gipper
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You must stop believing the two parties oppose each other and that they are different. They don’t oppose each other and are very much alike. Just as O was like W, Joe is like Don.Gipper,One would think the $30 trillion added to the national debt the past 20 years, some would have been spent on infrastructure. Yet another example we live in a failed state.The GOP was given the opportunity to address the nation's infrastructure needs. That would give Biden a victory though so we can't have that.President Biden abandoned bipartisan infrastructure talks with Senate Republicans on Tuesday over the party’s unwillingness to compromise on raising taxes.
The White House said Mr. Biden decided to jettison talks because Republicans were not ready to “meet the essential needs of our country to restore our roads and bridges, prepare us for our clean energy future, and create jobs.”
Essential needs? What the hell, if these loon want to redefine "infrastructure", why no redefine "essential" too.
Biden abandons infrastructure talks after Senate GOP refuses to back tax hikes
The disappointing thing from me, a Biden supporter, is that they just didn't take the $1T or so that the GOP was apparently on board with spending and pass it like the moment after they offered it. Then come back and ram through whatever wasn't addressed by the GOP measure.
If it really is a crisis...you don't play politics like the GOP has done. Its one of the reasons I will never be a democrat.
Keep in mind over that same period of time China built an enormous high speed rail system that crisscrosses the country.
You can't blame Democrats for that... GOP have stopped any infrastructure spending... They preferred wars costing trillions in a shithole in the ME...
Not saying Democrats are perfect but the GOP are toxic... The contrast in Europe is pretty amazing... There is very little talk about abortion, church, guns,.....
Big issues are Healthcare, Education, Infrastructure... It is expected Government needs money to give out services, we expect them to spend wisely..
If a politician stood up and say Government doesn't work, we say you are the wrong guy to put in charge of it then...
Politicians should be boring, they are not entertainers.. You don't a surgeon operating on your child to cracking jokes and doing a dance routine, you want him to do his job...
Actually one of the things Trump did was to not report (e.g. civilian causalities from drones), rig or denigrate(unemployment, voting...) the metrics which we judge leadership performance... I am not saying politicians didn't do a bit of it before but it was taken to a different level...
The MSM makes a big deal about the minor differences to keep the wingers duped, but nothing fundamentally changes. The rich get richer and more powerful.