There are 98 Congress persons (“men” and “women” labels may upset them) and right now they are my favorite politicians. Why? They contend that the ill-named infrastructure bill ($1,900,000,000,000) will not go forward unless the $3,500,000,000,000 “turn the country into Venezuela” bill also goes forward. THANK YOU!!!!
Please do not pass either of these bills containing enormous wasted spending of limited resource dollars. You are the only thing standing in the way of sending our country into permanent debtor nation status and relegating us to just another country whose citizens couldn’t keep their freedom. Their “all or nothing” approach helps our country more now than any effort to “compromise”.
Compromise led us to think infrastructure includes money for salmon recovery, requirements that states enforce open container laws and a provision allowing states to use some of their funding for recreational trails. There is also money for research on “wildlife crossing safety” and money for a “healthy streets” program to expand tree cover to mitigate urban heat. There is even a line in the bill encouraging more food and beverage services on Amtrak routes, even if revenue does not break even. Break-even is not even in the government’s vocabulary.
So, I say, you go Progressive Caucus! Hold out for everything you want. It may take a while but perhaps by then more Americans will wake up to the concerted effort to change our country from a republic to a totalitarian state lead by a single power-hungry group.
Current Day Publius 