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June 07, 2024

Biden's "Biggest Achievement" Was Spending $1.2 Trillon on "Infrastructure."
How Surprised Would You Be to Learn That Almost No Infrastructure Has Been Built?

a) Not surprised at all, I am reasonably well-informed

b) Somewhat surprised, I don't keep up with the news

c) Completely surprised -- my pronouns are Zey/Zem

d) What are you talking about? I identify as a marmot and I am part of a polymorphously perverse polycule with various sexual weasels


Don't worry, everybody -- they spent a lot on Government Infrastructure and Racial Infrastructure. Almost as good as real infrastructure.

You will remember that Trump also tried to get an infrastructure bill through -- but Democrats refused to vote for it, to deny him any kind of a success.

Let's see how the Sage of Scranton did with $1.2 trillion that he set on fire and which we'll never see again.


Spoiler!

Rampant inflation and President Joe Biden's favoring of left-wing policies are contributing to a lack of progress on his landmark infrastructure law, analysts told the Daily Caller.

Two and a half years after Congress ratified the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in November of 2021, there has been very little concrete progress on new roads or bridges. The trillions of federal dollars the Biden administration has poured into the economy may actually be hindering the completion of the infrastructure that Biden promised to build, analysts told the Caller.

"Right now, the inputs cost 31 percent more than they did in January 2021," David Ditch, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Caller. "They've been flat for, frankly, about two years at this point, but they increased so dramatically right away that even though the amount of available money for highway projects is much higher now than it was in 2021, the value of that spending is lower."

The lack of headway undercuts Biden's campaign messaging on "transforming our crumbling transportation infrastructure -- including roads and bridges, rail, aviation, ports, and inland waterways."

The Biden campaign touted it as "the largest infrastructure plan since President Eisenhower's interstate highway system."

The federal government has granted $454 billion to states across 56,000 projects, according to the White House. This commitment of taxpayer dollars would seem to make good on one of Biden's marquee campaign promises to deliver new bridges and roads to the nation. But of the 10 bridge and highway projects with the most money allocated from the bill, only one -- the $1.6 billion Penn Station Access project -- has broken ground on major construction.

As Obama was true of Obama's "infrastructure stimulus" -- which produced almost nothing except a few bike paths and dog parks in blue cities -- the purpose of this "infrastructure spending" was just another massive heist of money from Republicans to pour into Democrat precincts.

...


One of Biden's most touted campaign initiatives was to "rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and ports," a line he has repeated ad nauseam, including when he introduced former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg to be his Transportation Secretary. Biden tapped Buttigieg, a move he lauded as "precedent-busting," to help "revitalize the nation's infrastructure," according to Politico.

Buttigieg touted the bill's expenditures as "some of the most meaningful investments in infrastructure we've ever seen in this country."

However, despite Biden making electric vehicles and net zero carbon emissions a tentpole campaign promise, Buttigieg seemed unable to explain why the administration has made so little progress during a recent media appearance.

"The Federal Highway Administration says only seven or eight charging stations have been produced with a 7.5 billion investment that taxpayers made back in 2021. Why isn't that happening more quickly?" CBS's Margaret Brennan pressed Buttigieg during a May appearance on CBS's Face The Nation.

Buttigieg maintained that the administration's goal was still to produce 500,000 chargers by 2030.

So I guess seven in three years means your right on track for those 50,000 in ten years?

And while Buttigieg has remarked that infrastructure projects take time, Ditch noted the uniquely stubborn nature of Biden's bill. "The 2009 Obama stimulus package was sold in part as funding 'shovel-ready' projects, which ended up being a dud due to red tape and delays. The Biden Administration had over a decade to learn from those mistakes and instead leaned into the red tape by adding extra mandates for ideological purposes. Worse, the amount of money in the 2021 infrastructure package was dramatically larger than the comparable portion of the 2009 stimulus, so the damage is far greater," Ditch argued.

People always complain that European public infrastructure is outstanding, but Americans won't pay for such public works.

The reason is simple: The Democrat Party steals this money in enormous unprosecuted heists. We know damn well that we get NOTHING for our "infrastructure spending," until a bridge actually collapses, and then they spend like crazy to rebuild the bridge at a furious and unsafe speed.

The money is all stolen. Stop telling us what we're getting for our trillions. We know what the trillions buys: Obamaphones for welfare addicts and foreigners.

The public might actually support "public" spending if it were actually spent on public goods for public use and was not just poorly-disguised wealth transfers to Democrat constituencies.






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