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CBO Says Infrastructure Bill Will Add $256 Billion to Deficit Over Next Decade

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 06, 2021 22 Comments

The infrastructure bill currently making its way through Congress is going to be more expensive than we are being told, if you can believe it. The Congressional Budget Office has found that the bill will end up contributing $256 billion to the deficit over the course of a decade.

Republican Senators Produce $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill With Democrats

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 02, 2021 50 Comments

Republicans proving once again they love spending and big government just as much as the Democrats....

Seventeen Senate Republicans Vote Yes to Move Infrastructure Bill Forward

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 28, 2021 51 Comments

The Senate will encounter a few bumps during the debate and eventual final vote of the package....

Biden Announces Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, But Won’t Sign It Without Reconciliation Bill

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 24, 2021 52 Comments

The reconciliation bill is all about the "human infrastructure" the progressives and far-left cry about all the time: education, child care, family leave, etc....

More Than Half of Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Does Not Go Towards Infrastructure

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 31, 2021 12 Comments

Basic infrastructure makes up $621 billion of President Joe Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure bill. That means $1.379 trillion of the bill does not go towards infrastructure. If you combine it with what they call "at home" infrastructure, it makes up $1.272 trillion of the bill.

Biden Admin Prepares $3 Trillion Infrastructure Bill With Climate Measures, Universal Pre-K

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 23, 2021 15 Comments

Politicians can only accomplish anything by stuffing everything into one bill. The "Covid" relief bill was the latest example. President Joe Biden's administration is toying around with a $3 trillion infrastructure bill, including a handful of non-relevant items. Granted, Biden's team described these as "human infrastructure."

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/national-govt--politics/read-president-trump-speech-coast-guard-academy-commencement/jU7CcqSBvvn0a1d305HSeJ/

Trump Pivots to Infrastructure, including Privatizing Air Traffic Control

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 04, 2017 12 Comments

Obamacare repeal and tax reform seem to be in political limbo for the moment. In the meantime, Trump is moving forward with his plan to improve infrastructure. John Wagner reports at the Washington Post:

Isn’t this an admission Obama has not been doing all he can for jobs?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2011 18 Comments

Obama is getting tough with Congress, implementing steps to have federal agencies take (supposedly) job creating actions without waiting for Congress to act, Obama Rolls Out a Jobs Plan That Doesn't Need Congress: On Wednesday, Obama took a now-familiar path in adopting a program--this time a...

Before We Spend $53 Billion On High-Speed Rail, Can We Get Low-Speed Rail To Run On Time?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2011 12 Comments

Florida Governor Rick Scott has rejected Stimulus funds for the beginnings of a high speed rail system in Florida, claiming the proposed rail system was unnecessary and wasteful. These stimulus funds were just a part of what the Obama administration hopes will be $53 billion...

I Beat Obama By 22 Months

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2010 16 Comments

Barack H. Obama, September 2010, as reported by The New York Times (h/t HotAir) on October 12, 2010 (emphasis mine):During our hour together, Obama told me he had no regrets about the broad direction of his presidency. But he did identify what he called “tactical lessons.” He...

Not Too Early For “I Told You So”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2009 3 Comments

The day before the presidential election, when Barack Obama's victory seemed all but certain, I predicted that I would be able to say "I told you so" about what lay ahead:When this bubble bursts, I will be able to say "I told you so." Unfortunately,...

The Fierce Urgency of Sow

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2009 1 Comment

We are witnessing the disrobing of the Obama aura in a spending-drenched feeding frenzy befitting hungry pigs at a wet, putrid trough. The fierce urgency of now has become the fierce urgency of sow.Camille Paglia sums up these first three weeks of the Obama era:Money...

Domestic Oil Drilling Still Is The Answer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2009 5 Comments

Dramatic increases in domestic drilling were offered as the answer to many of our economic problems last summer when gas was approaching $4 per gallon. Even Democrats were forced to recognize the need to open up some offshore drilling, and pressure was building to drill...

If Obama Builds It, Who Will Maintain It?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2009 0 Comments

Barack Obama is about to propose a massive, trillion dollar stimulus package, the centerpiece of which is infrastructure projects. Large-scale infrastructure projects have a long history of cost-overruns, mob-influence through corrupt unions, and are not effective at long-term job creation.But that is not the worst...

Another Example Of Why Obama’s Infrastructure Plan Is A Waste

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2009 0 Comments

My home state of Rhode Island has been asleep at the wheel when it comes to grabing proposed federal instrastructure stimulus dollars. Although it has been known for weeks if not months that Barack Obama was ready to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at...

Rudy Blagojevich For Infrastructure Czar

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2008 5 Comments

Illinois Governor Rudy Blagojevich has been indicted [correction 12/14/2008 - charged in a criminal complaint] for many offenses. While the press has focused on the attempt to sell Barack Obama's open Senate seat, there is a more important aspect of the indictment as relates to...

Tony Soprano Is Going To Love Obama’s Infrastructure Stimulus Plan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2008 1 Comment

The stimulus plan proposed by Barack Obama focuses on public infrastructure projects, which have a long history of cost overruns, corruption, and construction incompetence. Public infrastructure construction and maintenance is important, it's just not an efficient use of funds if a quick economic stimulus is...

Obama’s Infrastructure Plan Is A Road To Nowhere

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2008 3 Comments

In his weekly radio address today, Barack Obama repeated his intention to stimulate the economy and "create" jobs through a massive public infrastructure program. As we have noted before, "[o]f all the concepts to help build the economy, Barack Obama has seized on the one...

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