at a bad joke. they knew from the get-go out of the 830 billion dollars in the stimulus bill 47 billion dollars went for shovel-ready projects. some of those shovel-ready projects are the high speed rail projects that are not being built and won t be. not even all of the 47 billions has been spent. not all has been obligated. certainly we haven «tten the kind of jobs that we were lead to believe we had. greta: karl, thank you. you bet. greta: tears flowing today in the casey anthony murder trial this time not casey, but her mother cindy. prosecutors call cindy anthony to the stand for the third time. and questioned the grandmother cindy about something disturbing. remnants of a t-shirt found with 2-year-old caylee s remains. would it be fair to say that you have never seen that shirt at your house? i don t ever remember
at a bad joke. they knew from the get-go out of the 830 billion dollars in the stimulus bill 47 billion dollars went for shovel-ready projects. some of those shovel-ready projects are the high speed rail projects that are not being built and won t be. not even all of the 47 billions has been spent. not all has been obligated. certainly we haven «tten the kind of jobs that we were lead to believe we had. greta: karl, thank you. you bet. greta: tears flowing today in the casey anthony murder trial this time not casey, but her mother cindy. prosecutors call cindy anthony to the stand for the third time. and questioned the grandmother cindy about something disturbing. remnants of a t-shirt found with 2-year-old caylee s remains. would it be fair to say that you have never seen that shirt at your house?
promises about how shovel-ready projects, it was 6%. greta: the shovel-ready ones of the 6% were expected to rev up the economy and get going. where did the other 94% go? it was spent on a lot of things that were not shovel-ready projects. greta: anything that generates more jobs? no a bunch to bail out state and local government budgets. so they could keep workers aboard. most of the money went to education required you to maintain top up you had to maintain your current level of activity. and use the new federal money to add on top of it. greta: to make payroll, maybe add some employees. but the problem is unless those people went out and spent more to rev up the economy, we are back having to make payroll the next cycle. do you think they could have sold this to the american people had they said look we are asking for 830 billion dollars and we want to reemphasize, only 6% is going
their level best to come out of their circumstances and they ve got this giant obstacle in the way. it is this president s policies. greta: joining us karl rove. author of courage and consequence. nice to see you. great to see you greta. greta: joke or wisecrack and admission of failure? well, i suspect it was meant as a joke. but the joke is on us. if anybody looked at the stimulus bill, 830 billion dollars, they would have seen out of the total 5.7%, 47 billion dollars was allocated to the federal highway administration, the mass transit authority, high speed rail or the faa. we all thought shovel-ready building a road, bridge, extending a railroad, building a runway, high speed rail. that was 5%, less than 6% of the total amount of spending that was in this bill. as a result, the extravagant