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It s nothing new. i mean it includes things like new spending for environmentally friendly construction, or something of that sort. i mean, this is more of the same. i hope i m glad he s called a joint session, i hope that we hear something new. gregg: is it hard for the president to request new spending when he just agreed with congress to try to cut spending? yes. yes. as i say if it s more of the same, the stimulus project. now he s talking about infrastructure spending. the similar tuesday spending included just a fraction of that was infrastructure spending. most of it was make work jobs or to keep public employees on the roles, it wasn t infrastructure spending at all. now he s awakened to the need for infrastructure spending. it s all just a little late to the game. gregg: his comment a moment ago that if you don t renew this highway bill, you know, a million people will lose their jobs and immediately 4,000, and he said all of them will be out of a job just because of ....
Hoover increased spending. hoover is the opposite of las fair. and the hoover dam completed under fdr and started under hoover and bailouts to banks and government projects. we have a graph of spending under hoover and after hoover and would have been flat before the years of hoover, he comes to power, that s the yellow, increases spending 50%. the idea that he s laz say fair is absurd. it s a stimulus project and done under him, the hoover dam. and even today, it s still celebrated by advocates of big spending as an example of the wonderful things government should do. the project of national significance, we ve got the projects on the menu right now and we ve got to figure ....
This? let s move on to, you ma i had a comment about hoover did nothing and then roosevelt saved us. hoover didn t do nothing. hoover increased spending. hoover is the opposite of las fair. and the hoover dam completed under fdr and started under hoover and bailouts to banks and government projects. we have a graph of spending under hoover and after hoover and would have been flat before the years of hoover, he comes to power, that s the yellow, increases spending 50%. the idea that he s laz say fair is absurd. it s a stimulus project and done under him, the hoover dam. and even today, it s still celebrated by advocates of big spending as an example of the wonderful things government ....
For the very first stimulus project, replacing the old osage river bridge in missouri. it provided me training, it provided me financially stable months, it provided me a lot of stuff i would not have had otherwise. one, two, three. yea! [applause] reporter: and the project opened last fall when the new and improved bridge opened for business and the old bridge came down. the lead contractor on the bridge is grateful for the project but says work is hard to come by right now. we sent a bunch of our key guys home. they ve been sitting home for three months now. p you know, guys that we would normally be working year round are at home just because we don t have the to support em. reporter: while republicans and democrats debate whether the stimulus worked, for those who got a paycheck for a while because of the stimulus, for them there is no debate. i think it was a good program. i don t think it followed ....
reporter: you bet. jon: get powered up with chris power play, log on to foxnews.com, click on the politics tab right there. you ll see chris work infrastructure, some very good stuff. jenna: well, putting your stimulus money to work. it s always easier to spend other people s money, right, jon? is. jon: it sure is. can i have your credit card? [laughter] jenna: no way. president obama signed the stimulus two years ago. we ll bring it up for you, it s a bridge in missouri originally built in 1933. it was in need of serious repair. the project is now complete, and steve brown is joining us from be missouri to tell us how it all went. steve? reporter: hey, jenna. yeah, we were here two years ago shortly after ground breaking, we ve returned to two years to the day to talk about that very first stimulus project. they re, obviously, my number one priority. beth is a single l mom of two young children. she pays the bills working construction and was on the job ....