Kansas Crimson

JKLivin wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 4:00 pm

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 7:31 am

JKLivin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 2:16 pm

Yeah! We should vote that clown out of office and . . . oh, wait a minute . . . he's been gone for almost a year now. How's your guy doing? Lulz.

just passed the biggest infrastructure bill in history, so pretty good

he’s definitely not a sore looser like your guy, nor does he behave like a petulant child

my current finances and financial outlook are great. i’ve gotten ~$10K/yr raise since Joe took office, so for me he’s doing marvelously

Yay! More government spending. Nobody has to pay for that, right?!? Inflation is running out of control. There are shortages of things all over the place. We are rapdily becoming a Third World nation. Not good.

Mjl wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 10:18 pm

JKLivin wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 4:00 pm

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 7:31 am
just passed the biggest infrastructure bill in history, so pretty good

he’s definitely not a sore looser like your guy, nor does he behave like a petulant child

my current finances and financial outlook are great. i’ve gotten ~$10K/yr raise since Joe took office, so for me he’s doing marvelously

Yay! More government spending. Nobody has to pay for that, right?!? Inflation is running out of control. There are shortages of things all over the place. We are rapdily becoming a Third World nation. Not good.

Cost of infrastructure bill to deficit over 10 years: $256,000,000,000
Cost of Trump tax cuts to deficit over 10 years: $1,900,000,000,000

I don't like deficit spending either... But one party is way worse about deficits than the other. And it happens to be the same party that pretends to care about it (when convenient).

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:48 am obviously just a small part of infrastructure, but…

It was evident we needed better highways. We needed them for safety, to accommodate more automobiles. We needed them fur defense purposes, if that should ever be necessary. And we needed them for the economy. Not just as a public works measure, but for future growth.

-Lucious Clay, 1954

all of that still rings true today

i guess some would rather our roads and bridges continue to fall into disrepair, for the transition to more sustainable transportation to be stifled, and for those less fortunate to be roadblocked from easily accessing the internet

cutting fossil fuel subsidies seems to be a non-starter, and the american public would collectively flip their shit if the gas tax was raised (how the initial interstate highway system was funded). i’d be curious to know how psych would propose to pay for the things i referenced above

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:55 am i love "real" infrastructure. roads, bridges, ports, highways, rail. "real" infrastructure is my favorite.

i do not love the fake "social" infrastructure.

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:59 am anything that does not involve roads, bridges, ports, highways, rail, internet.

call it something else. it ain't infrastructure.

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:59 am anything that does not involve roads, bridges, ports, highways, rail, internet.

call it something else. it ain't infrastructure.

jhawks99 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 10:27 am They should take CRT out of the infrastructure bill.

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:59 am anything that does not involve roads, bridges, ports, highways, rail, internet.

call it something else. it ain't infrastructure.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 10:05 am

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:59 am anything that does not involve roads, bridges, ports, highways, rail, internet.

call it something else. it ain't infrastructure.

Ok, die on that hill.

The fact is that things like universal pre-K and universal healthcare would be enormous economic drivers.

Mjl wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 12:18 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 10:05 am

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:59 am anything that does not involve roads, bridges, ports, highways, rail, internet.

call it something else. it ain't infrastructure.

Ok, die on that hill.

The fact is that things like universal pre-K and universal healthcare would be enormous economic drivers.

Is this the right time for economic drivers?

I mean, the biggest concern for the greatest number of Americans right now seems more related to demand outpacing supply, along with a worker shortage. So this, just like with the Trump tax cuts, seems like the wrong time to try to juice the economy.

Unless you're arguing with pre-K that more people will get back to looking for a job if their kids are in preschool. If that's the case I would rather see that proposed/debated on its own merit rather than being lumped into a huge omnibus bill.

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 12:33 pm now that we are out of afghanistan, the military needs something to do. i bet they have the skill, will and know how to unsnarl the supply chain. they got truckers. they got heavy equipment operators. they got dudes that can drive a boat. they got dudes that can fly anything. they got it all.

the military + national guard. they could tackle this project.




unsnarl the supply chain and inflation goes away. that what uncle joe says.