have advanced to the stage where laborers may
immediately be employed to begin work.
History
Writing for the Washington Post,
writer Manuel Roig-Franzia sardonically
suggested that the phrase did not exist and had never before been used until
President Barack Obama
used it during an interview with Meet the Press
on 6 December 2008.[1][2] Obama
used the phrase to describe infrastructure projects that were ready to
immediately receive stimulus funding.[3]
Later, other commentators suggested the phrase denoted
projects which were able to begin construction within a specific time-frame of "three
or four months"[4] on a use
it or lose it basis.
In the US
Having originated in the United States, the
term is now used generally in reference to projects which are candidates for economic stimulus
spending: money put into a shovel ready project will have a more immediate
impact on the economy than money spent on a project on which a great deal of
time must elapse for architecture, zoning, legal considerations or other such
factors before labor can be deployed on it.
In Iowa, the Seven
County Corridor Alliance (Benton County, Cedar County, Iowa County, Johnson County, Jones County, Linn County and Washington County) established a Shovel Ready Certification
Program to certify projects as shovel ready which will be "added
to a local, regional and statewide inventory of sites with similar
qualifications and will be strongly marketed".[5]
The Georgia Department of Transportation has
established specific criteria projects must meet to be considered shovel
ready including National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
clearances and relevant property
acquisition requirements.
Obama jokes about
'shovel-ready projects'
Jun 13, 2011
By David Jackson, USA TODAY
Researchers Note:
Tuesday,
April 7, 2015
Researchers note:
One thing that really stands out since I’ve been researching the left, is how
extremely organized they are. They use key words. Currently the key word they
are using is “Ready”.
Harry Reid Joins Progressive Push
"Ready for Boldness"
Clinton backers launch ‘Ready for Hillary’ super-PAC in
hopes of 2016 campaign
‘Ready for Hillary’
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools
Alliance College-Ready Public
Schools
Meet the Press
Meet the Press
is an NBC News program.
Note:
Tom Brokaw was the
interim host for Meet the Press, a
director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
and is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Robin Hood Foundation, the International
Rescue Committee, the Center for
American Progress, and the Climate
Reality Project.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society,
a supporter for the Center for American
Progress, is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and a co-chair, national finance council
at Ready for Hillary.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Melody C. Barnes
was the EVP for the Center for American
Progress, a domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, and is Barack Obama’s golf partner.
Carol M. Browner
is a senior fellow, director at the Center
for American Progress, a director at the Climate Reality Project, was the energy czar for the Barack Obama administration, and an administrator
for the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
Albert A. Gore Jr.
is the chairman for the Climate Reality
Project, and Araceli Ruano was
his assistant political director to the VP.
Araceli Ruano was
the assistant political director to the VP for Albert A. Gore Jr., is a director at the Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
David I. Fisher is
a director at the Alliance College-Ready
Public Schools, and was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Glen S. Fukushima
is a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, and was a contributor for Ready for Hillary.
Susie Tompkins
Buell is a national finance council member at Ready for Hillary, married to Mark
Buell, was a contributor for Ready
for Hillary, and was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Mark Buell is
married to Susie Tompkins Buell, and
was a funder for the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Audre Rapoport was
a contributor for Ready for Hillary,
a funder for the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and married to Bernard Rapoport.
Bernard Rapoport
was married to Audre Rapoport, and a
funder for the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton is a director at the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a potential candidate for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential
campaign, and Chelsea V. Clinton’s
mother.
Priorities
USA Action is supporting the 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and was a super PAC
supporting the 2012 Barack Obama presidential
campaign.
Chelsea V. Clinton
is the vice chair for the Bill, Hillary
& Chelsea Clinton Foundation, Hillary
Rodham Clinton’s daughter, married to Marc
Mezvinsky, and a correspondent for the NBC
News.
Meet the Press
is an NBC News program.
Marjorie
Margolies-Mezvinsky was a reporter for the NBC News, and is Marc
Mezvinsky’s mother.
Marc Mezvinsky is
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky’s son,
and married to Chelsea V. Clinton.
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