No one is arguing that our infustructure could use some repair but the $2.2 trillion Biden infulstructure package only alliocates 5-7% of those funds to actual infulstructure. The rest just looks like the Democrats’ wishlist and cashcow projects. The WHite House touted 19 million new jobs but that’s including almost 18 million jobs that were already projected to begin in that same time frame. So, that’s just another lie.
Once the details of Biden’s package were out, the mainstream media jumped into action. Rushing to defend the bill and to twist the actually meaning of ‘infulstructure’ to fit Biden’s agenda, ‘infrastructure as it applies in a government setting. During his Saturday show, Ali Velshi attempted to show that the dictionary is on Biden’s side. He put up a graphic on the screen that defined infrastructure, saying, “Oxford says ‘it is the basic systems and services that are necessary for a country or an organization to run smoothly…'”
According to MSNBC, Biden deserves credit for rewriting the meaning of the word, “infrastructure,” to pay for Democrats’ pet projects.
During his Saturday show, Ali Velshi attempted to show that the dictionary is on Biden’s side. He put up a graphic on screen that defined infrastructure, saying, “Oxford says ‘it is the basic systems and services that are necessary for a country or an organization to run smoothly…'”
Velshi added, “Under that definition it can be a lot of things. What we have here is the issue of is Biden redefining infrastructure for the 21st century or, as Republicans say, is he is sticking a lot of Democratic priorities into something and calling it an infrastructure bill?”
Guest, The New Yorker‘s Sheelah Kolhatkar, claimed that “Like everything in Washington right now, your definition of infrastructure seems to be based on your political affiliation. So, of course, yeah, it includes all of these very traditional things, roads, bridges, railroads, parks, airports, improving Amtrak, but I think one thing that the Biden Administration deserves applause for is that they’ve looked at how this pandemic affected people’s ability to do their jobs and they recognized the fact that having child care or elder care gaps in your life ultimately may lead you not to be able to work outside your house.”
Kolhartkar admits that the redefining is abnormal in terms of how the law sees it but holds firm that Biden is right, “So, yes, they are moving some things that might not have been very strictly traditional types of infrastructure into their definition, but it is very much a response to what we have just seen where we have just witnessed a huge percentage of women dropping out of the workforce because they had to stay home with their kids. So, by expanding child care centers, improving public schools, improving elder care, those are going to have direct economic benefits for families. So in that regard, I certainly would include them as critical infrastructure.”
In short, rather than work a safe plan to reopen schools, Democrats are taking the oppurtunity to squeeze this pandemic for all it’s worth. Leaving out childrens, children, in dept for life.