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Biden releases breakdown of what needs fixing in his $2trillion infrastructure plan that Republicans have called a 'dog's breakfast of slush funds for Democrat pet projects'
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 12, 2021 | Emily Goodin

Posted on 04/12/2021 10:31:28 AM PDT by C19fan

Republicans slammed President Joe Biden's $2.7 trillion infrastructure plan as a 'dog's breakfast of slush funds' for Democrats as the Biden administration released a state-by-state breakdown of problems that need addressing in each state

The GOP ramped up their criticism of the bill they say stretches far beyond traditional infrastructure ahead of bipartisan meeting at the White House.

The White House breakdown included the money needed to fix roads in dire conditions, barely functioning bridges, the lack of residents with access to broadband and veterans health.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: infrastructure
A big bailout of states that have refused to make investments in their own infrastructure. Let us take a look at California:

In California, there are 1,536 bridges and over 14,220 miles of highway in poor condition.

California has some of the highest taxes on gas in the country but the funds have been continuously diverted, aka stolen, away from roads to so called mass transit, bike lanes, and other spending

RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE: From 2010 to 2020, California experienced 16 extreme weather events, costing the state up to $50-1000 billion in damages.

Thanks to the Greens, any sort of new infrastructure for this purpose, for example, new dams are impossible to build. The state made a conscious decision decided not to invest in resiliency

DRINKING WATER: Over the next 20 years, California’s drinking water infrastructure will require $51 billion in additional funding.

California refuses to invest in water storage and delivery. It is living off the legacy of Mulholland and Pat Brown

• HOME ENERGY: In California, an average low-income family spends 4-6% of their income on home energy costs forcing tough choices between paying energy bills and buying food, medicine or other essentials.

By its "Green" energy mandates California intentionally increases the price of energy.

1 posted on 04/12/2021 10:31:28 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan
Be careful, or it'll be like "Major",
and bite you on the azz,
or the hand which feeds it !
2 posted on 04/12/2021 10:34:44 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: C19fan

RINOs pretend to care, but they don’t.
They worked against Trump and are fine being the minority party that eats scraps.


3 posted on 04/12/2021 10:40:28 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Partner, the "Crazed Nazi Biden is friends with Iran" and this is the Nazi hand that Iran needed.

We need a new POTUS because the U.S. can not be associated with a president who is acting like he is a first class "Nazi."

The "Giants Sixth Grade Brain Journalists are acting like a bucnh of Nazis"< and this is how "Hitler" took over Europe.

4 posted on 04/12/2021 10:41:38 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business...)
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To: C19fan

So North Dakota has to pay for Kalifornia’s problems, eh?


5 posted on 04/12/2021 10:45:00 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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the lack of residents with access to broadband

This plays directly into Clarence Thomas’ statement about social media being classified as a “common carrier” and regulated. I like it.


6 posted on 04/12/2021 11:14:19 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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In California there is not much lack of access to broadband. It is a choice, probably economic, not to pay $50-$75 a month for it.


7 posted on 04/12/2021 12:22:57 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: C19fan

The fixed election needs to be corrected. Most problems will then fix themselves.


8 posted on 04/12/2021 12:42:53 PM PDT by bgill
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To: C19fan

Governor Davis drained the Highway funds accounts 3 times & left behind I O U’s.


9 posted on 04/12/2021 2:05:42 PM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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Yes and a lot of gas tax money goes to parks over 600 of them and the chuck holes keep growing California the tobacco road west.


10 posted on 04/12/2021 2:23:37 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: C19fan
Be the same horsechit we got when the flop-eared fv@#er 0 pulled the $1T “shovel ready” infrastructure scam on America.
The swamp will just wind up stealing and dividing this pile of cash amongst themselves just as they did with the obama theft.
Sure needs to be a reckoning.
11 posted on 04/12/2021 2:26:31 PM PDT by skimbell
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Of course they don’t care. They will use this to send out scary fundraising letters. They can go fly a kite.

The Republican Party hated Trump because he was actually trying to rein in government. You don’t get rich as a politician unless you can use bribes and extortion to get money from big donors.


12 posted on 04/12/2021 2:56:41 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9)
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13 posted on 04/12/2021 4:22:25 PM PDT by bitt (People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.)
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First, it's NOT an infrastructure plan - democrat calls it that because Americans know our infrastructure is falling apart.

That's the first democrat lie...

If Trump had come up with a $2 trillion infrastructure plan where 5 million went to fixing roads and bridges and the rest of the money went to helping the 'spiritual infrastructure' of the country...

(money went to conservative Churches)

- would the bimbos and pretentious 'men' of the press object to the 'bait and switch'?

I suspect they would...

14 posted on 04/13/2021 9:23:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (We need a better class of 'elites' - the ones we have now are more like stupid white trash...)
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