(apart from bidenbad)
It is small, like ~$250 billion per year, a lot of it will go for subsidies and to private contractors. IMO, it will barely do much, the best thing about it is more money for eldercare.
Am I right in assuming that if anything even close to this makes it through Congress, this will all be done by private contractors as the government pours $2trillion directly into the slop trough for big business? I don’t see the government directly employing people and putting them to work new deal style. It’ll be the same free for all that the MIC is, with public funds being spent on $40 pens and shit.
Yeah most of the construction work will be by contractors. When the trains or whatever are built they will be operated by govt employees.
The bill involves a lot of money for airports and a nationwide network for electric car charging stations. There is a little bit of funding for some unambiguously good things (trains, public housing, healthcare), but much of the money is going to be dissipated into a pork barrel with no clear benefits.
edit: and of course, the issues with reliance on airports and electric car charging stations should be obvious
It's okay. It'll improve quite a few people's lives. It won't fix capitalism, climate change, or even all that big of a chunk of the problems with US infrastructure.
If it passes, it'd be a funny and productive bit to immediately write your congress critters, commend them, then ask when the one will be.
