The contents of the bill, and the fact that they gave up. Too busy with political investigations.
I'm reading conservative estimates (not politically conservative) that this nation is in need of more than $30 trillion of rebuilding money over the next ten years, and another $20 tril for new infrastructure construction over the same period of time or the costs will treble during the following decade. $2 trillion won't cover much more than soft costs. That covers everything from rebuilding highways, train tunnels and tracks, harbor dredging and clean water initiatives, levees, international and domestic airports, bridges and commuter tunnels, river recovery, reforesting, mine cleanups, toxic cleanups, fish husbandry, coral repair, beach reconstruction, new energy sources and repair and upgrading of the national power grid, Federal park reconstruction, and so on, and on, and on and...........
The jobs that would be created alone are worth the investment, but we don't have enough workers, skilled workers and the birthrate is dropping despite Alabama. How many can operate a bull dozer, a road grader, do stake surveys, spin cable on bridges, operate core drilling equipment for tunnels, ah, the tasks are endless. The workers insufficient and in need of training. How much do you really think $2 trillion will accomplish?
There's always money for floods, but not quality levees. What will we do about the water shortage already appearing in the west? Shall we see more barriers on the California borders for Okies? Those responsible for governing must start developing long term solutions and leave the quibbling for online critics with too much time on their hands. Hmm, more forest fires because we've removed the predators from our lands and the deer destroy the water retaining shrubbery and grasses as they feed, and ranchers worry about a few sheep and cattle which will die from thirst. Encourage a few more wolves, buffalo herds, the fauna that makes our lands stronger. Restrict housing and commercial development where it is a threat to our lives. Governers need to govern. That is why the people elected them. Not because of how much they spend to get elected, but for doing for the nation. We don't need income redistribution when jobs go begging, we need the right education of skills for those jobs. And if need be, let's bring in the immigrants willing and able to work for our prosperity and fiscal health. There is always work for masons, plumbers, carpenters, with skills. It takes quality governance to see the light.
Don't talk to me about forlorn, forgotten baby steps that stopped at a wall.
