It looks as if the American People will finally get their crumbling infrastructure repaired and renewed!

The House is being stupid. Democrat political capital is draining away with every day of Biden's Afghanistan disaster, put a pork filled bill in front of him now and it will only get worse. Senate Democrats understand this, it damage control time.
Sorry but you're wrong.

Getting the first piece of major legislation passed in decades to provide jobs and infrastructure repair (one that is VERY popular and signed on by NINETEEN GOP Senators) is a major boost and will be greatly appreciated
 
Lesh
LOL Look it up. Its on this board. That bill has 25% of it for actual infrastructure repaid. The first bill had only 5% for infrastructure repair.

I doubt much infrastructure will get repaired with so little money.



Even the NY Slimes knows most isn't for infrastructure.
 
Sorry but you're wrong.

Getting the first piece of major legislation passed in decades to provide jobs and infrastructure repair (one that is VERY popular and signed on by NINETEEN GOP Senators) is a major boost and will be greatly appreciated
Go ahead and give us the optics of some pork filled nonsense as Americans are suffering under the Taliban because Biden abandoned them there. See how that plays out.
 
I've never been a huge fan of Biden, but thank you, Mr. President. I'm weary of having to carry water to work like I'm in the frigging wilderness, which in many ways I am.



Why do you have to carry water to work?
 
Tell the democrats that like Obama's infrastructure bills, that were essentially democrat grab bags
that poured billions into a trough where piggy leftist unions had a feeding frenzy, there is no
interest in anything that uses the word "infrastructure" as a code word for sucking leftist hogs
at the tax payers expense.

We've all seen that movie. I will commend the left for dreaming big but multi trillion dollar
pork fests are not what the nation needs with the specter of inflation looming over the
country.

Thanks, but not thanks, Skinflap. Go back to your cave now.
 
Lesh
LOL Look it up. Its on this board. That bill has 25% of it for actual infrastructure repaid. The first bill had only 5% for infrastructure repair.

I doubt much infrastructure will get repaired with so little money.



Even the NY Slimes knows most isn't for infrastructure.
Paywall...try again
 
In a 220-212 party-line vote, the chamber passed a $3.5 trillion budget resolution and advanced a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. The vote allows Democrats to write and approve a massive spending package without Republicans and puts the Senate-passed infrastructure plan on a path to final passage in the House.

The smaller package is all but done.

The larger one is pending


See my post numbered 53.
 
Way to go Dems!!!

About time we got this done.

Thank you Joe

Thank you Speaker Pelosi

This means jobs and major infrastructure repairs that are sorely needed.
Meanwhile in China...Factory after factory after factory is being built. and they are laughing at the environmental agendas we have. We greedily buy their products. To live by what you spout as the great Socialist/Communist ways, you need to suffer from your comforts. More and more people will suffer. By design of the choice of becoming selfish. nd so we print out the fiat false currency out of the wazoo to pay people off.
 
Lesh
LOL Look it up. Its on this board. That bill has 25% of it for actual infrastructure repaid. The first bill had only 5% for infrastructure repair.

I doubt much infrastructure will get repaired with so little money.



Even the NY Slimes knows most isn't for infrastructure.
Here's a partial list

110 billion for roads and bridges
  • $73 billion for electric grid and power infrastructure
  • $66 billion for passenger and freight rail
  • $65 billion for broadband investments
  • $55 billion for water systems and infrastructure
  • $50 billion for Western water storage
  • $39 billion for public transit
  • $25 billion for airports
  • $21 billion for environmental remediation projects
  • $17 billion for ports and waterways
  • $15 billion for electric vehicles
  • $11 billion for road safety
 
Lesh
No. You need to try again. That's only about 45% of the bill. You should list some of the other crap in there. It was interesting reading.


For climate, a substantial investment that falls short of the administration’s goals 11.6 billion


New resources for underserved communities — but far fewer than the president wanted 2 billion

A major investment in closing the digital divide. 200 billion



Loads of stuff that ain't infrastructure.
Have fun. LOL
 
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By the way...The GOP held the House and Senate AND WH from 2016 to 2018

and....nuffin
Now you're getting there. There was no GOP Congress for 4 years. Essentially, after 2018 Congress became a black hole where legislation went to die because Nancy and crew didn't want to give TRUMP! anything to put his signature on.
 
Is he running for something?
He's president, imbecile. I strongly doubt he finishes his term in office but his poll numbers
suggest he is becoming less and less tolerated and that will have ripple effects for the
whole socialist-lite democrat party.

You have to wonder why the democrats gave Senile Joe the presidency as a sort of lifetime achievement award, to begin with.
Fifty years in Washington DC with nothing of note to show for it. Now he presides over a catastrophe.
 
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He's president, imbecile. I strongly doubt he finishes his term in office but his poll numbers
suggest he is becoming less and less tolerated and that will have ripple effects for the
whole socialist-lite democrat party.

You have to wonder why the democrats gave Senile Joe the presidency. as a sort of lifetime achievement award, to begin with.
Fifty years in Washington DC with nothing of note to show for it. Now he presides over a catastrophe.
Sorry doof. You don't get removed from office due to low poll numbers or trump would have been gone in his first year
 
Now you're getting there. There was no GOP Congress for 4 years. Essentially, after 2018 Congress became a black hole where legislation went to die because Nancy and crew didn't want to give TRUMP! anything to put his signature on.
So what happened between 2016 and 2018?

What happened to all those "Infrastructure Weeks" after that?

Nuffin?

Ohhh
 
I'm cautiously optimistic. I've traveled abroad and hosted foreign visitors here. One from Shainghai was not alone in not being dazzled. Of course, the substantive negative impact of a decrepit infrastructure on American business is undeniable.


Yes infrastructure is falling down and it's not up to date.

I will say, that's not totally true for all of the 50 states.

California used to have horrible roads. Their roads were the laughing stock of the 3 west coast states.

Not anymore. Ever since Jerry Brown, California has been fixing their roads. They have been upgrading.

My state never had roads and infrastructure as bad but we've been repairing and upgrading our roads and infrastructure for years.

We've added roads and are in the middle of a massive light rail project that will stretch from Tacoma up to Everett. It also includes more lanes to Interstate 405 on the east side of the lake. It also includes more public transit in buses.

We voted to raise our state taxes in 2016 to build the above infrastructure.

We voted to raise our state taxes in 2009 to build rail cars for public transportation that covers all of the city of Seattle.

We have a law here that no new taxes can be imposed without the vote of the people so all of it was wanted and approved by the people of my state.

Most of it is fully paid for by the people of my state. Not federal funds.

I did a road trip this past spring when I was fully vaccinated. Most of the states I drove through were republican controlled red states.

YES their infrastructure is falling apart and doesn't look like they've ever updated.

The roads were so bad that a 5 month old Goodrich tire on my car literally blew up and was destroyed after driving on those horrible red state roads for only 8 days.
 
The 3.5 trillion has not passed yet. I don't even remember the amount that did pass better concentrate on bridge and sewer though
A Budget resolution was passed to write the 3.5T Bill

They moved forward the Senate Passed 550B hard infrastructure Bill and set a date of Sept 27 for that vote. It is virtually guaranteed to pass and includes an additional 500B of previously approved unspent Covid funding
 
This is one wasteful bill and after reading this I can see why the Dems are pushing for it. It adds hundreds of billions to the debt.


Interesting reading. What a waste of money brought to you by the idiots we vote for.
 

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