Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "Biden on Senate passing $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus bill" video.

140K? You sure about that? You sure you aren't referring to the 11K projected temporary pipeline jobs that would build a pipeline somewhere we already have a pipeline to, in order to create about 35 permanent jobs, many not in the US. All for the sake of funding oil imports and exports, a fuel source we are moving away from? Maybe they can use that $9B for something useful that will create a lot more than 11K jobs. At over $800K a job it wasn't the most efficient use of funds to create jobs. Especially for something that would do little to actually make us any money.
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@player--zero Neither of those made it into the final bill. The bridge to Canada is already built, the funding is for maintaining the bridge at the border, funding that was proposed by Trump's team originally. The silicon valley highspeed train was fully funded weeks before the bill passed when the city sold bonds to fund the project. The total cost was around 100 times what the covid bill would have helped with, but didn't because they took that out.
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They delayed because they didn't have any Republican support requiring them to pass the bill through multiple committees before passing even the house. Reconciliation usually takes about 9 months, and they used it in 2.
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@thefarmersdaughter8235 You listed New York for starters, a state that annually pays around $27B more than they receive in federal taxes vs funding. States like New York have been propping up red states for decades. As for poorly run, why are the poorly run states the ones with all the GDP and less covid infections per capita, even with their high population densities issues?
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@thefarmersdaughter8235 You think just because red states don't pay into the system they shouldn't get covid funds? That's a twisted way to think.
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@thefarmersdaughter8235 Considering they consistently get more than they pay in, they are getting more than their fair share regularly. Really we should be reducing their federal funding to zero with this recent stimulus bill to stop the obviously unjust imbalance.
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@thefarmersdaughter8235 Well I'm just trying to understand. You said we shouldn't be paying for blue states because they mismanaged their funds. I explained that actually blue states pay in far more than they get out, and red states are the ones getting handouts, and if you want to make this fair then we should stop giving handouts to red states. What about that is nonsense?
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@BDAATL Neither the money for the bridge (which was originally proposed by Trump last year and is to maintain the border as the bridge is already built) or the highspeed train (which was fully funded several weeks ago before the bill passed) made it into the final bill. Highspeed rail projects always make money in the long run from improvements to the local economy, so investing in them is a solid idea. The NY bridge funding was proposed at $1.5M, not $150M. The total impact on the final bill of these 2 proposals would have been 0.0053% of the total spent. If you want to quibble about less than a hundredth of a percent of the total funds then go nuts, but this just a stalling tactic used to shoehorn in political points for no reason.
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Because you're wrong. 22% of the bill goes to stimulus checks. More goes to COBRA, unemployment, SNAP, vaccine rollouts and more covid related issues. Just because you think stimulus checks don't count as covid relief, doesn't mean America agrees.
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