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flipht@kbin.social 1 year agoAnecdotal. 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.
protist@mander.xyz 1 year ago
1.2 trillion is also just one single federal bill, it doesn’t take until 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 inind that 1.2 trillion barely squeaked by Republican opposition.