JimofPennsylvan
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- Jun 6, 2007
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The bulk of House Republicans seemed prepared to act like really disgraceful and reprehensible Americans in not voting to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure bill coming up for a vote in the House this Monday! These Congresspeople can put forth whatever self-serving defense of their actions they want but the absolute truth of the matter, what is as apparent as the sun in the sky on a cloudless day, is that these Republicans are putting the interests of their Party over the interests of the country in their vote against passage of this bill; they will be causing significant harm to the country in their blocking of this bill. The country desperately needs significant infrastructure spending the country is in an extremely depraved state whether it be the condition of our roads and bridges, our power grid, broadband internet access, etc.. This is a great bill it increases needed spending levels in a restrained amount and makes a credible effort to pay for this expenditure it holds to Congress's responsibility to be good stewards of the nation's finances! In a country that is evidently politically split basically down the middle, the authors and supporters of this bill have shown themselves that the Federal government can function under such circumstances.
This bill is so needed and will move the country forward it deserves to be said this bill should have been enacted into law yesterday! The bill allots $73 billion for the Electric Grid and Power Infrastructure. Today America's electricity grid is very segmented one sector may have more electricity generation than the sector needs but the transmission lines don't exist to transport the power to a sector that needs that power generation; this bipartisan infrastructure bill will fund thousands of miles of high voltage transmission lines that will ameliorate that problem. Plus, it is almost incontrovertible that America needs to bring dramatically more renewable power generation on line the current problem is that America is short on the high voltage transmission lines needed to transport the power from where generated to where needed by users, this bill again ameliorates the problem by funding transmission lines. This bill prudently funds numerous novel carbon capture projects where this technical know how will be desperately needed in the future, for the world doesn't have the volume of rare earth minerals to support needed electricity storage capacity for the grid resulting in America being stuck with significant amount of natural gas and coal power generation for the indefinite future and if we don't capture the carbon generated from this fossil fuel power generation the resulting CO2 dumping into the atmosphere will cause significantly worse climate damage than that which already has occurred!
The bipartisan infrastructure bill allots $66 billion for passenger and freight rail which will allow a significant amount of rail tracks to be built so passenger trains and freight trains can be run on separate rail lines so as to reduce the current delays on freight rail transportation in the United States, this will strengthen our economy. This bill allots $65 billion for expanding broadband internet availability across America; this will make America fairer in a fundamentally important way! High speed internet makes a difference in expanding business opportunities and educational opportunities for American families that have such, this bill will expand this technology for millions of families providing these important benefits for these families. This bill allots $50 billion for water storage in the Western part of the country, this part of the country contains a huge portion of America's agricultural industry which is one of America's greatest economic assets. This will not only help this region from the devastating droughts that it regularly experiences because of climate change but it will also protect America from the massive tax losses the nation's treasury experiences when droughts are permitted to wreak havoc in the farm communities in this region of the country. The bipartisan bill allots $15 billion to replace lead pipes used for water distribution in the United States; this is an urgently needed expenditure because it will help reduce bitter division in America for many of the communities with the lead pipe problem are poor minority communities and so as much as the country can put this problem behind us we lessen conflict between these communities and the balance of the nation!
These partisan House Republicans are just full of nonsense when they claim well passing this bipartisan infrastructure bill will just help the Democrats pass the $3.5 trillion monstrosity bill from Hell they want to pass. Prudence calls for just the opposite conclusion, the country absolutely and without reservation needs to increase infrastructure spending so if this restrained bipartisan infrastructure bill fails the pressure on moderate Democrats to pass a Democrat partisan infrastructure bill will be ungodly they won't be able to withstand the force on them to vote for the partisan bill and America will end up with a shockingly expensive, economy destroying and irreversibly damaging act from Washington!
This bill is so needed and will move the country forward it deserves to be said this bill should have been enacted into law yesterday! The bill allots $73 billion for the Electric Grid and Power Infrastructure. Today America's electricity grid is very segmented one sector may have more electricity generation than the sector needs but the transmission lines don't exist to transport the power to a sector that needs that power generation; this bipartisan infrastructure bill will fund thousands of miles of high voltage transmission lines that will ameliorate that problem. Plus, it is almost incontrovertible that America needs to bring dramatically more renewable power generation on line the current problem is that America is short on the high voltage transmission lines needed to transport the power from where generated to where needed by users, this bill again ameliorates the problem by funding transmission lines. This bill prudently funds numerous novel carbon capture projects where this technical know how will be desperately needed in the future, for the world doesn't have the volume of rare earth minerals to support needed electricity storage capacity for the grid resulting in America being stuck with significant amount of natural gas and coal power generation for the indefinite future and if we don't capture the carbon generated from this fossil fuel power generation the resulting CO2 dumping into the atmosphere will cause significantly worse climate damage than that which already has occurred!
The bipartisan infrastructure bill allots $66 billion for passenger and freight rail which will allow a significant amount of rail tracks to be built so passenger trains and freight trains can be run on separate rail lines so as to reduce the current delays on freight rail transportation in the United States, this will strengthen our economy. This bill allots $65 billion for expanding broadband internet availability across America; this will make America fairer in a fundamentally important way! High speed internet makes a difference in expanding business opportunities and educational opportunities for American families that have such, this bill will expand this technology for millions of families providing these important benefits for these families. This bill allots $50 billion for water storage in the Western part of the country, this part of the country contains a huge portion of America's agricultural industry which is one of America's greatest economic assets. This will not only help this region from the devastating droughts that it regularly experiences because of climate change but it will also protect America from the massive tax losses the nation's treasury experiences when droughts are permitted to wreak havoc in the farm communities in this region of the country. The bipartisan bill allots $15 billion to replace lead pipes used for water distribution in the United States; this is an urgently needed expenditure because it will help reduce bitter division in America for many of the communities with the lead pipe problem are poor minority communities and so as much as the country can put this problem behind us we lessen conflict between these communities and the balance of the nation!
These partisan House Republicans are just full of nonsense when they claim well passing this bipartisan infrastructure bill will just help the Democrats pass the $3.5 trillion monstrosity bill from Hell they want to pass. Prudence calls for just the opposite conclusion, the country absolutely and without reservation needs to increase infrastructure spending so if this restrained bipartisan infrastructure bill fails the pressure on moderate Democrats to pass a Democrat partisan infrastructure bill will be ungodly they won't be able to withstand the force on them to vote for the partisan bill and America will end up with a shockingly expensive, economy destroying and irreversibly damaging act from Washington!