American Jobs Bill: Fantasy, Fiasco

American Thinker.com ^ | August 15, 2021 | E. Jeffrey Ludwig

[Kaslin]

The American Jobs Plan (AJP), AKA The Infrastructure Investment And Jobs Act, is a proposal by U.S. president Joe Biden to spend $2+ trillion on U.S. infrastructure over eight years. A Fact Sheet outlining the goals of this legislation was published in March of this year, and the 2,700-page law is now working its way through Congress. In a recent vote, 17 Republicans voted to move along this bill. It seems to have bipartisan support. This bipartisan support reveals the mental, moral, fiscal, legal, and logical collapse of the USA.

The bill lacks a conceptual and logical foundation. It is a hybrid of types of legislation from the Progressive Era of American history, elements of New Deal thinking, and has some ideas taken from the pathetic stimulus package with its nonexistent "shovel ready" jobs during the Obama years. U.S. government intensification of control of the railroads in this proposed legislation is an updating of the thinking that led to the creation of the ICC in 1887, whereby railroad rates and later wages came under U.S. government oversight. By the way, in 1995, the ICC was replaced by the Surface Transportation Board, which now has regulatory authority over intercity buses, pipeline carriers, and interstate moving as well as railroads. This is further evidence that when governmental authority is enhanced, over time, its purview and authority become broader and broader.

The Biden plan envisages even more intense modernization of the railroads as the climate bigots desire greater and greater use of the railroads and less and less use of airplanes. The climate change obsessionists claim that downsizing airplane dependence will also add to the health of our republic, as there will be less CO2 in the air.

[No_Mas_Obama]

Now that Sleepy is officially a lame duck with the biggest hit to the Deep State since Vietnam, wonder if this bill or anything else from the White House will even get votes in Pelousy’s House.

[Jacquerie]

<>This bipartisan support reveals the mental, moral, fiscal, legal, and logical collapse of the USA.<>

Nonsense. It merely means the corrupt and self-serving Uniparty controls the high ground of every major ruling and societal institution. The open theft of the 2020 election is proof that We the People aren’t self-governing; we are a ruled people in a once free country. America is occupied by a hostile force determined to hold on to power by any means.