Friday, December 19, 2008

Groups line up for share of huge stimulus package

As President-elect Barack Obama and congressional leaders construct a behemoth economic stimulus package, a parade of interest groups is seeking shares of the portion that will go to infrastructure construction projects. The "ready-to-go" project lists are longer than the supplicants' arms and for sums that would have seemed fantastic only months ago, before the depth of the recession became apparent.

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"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."
- Rahm Emanuel, quoted in the WSJ
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