Posted on 04/10/2021 10:40:23 AM PDT by rktman
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg told reporters at the White House on Friday afternoon that Americans were using the “wrong” forms of transportation — a problem he said President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan would fix.
Buttigieg also claimed that some Americans have no access to transportation at all. He added that Americans would once again be “challenged” to expand their ideas about infrastructure, which he said went far beyond roads and bridges.
He said:
Americans are spending too much of their money on transportation in the wrong ways, or don’t have access to it at all. And the American people are making it clear to all of us, regardless of party, that they want us to get it done, and they are not asking us to tinker around the edges. We have risen to this challenge before as a country. In fact, building bold infrastructure has always been central to America’s story. We built the Erie Canal, we connected east to west through the Transcontinental Railroad, and we developed the interstate highway system. And each of those was audacious, was transformative, and partly because it challenged the American people to expand our concept of infrastructure. But in doing so, these projects transformed our nation for the better.
Buttigieg did not explain what the “wrong ways” of transportation were. He reassured workers that the infrastructure of the future would still need “workers who are good with steel,” and that the new jobs it would create would not be too “futuristic.”
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So...we’re all supposed to get to Gramma’s on a skateboard?
And Pete the Butt is using the wrong hole.
Translation: Soviet style gulag housing for you. Only party officials and NKVD need personal vehicles.
Come sundown, he will correct that.
Empty blather.
Nothing they say or do is legitimate.
All out full scale opposition from the state’s and any and all avenues is appropriate.
These wannabe fascists can talk all they want. They cannot do anything unless others do it for them.
Buttigieg wants to replace seatbelts with buttplugs so we can all feel safe like him.
“Some people don’t have access to transportation”
hey BUTTMUNCH - I remember when Nancy Pelosi and Herr Obama ORDERED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF USED CARS DESTROYED as part of the 2008 stimulus package to force people to buy new (and more expensive) green ones.
Your communist party didn’t seem to care about the poor then (or now)
[[Buttigieg also claimed that some Americans have no access to transportation at all. ]]
Well by golly, quick, let’s fine and tax the snot out of these folks!
THEY must take state approved transportation or stay home!
What does this kid know?
Like I’m going to take advice from somebody who takes it in the ass.
I've got a pickup truck with a big V-8 - is that wrong?
Well there is a chance that railroad spurs will be routed near everyone pretty soon. (Think hand cart in Blazing Saddles)
coming from a guy that goes the wrong way on exit ramps...
Yeah, Pete. The Erie Canal was just for boats. The intercontinental railroad was just for trains - completed in 1869. Not a lot of automobiles back then. Neither of these provided for the mass transportation we need to get around this huge country. The interstate? Yeah - all kinds of roads all over the place for all kinds of people. Yet you want to put us back on bikes and trains? Nope - not gonna happen.
Buttigieg - just another politically-motivated, inexperienced hire based on intersectionality. Nice move, Joey.
And nevermind the fact that dense public transportation will only escalate COVID spread.
Suddenly interesting how the dems have decided that’s not important anymore.
Why yes. Yes it is erf killer. Now, gotta go warm up the hemi.
Well, good luck with that, Adolph...
New Rule: ALL government employees MUST use Public Transportation AT ALL TIMES.
NO Personally Owned Vehicles are allowed.
well said.
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