Congressman Geoff Davis writes about improving America’s infrastructure in his weekly column:
Last week, President Obama visited the greater Northern Kentucky area to rally support for his bill, the American Jobs Act. The President claims his bill will get Americans back to work in part by funding critical infrastructure needs.
The President used the Brent Spence Bridge as the backdrop for his speech. This functionally obsolete corridor between Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati is also a major commercial artery connecting the Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico. It is out of date and over-capacity and must be replaced for our economy and our safety. Unfortunately, nothing in the President’s proposed legislation necessarily helps us to build a new bridge.
According to Transportation Weekly, under the President’s plan, Kentucky would receive $422 million for highway spending and Ohio would receive $900 million. Even if both States dedicated all of their funds to this one project, this is far short of the estimated $2.3 billion price to complete the project.
What sticks out at us is his bogus claim:
Duplicative and burdensome regulations are another factor holding back both infrastructure improvement and job creation.
Because the facts show regulation does not hinder job creation. That’s a mouth-breather talking point.
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7 responses so far ↓
1 E // Sep 30, 2011 at 11:09 am
Here’s a thought…
Rather than giving programs all sorts of fancy names, declaring a crisis every other week, and making everything a partisan pissing match …how about, with minimal fanfare, we just commit to maintaining, repairing, and upgrading our infrastructure, just because it’s what sensible responsible governments and citizens do?
2 Fred Davis // Sep 30, 2011 at 12:33 pm
It’s pretty simple, E. They waste the tax dollars that are supposed to go for maintainance mostly by spending them on other things. Then they overspend on the projects themselves. So they need to whip up a panic to get more money.
3 Fred Davis // Sep 30, 2011 at 12:36 pm
And Jacob definitely breathes through his nose when he types nonsense about regulation and its impact on jobs and the economy.
4 jake // Sep 30, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Riiiight. Because I haven’t linked article after article that back me up.
Know what the fuck you’re talking about before commenting, folks, especially if it’s mouth-breathing spin.
5 Fred Davis // Sep 30, 2011 at 12:53 pm
A left-winger quoting other left-wingers and their studies? Yeah, excuse me for not being very impressed by that.
6 jake // Sep 30, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Of course everything non-mouth-breathers produce is rubbish.
Like suggesting there’s no hole in the ozone layer. Complaining that sexual orientation is a choice. That all labor unions are 100% bad.
Either gouge your eyes out now or deal with it: not everyone is a goddamn Republican. And your spin is not welcome.
7 E // Sep 30, 2011 at 1:04 pm
The issue of infrastructure maintenance is hardly new. The waste you speak of is probably real, but so is the utter failure to prioritize infrastructure maintenance and upgrades.
It’s far from being a single party failure…as the repubs completely controlled DC for the better part of a decade and did nothing while the infrastructure degraded.
Both repubs and dems have failed miserably over the last few decades with regard to infrastructure. The ultimate shame being…this is the ONE thing they should have been able to agree on.
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