Wait, they haven't spent it yet?

Now that he's back from his "New Tutankhamen" Middle East/France 2009 Tour, Barry is getting down to the business of doing things the American populace had already assumed he did. Namely spending that $700 billion smackeroos in stimulus money. Yeah, I was sure they had already done that too. Turns out they hadn't. Turns out they just piled it up in one of the White House ballrooms and they'd take turns piling it up and diving into it, walking into the room and smelling the money, and walking leaders and diplomats from poor countries by the room while saying stuff like "I'm sorry, we're just strapped for cash at the moment. Perhaps you've read about it. No aid for you."

But now that someone reminded Barry to spend that money at least he isn't going around and making big promises about what the spending will do. Oh, he is? Well then.

President Barack Obama promised Monday to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools and summer youth programs.
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Many of the stimulus plans that Obama announced Monday already were in the works, including hundreds of maintenance projects at military bases, about 1,600 state road and airport improvements, and federal money states budgeted for 135,000 teachers, principals and school support staff.

The administration had always viewed the summer as a peak for stimulus spending, as better weather permitted more public works construction and federal agencies had processed requests from states and others.

But Obama now promises an accelerated pace of federal spending over the next few months to boost the economy and produce jobs.

The White House has already claimed to have "created or saved" 150,000 jobs, which seems to be somewhat borne out by the improved, no really, job numbers. Though really they'd like to get to a point where they can cut the 'saved' part and get to dust off the 'created' language. That way it sounds less like they're credit grubbing/bullshitting when they claim to be saving jobs after 300,000 people lose theirs in a month. Still though, nice to see they're finally getting around to spending all that money we were told was necessary to stop us from being imminently sucked into a world eating money vortex.

Next on the list of things they're gonna do that people had assumed they already did: swear in Joe Biden. Turns out he hasn't officially or legally been the VP for the last few months.