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An unfortunate punctuation mark for the infrastructure speech the President is about to give in PA. For readers outside of the US, how are similar infrastructu

An unfortunate punctuation mark for the infrastructure speech the President is about to give in PA. For readers outside of the US, how are similar infrastructure issues?

ModernMech 5y ago
Unfortunate? It makes the case as to why passing the infrastructure bill was so important. It should make people think twice about reelecting those who voted no on the bill. If they had their way we'd still have a collapsed bridge and no infrastructure bill to pay for a new one.
- WillPostForFood 5y ago
  Of the $1.2 trillion, less than half ($550 billion) is even intended for infrastructure at all. Of the $550 billion, only $110 billion is for actual roads, bridges, and major infrastructure projects. That we have to spend $1.2 trillion to get $110 billion in possible improvements is exactly why our infrastructure is in terrible shape, and still will be in terrible shape after this grift is distributed. The infrastructure bill just highlights the problem, and puts us further into debt. https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/politics/infrastructure-bill-explained/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/politics/infrastructure-bill-...
  - evan_ 5y ago
    > Of the $1.2 trillion, less than half ($550 billion) is even intended for infrastructure at all. Citation needed
    - ineedasername 5y ago
      See my sibling comment-- it is actually all infrastructure, there's some idiosyncracy over how previous plans are only now being funded.
  - ineedasername 5y ago
    No, it's all infrastructure. The rest of the money is funding previously authorized plans. I'm not sure why that bill was necessary to find them separately from the original auhorization, but it's all still infrastructure. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/11/15/everything-in-the-12-trillion-infrastructure-bill-biden-just-signed-new-roads-electric-school-buses-and-more/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanpo...
- ineedasername 5y ago
  The collapse is unfortunate. (I don't use "tragic" since it appears the were no deaths yet) The timing, if it was going to happen anyway, is useful. But the whole entire situation is bad, so I'm not going to use any positive language to describe it even if this incident has a silver lining.

An unfortunate punctuation mark for the infrastructure speech the President is about to give in PA. For readers outside of the US, how are similar infrastructure issues?

ModernMech 5y ago

Unfortunate? It makes the case as to why passing the infrastructure bill was so important. It should make people think twice about reelecting those who voted no on the bill. If they had their way we'd still have a collapsed bridge and no infrastructure bill to pay for a new one.

WillPostForFood 5y ago
Of the $1.2 trillion, less than half ($550 billion) is even intended for infrastructure at all. Of the $550 billion, only $110 billion is for actual roads, bridges, and major infrastructure projects. That we have to spend $1.2 trillion to get $110 billion in possible improvements is exactly why our infrastructure is in terrible shape, and still will be in terrible shape after this grift is distributed. The infrastructure bill just highlights the problem, and puts us further into debt. https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/politics/infrastructure-bill-explained/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/politics/infrastructure-bill-...
- evan_ 5y ago
  > Of the $1.2 trillion, less than half ($550 billion) is even intended for infrastructure at all. Citation needed
  - ineedasername 5y ago
    See my sibling comment-- it is actually all infrastructure, there's some idiosyncracy over how previous plans are only now being funded.
- ineedasername 5y ago
  No, it's all infrastructure. The rest of the money is funding previously authorized plans. I'm not sure why that bill was necessary to find them separately from the original auhorization, but it's all still infrastructure. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/11/15/everything-in-the-12-trillion-infrastructure-bill-biden-just-signed-new-roads-electric-school-buses-and-more/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanpo...
ineedasername 5y ago
The collapse is unfortunate. (I don't use "tragic" since it appears the were no deaths yet) The timing, if it was going to happen anyway, is useful. But the whole entire situation is bad, so I'm not going to use any positive language to describe it even if this incident has a silver lining.