Biden's 3 trillion infrastructure plan
- Thread starter Cuddles
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Here it comes in earnest.
With the debt ceiling comes a continuing resolution and the chance for the so-called human infrastructure package Dems have been pushing all to bundled up in a larger reconciliation package. This is the kick off, make no mistake. If the debt ceiling gets raised and the package with it you might as well spend your time kicking rocks because this will be over.
The starting block is $3.5 trillion over ten years and that could be halved by reducing it to 5 years.
I have no doubt democrats will have to scale down. It’s just too politically dubious to move something that big now. But this is also a fight they want to have in public.
At issue:
Child tax credits
Pre school and childcare
Medicare expansion of benefits
No cost community college
Federal paid leave for birth of child/family illness
Among others.
In two weeks we will be fully in the thick of it.
With the debt ceiling comes a continuing resolution and the chance for the so-called human infrastructure package Dems have been pushing all to bundled up in a larger reconciliation package. This is the kick off, make no mistake. If the debt ceiling gets raised and the package with it you might as well spend your time kicking rocks because this will be over.
The starting block is $3.5 trillion over ten years and that could be halved by reducing it to 5 years.
I have no doubt democrats will have to scale down. It’s just too politically dubious to move something that big now. But this is also a fight they want to have in public.
At issue:
Child tax credits
Pre school and childcare
Medicare expansion of benefits
No cost community college
Federal paid leave for birth of child/family illness
Among others.
In two weeks we will be fully in the thick of it.
We can afford to spend an average $300 million per day, for twenty years in, e.g., AFG, but we can't afford $3.5 trillion over ten years?
Haven't you heard we need that money for war with China and Iran? Going to have to double that Afghanistan spending. Because if it’s a choice between kids and war, you know we’re just going to choose war every time! “The price of freedom”
Does that 300 million a day include soldiers salaries, room and board, training, troop exercises?
That would be an expense needed to be paid regardless
If we're not dicking around in AFG do we need the personnel in AFG?
No, they would be at different bases, like Europe Asia or the States....still on the payroll
Well then we still have a problem with spending on the military (and the generals' judgement), don't we?
Don’t you know that these guys know more than the generals. Just put captain fucktard in charge and fire all of the generals and all of our problems will be solved.