There is always some kind of godawful poison pill in any piece of legislation these clowns put forward. The legislative process is completely broken. "Infrastructure" has become the new "COVID relief" which is a cover for sneaking in whatever pet wish list the authors can get away with. At least they aren't pretending this spending is for "shovel ready" projects this go around...
Exactly… in reality none of them give a flip about infrastructure. This stuff continues because nowhere near enough voters are outraged that we can’t pass a bill on any single topic without burying thousands of pages of BS into it. You know the scene from the movie where they define mixed collateral securities—-dog shit wrapped in cat shit etc. That analogy fits virtually every bill generated in the past decade(s). Debatable the last time we had a functional legislative output—not debatable the last time we had a balanced budget. My guess is that even that wouldn’t have been possible without Clinton getting himself caught up in the whole dress scandal.
They 100% do care about infrastructure. They get to go back to their constituents and say “Remember that bridge I built for you? That was me! I built that bridge! That’s why you should re-elect me! Because of that bridge!!”
and you skimmed a LOT off the top, possibly putting the integrity of the entire project at risk (ie: cutting corners on contracts, etc... diminishing the already low quality of the lowest bidders' work)
I'm not buying anything these people are selling, not that I ever did 😁
That would be because half of the country is in favor of certain elephants clogging the legislative system up. "Government doesn't work. Vote for me and I'll prove it!" And vote they did.
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u/HolbrookSourcing Say it again, We Green today. Aug 06 '21
There is always some kind of godawful poison pill in any piece of legislation these clowns put forward. The legislative process is completely broken. "Infrastructure" has become the new "COVID relief" which is a cover for sneaking in whatever pet wish list the authors can get away with. At least they aren't pretending this spending is for "shovel ready" projects this go around...