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Infrastructure Bill’s Big-Budget Projects A ‘Complete Failure’ Despite Billions Spent
« on: September 25, 2024, 06:43:28 am »
Infrastructure Bill’s Big-Budget Projects A ‘Complete Failure’ Despite Billions Spent
by Sarah Bedford  Sep 23, 2024

Democrats have touted the infrastructure bill Congress passed in 2021 as a signature accomplishment of the Biden-Harris administration, but some of its ambitious projects have fallen far short of expectations nearly three years after President Joe Biden signed it into law. [emphasis, links added]

A massive program to expand rural broadband access has failed so far to connect any homes to the Internet. A push to electrify school bus fleets has proved costly and inefficient.


And a multibillion-dollar effort to build thousands of electric vehicle charging stations across the country has so far yielded just a handful of stations.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act contained $1.2 trillion in spending on what the White House called “a once-in-a-generation investment in our nation’s infrastructure and competitiveness.”

https://climatechangedispatch.com/infrastructure-bills-big-budget-projects-a-complete-failure-despite-billions-spent/
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Re: Infrastructure Bill’s Big-Budget Projects A ‘Complete Failure’ Despite Billions Spent
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2024, 07:07:28 am »
Is that what the DNC is using to wage the current  propaganda war on America?

Fly in illegal immigrants from all over?

Install violent foreign gangs in our cities?
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Re: Infrastructure Bill’s Big-Budget Projects A ‘Complete Failure’ Despite Billions Spent
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2024, 09:37:48 am »
Wasn't Al Gore's Universal Connectivity Fee (Internet Tax) supposed to pay to build broadband in under-served areas?  What has Al Gore done with the money?
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Re: Infrastructure Bill’s Big-Budget Projects A ‘Complete Failure’ Despite Billions Spent
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2024, 10:43:56 am »
In the meantime, if you really need bandwidth, there's starlink. With the oil boom (Bakken) we got fiber in town, and it's great. But I know people 50 miles outside of Washington D.C. who have to bounce through sketchy cell hotspots to get internet.
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