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9 Crazy Examples of Unrelated Waste and Partisan Spending in Biden’s $2 Trillion ‘Infrastructure’ Proposal
FEE ^ | 31 Mar2021 | Brad Palumbo

Posted on 03/31/2021 6:25:15 PM PDT by Rummyfan

The Biden administration on Wednesday released a comprehensive $2+ trillion spending proposal ostensibly focused on infrastructure. But there’s much more to this plan than meets the eye.

A glance at the proposal reveals many items that appear only tenuously related to infrastructure. In fact, several don’t appear to be related to infrastructure at all.

Here are 9 of the most suspect items in Biden’s “infrastructure” proposal, taken directly from a fact-sheet on the plan the White House released.

1. $10 Billion to Create a ‘Civilian Climate Corp’

The Biden administration proposes spending $10 billion to create a “Civilian Climate Corp.” The White House claims that “This $10 billion investment will put a new, diverse generation of Americans to work conserving our public lands and waters, bolstering community resilience, and advancing environmental justice through a new Civilian Climate Corps.”

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: climate; corruption; fraud

1 posted on 03/31/2021 6:25:15 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

The whole bill is a boondoggle, designed to reward Democrats allies and punish their enemies.


2 posted on 03/31/2021 6:38:19 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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... bolstering community resilience, and advancing environmental justice

HUH? and WTF??

3 posted on 03/31/2021 6:49:21 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Rummyfan

A breakdown of the ginormous slush fund into more manageable, merely outrageous slush funds.


4 posted on 03/31/2021 6:49:44 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Rummyfan

Those are some expensive roads. They should be paved with gold at that price.


5 posted on 03/31/2021 7:08:45 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Rummyfan

Looks like business as usual.


6 posted on 03/31/2021 11:04:31 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist.I'm white.How does that make me racist?)
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