QOTD: Chuck Schumer
by digby
On Trump’s infrastructure “proposal”:
“The entire focus of the President’s infrastructure ‘proposal’ is on privatization, which sounds like a nice word but when you scratch beneath the surface it means much less construction and far fewer jobs, particularly in rural areas. It means Trump tolls from one end of America to the other, and huge profits for financiers who, when they put up the money want to be repaid by the average driver, worker and citizen.”
He was being nice. It’s a boondoggle of epic proportions virtually designed to line the pockets of big business, provide shoddy, environmentally disastrous projects that end up costing every one of us many times what it would have cost the government to do it right in the first place.
Schumer signaled that this will not be the bipartisan bill all these GOPers wanted. Thank goodness. Let them own the piece of garbage.
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