Biden's American Jobs Plan Is Devoid of Moral Values and Economic Realities

American Thinker.com ^ | July 14, 2021 | Jonathan Verlin

[Kaslin]

The American Jobs Plan is premised chiefly upon investing $621 billion in America's crumbling transportation infrastructure. The Biden administration claims, "Decades of declining public investment has left our roads, bridges, rail, and transit systems in poor condition, with a trillion-dollar backlog of needed repairs. More than 35,000 people die in traffic crashes on U.S. roads each year, and millions more are seriously and often permanently injured." These statistics related to infrastructure are misleading. While traffic deaths have risen appreciably from 2020 despite fewer people driving, the preponderance were caused by aberrant behavior, not infrastructure. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics show that deaths resulting from impaired driving rose more than 9% since 2019, and failure to wear safety belts increased 15%. There can be little doubt that the White House's distortion of the causes of death is based on ulterior motives.

It is more likely that the vast investment in infrastructure is driven by the desire of progressives to consolidate economic and political power. It can scarcely be called legitimate. The most damning evidence for this view is that specific places and people that such projects are intended to help are strikingly absent. Similarly, the costs for each of the (unnamed) projects are not supplied, nor are safeguards to control cost overruns included. In fact, the Plan is alarming for anyone who typically asks, Why? What? Where? When?

Another commentator has already noted a similar lack of specificity in Biden's so-called Fact Sheet on Domestic Terrorism. The so-called jobs "Plan" provides a lot of vacuous generalities that serve the purpose of dramatically expanding the federal government but vacuously ignore specifics.

[ronnie raygun]

The plan is all about color of the skin

[Mark17]

Biden and moral values can’t be named in the same sentence.

[grey_whiskers]

O'Muslim had his trillion dollar infrastructure plan, too. Porkulus.

And which cabinet member/advisor said "we need to make sure the jobs don't go to white males" back then?

Guess whose Veep Dementia Joe was.

[IAGeezer912]

I thought Bamy took care of the infrastructure problems with his shovel ready jobs.

[Brian Griffin]

Union political donations to Democrats have an astronomical rate of return on average.

That $621 billion might correspond to about $60 million in political donations.

[Kaslin]

Please do me a favor and stop saying Bamy, It sounds to me as if if you have an adoration for the worst occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Do you?

[central_va]

We need two interstate highway systems. One for “people of color” and one “whites only”.

[Terry L Smith]

Of course!

Democrats only know how to th=ow money around, whether it fixes the problem or not.

[Kaslin]

and the speed limit to 2 miles per hour. How else could see the skin color of the drivers and passengers if they 80 to 100 miles per hour down the Interstate? *rme*

[central_va]

and the speed limit to 2 miles per hour. How else could see the skin color of the drivers and passengers if they 80 to 100 miles per hour down the Interstate? *rme*

Well the KFC restaurants and watermelon stands every 5 miles would be a good give away as to which road you are on. /sarc

[rbg81]

American Jobs Plan? Plenty of jobs out there right now, but no one wants to take them.

[Sooth2222]

Democrats only know how to throw money around, whether it fixes the problem or not.

Politicians only know how to throw money around, whether it fixes the problem or not.

Politicians - Democrat, Republican and Whigs - have been doing this since Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt.

The Civil War (the first one) still hasn't been paid for. A $1 when I attended high school is worth $0.05 today. The Federal government can just print money - and it does.