The pork-laden “infrastructure” bill has been unveiled, and it’s a monster. Some 2702 pages long, H. R. 3684 seems geared to shovel as much money into various branches of the federal bureaucracy as quickly as possible with as little oversight as possible.
The table of contents alone is some 17 pages long. And the usual crappy government PDF practices seem at work here. Looking for “high speed rail”? That search brings up nothing, but if you search for “high speed” with two spaces “high” and “speed,” you get one mention on page 2331. “Rail” appears 322 times (because Democrats obviously love subsidizing choo-choos).
Some random gleamings:
Some random minutia that somehow is found in a giant federal spending bill:
There’s a “Carbon Reduction Program” (starting page 328) because of course there is.
There’s a lot of sections on “Cybersecurity” (194 matches), some of which might be a good idea in a separate cybersecurity bill, but is probably misplaced in an infrastructure bill. (The overwhelming problem is properly securing the technological infrastructure we already have. Buying new servers isn’t going to prevent the Tony Podestras of the world from using PASSWORD as their password…)
All this only scratches the surface of a bill week-kneed Republicans are telling us is acceptable only because it doesn’t have every leftwing wishlist item the $3.5 trillion “infrastructure” bill does. I haven’t even remotely read all of this bill, and I’m not sure anyone has. That’s reason alone to urge Republicans to reject this monster.
Maybe we could crowdsource reading the text of the bill, and weigh in on the individual sections…
Tags: Budget, Democrats, infrastructure, pork barrel
the federal reserve note (dollar) is a fiat debt currency ponzi scheme. if the government doesn’t spend more money each year then the ponzi collapses.
Check out the federal tax on every mile you drive “pilot program” starting on page 508 of the text.
Don’t forget:
– the eventual amnesty for illegals,
– the start of the mileage tax,
– to ask what portions of the bill will be added to the budget baseline, thereby becoming annual expenditures in perpetuity. (The 2009 “stimulus” orgy of spending was added in its entirety to the baseline.)
“Buying new servers isn’t going to prevent the Tony Podestras of the world from using PASSWORD as their password”
True. But proper 2- or 3-factor authentication would help a LOT. Use a token (smart card or other) in combination with a 6 or 8 character PIN prevents a lot of stupidity.
If you can get 27 people to go over about 100 pages or so, crowdsourcing might work. Would also need to have a lawyer or three on call for questions.
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The article is stating that most of the taxpayer $$$ is being redisrupted to other entities instead of the original intent. Some are good, but the rest is nothing pure garbage. If this whole was handled by an ordinary citizen, they would tall all the pork, and could probably for a lot less. Take a look at how Pres Trump let companies be in charge of vaccines and distributions, rather than letting the gov’t run it.
Two things to remember, Washington DC is the most corrupt city in the world and we no longer have a constitutional republic, we have a political monarchy. Just look at the slick names they put on these bills to make us believe they care about us, what a joke. Then listen to what they say, but more importantly listen to how they say it. This infrastructure bill is a joke, just like our elected royalty. Right now our current US debt is 28.43 trillion dollars, in the last 12 months these buffoons have added 1.92 trillion in unnecessary spending. The republicants will give the needed votes to this disaster of a bill and the sheeple will quietly graze away hoping big government will sustain them for a few more months. We all talk about change, but what will the sheeple do about it. Over the last 18 months they have blindly followed what ever edict our elected royalty deemed necessary for us to survive on. Good luck with the changes against this entrenched bureaucracy
You should never approve a bill you haven’t read entirely, not ever.That’s not what those who voted our representatives into office expect. Read the entire bill and debate its contents. Get rid of the pork and anything that is not acceptable. Do your job! Don’t let the Democrats bully you.
There are so many American taxpayers who, like me, have no access to to the trash in this bill. Can you publish it on facebook for all to see, please. I read this on Governor Huckabee’s newsletter and I tried to repost it but as I am computer illiterate, I was unable. Thank you for this so important information.
Just copy and paste this link in Facebook: https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/e/a/ea1eb2e4-56bd-45f1-a260-9d6ee951bc96/F8A7C77D69BE09151F210EB4DFE872CD.edw21a09.pdf