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<blockquote data-quote="simme" data-source="post: 1695028" data-attributes="member: 40418"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.rpc.senate.gov/legislative-notices/hr-3684_infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Here is one version of a bill. I think this bill is just about how much money to spend by category. In the private sector, you would identify a need - a new factory making a specific product, a railroad from a point A to a point B, an airport to replace an existing landlocked overloaded airport, etc. Then justify the need, evaluate risk, define benefits vs cost, etc. This bill just seems to allocate x millions or billions by category without a stated plan for what the money is to be spent on. One item is "$21.4 billion for Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations within DOE". Does anyone know what that includes? Is there a list of projects with a detailed scope? Probably not. Probably just money to be spent on pet projects - maybe defined and decided by lobbyists or other creatures from the swamp.</p><p>I think this is not a bill to primarily address crumbling infrastructure and needed technology updates. I think it is a spending bill for the sake of spending. And to reward "family and friends". I think there is a power factor - not electrical power, but political power.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="simme, post: 1695028, member: 40418"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.rpc.senate.gov/legislative-notices/hr-3684_infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act[/URL] Here is one version of a bill. I think this bill is just about how much money to spend by category. In the private sector, you would identify a need - a new factory making a specific product, a railroad from a point A to a point B, an airport to replace an existing landlocked overloaded airport, etc. Then justify the need, evaluate risk, define benefits vs cost, etc. This bill just seems to allocate x millions or billions by category without a stated plan for what the money is to be spent on. One item is "$21.4 billion for Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations within DOE". Does anyone know what that includes? Is there a list of projects with a detailed scope? Probably not. Probably just money to be spent on pet projects - maybe defined and decided by lobbyists or other creatures from the swamp. I think this is not a bill to primarily address crumbling infrastructure and needed technology updates. I think it is a spending bill for the sake of spending. And to reward "family and friends". I think there is a power factor - not electrical power, but political power. [/QUOTE]
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