Biden Pursues Bullshit

[DGS49]

Aside from convincing America's "white" people that we are all scum and irredeemable oppressors of everyone who is not a Western-European "white" person like us, the Biden "economic plan" (ignoring the likelihood that he probably has nothing to do with it) focuses on two major campaigns:

• Rebuild our "crumbling" infrastructure, and
• Fight Climate Change.

Well, "crumbling infrastructure" has become a catch-phrase like "underpaid teachers" that has lost all meaning, and in fact it similarly has become contrary to the facts "on the ground." The fact is that our infrastructure is fine. Our roads, bridges, and tunnels require re-building and refurbishment from time to time, but there is no national crisis. The vast, vast, vast majority of our major roads and bridges are in serviceable condition, and the periodic resurfacing should be well within the budgets for all levels of government without any major campaign from On High.

Any major Federal infrastructure campaign will have the primary objective of Democrats buying the votes of construction workers in anticipation of the mid-term elections next year, just as they bought the votes of the auto workers when they tore up a perfectly good bankruptcy law several years ago to bail out GM and Chrysler. And with the amounts of money that are bandied about, the infrastructure campaign will be loaded with pork, will be fraught with fraud and abuse, and its main accomplishment will be to add a couple more trillion dollars of national debt. But maybe we will get a few more bridges to nowhere in the bargain.

So when the Bidenistas start talking about how this will stimulate growth and all that, remember that the only time such a project does some long term economic good, it is a NEW project that is needed to facilitate natural growth that has been thwarted due to the lack of a road or bridge between two major trade centers. And such projects are very rare in a mature economy like ours.

And of course fighting climate change is economic nonsense. No one even dares to address this issue from a cost-benefit perspective because there is NO BENEFIT and massive cost. As I have written in this space previously, if every U.S. resident were to park his SUV, turn out the lights and computer, and start a pure life of organic subsistence farming, the effect on global temperatures a hundred years out would be a fraction of a single degree C. But that's according to the geniuses in Paris, so it probably over-states the benefit.

If Biden were to want to make an impact, he would start a massive campaign to figure out how to address TODAY's water crisis in our western desert, where tens of millions of Americans are dependent on a nearly non-existent water table, snowpack that becomes more and more inadequate every year, and a river that flows less and less copiously as time goes by. Rather than pissing around solving problems that might be serious a hundred years out, how about working on today's problems with a massive engineering and infrastructure project to bring water to half the country that needs it RIGHT NOW?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Dem "spending" always involves some level of stealing.
Their next spending bill that they are planning is $3 trillion.

 

[Moonglow]

Aside from convincing America's "white" people that we are all scum and irredeemable oppressors of everyone who is not a Western-European "white" person like us, the Biden "economic plan" (ignoring the likelihood that he probably has nothing to do with it) focuses on two major campaigns:

• Rebuild our "crumbling" infrastructure, and
• Fight Climate Change.

Well, "crumbling infrastructure" has become a catch-phrase like "underpaid teachers" that has lost all meaning, and in fact it similarly has become contrary to the facts "on the ground." The fact is that our infrastructure is fine. Our roads, bridges, and tunnels require re-building and refurbishment from time to time, but there is no national crisis. The vast, vast, vast majority of our major roads and bridges are in serviceable condition, and the periodic resurfacing should be well within the budgets for all levels of government without any major campaign from On High.

Any major Federal infrastructure campaign will have the primary objective of Democrats buying the votes of construction workers in anticipation of the mid-term elections next year, just as they bought the votes of the auto workers when they tore up a perfectly good bankruptcy law several years ago to bail out GM and Chrysler. And with the amounts of money that are bandied about, the infrastructure campaign will be loaded with pork, will be fraught with fraud and abuse, and its main accomplishment will be to add a couple more trillion dollars of national debt. But maybe we will get a few more bridges to nowhere in the bargain.

So when the Bidenistas start talking about how this will stimulate growth and all that, remember that the only time such a project does some long term economic good, it is a NEW project that is needed to facilitate natural growth that has been thwarted due to the lack of a road or bridge between two major trade centers. And such projects are very rare in a mature economy like ours.

And of course fighting climate change is economic nonsense. No one even dares to address this issue from a cost-benefit perspective because there is NO BENEFIT and massive cost. As I have written in this space previously, if every U.S. resident were to park his SUV, turn out the lights and computer, and start a pure life of organic subsistence farming, the effect on global temperatures a hundred years out would be a fraction of a single degree C. But that's according to the geniuses in Paris, so it probably over-states the benefit.

If Biden were to want to make an impact, he would start a massive campaign to figure out how to address TODAY's water crisis in our western desert, where tens of millions of Americans are dependent on a nearly non-existent water table, snowpack that becomes more and more inadequate every year, and a river that flows less and less copiously as time goes by. Rather than pissing around solving problems that might be serious a hundred years out, how about working on today's problems with a massive engineering and infrastructure project to bring water to half the country that needs it RIGHT NOW?

White people have been telling me I am scum for many years welcome to the party.

 

[Moonglow]

Aside from convincing America's "white" people that we are all scum and irredeemable oppressors of everyone who is not a Western-European "white" person like us, the Biden "economic plan" (ignoring the likelihood that he probably has nothing to do with it) focuses on two major campaigns:

• Rebuild our "crumbling" infrastructure, and
• Fight Climate Change.

Well, "crumbling infrastructure" has become a catch-phrase like "underpaid teachers" that has lost all meaning, and in fact it similarly has become contrary to the facts "on the ground." The fact is that our infrastructure is fine. Our roads, bridges, and tunnels require re-building and refurbishment from time to time, but there is no national crisis. The vast, vast, vast majority of our major roads and bridges are in serviceable condition, and the periodic resurfacing should be well within the budgets for all levels of government without any major campaign from On High.

Any major Federal infrastructure campaign will have the primary objective of Democrats buying the votes of construction workers in anticipation of the mid-term elections next year, just as they bought the votes of the auto workers when they tore up a perfectly good bankruptcy law several years ago to bail out GM and Chrysler. And with the amounts of money that are bandied about, the infrastructure campaign will be loaded with pork, will be fraught with fraud and abuse, and its main accomplishment will be to add a couple more trillion dollars of national debt. But maybe we will get a few more bridges to nowhere in the bargain.

So when the Bidenistas start talking about how this will stimulate growth and all that, remember that the only time such a project does some long term economic good, it is a NEW project that is needed to facilitate natural growth that has been thwarted due to the lack of a road or bridge between two major trade centers. And such projects are very rare in a mature economy like ours.

And of course fighting climate change is economic nonsense. No one even dares to address this issue from a cost-benefit perspective because there is NO BENEFIT and massive cost. As I have written in this space previously, if every U.S. resident were to park his SUV, turn out the lights and computer, and start a pure life of organic subsistence farming, the effect on global temperatures a hundred years out would be a fraction of a single degree C. But that's according to the geniuses in Paris, so it probably over-states the benefit.

If Biden were to want to make an impact, he would start a massive campaign to figure out how to address TODAY's water crisis in our western desert, where tens of millions of Americans are dependent on a nearly non-existent water table, snowpack that becomes more and more inadequate every year, and a river that flows less and less copiously as time goes by. Rather than pissing around solving problems that might be serious a hundred years out, how about working on today's problems with a massive engineering and infrastructure project to bring water to half the country that needs it RIGHT NOW?

Infrastructure includes more than highways and bridges in the US.

 

[Oddball]

The "infrastructure" has been "crumbling" for as long as I've been paying attention....Fact is that nearly all of it is the responsibility of the states, and to be paid for with state and local taxes/fees.

Global warming climate change "climate crisis" is plain, old fashioned power grab....We are witnessing with the last year of covidiocy, only a microcosm of the sheer tyranny that The Powers that Be™ wish to visit upon the hoi polloy, under the guise of their climate-based pseudo-scientific religious cult.