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2017-01-25 Home Front: Politix

Senate Democrats Introduce $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan, Offer Trump Support If He Backs It

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Posted by Fred 2017-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Spending money on rail and bus systems is pointless as self driving vehicles and on demand scheduling will obsolete most of the current public transit system.

In a few years, timetables will seem a quaint anachronism.

Posted by phil_b 2017-01-25 00:30|| 2017-01-25 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Anything going to rail, port, bus, airports or waterways goes right into union coffers. I would be highly suspicious of this offer if I was Trump.

In fact I would tell them to fuck themselves with it.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-01-25 00:59|| 2017-01-25 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Introducing such a plan only illustrates their collective incompetence and lack of understanding of this man.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-25 01:41|| 2017-01-25 01:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Be good to get Port operations and security back into American hands.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-01-25 02:45|| 2017-01-25 02:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Thatis when the Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan Capitol Hill scorekeeper, will update its budget outlook. The office is expected to say that the federal deficit, after years of decline, will start swelling again this year

...Just now? Hmm. Given the numbers that the Obama Administration was willing to release, this seems like it should have been obvious (and indeed was) to anyone with a minimally active central nervous system.

Seems to me like CBO didn't want to officially bring up this little detail while the Lightbringer was still in office, but was happy to do so now that the Other Guy won.

Another agency that needs to be burned to the ground and started from scratch.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-01-25 05:16|| 2017-01-25 05:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Subsidies to infrastructure spending tend to bump up prices of nearby land, of which is bought using loans, of which the banking sector tend to gain from the increased amount of interest payment.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-01-25 05:46|| 2017-01-25 05:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Now this is the way to grow the graft.

This is the cheese in the trap. Once DJT signs on they'll start outing the graft-o-crats and blaming it on him.

Oh, that's AFTER they take their cut.

Posted by AlanC 2017-01-25 07:40|| 2017-01-25 07:40|| Front Page Top

#8 As Obama showed, let the WH control the project selection (just like those green projects). That way instead of the union bosses going to Schumer and anyone else's office, they'll sign in at the WH. They'll know who keeps their members employed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-01-25 10:49|| 2017-01-25 10:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Put them all in jail for attempting to bribe a public official.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-01-25 11:14|| 2017-01-25 11:14|| Front Page Top

#10 The office is expected to say that the federal deficit, after years of decline, will start swelling again this year.

I guess Trump's gonna have to fire more hacks to get the deficit back down. A real shame if that was to happen...

Posted by Raj 2017-01-25 11:31|| 2017-01-25 11:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Interest rates are so low, why not load up on debt? Besides, this is an investment, not an expenditure. This money's coming back to us.

Unions? Of course Trump is going to unions. He's a New York Democrat. In his new guise as the leader of the Trumpist Party, he's going to steal the unions right out from under the Democrats and staple them to himself. The Dems are going to be ruined. If Trump can do something for the blacks in the inner city, the Democratic Party as we know it is history and has contested its last U.S. presidential election.

Posted by Thumper Dribble5791 2017-01-25 21:49|| 2017-01-25 21:49|| Front Page Top

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