Posted on 05/14/2025 11:34:40 AM PDT by John Semmens
Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg predicted that "Trump's efforts to restore American manufacturing will fail because excessive regulations make it too hard to build things in this country. From my time as Secretary of the USDOT I learned that everything goes over budget and takes far longer than it should because of regulations like the rules mandating that 40% of the benefits go to 'under-served' minorities."
President Biden established the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council whose job is to ensure that the voices, perspectives, and lived realities of communities with environmental justice concerns are heard in the White House and reflected in federal policies, investments, and decisions. So, unless President Trump has disbanded this Council--and I haven't heard that he has--it will at least delay and may well thwart his intent to use tariffs to spark a revitalization of the 'made in the USA' phenomenon."
"As an example, take our $42 billion expenditure on rural broadband over the four years of the Biden Administration," Buttigieg suggested. "We didn't connect a single American because of insane regulations like 'prioritize the employment of justice-impacted people with criminal records to install broadband equipment. If a Biden Administration earnestly trying to achieve these equity goals failed I don't see how a Trump Administration that opposes these goals could possible succeed."
If a Biden Administration earnestly trying to achieve these equity goals failed I don’t see how a Trump Administration that opposes these goals could possible succeed.”
Equity is NOT the goal.
I confess that I never, ever click to read your posts. I just don’t have time to consume “satire” presented as though it’s news. This particular issue is very news-heavy, so it’s best for me not to be informed by an article that’s mere satire.
I suppose it’s helpful that the site is giving a disclaimer that it’s not news, but only satire.
Which party implemented all of those regulations? For probably 95% of them it was the Democrats. They are the party of government intervention in the economy, using the power of government to undertake social engineering and pick winners and losers, with the economic results be damned.
Of course, Petey knows he's talking to a bunch of brain-washed morons.
The Burj Kalifah?
The Freedom Tower?
The Empire State Building was completed in 365 days.
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