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  • hardhat
    hardhat Member Posts: 8,344
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,905 Standard Supporter

    Leftards hate transportation unless it's trains that are never built for tens of billions of dollars and the public doesn't like because they are slow and are stuffed with criminals on no bail release. Anyway, we are going to get some cool speed cameras according to noted transportation expert, Mayor Buttplug. Scratch a leftist, find a fascist. Phuck fixing the potholes.

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-infrastructure-spending-roads

    Think back, you may remember Joe Biden's infrastructure bill this fall. That bill emerged from Congress in November with a price tag of $1.2 trillion dollars. That so many zeros it's hard to imagine. How much is it? It's more than the entire GDP of the Nation of Mexico, one of the world's biggest oil producers, by the way. So that's a ton of money.

    So for a bill that size, you would expect, well, big results. You'd certainly want better roads than they've got in Mexico. So we're getting those what are we getting exactly from that bill? Well, today the Transportation Department, which is now run by Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, finally told us the answer. Effective immediately, we learned this country will undergo a "paradigm shift" in the way we think about infrastructure.

    Now, hold on a minute. As you probably noticed by this point, the moment paradigms start shifting, you can be certain a whole lot of people are about to get shafted. Nothing personal. It's just the nature of paradigms. They don't just shift. They tend to topple over and crush innocent bystanders. And this paradigm, of course, is no different.

    According to the new paradigm we learned about today, infrastructure is no longer about roads and bridges and airports and train stations and things you might actually use in the course of your life. We could fix those things, but why bother? Mayor Pete has better ideas. Here's Mr. Douglas Emhoff, the profoundly unemployed husband of Kamala Harris, to explain.

    EMHOFF: So when we talk about transportation, we're not just talking about buildings and roads and bridges, all that important stuff as well, but we're talking about the safety of our children, the safety of our families. And this, as you know, it's something that President Biden, Vice President Harris, Secretary, put a judge this entire Department of Transportation, this administration deeply understands.

    It deeply understands. We're not just talking about things you care about anymore. Mr. and Mrs. America, those stupid buildings and roads and bridges, things that you can touch. We're talking about bigger things now. We're talking about vast structural problems, problems so big that unemployed Doug Emhoff can't even really describe them, much less solve them. Things like "the safety of our children" and our families.

    Turns out, big problems are a lot safer to talk about in speeches because you can't actually do anything about them. So there are no expectations. Roads and bridges and buildings are very different from that. They need concrete and asphalt and rebar - stuff that's expensive and hard to do. And that may be why our buildings, roads and bridges are falling apart. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, which keeps track of these things, there are more than 617,000 bridges in this country, and as of tonight, more than 46,000 of those bridges are considered "structurally deficient." That means they're in terrible shape. Kind of a big deal for a bridge.

    As for our roads, fully 43% of all public roadways in this country are "in poor or mediocre condition." In other words, we actually are Mexico, though a lot richer.

    So what are we going to do about this? What is the $1.2 trillion dollar plan going to do for our crumbling infrastructure? Well, Pete Buttigieg has a plan. Here it is: More speed cameras, according to The Associated Press, Pete Buttigieg would like to quote promote greater use of speed cameras, which the department says could provide more equitable enforcement than police traffic stops.

    A major bridge on a interstate highway between Oregon and Washington has needed replacing for 20 years. Do you think they could have carved out $5 billion out of the 2009 “shovel ready” $800 billion bill? Or this $1.2 trillion bill? Hell no, they are just going to fight about it and piss away a few hundred million on studies.

    We’re did the $800 million go from 2009?
    The feds paid it to the states and they largely used it to pay existing state employees. Our ramps off I-5 did get some sh*tty landscaping put in by hispanics. Now the ramps close to Portland are overwhelmed by the homeless. No new bridges, no new highways. We haven't built a new highway in the Portland metro area since I-205 in the 1970s. Half a century and the idiots in Portland vote for leftards who love mass transit and then wonder about the bad traffic. I-5 is a four lane highway through north Portland. Should have been expanded 40 years ago.
  • Goduckies
    Goduckies Member Posts: 8,082 Standard Supporter

    Leftards hate transportation unless it's trains that are never built for tens of billions of dollars and the public doesn't like because they are slow and are stuffed with criminals on no bail release. Anyway, we are going to get some cool speed cameras according to noted transportation expert, Mayor Buttplug. Scratch a leftist, find a fascist. Phuck fixing the potholes.

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-infrastructure-spending-roads

    Think back, you may remember Joe Biden's infrastructure bill this fall. That bill emerged from Congress in November with a price tag of $1.2 trillion dollars. That so many zeros it's hard to imagine. How much is it? It's more than the entire GDP of the Nation of Mexico, one of the world's biggest oil producers, by the way. So that's a ton of money.

    So for a bill that size, you would expect, well, big results. You'd certainly want better roads than they've got in Mexico. So we're getting those what are we getting exactly from that bill? Well, today the Transportation Department, which is now run by Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, finally told us the answer. Effective immediately, we learned this country will undergo a "paradigm shift" in the way we think about infrastructure.

    Now, hold on a minute. As you probably noticed by this point, the moment paradigms start shifting, you can be certain a whole lot of people are about to get shafted. Nothing personal. It's just the nature of paradigms. They don't just shift. They tend to topple over and crush innocent bystanders. And this paradigm, of course, is no different.

    According to the new paradigm we learned about today, infrastructure is no longer about roads and bridges and airports and train stations and things you might actually use in the course of your life. We could fix those things, but why bother? Mayor Pete has better ideas. Here's Mr. Douglas Emhoff, the profoundly unemployed husband of Kamala Harris, to explain.

    EMHOFF: So when we talk about transportation, we're not just talking about buildings and roads and bridges, all that important stuff as well, but we're talking about the safety of our children, the safety of our families. And this, as you know, it's something that President Biden, Vice President Harris, Secretary, put a judge this entire Department of Transportation, this administration deeply understands.

    It deeply understands. We're not just talking about things you care about anymore. Mr. and Mrs. America, those stupid buildings and roads and bridges, things that you can touch. We're talking about bigger things now. We're talking about vast structural problems, problems so big that unemployed Doug Emhoff can't even really describe them, much less solve them. Things like "the safety of our children" and our families.

    Turns out, big problems are a lot safer to talk about in speeches because you can't actually do anything about them. So there are no expectations. Roads and bridges and buildings are very different from that. They need concrete and asphalt and rebar - stuff that's expensive and hard to do. And that may be why our buildings, roads and bridges are falling apart. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, which keeps track of these things, there are more than 617,000 bridges in this country, and as of tonight, more than 46,000 of those bridges are considered "structurally deficient." That means they're in terrible shape. Kind of a big deal for a bridge.

    As for our roads, fully 43% of all public roadways in this country are "in poor or mediocre condition." In other words, we actually are Mexico, though a lot richer.

    So what are we going to do about this? What is the $1.2 trillion dollar plan going to do for our crumbling infrastructure? Well, Pete Buttigieg has a plan. Here it is: More speed cameras, according to The Associated Press, Pete Buttigieg would like to quote promote greater use of speed cameras, which the department says could provide more equitable enforcement than police traffic stops.

    A major bridge on a interstate highway between Oregon and Washington has needed replacing for 20 years. Do you think they could have carved out $5 billion out of the 2009 “shovel ready” $800 billion bill? Or this $1.2 trillion bill? Hell no, they are just going to fight about it and piss away a few hundred million on studies.

    We’re did the $800 million go from 2009?
    The DNC
  • hardhat
    hardhat Member Posts: 8,344
    Has Biden ever checked in on the water situation in Flint?
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,532 Standard Supporter
    hardhat said:

    Has Biden ever checked in on the water situation in Flint?

    Joe delegated that to CornPop.