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Obama's big infrastructure bill did nothing but repave unused airports, created thousands of turtle crossings, none of that money went to the Highway Trust Fund...the ones that actually do work on interstate highways, and let states cover their state budget shortfalls.
What exactly do you know about Biden's infrastructure plan ? Any details ?
"Those that forget their past are doomed to repeat it."
George Santayana
Yeah, that $831 billion bill obviously wasn't so successful... here we are, 12 years later trying to spend $3.5 trillion.
this is not about Manchin or Sinema, the Dems don't have the votes in the House to pass the 3.5 trillon dollar spendathon from Moderate/swing state Democrats.
When we have even more crumbling infrastructure that looks like crap, a bunch of people under-educated to do the modern jobs the economy needs, a continued worker shortage because there's no affordable child care, a bunch of people who can't get the health care they need (so can't work), etc., etc...
....I will then thank Joe Manchin for saving us the deficit because those on-paper deficit numbers mean SO much to all our lives. I may not have infrastructure, health care, or education, but by God we will have a bit lower deficit on paper, that's a #1 country in my book. Let's look at the countries with the lowest national debts...
When we have even more crumbling infrastructure that looks like crap, a bunch of people under-educated to do the modern jobs the economy needs, a continued worker shortage because there's no affordable child care, a bunch of people who can't get the health care they need (so can't work), etc., etc...
....I will then thank Joe Manchin for saving us the deficit because those on-paper deficit numbers mean SO much to all our lives. I may not have infrastructure, health care, or education, but by God we will have a bit lower deficit on paper, that's a #1 country in my book. Let's look at the countries with the lowest national debts...
I have a real problem with the "Green New Deal" and a lot of other wish-list items being shoved down our throats with no real debate.
I have a real problem with breathing in smoke 2-3 months out of the year. It's not like we don't have climate effects going on, and we need to at least try to keep them from getting worse.
We should be tightening our belts all around, that means the MIC, and foreign aid. We should also be taxing the sh1t out of the super rich. They made a killing during that last 18 months.
Jeff needs a new spaceship….
You'll want it soon when there is no more room for suburban sprawl and traffic that will make you scream (and that is not mentioning the smog that will give you lung cancer).
We have the money, we choose not to spend. End suburban sprawl. Build trams and subways in every city. Have people use bullet trains to get across the country, fix side roads with no potholes, build beautiful bridges and aqueducts to service all of rural America, clean our sidewalks, plant trees, make this country beautiful again.
The naysayers just want America to rot.
Suburban sprawl is the new trigger word that the communists are using to shame homeowners and virtue signal their followers. These people won't be happy unless we are all living in 200 stories 2 or 3 room micro-apartment buildings.
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