Even officials in red states like the Obama stimulus plan

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Even officials in red states like the Obama stimulus plan
By James Rosen | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — States and cities are lining up infrastructure projects to take advantage of a $500 billion stimulus package President-elect Barack Obama hopes Congress will enact shortly after his inauguration Jan. 20.

Even in a state like South Carolina, where the governor and a senator oppose the stimulus package.

The potential benefits under President-elect Barack Obama's $500 billion economic-recovery plan could fill the state government's revenue shortfall and help realize House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn's dream of turning the I-95 "corridor of shame into an oasis of opportunity."

The Obama stimulus funds could make the state's fabled beach-waters cleaner by modernizing sewer-treatment plants and retrofitting ocean pipelines. It could pave crumbling rural roads, fix unsafe bridges, replace century-old schools and build new ones for kids now in trailer classrooms.

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