Sen. Sanders will introduce a $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill in the coming weeks.
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[QUOTE]Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Saturday that he plans to introduce legislation in the next Congress that will increase infrastructure spending to fix America's roads and bridges.
The announcement is likely to only fuel speculation that Sanders is considering a Democratic run for president in 2016, despite trailing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others in early polling.
Sanders said his plan would authorize a $1 trillion, multi-year program to rebuild crumbling roads and bridges while investing in other infrastructure modernization projects. The independent senator, who will be the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee in the new Congress, said his proposal would also put 13 million Americans to work.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/228413-sanders-increase-infrastructure-spending[/url]
13 million jobs is a big promise..
I hope it's delivered of this comes to fruition.
I can't wait until partisan bias and conflicts get in the way and mutilate all chances of progress with this initiative.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;46854044]I can't wait until partisan bias and conflicts get in the way and mutilate all chances of progress with this initiative.[/QUOTE]
Hopefully not. Infrastructure has been something both parties have always been able to agree on.
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;46854128]Hopefully not. Infrastructure has been something both parties have always been able to agree on.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't be surprised if the GoP shoot it down for the sole reason it was proposed by a Democrat, and then propose the exact same thing themselves.
Just wait for the riders to be attached to it.
With this much money, they could hide two SOPAs and another Patriot act under the hood!
[QUOTE=Riller;46854142]I wouldn't be surprised if the GoP shoot it down for the sole reason it was proposed by a Democrat, and then propose the exact same thing themselves.[/QUOTE]
He's an independent socialist
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;46854152]He's an independent socialist[/QUOTE]
He's affiliated with the democrats and counted as a democrat for committee purposes. He also might run for president as a democrat.
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;46854152]He's an independent socialist[/QUOTE]
That only makes it worse! You know who also maintained a couple roads? [I]Stalin![/I]
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;46854171]He's affiliated with the democrats and counted as a democrat for committee purposes. He also might run for president as a democrat.[/QUOTE]
Because thats the only way he'd win in our political system
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[QUOTE=Riller;46854174]That only makes it worse! You know who also maintained a couple roads? [I]Stalin![/I][/QUOTE]
Fox will go crazy
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;46854185]Because thats the only way he'd win in our political system
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Fox will go crazy[/QUOTE]
So he's counted as a democrat, would you have preferred if Riller said "not Republican?"
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;46854185]Because thats the only way he'd win in our political system[/QUOTE]
Which still means he's affiliated.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;46854192]So he's counted as a democrat, would you have preferred if Riller said "not Republican?"[/QUOTE]
I would have preferred independent. Because hes neither.
Sure he's counted as one, for committee reasons, but is he one? No
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;46854214]I would have preferred independent. Because hes neither.
Sure he's counted as one, for committee reasons, but is he one? No[/QUOTE]
Well, kiddo, way I sees it, all lib'als are soucialists, so 's all the same thing ta'me.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;46854044]I can't wait until partisan bias and conflicts get in the way and mutilate all chances of progress with this initiative.[/QUOTE]
Then it will be cut down and just be a trillion dollars given to sports teams to build stadiums they can't pay for.
We really need this. It's not okay to get a D+ rating from the ASCE because of infrastructure is dated and poorly managed.
[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/us-infrastructure-gets-d-in-annual-report/2013/03/19/c48cb010-900b-11e2-9cfd-36d6c9b5d7ad_story.html]Washington post write up[/url]
Oh my god a politician wanting to do something sensible for once
Build a bullet train, thanks
I feel like a trillion dollars for infrastructure would have been much more effective than all the other trillion dollar general stimuluses we've tried.
[QUOTE=Tone Float;46855441]I feel like a trillion dollars for infrastructure would have been much more effective than all the other trillion dollar general stimuluses we've tried.[/QUOTE]
Or the trillion-dollar wars.
We really only did ONE proper economic stimulus, and it wasn't a trillion dollars.
I have a friend that is a state rep and he tells me that a lot of bridges in Minnesota are just waiting to be a repeat of the 35W bridge collapse because of the dire state of disrepair they are in.
It isnt' just roads and bridges either, our powergrid is in a piss poor state too
Wait a minute here. I see people often complain about US infrastructure. If you are not spending money on universal health care, free education and infrastructure then where the hell does all the money go to ? And on top of that the US is 20 trillion dollars in debt. Seriously ?
[QUOTE=AntonioR;46855635]Wait a minute here. I see people often complain about US infrastructure. If you are not spending money on universal health care, free education and infrastructure then where the hell does all the money go to ? And on top of that the US is 20 trillion dollars in debt. Seriously ?[/QUOTE]
Wars and tax cuts for rich people.
[QUOTE=AntonioR;46855635]Wait a minute here. I see people often complain about US infrastructure. If you are not spending money on universal health care, free education and infrastructure then where the hell does all the money go to ? And on top of that the US is 20 trillion dollars in debt. Seriously ?[/QUOTE]
too busy spending it on wars and outdated and bloated social services that nobody will bother to fix
[QUOTE=AntonioR;46855635]Wait a minute here. I see people often complain about US infrastructure. If you are not spending money on universal health care, free education and infrastructure then where the hell does all the money go to ? And on top of that the US is 20 trillion dollars in debt. Seriously ?[/QUOTE]
The federal government income appears to be a lot less than I would expect but I don't really know what to think of it.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget]Here is wiki for it, there are two pie charts here[/url]
Despite the URL saying 2011, this pic claims to be the spending budget for the US in 2013.
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2011.png[/t]
Here is the UK 2009-10 for comparrison
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/UKExpenditure.svg/596px-UKExpenditure.svg.png[/t]
Course the numbers will be hugely different, the proportions are what you really want to look like. Even then, they will be off as things like infrastructure are affected massively by population density. Maintaining a highway through the middle of nowhere is still expensive. Staggering inefficiency in parts too, I suppose, I'll freely admit I know jack shit.
too busy on spending it on quantitative cheesing (read: big fuckin joke wow)
Oooh, nice. While our infrastructure, and in particular our road network, is second to none, it's also 40, 50, 60 years old. It desperately needs funding for maintenance and repairs.
I'd love to see what a trillion dollar infrastructure bill can do for my area. This probably won't ever pass but it still has me excited.
We have potholes that need patched up, roads that need widening, and freeway interchanges that need extended.
[QUOTE=Riller;46854142]I wouldn't be surprised if the GoP shoot it down for the sole reason it was proposed by a Democrat, and then propose the exact same thing themselves.[/QUOTE]
That's too much work, they'll shoot it down because he is a socialist, then proceed to talk about how much better a republican infrastructure bill would have been but they won't ever take the time even to write one
Look at the non-existent republican healthcare alternative, they talk and talk about it but no bill to replace theACA has ever manifested
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[QUOTE=AntonioR;46855635]Wait a minute here. I see people often complain about US infrastructure. If you are not spending money on universal health care, free education and infrastructure then where the hell does all the money go to ? And on top of that the US is 20 trillion dollars in debt. Seriously ?[/QUOTE]
You have to remember the shear difference in scale here, a highway in Ohio is longer than any highway in Britain yet it has to be maintained by a much smaller fraction of tax payers
hopefully the republicans will be happy since it fills their quota on every bill
"does it make jobs?"
ahah who am i kidding they're gonna shoot it down because it was a bill by a democrat
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