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  • Shovel-Ready -- The White House plans to plant a vegetable garden.

    Short Takes 2009

  • $100B Should Build Some Shovel-Ready Online Infrastructure The stimulus will generate more than $100 billion in technology spending over the next five years.

    Daily Digest | Global Bloggers Take London 2009

  • Shovel-Ready or Not: Finally, well worth checking out is Stimulus Watch, a volunteer-created project that invites citizens to track, analyze, and rate the "shovel-ready" projects in their local areas.

    Daily Digest: What Progressives Want (and What They Should) Scola, Nancy 2009

  • Obama claimed that "if" his $787 BILLION dollar "stimulus" bill was passed back in 2009 that the unemployment rate wouldn't go over 8%...the unemployment rate has NEVER been 8% much less below 8% since then...so much for "Shovel-Ready Projects"...

    News - latimes.com 2011

  • Obama finally admitted last year that "there's no such thing as Shovel-Ready Projects."

    News - latimes.com 2011

  • Finally a "Shovel-Ready" project, and he kills it.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2012

  • Grandma's Not Shovel-Ready can also be a major power player in a debate that has the country five days from financial catastrophe.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Grandma's Not Shovel-Ready can also be a major power player in a debate that has the country five days from financial catastrophe.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2011

  • Colin Hanna, president of an organization called Let Freedom Ring, gathered together photos and text about th 9/12 March in a volume called Grandma's Not Shovel-Ready!

    Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll Rick Sincere 2010

  • "Grandma's not Shovel-Ready," said one of their signs last week, playing off a fear the aged will see their care rationed away.

    News for Opelika-Auburn News Opelika-Auburn News 2010

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