I won't fly: Trump plans week-long focus on infrastructure, starting with privatizing air traffic co

[mfcorey1]

President Trump will seek to put a spotlight on his vows to privatize the nation’s air traffic control system and spur $1 trillion in new investment in roads, waterways and other infrastructure with a week-long series of events starting Monday in the Rose Garden.

The events — billed as “infrastructure week” — are part of a stepped-up effort since the president’s return a week ago from his first foreign trip to show that the White House remains focused on its agenda, despite cascading headlines about his administration’s ties to Russia.

Trump’s plans next week also include a trip to the Ohio River, where it separates Ohio and Kentucky, to talk about the importance of waterways and to lay out his vision of infrastructure investments more broadly, aides say. And before the weekend, he will also welcome a bipartisan group of mayors and governors to Washington to discuss the topic and venture to the Transportation Department to talk about roads and railways.

“In many of these areas, we’re falling behind, and the falling behind is affecting economic growth in the United States,” said Gary Cohn, Trump’s chief economic adviser, who is helping lead a task force developing Trump’s infrastructure plan. “The president wants to fix the problem.”

The flurry of planned activity comes as two other marquee Trump promises — overhauling the Affordable Care Act and cutting taxes — remain stalled in Congress, largely because of differences among fellow Republicans and the intricacies of the plans.

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[bettyellen]

1. Remember he let it slip he was looking to sell it to other countries-

[Docreed2003]

2. A trillion dollars of investment in infrastructure...

That I'm sure involves privatization of roads and waterways in a massive corporate handout and which benefits the actual country in little to no way. I'm all for investment in infrastructure when that investment is performed in a fashion like the Eisenhower Interstate System where the government actually made money on the investment. I do not, however, trust privatized air traffic controls and I sure as hell don't want to drive on more toll roads and bridges that send money back to their parent corporations.

[Achilleaze]

3. Russians make first bid to buy and own America's airways

SUPERFINE FAKE NEWS - Comrade Casino, the soul-twisted republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, is allegedly now busy out on the golf course calculating the massive profits he can make for himself and his republican Cabal of Colluding Comrades if he follows through and sells off America's assets to his russian mob-banker buddies.

[onethatcares]

4. as he disucsses the importance of waterways

they'll probably be pictures of horse drawn barges with mounds of coal behind him.

He'll point to them as where he wants to take this country.


Any chances he'll drink a cup of water from either river?

[jehop61]

5. Beware of European investors

buying our infrastructure. This week. A foreign investor group raised tolls on the Indiana Toll Road (I80) by 100%! They bought it years ago. It's not well kept with lots of potholes. I 80 is a major coast to coast interstate and now many ordinary workers who can't afford the increase have to find other routes to work. Eisenhower is turning in his grave.

[Xipe Totec]

6. The Reagan Gambit. nt

[TheBlackAdder]

7. As an aspiring pilot, back then, I remember how unsafe air travel was after the layoffs.