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Joe Biden Cares About ‘Reconnecting Communities.’ Right.
Andy McCarthy has an interesting post at National Review today. I think it’s in poor taste to simply copy and paste an entire post, but in this case, I don’t think Andy will mind:
No further comment necessary. I’ll just quote it:
Highways Have Sliced Through City After City. Can the U.S. Undo the Damage?
The Biden administration is funding projects around the country aimed at reconnecting communities that have been divided by transportation infrastructure.
Ok. So the Biden Administration is “funding projects around the country.” I wonder what those projects are, exactly?
They pretend to be concerned with “reconnecting communities that have been divided by transportation infrastructure.” For some reason, I find it unlikely that that is their true motivation in “funding projects around the country.” But I’d hate to sound cynical.
We’re trillions of dollars in debt. Our economy, culture, educational system, etc., are all rapidly disintegrating. Our formerly great cities have recently developed problems much, much more serious than the convenient transportation offered by interstates.
What is the Biden administration doing here? What do they really hope to achieve? Why does The New York Times consider this important enough to warrant a headline and a news story?
Are there any masochists out there who still have a subscription to The New York Times? I don’t, so I can’t read the article. Although somehow I suspect that the purpose of the article is to be sure that I don’t know what’s going on, rather than telling me what is going on. But I’d hate to sound cynical.
We could cut our federal budget in half tomorrow and the lives of Americans would improve. There is so much stuff like this.
But I’m curious – does anybody know what the true motivations and goals are here? I just can’t believe they care about reconnecting communities. But I’d hate to sound cynical.
Does anybody have any insight on this?
Thanks.
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What about fair use?
The next time they do will be the first time.
Speaking as one who has run afoul of the offense of (purely unintentional) copyright violation I just have to say that I find the first post making this allegation against Dr. Bastiat to be a classic case of making a mountain out of a molehill. Such a shame the person making the charge had to jump the gun without making even a cursory review of the few words in McCarthy’s tiny entry. My two cents, for what it’s worth.
The post to which I refer can be found at https://ricochet.com/1438080/impeach-remove-bar-from-office-2/, and my (purely unintentional) offense, as explained in a very cordial and much appreciated note from the Editor in Chief, was quoting at such length from an article by Roger Kimball, an essayist and classical scholar I admire as much as anyone writing today with the possible exception of Victor Davis Hanson. As a result, the article, which I thought in my entirely unegotistical way, would have considerable value to some, was not promoted to the Main Page. I have tried to be much more careful with quoted material since then. Lessons learned.
Took a quick screenshot of the first few paragraphs, before the subscription piece kicked in. Apparently our infrastructure is now racist. No mention that, regardless of the demographic mix, if you’re going to build a highway that runs through or around a city, someone is going to get displaced. Ask anyone living in Boston for the past 30 years.
This is just money, and it’ll be used to support local politicians who receive federal grants for highway relocation. Slush fund. Graft. Grift. Payola.
Whatever. But it’s straight outta the Commie/Democrat playbook. Take federal spending, and use it to buy votes.
Back in Hawaii after his Indonesian interlude, Obama came to see his grandparents as strangers. The realization dawned as they drove him along a sprawl-filled highway. Obama then threw in his lot with an African-American mentor named Frank Marshall Davis, who lived in a ramshackle pocket of the city called the “Waikiki Jungle” where his home was a gathering place for young leftists and nonconformists. Rejecting assimilation into America’s middle-class, Davis hit on socialist politics and identification with the urban poor as the way to establish his racial credentials.
In other words, Barry hung out with losers who were looking for somebody else to fund their lifestyle, a lifestyle that sounds a lot like leeching.