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5. Yeah, the right is really pissed about the "Kentucky Kickback " that was slipped into the bill.
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 05:27 PM
Oct 2013

But it just goes to show how sick conservatives are. That was not pork, but important infrastructure spending that will put people to work.

It was for a crucial Ohio River construction project, just the sort of thing we need right now. The provision authorizes $2.8 billion in funding for the Olmsted Locks and Dam on the Ohio River between Kentucky and Illinois.The entire commercial navigation system of the Ohio River faces a choke point near Olmsted, where two locks and dams with century-old technology are barely cobbled together and at risk of failure.

Repairing crumbling infrastructure is exactly what we should be doing. The blow back against McConnell by conservatives is just a happy byproduct.

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