No kidding.
Another 4 years of this liberal crap?
We will never survive.

'Build Back Better Built Nothing'

<https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4254982/posts>

<https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/07/29/build-back-better-built-nothing-n3792418>

'One of the Biden/Harris administration's signature programs is marketed
as 'Build Back Better," but there is a slight problem: it has built
basically nothing despite spending billions of dollars.

It's the policy equivalent of burning a stack of $100 bills a mile high.
Except, to a certain extent, it isn't. What they are doing is
transferring those billions to leftist activist groups whose main job is
making our lives miserable.

'As part of the first tranche of Clean School Bus program funding two
years ago, Harris and EPA administrator Michael Regan unleashed nearly
$1 billion in federal rebates for 389 school districts across all 50
states to help deliver a total 2,463 electric school buses. According to
federal data reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, just 27 of those
districts have proven to the EPA that their buses were delivered and
that their diesel-fueled buses being replaced have been discarded.

Collectively, those districts have deployed a total of 60
battery-electric or low-emissions propane-fueled school buses. And 55
additional districts have pulled out of the program, according to other
federal data shared with the Free Beacon, citing a variety of
technological and infrastructure concerns. In other words: More school
districts have withdrawn from the program than proven that they have
completed it.

"EPA anticipates that transitioning to new technology school buses will
take time, which is why the project period is two years with an option
to extend where needed and justified," said EPA spokeswoman Shayla
Powell.

All those school districts that pulled out did so for a reason: electric
school buses are a terrible idea.

Now if you think that this program was intended to actually get electric
school buses into he hands of bus drivers, this looks like a massive
policy fail. But of course it isn't that at all. It is about dispersing
massive amounts of money into the various hands of Biden friends and
supporters.

The school buses are the excuse, not the point.

The same can be said of the vast numbers of EV charging stations:

WATCH: CBS’s Margaret Brennan laughs in Pete Buttigieg’s face when he is
unable to explain why only 7 or 8 electric vehicle charging stations
have been built despite the Biden admin spending $7.5 BILLION to build
chargers. pic.twitter.com/BmFK17Dk5O— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 26,
2024

So for $7.5 billion, the taxpayers have gotten 7 or 8 charging
stations--which, given how bad non-Tesla charging stations are, are
likely trash. I looked it up and Tesla has over 50,000 superchargers out
there. Private company vs. government, and if you think this is all due
to inefficiency, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I want to sell to you.
Somebody is getting beaucoup bucks from all this.

Now let's look at rural internet investments:

NEW: Hundreds of broadband infrastructure builders are now sounding the
alarm, writing that the $42 billion plan to expand Internet has been
wired to fail.

President Biden put VP Harris in charge of this effort back in 2021 and
9??8??2?? days later not 1 person has been connected.

The Biden Administration poured over $40 billion into a program that was
"intended" to subsidize rural connectivity, and has connected precisely
ZERO homes to the internet.

ZERO. Not one.

Originally Starlink was slated to participate in the program for obvious
reasons: you don't have to string fiber optic cables to the middle of
nowhere, which costs outrageous amounts of money. A small satellite
receiver can deliver high-speed internet to almost everybody in rural
areas at minimal cost.

In 2021, @VP Harris agreed to lead the Administration’s signature effort
to expand Internet infrastructure. Congress then provided $42 billion
for the work.

It’s now been 9??8??7?? days since the plan was enacted &

0?? Americans have been connected

0?? Shovels worth of dirt turned

But the administration HATES Elon Musk, so they excluded Starlink from
the program, and the result is that nobody is helped. And why not?
Helping people was never the point. Getting the money and distributing
it to favored groups IS the point. Any connections are a happy
byproduct, and even that hasn't happened yet.

It's a scam, as everything is these days. There is an America that
works, and the Democrats and the Left see productive Americans as marks,
taking their resources and giving them to politically powerful or useful
people and groups. You see the same thing with the homeless industrial
complex, where tens of thousands of dollars are poured into a
bureaucracy that keeps people drugged and homeless.

The money goes to the groups that pretend to help the homeless. I call
it farming the homeless.

Government has become the most powerful tool in the toolbox for the
left. Using its coercive power, it steals from the rich and gives to the
richer and more powerful and politically useful groups. People go along
because they simply don't know it is happening or care. Liberal voters
are concentrated in urban areas, so rural internet doesn't mean anything
to them anyway.

Any time a liberal tells you they are doing some nice and compassionate
thing, look to where the money is really going. You can tell it never
accomplishes anything because the problems are never solved, so it's
obvious that fixing the problem was never the goal in the first place.

As with everything else, it is a hoax.

'

There are many examples to choose from, and the Washington Free Beacon
has yet another featured today.

REPORT: Kamala Harris Touted a $5B Electric School Bus Program. Three
Years Later, It's Produced Just 60 Buses.

Back of the napkin math: That’s $83 MILLION per bus.'

On 2024-07-29, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> No kidding.
> Another 4 years of this liberal crap?
> We will never survive.
>
>
> 'Build Back Better Built Nothing'
>
><https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4254982/posts>
>
><https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/07/29/build-back-better-built-nothing-n3792418>
>
>
>
> 'One of the Biden/Harris administration's signature programs is marketed
> as 'Build Back Better," but there is a slight problem: it has built
> basically nothing despite spending billions of dollars.
>
> It's the policy equivalent of burning a stack of $100 bills a mile high.
> Except, to a certain extent, it isn't. What they are doing is
> transferring those billions to leftist activist groups whose main job is
> making our lives miserable.
>
>
> 'As part of the first tranche of Clean School Bus program funding two
> years ago, Harris and EPA administrator Michael Regan unleashed nearly
> $1 billion in federal rebates for 389 school districts across all 50
> states to help deliver a total 2,463 electric school buses. According to
> federal data reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, just 27 of those
> districts have proven to the EPA that their buses were delivered and
> that their diesel-fueled buses being replaced have been discarded.
>
> Collectively, those districts have deployed a total of 60
> battery-electric or low-emissions propane-fueled school buses. And 55
> additional districts have pulled out of the program, according to other
> federal data shared with the Free Beacon, citing a variety of
> technological and infrastructure concerns. In other words: More school
> districts have withdrawn from the program than proven that they have
> completed it.
>
> "EPA anticipates that transitioning to new technology school buses will
> take time, which is why the project period is two years with an option
> to extend where needed and justified," said EPA spokeswoman Shayla
> Powell.
>
> All those school districts that pulled out did so for a reason: electric
> school buses are a terrible idea.
>
> Now if you think that this program was intended to actually get electric
> school buses into he hands of bus drivers, this looks like a massive
> policy fail. But of course it isn't that at all. It is about dispersing
> massive amounts of money into the various hands of Biden friends and
> supporters.
>
> The school buses are the excuse, not the point.
>
> The same can be said of the vast numbers of EV charging stations:
>
> WATCH: CBS’s Margaret Brennan laughs in Pete Buttigieg’s face when he is
> unable to explain why only 7 or 8 electric vehicle charging stations
> have been built despite the Biden admin spending $7.5 BILLION to build
> chargers. pic.twitter.com/BmFK17Dk5O— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 26,
> 2024
>
> So for $7.5 billion, the taxpayers have gotten 7 or 8 charging
> stations--which, given how bad non-Tesla charging stations are, are
> likely trash. I looked it up and Tesla has over 50,000 superchargers out
> there. Private company vs. government, and if you think this is all due
> to inefficiency, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I want to sell to you.
> Somebody is getting beaucoup bucks from all this.
>
> Now let's look at rural internet investments:
>
> NEW: Hundreds of broadband infrastructure builders are now sounding the
> alarm, writing that the $42 billion plan to expand Internet has been
> wired to fail.
>
> President Biden put VP Harris in charge of this effort back in 2021 and
> 9??8??2?? days later not 1 person has been connected.
>
> The Biden Administration poured over $40 billion into a program that was
> "intended" to subsidize rural connectivity, and has connected precisely
> ZERO homes to the internet.
>
> ZERO. Not one.
>
> Originally Starlink was slated to participate in the program for obvious
> reasons: you don't have to string fiber optic cables to the middle of
> nowhere, which costs outrageous amounts of money. A small satellite
> receiver can deliver high-speed internet to almost everybody in rural
> areas at minimal cost.
>
> In 2021, @VP Harris agreed to lead the Administration’s signature effort
> to expand Internet infrastructure. Congress then provided $42 billion
> for the work.
>
> It’s now been 9??8??7?? days since the plan was enacted &
>
> 0?? Americans have been connected
>
> 0?? Shovels worth of dirt turned
>
>
> But the administration HATES Elon Musk, so they excluded Starlink from
> the program, and the result is that nobody is helped. And why not?
> Helping people was never the point. Getting the money and distributing
> it to favored groups IS the point. Any connections are a happy
> byproduct, and even that hasn't happened yet.
>
> It's a scam, as everything is these days. There is an America that
> works, and the Democrats and the Left see productive Americans as marks,
> taking their resources and giving them to politically powerful or useful
> people and groups. You see the same thing with the homeless industrial
> complex, where tens of thousands of dollars are poured into a
> bureaucracy that keeps people drugged and homeless.
>
> The money goes to the groups that pretend to help the homeless. I call
> it farming the homeless.
>
> Government has become the most powerful tool in the toolbox for the
> left. Using its coercive power, it steals from the rich and gives to the
> richer and more powerful and politically useful groups. People go along
> because they simply don't know it is happening or care. Liberal voters
> are concentrated in urban areas, so rural internet doesn't mean anything
> to them anyway.
>
> Any time a liberal tells you they are doing some nice and compassionate
> thing, look to where the money is really going. You can tell it never
> accomplishes anything because the problems are never solved, so it's
> obvious that fixing the problem was never the goal in the first place.
>
> As with everything else, it is a hoax.
>
> '
>
> There are many examples to choose from, and the Washington Free Beacon
> has yet another featured today.
>
> REPORT: Kamala Harris Touted a $5B Electric School Bus Program. Three
> Years Later, It's Produced Just 60 Buses.
>
> Back of the napkin math: That’s $83 MILLION per bus.'

This is how democrats ply their trade. They make all of these grandiose promises, waste billions if
not trillions of dollars on them, and after years of pouring your taxpayer money into bottomless
pit with little accomplished, they move on to the next boondoggle and the taxpayers are left with
the bill.

--
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pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
news:v8an58$11ggq$1@dont-email.me:

> On 2024-07-29, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> No kidding.
>> Another 4 years of this liberal crap?
>> We will never survive.
>>
>>
>> 'Build Back Better Built Nothing'
>>
>><https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4254982/posts>
>>
>><https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/07/29/build-back-better-built-noth
>>ing-n3792418>
>>
>>
>>
>> 'One of the Biden/Harris administration's signature programs is
>> marketed as 'Build Back Better," but there is a slight problem: it
>> has built basically nothing despite spending billions of dollars.
>>
>> It's the policy equivalent of burning a stack of $100 bills a mile
>> high. Except, to a certain extent, it isn't. What they are doing is
>> transferring those billions to leftist activist groups whose main job
>> is making our lives miserable.
>>
>>
>> 'As part of the first tranche of Clean School Bus program funding two
>> years ago, Harris and EPA administrator Michael Regan unleashed
>> nearly $1 billion in federal rebates for 389 school districts across
>> all 50 states to help deliver a total 2,463 electric school buses.
>> According to federal data reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon,
>> just 27 of those districts have proven to the EPA that their buses
>> were delivered and that their diesel-fueled buses being replaced have
>> been discarded.
>>
>> Collectively, those districts have deployed a total of 60
>> battery-electric or low-emissions propane-fueled school buses. And 55
>> additional districts have pulled out of the program, according to
>> other federal data shared with the Free Beacon, citing a variety of
>> technological and infrastructure concerns. In other words: More
>> school districts have withdrawn from the program than proven that
>> they have completed it.
>>
>> "EPA anticipates that transitioning to new technology school buses
>> will take time, which is why the project period is two years with an
>> option to extend where needed and justified," said EPA spokeswoman
>> Shayla Powell.
>>
>> All those school districts that pulled out did so for a reason:
>> electric school buses are a terrible idea.
>>
>> Now if you think that this program was intended to actually get
>> electric school buses into he hands of bus drivers, this looks like a
>> massive policy fail. But of course it isn't that at all. It is about
>> dispersing massive amounts of money into the various hands of Biden
>> friends and supporters.
>>
>> The school buses are the excuse, not the point.
>>
>> The same can be said of the vast numbers of EV charging stations:
>>
>> WATCH: CBS’s Margaret Brennan laughs in Pete Buttigieg’s face when
>> he is unable to explain why only 7 or 8 electric vehicle charging
>> stations have been built despite the Biden admin spending $7.5
>> BILLION to build chargers. pic.twitter.com/BmFK17Dk5O— Steve Guest
>> (@SteveGuest) May 26, 2024
>>
>> So for $7.5 billion, the taxpayers have gotten 7 or 8 charging
>> stations--which, given how bad non-Tesla charging stations are, are
>> likely trash. I looked it up and Tesla has over 50,000 superchargers
>> out there. Private company vs. government, and if you think this is
>> all due to inefficiency, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I want to
>> sell to you. Somebody is getting beaucoup bucks from all this.
>>
>> Now let's look at rural internet investments:
>>
>> NEW: Hundreds of broadband infrastructure builders are now sounding
>> the alarm, writing that the $42 billion plan to expand Internet has
>> been wired to fail.
>>
>> President Biden put VP Harris in charge of this effort back in 2021
>> and 9??8??2?? days later not 1 person has been connected.
>>
>> The Biden Administration poured over $40 billion into a program that
>> was "intended" to subsidize rural connectivity, and has connected
>> precisely ZERO homes to the internet.
>>
>> ZERO. Not one.
>>
>> Originally Starlink was slated to participate in the program for
>> obvious reasons: you don't have to string fiber optic cables to the
>> middle of nowhere, which costs outrageous amounts of money. A small
>> satellite receiver can deliver high-speed internet to almost
>> everybody in rural areas at minimal cost.
>>
>> In 2021, @VP Harris agreed to lead the Administration’s signature
>> effort to expand Internet infrastructure. Congress then provided $42
>> billion for the work.
>>
>> It’s now been 9??8??7?? days since the plan was enacted &
>>
>> 0?? Americans have been connected
>>
>> 0?? Shovels worth of dirt turned
>>
>>
>> But the administration HATES Elon Musk, so they excluded Starlink
>> from the program, and the result is that nobody is helped. And why
>> not? Helping people was never the point. Getting the money and
>> distributing it to favored groups IS the point. Any connections are a
>> happy byproduct, and even that hasn't happened yet.
>>
>> It's a scam, as everything is these days. There is an America that
>> works, and the Democrats and the Left see productive Americans as
>> marks, taking their resources and giving them to politically powerful
>> or useful people and groups. You see the same thing with the homeless
>> industrial complex, where tens of thousands of dollars are poured
>> into a bureaucracy that keeps people drugged and homeless.
>>
>> The money goes to the groups that pretend to help the homeless. I
>> call it farming the homeless.
>>
>> Government has become the most powerful tool in the toolbox for the
>> left. Using its coercive power, it steals from the rich and gives to
>> the richer and more powerful and politically useful groups. People go
>> along because they simply don't know it is happening or care. Liberal
>> voters are concentrated in urban areas, so rural internet doesn't
>> mean anything to them anyway.
>>
>> Any time a liberal tells you they are doing some nice and
>> compassionate thing, look to where the money is really going. You can
>> tell it never accomplishes anything because the problems are never
>> solved, so it's obvious that fixing the problem was never the goal in
>> the first place.
>>
>> As with everything else, it is a hoax.
>>
>> '
>>
>> There are many examples to choose from, and the Washington Free
>> Beacon has yet another featured today.
>>
>> REPORT: Kamala Harris Touted a $5B Electric School Bus Program. Three
>> Years Later, It's Produced Just 60 Buses.
>>
>> Back of the napkin math: That’s $83 MILLION per bus.'
>
> This is how democrats ply their trade. They make all of these
> grandiose promises, waste billions if not trillions of dollars on
> them, and after years of pouring your taxpayer money into bottomless
> pit with little accomplished,

Like the Trump wall?

Gusty winds blew over a portion of
President Trump's border wall
Jan 30 2020
https://tinyurl.com/3zw9e94a

Floods blow gates off Trump�s border wall
23 August 2021
https://tinyurl.com/dw7e9yh7

People are climbing over Trump's border
wall with $5 ladders, report says
Apr 22 2020
https://tinyurl.com/3ujn9bym

$11 Billion And Counting: Trump's Border
Wall Would Be The World's Most Costly
January 19, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/sbex6wj

pothead wrote:
> On 2024-07-29, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> No kidding.
>> Another 4 years of this liberal crap?
>> We will never survive.
>>
>>
>> 'Build Back Better Built Nothing'
>>
>> <https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4254982/posts>
>>
>> <https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/07/29/build-back-better-built-nothing-n3792418>
>>
>>
>>
>> 'One of the Biden/Harris administration's signature programs is marketed
>> as 'Build Back Better," but there is a slight problem: it has built
>> basically nothing despite spending billions of dollars.
>>
>> It's the policy equivalent of burning a stack of $100 bills a mile high.
>> Except, to a certain extent, it isn't. What they are doing is
>> transferring those billions to leftist activist groups whose main job is
>> making our lives miserable.
>>
>>
>> 'As part of the first tranche of Clean School Bus program funding two
>> years ago, Harris and EPA administrator Michael Regan unleashed nearly
>> $1 billion in federal rebates for 389 school districts across all 50
>> states to help deliver a total 2,463 electric school buses. According to
>> federal data reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, just 27 of those
>> districts have proven to the EPA that their buses were delivered and
>> that their diesel-fueled buses being replaced have been discarded.
>>
>> Collectively, those districts have deployed a total of 60
>> battery-electric or low-emissions propane-fueled school buses. And 55
>> additional districts have pulled out of the program, according to other
>> federal data shared with the Free Beacon, citing a variety of
>> technological and infrastructure concerns. In other words: More school
>> districts have withdrawn from the program than proven that they have
>> completed it.
>>
>> "EPA anticipates that transitioning to new technology school buses will
>> take time, which is why the project period is two years with an option
>> to extend where needed and justified," said EPA spokeswoman Shayla
>> Powell.
>>
>> All those school districts that pulled out did so for a reason: electric
>> school buses are a terrible idea.
>>
>> Now if you think that this program was intended to actually get electric
>> school buses into he hands of bus drivers, this looks like a massive
>> policy fail. But of course it isn't that at all. It is about dispersing
>> massive amounts of money into the various hands of Biden friends and
>> supporters.
>>
>> The school buses are the excuse, not the point.
>>
>> The same can be said of the vast numbers of EV charging stations:
>>
>> WATCH: CBS’s Margaret Brennan laughs in Pete Buttigieg’s face when he is
>> unable to explain why only 7 or 8 electric vehicle charging stations
>> have been built despite the Biden admin spending $7.5 BILLION to build
>> chargers. pic.twitter.com/BmFK17Dk5O— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 26,
>> 2024
>>
>> So for $7.5 billion, the taxpayers have gotten 7 or 8 charging
>> stations--which, given how bad non-Tesla charging stations are, are
>> likely trash. I looked it up and Tesla has over 50,000 superchargers out
>> there. Private company vs. government, and if you think this is all due
>> to inefficiency, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I want to sell to you.
>> Somebody is getting beaucoup bucks from all this.
>>
>> Now let's look at rural internet investments:
>>
>> NEW: Hundreds of broadband infrastructure builders are now sounding the
>> alarm, writing that the $42 billion plan to expand Internet has been
>> wired to fail.
>>
>> President Biden put VP Harris in charge of this effort back in 2021 and
>> 9??8??2?? days later not 1 person has been connected.
>>
>> The Biden Administration poured over $40 billion into a program that was
>> "intended" to subsidize rural connectivity, and has connected precisely
>> ZERO homes to the internet.
>>
>> ZERO. Not one.
>>
>> Originally Starlink was slated to participate in the program for obvious
>> reasons: you don't have to string fiber optic cables to the middle of
>> nowhere, which costs outrageous amounts of money. A small satellite
>> receiver can deliver high-speed internet to almost everybody in rural
>> areas at minimal cost.
>>
>> In 2021, @VP Harris agreed to lead the Administration’s signature effort
>> to expand Internet infrastructure. Congress then provided $42 billion
>> for the work.
>>
>> It’s now been 9??8??7?? days since the plan was enacted &
>>
>> 0?? Americans have been connected
>>
>> 0?? Shovels worth of dirt turned
>>
>>
>> But the administration HATES Elon Musk, so they excluded Starlink from
>> the program, and the result is that nobody is helped. And why not?
>> Helping people was never the point. Getting the money and distributing
>> it to favored groups IS the point. Any connections are a happy
>> byproduct, and even that hasn't happened yet.
>>
>> It's a scam, as everything is these days. There is an America that
>> works, and the Democrats and the Left see productive Americans as marks,
>> taking their resources and giving them to politically powerful or useful
>> people and groups. You see the same thing with the homeless industrial
>> complex, where tens of thousands of dollars are poured into a
>> bureaucracy that keeps people drugged and homeless.
>>
>> The money goes to the groups that pretend to help the homeless. I call
>> it farming the homeless.
>>
>> Government has become the most powerful tool in the toolbox for the
>> left. Using its coercive power, it steals from the rich and gives to the
>> richer and more powerful and politically useful groups. People go along
>> because they simply don't know it is happening or care. Liberal voters
>> are concentrated in urban areas, so rural internet doesn't mean anything
>> to them anyway.
>>
>> Any time a liberal tells you they are doing some nice and compassionate
>> thing, look to where the money is really going. You can tell it never
>> accomplishes anything because the problems are never solved, so it's
>> obvious that fixing the problem was never the goal in the first place.
>>
>> As with everything else, it is a hoax.
>>
>> '
>>
>> There are many examples to choose from, and the Washington Free Beacon
>> has yet another featured today.
>>
>> REPORT: Kamala Harris Touted a $5B Electric School Bus Program. Three
>> Years Later, It's Produced Just 60 Buses.
>>
>> Back of the napkin math: That’s $83 MILLION per bus.'
>
> This is how democrats ply their trade. They make all of these grandiose promises, waste billions if
> not trillions of dollars on them, and after years of pouring your taxpayer money into bottomless
> pit with little accomplished, they move on to the next boondoggle and the taxpayers are left with
> the bill.
>
>
>
>
and snit started it

Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com> wrote:
> pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
> news:v8an58$11ggq$1@dont-email.me:
>
>> On 2024-07-29, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> No kidding.
>>> Another 4 years of this liberal crap?
>>> We will never survive.
>>>
>>>
>>> 'Build Back Better Built Nothing'
>>>
>>> <https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4254982/posts>
>>>
>>> <https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/07/29/build-back-better-built-noth
>>> ing-n3792418>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 'One of the Biden/Harris administration's signature programs is
>>> marketed as 'Build Back Better," but there is a slight problem: it
>>> has built basically nothing despite spending billions of dollars.
>>>
>>> It's the policy equivalent of burning a stack of $100 bills a mile
>>> high. Except, to a certain extent, it isn't. What they are doing is
>>> transferring those billions to leftist activist groups whose main job
>>> is making our lives miserable.
>>>
>>>
>>> 'As part of the first tranche of Clean School Bus program funding two
>>> years ago, Harris and EPA administrator Michael Regan unleashed
>>> nearly $1 billion in federal rebates for 389 school districts across
>>> all 50 states to help deliver a total 2,463 electric school buses.
>>> According to federal data reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon,
>>> just 27 of those districts have proven to the EPA that their buses
>>> were delivered and that their diesel-fueled buses being replaced have
>>> been discarded.
>>>
>>> Collectively, those districts have deployed a total of 60
>>> battery-electric or low-emissions propane-fueled school buses. And 55
>>> additional districts have pulled out of the program, according to
>>> other federal data shared with the Free Beacon, citing a variety of
>>> technological and infrastructure concerns. In other words: More
>>> school districts have withdrawn from the program than proven that
>>> they have completed it.
>>>
>>> "EPA anticipates that transitioning to new technology school buses
>>> will take time, which is why the project period is two years with an
>>> option to extend where needed and justified," said EPA spokeswoman
>>> Shayla Powell.
>>>
>>> All those school districts that pulled out did so for a reason:
>>> electric school buses are a terrible idea.
>>>
>>> Now if you think that this program was intended to actually get
>>> electric school buses into he hands of bus drivers, this looks like a
>>> massive policy fail. But of course it isn't that at all. It is about
>>> dispersing massive amounts of money into the various hands of Biden
>>> friends and supporters.
>>>
>>> The school buses are the excuse, not the point.
>>>
>>> The same can be said of the vast numbers of EV charging stations:
>>>
>>> WATCH: CBSÂ’s Margaret Brennan laughs in Pete ButtigiegÂ’s face when
>>> he is unable to explain why only 7 or 8 electric vehicle charging
>>> stations have been built despite the Biden admin spending $7.5
>>> BILLION to build chargers. pic.twitter.com/BmFK17Dk5O— Steve Guest
>>> (@SteveGuest) May 26, 2024
>>>
>>> So for $7.5 billion, the taxpayers have gotten 7 or 8 charging
>>> stations--which, given how bad non-Tesla charging stations are, are
>>> likely trash. I looked it up and Tesla has over 50,000 superchargers
>>> out there. Private company vs. government, and if you think this is
>>> all due to inefficiency, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I want to
>>> sell to you. Somebody is getting beaucoup bucks from all this.
>>>
>>> Now let's look at rural internet investments:
>>>
>>> NEW: Hundreds of broadband infrastructure builders are now sounding
>>> the alarm, writing that the $42 billion plan to expand Internet has
>>> been wired to fail.
>>>
>>> President Biden put VP Harris in charge of this effort back in 2021
>>> and 9??8??2?? days later not 1 person has been connected.
>>>
>>> The Biden Administration poured over $40 billion into a program that
>>> was "intended" to subsidize rural connectivity, and has connected
>>> precisely ZERO homes to the internet.
>>>
>>> ZERO. Not one.
>>>
>>> Originally Starlink was slated to participate in the program for
>>> obvious reasons: you don't have to string fiber optic cables to the
>>> middle of nowhere, which costs outrageous amounts of money. A small
>>> satellite receiver can deliver high-speed internet to almost
>>> everybody in rural areas at minimal cost.
>>>
>>> In 2021, @VP Harris agreed to lead the AdministrationÂ’s signature
>>> effort to expand Internet infrastructure. Congress then provided $42
>>> billion for the work.
>>>
>>> ItÂ’s now been 9??8??7?? days since the plan was enacted &
>>>
>>> 0?? Americans have been connected
>>>
>>> 0?? Shovels worth of dirt turned
>>>
>>>
>>> But the administration HATES Elon Musk, so they excluded Starlink
>>> from the program, and the result is that nobody is helped. And why
>>> not? Helping people was never the point. Getting the money and
>>> distributing it to favored groups IS the point. Any connections are a
>>> happy byproduct, and even that hasn't happened yet.
>>>
>>> It's a scam, as everything is these days. There is an America that
>>> works, and the Democrats and the Left see productive Americans as
>>> marks, taking their resources and giving them to politically powerful
>>> or useful people and groups. You see the same thing with the homeless
>>> industrial complex, where tens of thousands of dollars are poured
>>> into a bureaucracy that keeps people drugged and homeless.
>>>
>>> The money goes to the groups that pretend to help the homeless. I
>>> call it farming the homeless.
>>>
>>> Government has become the most powerful tool in the toolbox for the
>>> left. Using its coercive power, it steals from the rich and gives to
>>> the richer and more powerful and politically useful groups. People go
>>> along because they simply don't know it is happening or care. Liberal
>>> voters are concentrated in urban areas, so rural internet doesn't
>>> mean anything to them anyway.
>>>
>>> Any time a liberal tells you they are doing some nice and
>>> compassionate thing, look to where the money is really going. You can
>>> tell it never accomplishes anything because the problems are never
>>> solved, so it's obvious that fixing the problem was never the goal in
>>> the first place.
>>>
>>> As with everything else, it is a hoax.
>>>
>>> '
>>>
>>> There are many examples to choose from, and the Washington Free
>>> Beacon has yet another featured today.
>>>
>>> REPORT: Kamala Harris Touted a $5B Electric School Bus Program. Three
>>> Years Later, It's Produced Just 60 Buses.
>>>
>>> Back of the napkin math: ThatÂ’s $83 MILLION per bus.'
>>
>> This is how democrats ply their trade. They make all of these
>> grandiose promises, waste billions if not trillions of dollars on
>> them, and after years of pouring your taxpayer money into bottomless
>> pit with little accomplished,
>
>
>
> Like the Trump wall?
>
>
>
>
>
> Gusty winds blew over a portion of
> President Trump's border wall
> Jan 30 2020
> https://tinyurl.com/3zw9e94a
>
>
>
> Floods blow gates off Trump’s border wall
> 23 August 2021
> https://tinyurl.com/dw7e9yh7
>
>
>
> People are climbing over Trump's border
> wall with $5 ladders, report says
> Apr 22 2020
> https://tinyurl.com/3ujn9bym
>
>
> $11 Billion And Counting: Trump's Border
> Wall Would Be The World's Most Costly
> January 19, 2020
> https://tinyurl.com/sbex6wj

-hh wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com> wrote:
>> pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
>> news:v8an58$11ggq$1@dont-email.me:
>>
>> <shitsnip>

The pothead hotboxing Usenet :-D

>> Like the Trump wall?
>>
>> <more snip>
>>
>> $11 Billion And Counting: Trump's Border
>> Wall Would Be The World's Most Costly
>> January 19, 2020
>> https://tinyurl.com/sbex6wj
>
> AFAIC, Trump misappropriated funds from the military to pay for what little
> wall was done (largely since fallen over and/or circumvented), but the real
> point here is that the Federal funding was doled out to the States to
> actually award the contracts, based on local knowledge and priorities.
>
> As such, the complaints on slow execution need to be directed to those
> States who haven’t done anything yet.
>
> Needless to say, there will be some Red states who will spite their own
> nose and not spend the money locally for their own constituents, just to
> make Biden look bad.

Then there's this:

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/580763-mcconnell-infrastructure-bill-a-godsend-for-home-state-of-kentucky/

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says that the bipartisan
$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which cleared Congress on Friday and is
awaiting President Biden’s signature, is a “godsend” for his state.

And

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/05/biden-half-trillion-dollar-jobs-campaign

President Biden's infrastructure and clean-energy bills are pumping some
$250 billion into Republican and swing states, allowing Biden and his
cabinet to regularly announce job-creating goodies in places that could
help him win re-election.

. . .

And as much as some Republicans have criticized Biden's economic programs,
"those governors aren't going to want to see the investment — the Inflation
Reduction Act — reversed," Granholm said.

--
When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone
to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

On 30 Jul 2024, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> posted some
news:v8an58$11ggq$1@dont-email.me:

> On 2024-07-29, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> No kidding.
>> Another 4 years of this liberal crap?
>> We will never survive.
>>
>>
>> 'Build Back Better Built Nothing'
>>
>><https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4254982/posts>
>>
>><https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/07/29/build-back-better-built-noth
>>ing-n3792418>
>>
>>
>>
>> 'One of the Biden/Harris administration's signature programs is
>> marketed as 'Build Back Better," but there is a slight problem: it
>> has built basically nothing despite spending billions of dollars.
>>
>> It's the policy equivalent of burning a stack of $100 bills a mile
>> high. Except, to a certain extent, it isn't. What they are doing is
>> transferring those billions to leftist activist groups whose main job
>> is making our lives miserable.
>>
>>
>> 'As part of the first tranche of Clean School Bus program funding two
>> years ago, Harris and EPA administrator Michael Regan unleashed
>> nearly $1 billion in federal rebates for 389 school districts across
>> all 50 states to help deliver a total 2,463 electric school buses.
>> According to federal data reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon,
>> just 27 of those districts have proven to the EPA that their buses
>> were delivered and that their diesel-fueled buses being replaced have
>> been discarded.
>>
>> Collectively, those districts have deployed a total of 60
>> battery-electric or low-emissions propane-fueled school buses. And 55
>> additional districts have pulled out of the program, according to
>> other federal data shared with the Free Beacon, citing a variety of
>> technological and infrastructure concerns. In other words: More
>> school districts have withdrawn from the program than proven that
>> they have completed it.
>>
>> "EPA anticipates that transitioning to new technology school buses
>> will take time, which is why the project period is two years with an
>> option to extend where needed and justified," said EPA spokeswoman
>> Shayla Powell.
>>
>> All those school districts that pulled out did so for a reason:
>> electric school buses are a terrible idea.
>>
>> Now if you think that this program was intended to actually get
>> electric school buses into he hands of bus drivers, this looks like a
>> massive policy fail. But of course it isn't that at all. It is about
>> dispersing massive amounts of money into the various hands of Biden
>> friends and supporters.
>>
>> The school buses are the excuse, not the point.
>>
>> The same can be said of the vast numbers of EV charging stations:
>>
>> WATCH: CBS’s Margaret Brennan laughs in Pete Buttigieg’s face when
>> he is unable to explain why only 7 or 8 electric vehicle charging
>> stations have been built despite the Biden admin spending $7.5
>> BILLION to build chargers. pic.twitter.com/BmFK17Dk5O— Steve Guest
>> (@SteveGuest) May 26, 2024
>>
>> So for $7.5 billion, the taxpayers have gotten 7 or 8 charging
>> stations--which, given how bad non-Tesla charging stations are, are
>> likely trash. I looked it up and Tesla has over 50,000 superchargers
>> out there. Private company vs. government, and if you think this is
>> all due to inefficiency, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I want to
>> sell to you. Somebody is getting beaucoup bucks from all this.
>>
>> Now let's look at rural internet investments:
>>
>> NEW: Hundreds of broadband infrastructure builders are now sounding
>> the alarm, writing that the $42 billion plan to expand Internet has
>> been wired to fail.
>>
>> President Biden put VP Harris in charge of this effort back in 2021
>> and 9??8??2?? days later not 1 person has been connected.
>>
>> The Biden Administration poured over $40 billion into a program that
>> was "intended" to subsidize rural connectivity, and has connected
>> precisely ZERO homes to the internet.
>>
>> ZERO. Not one.
>>
>> Originally Starlink was slated to participate in the program for
>> obvious reasons: you don't have to string fiber optic cables to the
>> middle of nowhere, which costs outrageous amounts of money. A small
>> satellite receiver can deliver high-speed internet to almost
>> everybody in rural areas at minimal cost.
>>
>> In 2021, @VP Harris agreed to lead the Administration’s signature
>> effort to expand Internet infrastructure. Congress then provided $42
>> billion for the work.
>>
>> It’s now been 9??8??7?? days since the plan was enacted &
>>
>> 0?? Americans have been connected
>>
>> 0?? Shovels worth of dirt turned
>>
>>
>> But the administration HATES Elon Musk, so they excluded Starlink
>> from the program, and the result is that nobody is helped. And why
>> not? Helping people was never the point. Getting the money and
>> distributing it to favored groups IS the point. Any connections are a
>> happy byproduct, and even that hasn't happened yet.
>>
>> It's a scam, as everything is these days. There is an America that
>> works, and the Democrats and the Left see productive Americans as
>> marks, taking their resources and giving them to politically powerful
>> or useful people and groups. You see the same thing with the homeless
>> industrial complex, where tens of thousands of dollars are poured
>> into a bureaucracy that keeps people drugged and homeless.
>>
>> The money goes to the groups that pretend to help the homeless. I
>> call it farming the homeless.
>>
>> Government has become the most powerful tool in the toolbox for the
>> left. Using its coercive power, it steals from the rich and gives to
>> the richer and more powerful and politically useful groups. People go
>> along because they simply don't know it is happening or care. Liberal
>> voters are concentrated in urban areas, so rural internet doesn't
>> mean anything to them anyway.
>>
>> Any time a liberal tells you they are doing some nice and
>> compassionate thing, look to where the money is really going. You can
>> tell it never accomplishes anything because the problems are never
>> solved, so it's obvious that fixing the problem was never the goal in
>> the first place.
>>
>> As with everything else, it is a hoax.
>>
>> '
>>
>> There are many examples to choose from, and the Washington Free
>> Beacon has yet another featured today.
>>
>> REPORT: Kamala Harris Touted a $5B Electric School Bus Program. Three
>> Years Later, It's Produced Just 60 Buses.
>>
>> Back of the napkin math: That’s $83 MILLION per bus.'
>
> This is how democrats ply their trade. They make all of these
> grandiose promises, waste billions if not trillions of dollars on
> them, and after years of pouring your taxpayer money into bottomless
> pit with little accomplished, they move on to the next boondoggle and
> the taxpayers are left with the bill.

That napkin number is just to buy them. It doesn't include delivery,
maintenance costs, mechanic training, part inventory, driver training,
etc.

Check out Asheville's thrilling experience with them.

Multi-million-dollar loss for Asheville as flawed electric buses sit idle

https://wlos.com/news/alexa/5-million-loss-for-asheville-as-flawed-
electric-buses-sit-idle-interim-transportation-director-jessica-morriss-
maintenance-director-john-mcdaniel-proterra

All rapist felon Trump did was play golf 400 times while handing out tax cuts
to the rich that drove up the deficit $5 Trillion.

Trump voters are traitors. Trump says traitors should get death.

--
Putin's homosexuality will see him dying of AIDS in 2024

Ubiquitous wrote:(munged the followups as cowardly leftard fascists
always will)

> Trump voters are traitors.

Democrap voters are all fascists.