Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "Former White House advisor on President Joe Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan" video.

  1. We rank low because nobody funds it.
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  2. Pretty sure salty and angry Trump supports are the reason for that.
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  3. Funding infrastructure is the opposite of a disaster, especially when it's so needed in the US.
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  4.  @rocknrobert1  Pretty sure we were screaming at someone who was definitely not in the sky.
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  5.  @boofert.washington2499  The majority? We had an election and we have opinion polls. You are not the majority.
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  6.  @alsilva3720  There isn't a bill, they haven't written it yet. According to the general plan however, yes around 5% is going to roads and bridges. They are also putting money into Amtrak, climate-related disaster resilience, road safety, airport upgrades, ports, public transit, electric vehicle chargers, retrofitting homes, high-speed broadband, school upgrades, water infrastructure, improving the electric grid, VA hospitals and clinics, public housing, cleaning up abandoned wells, clean energy, community college upgrades, federal building modernization, childcare facility upgrades, caregiver funding for elderly and disables, domestic manufacturing support, American workforce development infrastructure and worker protection, upgrade research labs, climate tech, domestic industry capacity monitoring, dislocated worker programs, new technology foundation, and research and development for small businesses. Lots of things that will pay dividends in the future overall.
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  7.  @Ontheroxxwithsalt  The right can't balance a budget, but sure, the left are the issue.
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  8.  @FilterExel  Sounds like Keystone XL. At least this infrastructure plan will be for something useful, and not a pipeline between 2 places we already have a pipeline between.
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  9. @Solstice of Snow No, it won't. Pushing funds into stuff like this pays dividends. They are investing in the future to improve the economy. Take unemployment for example. Every dollar paid into unemployment ends up being 2 back into the economy. Funding roads improves transit which also ends up back in the economy. There is a long list of things this helps, but basically, funding transportation always pays well in the long run.
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  10.  @rogob1333  Oh I'm sorry, are you confused by the wide variety of proposed infrastructure projects, or the fact that Republican's can't balance a budget?
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  11.  @edhuber3557  "Good point. Any pipeline can carry any product in any quantity in any direction at any, all, and the same time." Again, they already have a keystone pipeline. Building a larger line, especially one that goes over indigenous lands and breaks multiple treaties, while increasing domestic oil prices, is a waste. "On the other, hand these are present US gov't funds which will be well managed, as always, because of politician's extensive knowledge of technology and infrastructure." They don't need to have extensive knowledge. They are given recommendations, most notably the recent US infrastructure report care, to advise their decisions. "We know this taxpayer outlay will be spent for useful, albeit as-yet-unclear infrastructure" Almost like there isn't a bill yet. "If holes, pits, or pockets in roads are not filled, then pols will find ratholes, bottomless pits, or pol pockets" Oh please. They're not the military. Honestly, you're just throwing out conspiracy theories with nothing to show for it.
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