Hillary’s Tired Prescription: Infrastructure Spending... Call It a Stimulus!

This is in the ballpark of the argument that is probably most effective against Hillary Clinton: she is the status quo. Earlier this month, when asked by Bret Baier how her economic policies would differ from President Obama’s, she immediately praised the president’s record and then eventually called for “a big infrastructure plan… Our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our ports, our airports, our water systems — we have work to do! It’s good work, that will put people back into the middle class and keep them there!” You may have noticed that no matter how much the federal government spends on infrastructure, politicians continue to lament “our crumbling roads and bridges.” How easily everyone forgets Obama touting the stimulus as “the largest new investment in our nation’s infrastructure since Eisenhower”! MAP-21, signed into law in 2012, funded $105 billion for roads, bridges, and highways. Here we are, eight years after the stimulus, and Hillary Clinton is making the same promises about infrastructure spending driving the economy to prosperity — forgetting Obama’s sheepish admission, “Shovel-ready was not as… uh… shovel-ready as we expected.” There is no reason to think Hillary Clinton’s economic policies will be all that different from President Obama’s. And if you feel like Obama’s economic policies haven’t helped you and your family, there’s no reason to expect anything different from hers.

This post by Jim Geraghty underlines the bankruptcy of a Hillary Clinton adminstration. It is essentially the same tired old prescription we've seen for the last eight years.