• Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    IDK about where you live, but I travel a lot for work and in my area and the places I travel there is a ton of work being done that has started in the last few months. If you want to ignore reality and wallow in your memes, I won’t stop you; but, you’re wrong.

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      Anecdotal. 1.2 trillion in infrastructure spending barely touches the overall need. If that were all used to fix what is breaking, it would just do that. But then it wouldn’t cover new projects, projects in planning stages since they like to fund “shovel ready,” and it doesn’t touch the shit show that is private utilities.

      It’s a start, but we’ve got decades of catching up to do. Also consider that your 1.2 trillion figure is a multi-year cost.

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        1.2 trillion is also just one single federal bill, it doesn’t take into account the previously existing federal budget or any money/work being done by state and municipal governments. My biggest beef with this meme is that it blames “politicians” when it should really blame “Republicans.” Keep in mind the 1.2 trillion barely squeaked by Republican opposition.

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      Same, and they are new projects. And a single bill doesn’t represent all allocated funds for the maintenance of current infrastructure like what is being talked about. But, given this sub, I think cynicism will prevail no matter the subject.

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      Yeah, because the maintenance was deferred, so there’s a long backlog… Just because you started your chores list doesn’t mean you’re going to finally get through it