Posted on 07/01/2022 9:36:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is on a mission. He’s looking for highways with a racist past and is aiming to “help reconnect cities and neighborhoods racially segregated or divided by road projects.” Buttigieg is examining interstate highways, built with federal dollars, “where a piece of infrastructure cuts off a neighborhood or a community because of how it was built,” said Buttigieg in a speech announcing the $1 billion “Reconnecting Communities” program.
“How it was built”? What does that mean? Does that statement refer to the racial makeup of businesses and residents? This is just more of the “disparate racial results” of government action, not because there was a racist intent behind it.
We’re told that these divisions deliberately targeted black neighborhoods because, well, racism, of course. States and communities will be able to “apply for the federal aid over five years to rectify harm caused by roadways that were built primarily through lower-income, Black communities after the 1950s creation of the interstate highway system.”
There are perhaps thousands of communities across the United States “harmed” by the building of the interstates. How many towns and cities that the Interstate Highway System bypassed withered and died on the vine because of an arbitrary decision by some soulless bureaucrat in Washington?
“Transportation can connect us to jobs, services and loved ones, but we‘ve also seen countless cases around the country where a piece of infrastructure cuts off a neighborhood or a community because of how it was built,” said Buttigieg, who was announcing the pilot program later Thursday in Birmingham, Alabama. He described Reconnecting Communities as a broad department “principle” — not just a program — to address the issue with many efforts underway.
“This is a forward-looking vision,” Buttigieg said.
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I wish the Federal government would quit fooling around, and focus on more serious things. For example, this tree stump in my neighbor’s back yard has been staring at me for years. And it’s creeping me out. What is the Biden administration going to do about it?
Exactly, with kickbacks to Dem politicians up and down the vendor list. Pork projects that never end. I’ll leave out the sarcasm.
Now do da rascist black face tires running all da live long day on da po blacktop roads...
So this means that every community that didn’t get an interstate will apply for relief?
Wanton stupididty.
This is what happens when fags work in government. They should stick to hair styling and interior decorating. (I am trying my best to be magnanimous. At least I didn’t call for their complete unemployment.)
Clearly Buttigieg is a man with solutions in search of problems.
The yutes need a platform to drop their blocks of concrete on to approaching vehicles.
I’d have to agree...
You forgot the fabulous fashion industry. Maybe wedding cake bakers.
Why do you need any highway work when no one is going to be able to afford to drive...least of all those with “racist” streets.
These parasites would never make it in the real world.
A wet hemp rope with a slooooow drop would be good.
“This is just more of the “disparate racial results” of government action, not because there was a racist intent behind it.”
Butt-edge-edge seems to think putting new roads through lower value neighborhoods (e.g., $85,000 value per property) rather than through a neighborhood where the average property value may be $750,000 is somehow unintentionally racist and must be rectified, the concern for the taxpayers who have to foot the bill for the eminent domain costs be damned.
He’s not just a standard Twinkie toes, he’s a hard core commie Twinkie toes.
$1 billion “Reconnecting Communities” program.
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Is that billion already in the budget, or is he going to Congress and ask for it?
If it is not in the budget I doubt the next Congress will give him a slush fund to spread around in Democrat controlled cities.
Biden should hire people based on competence. ONLY. Some will have sexual kinks - they’ll have different skin colors... but that’s NOT why people should be hired.
Biden fails. Biden sees ‘sexual kink’ and pigmentation as important qualifications. That’s stupid and it’s not fair to the American people and it’s not fair to people of color or people with sexual kinks.
VP Harris is NOT doing blacks a favor by failing at her job. Same with Buttigieg. Buttigieg makes ‘gays’ look lame. Biden thinks he’s doing these groups a favor - he’s not. It’s insulting.
All MLKs are racist.
Switching the color of asphalt from black to white.
caps built on top of highways featuring green spaces
Trees on top of major highways. What could possibly go wrong?
Reconnect those neighborhoods and watch the ensuing gang turf wars. What fun! I know buttigeg is a fag, but to be absolutely clueless as well is pitiful.
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