President Barack Obama's budget doesn't include the $75 million local officials had hoped to land to deep dredge the port of Miami -- sending them scrambling back to asking members of Congress for the money.
But the budget does include $20 million for programs aimed at promoting democracy in Cuba -- a move that generally doesn't sit well with the Cuban government. A State Department official told reporters that the amount is the same as last year's budget and that the continued detention of US contractor Alan Gross -- who worked on one of the programs -- hasn't affected the spending.
"We fund these programs to serve our national interest and our objectives," spokesman PJ Crowley said.
This should be good news for the private sector! Every time government declines an infrastructure type project, an opportunity opens for private sector entrepreneurship!
Posted by: Michael Schnabel | February 15, 2011 at 04:09 PM