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Senators finally unveil $1TRILLION infrastructure bill: $66B for railways in largest spending since creation of Amtrak, $55B on clean water to replace every lead pipe in US and $7.5B for network of electric vehicle charging stations
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 01 2021 | CHRISTOPHER EBERHART FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 08/01/2021 11:22:15 PM PDT by knighthawk

After much delay, senators finally unveiled a $1trillion infrastructure package Sunday night that includes historic funding for railways, clean water and electric car charging stations.

Of the $1trillion package, $66billion is earmarked for railways - the largest spending since the creation of Amtrak in the 1970s - $55billion will fund the replacement of every lead pipe in the country and $7.5billion will go towards building the first-ever network of charging stations for electric vehicles.

The bill also includes an additional $65billion to expand broadband Internet access across the country, and senators are pursuing for upwards of $25billion to repair major airports.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debt; deficit; inflation; infrastructure; pork; porkulous
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Yesssss.

All that money going to trusted Dem aligned contractors who flip a small % back to the Politicians.

A smal percentage of the theft, just enough to wet their beak


21 posted on 08/02/2021 4:53:48 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: knighthawk

10% to the big guy...


22 posted on 08/02/2021 5:09:48 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Most of this will never go to where the public is told it will.

This is Deep State looting the public treasury.


23 posted on 08/02/2021 5:12:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: equaviator

What good are the charging stations if you don’t have power-producing facilities to back them up?


24 posted on 08/02/2021 5:27:12 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: knighthawk

Yeah, let’s upgrade Warren Buffet’s Union Pacific railroad do he can transport more Canadian oil to the US now that Keystone is shut down. We all know he doesn’t have the funds to upgrade his rail lines. /s


25 posted on 08/02/2021 5:29:36 AM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: knighthawk

Except in the backward city states, there are no lead pipes.

There are no lead pipes to be replaced. The money is being set up to be stolen from us taxpayers


26 posted on 08/02/2021 5:29:37 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: knighthawk

All waste


27 posted on 08/02/2021 5:31:06 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: knighthawk

Delusional.

Little of that money will actually be put towards the stated intent.


28 posted on 08/02/2021 5:32:56 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach onre)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Potholes only exist in flyover country, like the small town I live in. The city finance manager has publicly stated that there isn't much money for current services because the cost of funding the pension system is so large.

And nothing I saw in the article about how long it will take to spend all of this money. Probably not counted in the current year budget, and won't be counted in future budgets either when the cash leaves the building. Just another load of cash going against that imaginary number previously known as the National Debt.

29 posted on 08/02/2021 5:33:51 AM PDT by Bernard (The very best scientific articles always contain this phrase: “My personal intuition has been…”)
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To: Varsity Flight

Where are the lead pipes? They are located in all the Democrat run big cities. So the contractors get the money, kickback to the Congressmen, and illegals install new pipe.


30 posted on 08/02/2021 5:34:16 AM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: IgnorerOfLiberals

I think this bill started out as something like 7 trillion. As recently as this week-end, I was reading 3 trillion. This is a huge improvement and they failed to raise the debt ceiling. Democrats are seeing that the deplorables are not caving to Rino sentiments and are caving to our demands ;)


31 posted on 08/02/2021 5:37:28 AM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: cba123
Actually i strongly believe America BADLY needs to significantly upgrade our rail network.

I agree - Although if I were in charge I would push to increase the gauge size to carry wider payloads, create hub terminals in major cities to encourage common freight and allow mixed passenger/freight trains between hub cities.

The hope would be to increase the rail size/weight capacity, reduce commercial road traffic to local delivery, provide a cheap (but less convenient) travel option for individuals.

Could run a pilot program between a handful of industrial cities (do we have any of those anymore?). See if the concept is viable and to what degree/metro size works.

32 posted on 08/02/2021 5:41:40 AM PDT by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: knighthawk

No money for roads and bridges only Communist boondoggles.


33 posted on 08/02/2021 5:53:14 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: bray

It’s a lead pipe cinch the money is to be stolen by elite progressives


34 posted on 08/02/2021 5:54:13 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: Damifino

I truly envy what they have in Japan for rail transportation.


35 posted on 08/02/2021 6:00:00 AM PDT by Tuxedo (My Social Credit Score is Zero Point Zero)
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To: gspurlock

As of this morning it’s 5 trillion...via Maria on Fox.


36 posted on 08/02/2021 6:52:01 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: IAGeezer912

You can bet Newsome will finally get his railroad out of this ripoff.


37 posted on 08/02/2021 6:54:03 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: knighthawk

Wouldn’t they already have a specific list of things to repair and projects BEFORE the vote?


38 posted on 08/02/2021 6:56:51 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Bernard

The roads in the San Francisco Bay Area are crumbling and are the worst I’ve seen anywhere. The county and state pols have lots of other important things to spend our money on…like ignoring crime, like letting criminals out of prison, like catering to illegals with mountains of freebies and cash, like paying universal guaranteed minimum income, like paying for nice housing for millions of bums to attract more bums, and like endless COVID payments.


39 posted on 08/02/2021 7:11:03 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
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To: gspurlock

So this monstrosity is a big win?


40 posted on 08/02/2021 7:11:55 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
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