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C- feels generous.
The exact words that came to my mind, too.
I’m surprised anything to do with Biden and his handlers would give a Trump-voting state anything above an “F”.
Well unlike Trump, Biden actually considers all Americans to be his constituents. You shouldn’t be surprised. That’s how most Presidents are.
And yet…….. there it is, Bob P. Not that either of us have the first clue what each state deserves, but it would appear at first glance that Uncle Joe isn’t playing favorites.
If you look at the detailed breakdown of Biden’s plan, only 6% of the total dollars are allocated towards highways, bridges and streets. To the public, however, they continue to mainly sell the plan on the basis of our roads and bridges when the vast majority of the dollars go elsewhere. This borders on dishonesty.
That’s because they have expanded the definition of “infrastructure” to include the ridiculous. It’s a typical bill laden with handouts disguised as “infrastructure”. It’s shame because this is actually one area they could have achieved bipartisan support, but not the way it reads now. They’ll have to ram it through like the last one.
Perhaps you are referring to the illiterate, non-tv watching public? That is a small group, and it has nothing with the administration allegedly being dishonest. The administration has been extremely transparent that the bill includes large allocations for senior caregivers, childcare, broadband internet, etc. Highways and bridges are pretty useless if workers don’t have access to senior or childcare for household members. Also, in the 21st century, high speed internet service is as essential as having telephone service for business.
I don’t think anyone would argue that broadband is not infrastructure. Certainly technology highways are as important as the ones we drive on, but as you mention, the senior care, childcare and some vet stuff is not infrastructure. We should just call it an all-the above-bill. It is dishonest to pass it off as something that’s it’s not. What will we have next, a healthcare bill that gives money to green energy because it affects your health. Just sick of the misleading wording pandering to the lowest level of intelligence. Do people only read the headlines anymore?
Mississippi devotes 87.7% of their time on commuting? So 12.3% on work , sleep, eat, either an idiot wrote it or just Pete making it up as he goes.
If we removed Indianapolis and South Bend from the grading would we get an A-? My roads and bridges are being well maintained, not potholes refilled 10 times, and the snow gets cleared in the winter.
I frequently travel around the state for work. I can tell you that Indianapolis and South Bend are not the only cities with road issues. I have driven the entire state South to North as well as East to West during snowstorms, and roads were definitely not smooth and clear.
Including over a trillion dollars of non-infrastructure expenditures in a bill called an infrastructure bill is not transparent. Some of these other expenditures may be worthwhile but they should stand on their own merit in separate bills.
Utah had the highest grade of C+ so Indiana’s C- grade is actually quite good versus other states. And we really need some clarity on what facilities are being graded. In Indiana, the interstate highways are generally well-funded while that’s not the case for city streets and county roads.