More Validation for Infrastructure Spending

Maybe this stuff will get some attention from the new administration.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/us/roosevelt-bridge-stuart-florida-closed-trnd/index.html

https://westseattleblog.com/2020/06/west-seattle-bridge-closure-how-to-watch-second-community-task-force-meeting-on-wednesday/

Infrastructure spending has 56% support.  Raising, or more accurately creating taxes on the wealthy and corporations who presently don't pay any, has 62% support.

So WHY THE FUCK are they letting Republicans talk about cutting out three-quarters of the bill and not paying for it???

19 Republicans voted for it.

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It now heads to the House of Representatives, where it faces an uncertain future, before it can be sent to President Joe Biden's desk to be signed into law.

Why is the future "uncertain"? I thought Dems had a majority in the House.

NoCoPilot wrote:

19 Republicans voted for it.  

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It now heads to the House of Representatives, where it faces an uncertain future, before it can be sent to President Joe Biden's desk to be signed into law.

Why is the future "uncertain"?  I thought Dems had a majority in the House.

Not shocked. I'm no longer convinced any of the politicians want to help us.

13 Republicans voted for it in the House.  Talk about "sausage-making"!  Everyone liked it, it has vast public support, yet it takes eight years to pass a whittled-down bill on the narrowest of margins in the middle of the night.

Washington is broken.

Although, I must say, I never thought Pelosi & Biden would be able to break McConnell's iron hold.

I had a thought this morning.  Shocking, right?

For roughly a hundred years (~1890-1990) the richest men in America made their money in industry: railroads, steel, shipbuilding, aluminum, construction, airplanes, newspapers, paper mills, household goods.  They NEEDED the general public to support infrastructure spending in order to get their products to market.

That's not true anymore.  Since the 1990s the richest men have dealt in money-changing -- banks, investment brokers, hedge fund managers -- and/or the digital economy (data / software / information).  OF COURSE they don't give two shits about roads and bridges and ports anymore.  They're irrelevant to their fortunes. Hence the resistance to any infrastructure spending or any taxes to pay for it.

Signed sealed delivered. I want to see some results now, and fast.

And now the public smear campaign starts.

It's too late, morons. Should've bought him off when the offer was on the table.

Apparently Joe Manchin’s daughter works for the company that made Epi-pens so expensive.

Apparently Joe Manchin has gotten wheelbarrow loads of cash from Koch Industries and other gas and coal extractors.

Apparently Joe Manchin has a Maserati and a yacht, which he lives aboard when he’s in Washington.

Apparently Joe Manchin has an open invitation from Mitch McConnell to come join the GOP party any time he wants.

So, why does ANYBODY think he gives two shits about his constituents or the country at large or doing the right thing? Nobody but Joy Reid is calling him out. He’s not duplicitous or hypocritical. He just has his own priorities.

Coal Miners Union to Joe Manchin: Stop Sucking

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The United Mine Workers of America on Monday afternoon politely but firmly told the West Virginia senator to reconsider his position on the legislation that would reshape the American energy landscape. That miners are out here asking for the Build Back Better Act to get a fair shake says a lot about the benefits it contains—and it speaks even louder about who, exactly, Manchin was trying to protect when he said this version of the bill was dead.