Biden issues an infrastructure 'roadmap' to help spend $1T

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JOSH BOAK

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden urged U.S. governors on Monday to ramp up their construction plans as his administration rolled out a guidebook for accessing the nearly $1 trillion made available by the bipartisan infrastructure deal.

Biden welcomed governors to the White House on Monday as part of the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, and he cajoled them on the importance of infrastructure.

“You know how to build roads and bridges,” the Democratic president told them. “Well, we got a hell of a lot to build.”

After the meeting, a pair of governors described infrastructure as a place for bipartisan cooperation and stressed that it was important for states to be able to spend money as they see fit.



President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with the National Governors Association in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)


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[WHITT]

1. Hopefully

the 'map' has 'ON HOLD' stamped on WV and AZ.

[Lovie777]

2. Wherein the red states will gleefully take and claim it was their doing . . .

[Hortensis]

3. Yes. But it's a lot better for people to see good things coming through

government, than not. Matters less who individuals choose to believe provides good for them, including all the new good-paying jobs that'll be created, than that it's happening for them. Democrats, who are trying to save government, need people to have hope and reassurance that government is doing good.

The Republican bastards know that. All through Obamas presidency they did their best to retard economic recovery for the working classes to make them increasingly distressed and distrustful of government. And it worked -- across the spectrum. Worry makes people more conservative. As for those who become aggressively angry and dissatisfied, a lot of those will join in mobs to burn their own houses down and spit at them while they burn.

The problem is far less that Republicans will try to take all the credit for good things than that red state governments will block improvements in areas where keeping people dissatisfied and dispirited will benefit their own electoral, and seditious, chances the most.

For us, building's good. There's no real downside. The more the better.

[BlueIdaho]

4. Agreed...

We need to spend our time making the lives of ordinary Americans better. Republicans will do whatever they will do. We need to hang our hat on looking out for the regular Joe and Jane Doe.