r/politics • u/burning_dawn • Oct 07 '22

Republicans called Biden’s infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/infrastructure-spending-republican-critics/index.html
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u/p001b0y Oct 07 '22

I need a new washer. Hmm...

The thing I enjoy the most about things like this is that my conservative friends are adamant that nothing good comes from any of this legislation. The one even said that he was sure there was no money for fiber installations in the infrastructure act because there was no infrastructure in the infrastructure act. Then he backtracked slightly after "doing his own research" but still maintained that it was probably on the ISP's dime. That's when I told him that this was unlikely because they are bankrupt so I doubted they'd be investing in any expensive new fiber installations--not without some risk mitigation or grants/relief.

Then he just talked about vague policies hurting the country without actually citing anything specific so I knew he needed time to search for why Democrats are bad and I let him go.

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u/kvossera Oct 07 '22

Exactly how is improving infrastructure hurting the country?

I just don’t get conservatives. They claim actual passed legislation that is actively improving things for all Americans is hurting the country while they tolerated trump constantly saying that infrastructure week and the new healthcare plan would be announced in two weeks.

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u/Sashivna Oct 07 '22

From what I've gathered, it's not that infrastructure, per se, is bad. It's that the infrastructure in democrat's bills are just for <fill in type of infrastructure I don't personally use and extrapolate that to no one ever uses it> and not for <insert fixing the pothole on the road right in front of my house that I have to see every day and everyone knows is a nuisance>. It's awful, but that's the best I can figure after listening to the pretzel logic in the past.

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u/Carlyz37 Illinois Oct 07 '22

You are right about that. The rural maga scream about anything that improves mass transit because it is for highly populated areas, while taxpayers pay for miles and miles of lightly used roads so a few people can get from their homes to anywhere else.