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How will Michigan Republicans mess up the Infrastructure bill?

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Re: How will Michigan Republicans mess up the Infrastructure bill?

Post by km1125 » Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:15 am

MotorCityRadioFreak wrote:
Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:57 am
audiophile wrote:
Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:17 pm
She said she would fix the dam roads:

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But she needed her dyke/dam breaker AG to destroy it first while protecting those mussels.
Not only is your post homophobic, but it is inaccurate. The dam in Sanford failed due to the idiot who owned a dam downstream failed to make the proper repairs. I got to see the damage when I was in Sanford. Very sad, but it is one tough town.
The dam owner tried to lower the levels but was refused authorization by the state, correct?

And what's "homophobic" about calling a dyke a dyke or a dam a dam?



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Re: How will Michigan Republicans mess up the Infrastructure bill?

Post by MotorCityRadioFreak » Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:17 am

km1125 wrote:
Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:15 am
MotorCityRadioFreak wrote:
Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:57 am
audiophile wrote:
Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:17 pm
She said she would fix the dam roads:

Image

But she needed her dyke/dam breaker AG to destroy it first while protecting those mussels.
Not only is your post homophobic, but it is inaccurate. The dam in Sanford failed due to the idiot who owned a dam downstream failed to make the proper repairs. I got to see the damage when I was in Sanford. Very sad, but it is one tough town.
The dam owner tried to lower the levels but was refused authorization by the state, correct?

And what's "homophobic" about calling a dyke a dyke or a dam a dam?
"(Whitmer) needed her dyke....AG...."

Read it back.....


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Re: How will Michigan Republicans mess up the Infrastructure bill?

Post by BME » Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:22 pm

km1125 wrote:
Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:15 am
MotorCityRadioFreak wrote:
Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:57 am
audiophile wrote:
Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:17 pm
She said she would fix the dam roads:

Image

But she needed her dyke/dam breaker AG to destroy it first while protecting those mussels.
Not only is your post homophobic, but it is inaccurate. The dam in Sanford failed due to the idiot who owned a dam downstream failed to make the proper repairs. I got to see the damage when I was in Sanford. Very sad, but it is one tough town.
The dam owner tried to lower the levels but was refused authorization by the state, correct?

And what's "homophobic" about calling a dyke a dyke or a dam a dam?
You can't be this willfully ignorant, can you?



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Re: How will Michigan Republicans mess up the Infrastructure bill?

Post by Rate This » Sat Aug 07, 2021 9:17 am

Mike Oxlong wrote:
Tue Aug 03, 2021 3:46 am
TC Talks wrote:
Mon Aug 02, 2021 6:46 pm
With some of the worse roads in the US and a 110 billion dollar US bill on the way, I predict that Michigan Republican legislators will botch the plan in our state.
Let's just see what percentage of the bill is actually going to infrastructure.
You talk about the roads. Amen brother. Fix The Damn Roads.

But this bill. as I read on CNN anyway, includes money for new bike paths, a good percentage going to rail service for the eastern corridor, broadband for low income, money for airports and sea ports, buying electric buses and electric ferries. There is also money for cleaning up Superfund and brownfield sites, reclaim abandoned mine land and cap orphaned gas wells.

Quite a laundry list of things that have nothing to do with roads. Do you agree?

It seems to me the more I look at what one side didn't like about the other sides legislation, whether in Lansing or Washington, it's the added pork they don't care for, not what the bill is supposed to be for. (and both sides of the aisle are guilty). Before we fault one side or the other if this bill gets botched up, let's look at what the objections to the bill actually are.

Will the Republicans not want the roads fixed? Or will the Republicans have a problem with spending money for improvements to Bayview Park in Alpena? You and I both know some of the folks in Lansing are going to want money for things that have nothing to do with infrastructure. Yes or no?
Everything you just listed is infrastructure. Infrastructure is more than just roads, bridges and power lines. It’s everything that keeps the country at a first world status. Internet, parks, railroads, airports… all of it.



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Re: How will Michigan Republicans mess up the Infrastructure bill?

Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Aug 07, 2021 9:37 am

Infrastructure isn't just roads.
I never suggested it was limited to roads!

I was simply commenting on the roads portion of the appropriation, because that's the part that happens to be of greatest interest to me personally.

Our air traffic control system, rail systems, energy grid and ports all are in need of major upgrades - some more than others - and I completely support the earmarks for those purposes.
There is also money for cleaning up Superfund and brownfield sites, reclaim abandoned mine land and cap orphaned gas wells.
Although these items don't pertain directly to infrastructure, I'm generally in favor of government spending - if done responsibly - that returns land to usability.



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Re: How will Michigan Republicans mess up the Infrastructure bill?

Post by MotorCityRadioFreak » Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:07 pm

BME wrote:
Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:22 pm
km1125 wrote:
Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:15 am
MotorCityRadioFreak wrote:
Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:57 am
audiophile wrote:
Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:17 pm
She said she would fix the dam roads:

Image

But she needed her dyke/dam breaker AG to destroy it first while protecting those mussels.
Not only is your post homophobic, but it is inaccurate. The dam in Sanford failed due to the idiot who owned a dam downstream failed to make the proper repairs. I got to see the damage when I was in Sanford. Very sad, but it is one tough town.
The dam owner tried to lower the levels but was refused authorization by the state, correct?

And what's "homophobic" about calling a dyke a dyke or a dam a dam?
You can't be this willfully ignorant, can you?
KML is trolling clearly as is audiophile.


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Re: How will Michigan Republicans mess up the Infrastructure bill?

Post by Deleted User 14896 » Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:03 am

TC Talks wrote:
Wed Aug 04, 2021 10:13 pm
Infrastructure isn't just roads.
That may be true. But you started this thread talking about roads.



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Re: How will Michigan Republicans mess up the Infrastructure bill?

Post by km1125 » Mon Aug 09, 2021 3:58 pm

Still trying to figure out why most of this "infrastructure" has to happen at the federal level and don't understand why the STATES don't take care of most of what's within THEIR borders.

For SOME things, like national aviation, it makes sense for a federal program and mostly federal management. That might apply to SOME port activities as well. Just not sure about most of the rest of it.

If roads really need to be better, why aren't the STATES making them better?? The folks who are going to end up paying the bill are all in the states. Why does it make any sense to send that money to D.C., where some portion (not an insignificant amount) is going to be WASTED before even A DOLLAR gets spent in any state.

If it is really just because the feds and incur debt, then why not just have the feds incur that debt and send the money to the state legislatures and have THEM spend it where it needs to be spent??



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