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nhmo t1_it5ycq7 wrote

Yeah I'm getting pwned by my belief in college loan debt cancellation and desire for infrastructure revamping right now

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BowTiedAgorist t1_it7mhyc wrote

Infrastructure bill that is literally just a giant payday for some of the biggest corporations in the US? Offering 40k dollar rebates to companies like walmart to buy electric shipping vehicles from automakers like ford\gm who's manufacturing isn't even in the US anymore? Or offering billions to telecoms to run copper\fiber to rural areas when we already paid them to do that in the 90s and better technology already exists? Or the billions that will end up in the hands of Chinese solar\EV manufacturers using child labor in africa to make giant holes in the earth looking for cobalt?

A debt cancellation that's going to end up slapping borrowers with giant tax bills in most states and already disqualified 700k applicants?

Student loan bill that offers means tested relief and doesn't' bother to fix the actual problem within the fed-loans? Which falls well short of the average accumulated debt these borrowers struggle with.

The student loan bill which benefits upper middle class whites more than it does any minority borrower, who have historically been forced into less fruitful degrees by racist university admins, and have had to rely on private loans which aren't even touched?

A student loan bill that puts the greed of the entire academic class on the backs of the 70% of the US workforce that don't hold degrees - I'm sure that will go over real well with the blue collar dem base.... I guess you can always just call them racist for another 10 years.

All of which is another few trillion dollars printed to add to our ever increasing inflation?

Enjoy your scraps after getting honey dicked, again.

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KrissaKray t1_it6ubqr wrote

Yeah, neither of which are actually happening soooo

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nhmo t1_it6uk5a wrote

You mean the infrastructure bill that was already passed and the debt cancellation order that was signed and the challenge was just thrown out yesterday?

Keep shoving your head up your own ass if you want to ignore the factual world around you.

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KrissaKray t1_it6upwx wrote

I sure do mean those things. The student debt loan forgiveness was unconstitutional so it’s being challenged. And the infrastructure bill has so many things wrong with it, we probably wont see anything positive about it happening near us any time soon.

I prefer basing my beliefs in reality 💁🏼‍♀️

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doofthemighty t1_it7g76r wrote

Don't confuse them with facts, they know what they believe.

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RickyDaytonaJr t1_it6xo93 wrote

The infrastructure bill is actually having significant benefits. Dozens of local bridge projects around the state have been advanced. Also, large projects that were underfunded and languishing are now fully funded and have advanced to the engineering phase. Some communities are even receiving direct federal grants. For instance, Manchester just got awarded a $25 million grant from the infrastructure bill to make improvements throughout the City, including reconstructing the Queen City Ave/Cilley/Willow Street interchange.

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llambo17 t1_it7hn53 wrote

Our I89 bridge over the CT river into Vermont still has not been finished and it has been 5 years, and the repaving they did 2 years ago has already degraded and gone to shit.

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otiswrath t1_it789ri wrote

Please explain how it is unconstitutional.

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KrissaKray t1_it7dfi2 wrote

Congress has the power of the purse, not the president.

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BowTiedAgorist t1_it7ljc1 wrote

That only matters if congress does its actual job though.

Which, given the last twenty years of unabated undeclared wars is a slim hope

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KrissaKray t1_it7uc61 wrote

No. It always matters. Congress controls the purse and that’s how it works. You can’t just go around them because you want to.

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BowTiedAgorist t1_it7vff9 wrote

You can absolutely go around them when congress and the courts don't bother to enforce it.

I understand the fundamentals of your argument and the checks and balances between branches - but congresses whole mo for the last thirty years is being derelict in their duties.

We just fought a 20 year long war in Afghanistan without a declaration of war.

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farts_in_the_breeze t1_it6vk1s wrote

It isn't? There is construction all over New Hampshire expanding and updating the highways. What world you living in?

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