Another Joke

"If you want it badly, you're going to get it.  And if you don't want it, that's OK with me too."

"If for any reason they don't want to support it, hey, that's going to be up to them."

"The states will have to do it themselves if we don't."

What is this "it" inspiring so little enthusiasm in the speaker?  The much-ballyhooed, long-awaited Trump Infrastructure Plan, and the ambivalent speaker was the fake president himself, addressing a group of state and local officials.  His vapid message to them:  "Suck it, states!  Fix your own friggin' bridges."

All credible, realistic assessments indicate we need a $5 trillion investment to bring our nation's infrastructure up to speed.  Yet Trump proposes a $1.5 trillion program, with $1.3 trillion of it coming from private investors.  (How's that gonna work?  Private industry won't invest a dime unless it can make money.  Aha!  Toll roads, toll bridges, toll everything.)  The feds would invest just $200 billion in new spending, then offset that with a $240 billion cut in existing infrastructure programs.  So, basically nothing.

We need a grand WPA-style national works project to modernize and bring more jobs.  Instead, we get a Popular Mechanics do-it-yourself project.

It's a joke -- another bad one.