Posted on 02/11/2018 8:37:41 PM PST by Innovative
The White House on Monday will unveil its long-awaited $1.5 trillion infrastructure package aimed at overhauling U.S. public works.
The plan is structured around four goals: generate $1.5 trillion for an infrastructure proposal, streamline the permitting process down to two years, invest in rural infrastructure projects and advance workforce training.
The current system is fundamentally broken and it’s broken in two different ways,” a senior administration official told reporters in a Saturday phone call. “We are underinvesting in our infrastructure, and we have a permitting process that takes so long that even when funds are adequate, it can take a decade to build critical infrastructure.”
The Trump administration confirmed a $200 billion direct federal investment for the package, which will be included in the White House’s Monday spending blueprint for fiscal 2019.
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Mere conjecture on your part. You cant prove any of it. Get off this board, you belong on DUmmies with your crap.
Still waiting on the first set of “shovel ready jobs”.
agree
More spending. With a 4.1% unemployment rate I hope it is not being proposed to create jobs. The private sector is doing fine on its own in creating real jobs. I like the public private part of the proposal but I hate the 200 billion of Fed spending for it unless there is a real offset
The crumbling infrastructure can has been kicked down the road for decades and has finally reached the desk of a President who admits that there is a problem. A tough decision. If he promotes fixing the problem he’ll get skewered because of the cost, if he does nothing and bridges continue to collapse, he’ll get blamed too.
A day of reckoning is coming with our ability to service the nations debt in the face of rising interest rates.
So now backing massive infrastructure(stimulus) spending is conservative?
Bozo.
From the article it appears that this is what “advanced workforce training” may amount to:
“The proposal would also extend the eligibility for Pell Grants, which supply funds to students who need financing for college, widen the practice of apprenticeships and alter trade licensing requirements.”
If you listen at all To Mike Rowe, you know the dilapidated state of education in the trades that has led to many who COULD get into a paying trade, but aren’t “college material” with nowhere to go after High School.
Reigniting that middle-ground of post secondary education that once well-served people who were not college bound by giving them an entry point into lifelong, productive careers in the trades would, I think, be a strong move in bolstering long-term employment, lifestyle, entrepreneurship, and a host of other economic positives all the way up the ranks of the middle class, from lower to upper.
Now, like any investment, we’d be spending up front to attain a growing payoff as beneficiaries of the funding emerged from those venues of training to take jobs, or launch their own Sole Proprietorships, but this isn’t “smoke and mirrors”; the suggestion would but money into actual programs that real people would enroll in, to get real jobs in areas of our economy that are, at present, sucking wind for lack of fresh ranks of capable employee candidates.
I think you summed it very well.
Trump is trying to do the right thing, in the face of all the criticism. D**** if you do, d**** if you don’t.
At face value, I don’t like the sound of this. However, I’m going to step out of the box and look at this from another view.
What if the RIGHT honchos were overseeing this? (I know...communism is fine...it’s just that the right people weren’t in charge before.) Trump’s passion is construction: “Under budget; ahead of schedule”. I want to think he’ll bring some personal savvy to this.
So far a number of Trump’s departments have whacked some deadwood which demonstrates to me at least a path toward going LEAN.
For instance, if new and/or upgraded transportation routes come to pass, won’t that save on commuter time burning fuel waiting for six light changes to take place to get through an intersection?
We are all still waiting for your proof when you shot your mouth off before. All blow and no go...that’s you.
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