This reminds me of the “Shovel-ready Jobs” bill and the economic stimuli. Much, maybe most, of that spending went to bail out city and state governments that had deficits, rather than to the causes they were intended for.
First sentence is completely wrong. $110 out of the $550 in NEW spending was new spending on roads and bridges.
But if you’re talking total road spending in the full $1.2 trillion bill, then you have to add back the $650 billion in CONTINUING spending. So $760 billion of the 1.2 trillion infrastructure bill is “roads and bridges.”
You should have your blogging license taken away for rank incompetence.
Yet another scheme to do away with OUR cars.
DemocRAT infrastructure consists of the media, crooks, child molesters, illegal aliens, Hollywood, China, and numerous not nameable collections of excrement, vermin, and disease.
for this group of criminals in DC, funding American infrastructure will only fill their own pockets by their looting of the untraceable monies. That’s exactly how so many in DC become millionaires while in federal office.
They did the “roads and bridges” act under Clinton too. “Infrastructure” is one of the dirtiest words around. It means graft and power for our criminal elite and is cheered with media pompoms. The craven press even told us the “infrastructure” bill raised Biden’s popularity in the polls.
to bail out city and state governments that had deficits,
Absolutely. The one that gets me, among others is this:”Another $7.5 billion will go to building a nationwide network of plug-in electric vehicle chargers, according to the text.”
Nobody subsidizes gas stations...if anything they try to restrict them. Pay for your own damn chargers.
Good think Maliotakis and the rest of the Republicans voted for this disaster. I’m sure lots of projects will get done in their districts.
I hope that someone from Staten Island steps up and challenges her. She redefines the word, Moron.
The pockets of politicians is infrastructure.
It’s ALWAYS under the guise of “infrastructure”..
What it means is: Money for us to launder; money to give our Union boss pals, so they can give a huge chunk right back to our campaign..
Like the masks and “vaccines” have nothing to do with health and wellness, “Infrastructure” bills have NOTHING to do with infrastructure, roads, bridges, jobs, etc..
It’s money laundering. …and it’s OUR money, btw..
"Growing our entrenched bureaucracy to better control your lives."
I don't agree that the memo undermines the clear intent of Congress.
A true infrastructure bill would have had widespread support from Congress, but this monstrosity got nary a vote from a Republican; it was passed with only Democrat support, and they got exactly what they wanted - big payoffs for their supporters and a little bit of infrastructure thrown in to make it look better.
Washington-speak has numerous sound bites that have stood the test of time, and retained the advantage of referring to absolutely nothing. Consider these hall of famers: “working families.” “dinner table issues.” “for the children;” “Comprehensive tax reform.” “Comprehensive (anything) reform.” “Waste abuse and corruption”. The gritty “reproductive health.” Now add in “crumbling infrastructure” which has persisted for several election cycles.
No one should ever even think about the conjured up title of any congressional bill, since they all are nothing but a license to steal.