[reaganaut1]

You wouldn't start an article on an "infrastructure bank" with "the fix is in" if the idea weren't crooked. It is. If a highway is worth building, budget for it HONESTLY, not with Freddie/Fannie gimmicks. The congressional GOP had better not fall for this.

[KantianBurke]

Gee I wonder what could go wrong with this idea? (sarcasm off)

[hinckley buzzard]

If Richard Trumka is for it that's all you need to know. But yeah this is one of the doubledown tricks I expect from the Usurper. Not sure the GOP is smart enough to sink it.

[Bean Counter]

This is intended to be a slush fund to finance projects that benefit Democratic Union workers, who will turn those “living wage salaries” into campaign donations, while saving Politicians in both parties the embarrassment of defending horribly expensive and wasteful Gubment projects through the normal budgetary process.

[Track9]

By any other name that would be toll booths and ‘user fees’. And of course extending and raising the federal gas tax.

[9YearLurker]

Looks like Palin will have to round up the Chamber of Commerce too. That’s okay, their whole existence at the national level is about corporate crony capitalism.

[cc2k]

Didn’t we spend $800 billion two years ago on “shovel ready” infrastructure jobs? Wasn’t that a colossal failure?

[GeronL]

The GOP will sell us out again.

[Drango]

Union tools will be rejoicing at this...gotta wonder what the CoC sees in it????

[upchuck]

Somebody please get Trumka and his goons some bibs. They are all drooling uncontrollably. Again.

[ColdOne]

We're pretty much in agreement [with Donohue] that an infrastructure bank is a good thing, if properly funded," says Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO. So the money will go to Unions then back to the dems! 'Cause if Trumka is for it!???

[existentialist]

I just don’t see how something like this can be set up without the approval of Congress. This is really beyond the pale - Obama needs to be stopped, big time.

[mrsmith]

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It’s just a scheme to get around the debt ceiling LOL!

Heck, if another trillion for ‘infrastructure’- after just spending nearly a trillion- is such a winner sell it honestly... as more federal debt.

Yeah man: a vest and a ‘slow/stop’ pole for me and a bill for my progeny for a hundred years...

[Freedom56v2]

Seems that a year or two ago, the mantra was “invest in education...”

Since that idea didn’t fly very well and their are no jobs to invest in educating for, they rehashed the plan and are now wanting to invest in infrastructure. Always looking for way to legitimize more government spending.

[denydenydeny]

Tom Donohue, president and CEO of the Chamber, is agitating for fully funded highway, aviation and water-system bills

So sorry. We gave at the office, in 2009, to the tune of $767 billion. It's not our fault if ALMOST NONE OF THAT MONEY WAS SPENT ON INFRASTRUCTURE.

More debt? These people are insane.

[texican01]

The “Infrastructure Slush [oops! met Bank] might happen. Not much construction going to happen for 2-3 years.

Got to design them and then get Wetlands Permits from USACE/ EPA, get mitigation approved by EPA for construction in air quality impact areas, hope there ain't any endangered species near by or any black slums and or barrios full of illegals {got to pass the “economic justice” hoop

} Obama bullsh*t is getting tiresome.

[steveab]

“User fees....” I think that would be called Back Door CO2 Cap and Tax.

[cranked]

I suppose we will know what’s in the infrastructure legislation after it is passed too, huh? /s =.=

[cranked]

Oh btw, was it not TrumpkaIdiot who also proclaimed that ObamaCare was a “good thing”? =.=

[glorgau]

It’s not spending, it’s investing!

[headstamp 2]

This is just another avenue for government to control more of the private sector with the attending corporate socialism.

It’s GE-Obama on a much grander scale.