I'm talking about real jobs like the private market provides. Government construction jobs are all temporary.
Public transit: The package also includes the largest-ever federal investment in public transit, allotting $39 billion to modernize systems, improve access for the elderly and people with disabilities, and repair more than 24,000 buses, 5,000 railcars and thousands of miles of train tracks.
Amtrak: The legislation marks the largest investment in passenger rail since the creation of Amtrak 50 years ago, with $66 billion earmarked for high-speed rail, safety improvements, Amtrak grants and modernization of the rail route connecting Washington, D.C., to Boston.
Broadband internet: Tacking on to billions
authorized by last year’s American Rescue Plan, the infrastructure bill includes $65 billion to bolster the country's broadband infrastructure and help ensure that every American has access to high-speed internet, with one in four households expected to be eligible for a $30-per-month subsidy to pay for internet access.
Electric grid and energy: Though many clean-energy measures were cut from the bill to satisfy spending-weary lawmakers, a $108 billion investment will help upgrade the nation’s electricity grid, with thousands of miles of new transmission lines and funds for environmentally friendly smart-grid technology.
Electric cars, buses and ferries: In addition to $7.5 billion for the nation’s first network of electric-vehicle chargers along highway corridors, lawmakers have shored up $5 billion for zero-emission buses (including thousands of electric school buses) and $2.5 billion for ferries.
Great rivers and lakes: Among the bill's more than $50 billion for water infrastructure improvements, about $1 billion is
slated to go toward the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a sweeping clean-up measure targeting toxic hot spots—or areas of heavy industrial pollution—around the Great Lakes region, and $17 billion will be allocated to ports and waterways.
Road safety: The deal invests $11 billion in transportation safety programs, including a new program to help states and localities reduce crashes and fatalities in their communities, particularly among cyclists and pedestrians.
Normal funding: In addition to the $550 billion in new investments, the package also includes roughly $650 billion in previously authorized funding for roads and other infrastructure, including nearly $300 billion for the
Highway Trust Fund and $90 billion for public transit over the next five years.
The sweeping new bill includes $110 billion for roads and bridges, $65 billion to equip all Americans with broadband internet, $1 billion for the Great Lakes and much more.
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So there you have it, all vote buying for their environmental buddies. Trains to nowhere that people won't ride which is why the private market won't invest in them, ferries, charging stations that nobody will use, cleaner air and water, and WTF does internet access have to do with infrastructure? And what does every American have access to mean? It means lowlifes that won't pay for it themselves, in other words their welfare tent, bicycle paths that few will use, it's just loaded with bullshit.
And broken down even more is disgusting:
There’s
$475,000 for the RAISE Institute at Ohio State University, which supports
activist professors. Worcester State gets
$500,000 for a “diversity in STEM” initiative focusing on climate, which is part of a long-term agenda to
move science to the left.
Of the dozens of housing projects getting payola, none can match the wokeness of a $1 million earmark for “
LGBTQ-friendly senior housing” in Dallas.
A $2 million project in Michigan is labeled “
biosolids to fertilizer.” While this is an apt description of the omnibus in general, we have to go to a
press release to learn that this means handing human sewage to farmers.
Another $4.2 million is dedicated to, literally, “
sheep experiment station infrastructure improvements” in Idaho.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., got $2 million for “
cultural placekeeping.” If you have no idea what that means, welcome to the wide world of progressive word salads.
House Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., put his stamp on many projects, including $650,000 for “digital equity” in the Bronx and $800,000 for an “
activity center” in the college town of Ithaca.
The wealthy town of Middleburg, Virginia, has a population of 539 people. They’re getting a
$2 million town hall. Michigan’s Mackinaw City, which is actually a village of 805 people, gets $3 million for a “
rejuvenation project.”
The insane spending spree that Congress has gone on since the start of the pandemic is one of the central causes of today’s brutal inflation.
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