Posted on 05/13/2021 3:25:48 PM PDT by JV3MRC
CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor Joe Kernen completely tore into the White House’s over-expansive usage of the term “infrastructure” to spend trillions of dollars on leftist wish list items.
Kernen grilled Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg during the May 13 edition of Squawk Box. “We’re proposing a usage for the term ‘infrastructure’ that Republicans would say includes every wish list from the Democratic Party going back 50 years.” Kernen questioned Buttigieg on why he wouldn’t demand that a smaller amount of funding be engineered more narrowly toward clear infrastructure items like “roads, bridges, airports — throw in, you know, some internet and Wi-Fi.” Buttigieg dodged and tried to expand the definition of infrastructure to vaguely include “the broader forms of infrastructure we’re talking about. They’re all part of the foundation that make it possible for us to live well.”
Kernen was not having it and did not allow Buttigieg to dodge the question: “Mr. Sec — come on. Mr. Secretary, you might, you might as well just tell me, ‘You know, you need those roads to drive to free college and free childcare, and therefore, I want to build them so that’ — I mean, come on. Come on.” Kernen rebuked Buttigieg further: “You can’t do all of it at once.” Buttigieg quickly tried to save himself, albeit incoherently: “You can either organize your thinking around the org chart of the federal government or you can organize it around what the lives of human beings in this country are actually like.”
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I can’t imagine the insanity of putting that freak in charge of Trillions. Any man, really.
It would be instructive to ask him what spending measures he would support that he does not consider “infrastructure”.
A wall between the US and Mexico.
Brava, Karl! Well done. 🤟
Bkmk
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