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After months of delay, the House passes infrastructure bill

by EastOfTruth on 11/6/21, 12:07 PM with 91 comments

• by kwertyoowiyop on 11/6/21, 1:42 PM

  For me, this article was quite confusing and hard to follow. In contrast, CNN’s article was easier for me to understand:

  https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/05/politics/house-votes-infrastr...

• by netcan on 11/6/21, 12:51 PM

  The $1trn headline makes me expect something to excite the imagination... A roman aquaduct wow factor. Something to marvel at.

  Am I being shallow? Does it make bad sense to cut a $100bn slice for something epic? A hypersonic monorail perhaps?

• by nickthemagicman on 11/6/21, 12:41 PM

  They're really working on making automobiles a lot safer by installing breathalyzers in every car. Exciting times!

  https://time.com/6086981/bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-brea...

• by CalRobert on 11/6/21, 12:46 PM

  This whole time I've been confused how investing more money in roads is compatible with our climate goals. Should we not trying to decommission roads and encourage people to move to denser, walkable and cyclable city centers?

• by throwaway4good on 11/6/21, 1:35 PM

  What exactly is in it?

  If you add up the numbers at the bottom of the article, it is only about 500B. Is the rest already already allocated infrastructure spending?

• by mark_l_watson on 11/6/21, 1:41 PM

  Ha! Just as I expected, a bill that mostly builds infrastructure that corporations/Wall Street wanted, not much for the slave class (also known as the “middle class”).

  As Warren Buffet once said “there has been class warfare and my class won.”

  Biden should man-up and issue executive orders to satisfy at least a few of his campaign promises to the non-elite class.

• by News-Dog on 11/6/21, 7:31 PM

  Fiber to the basement, 1 to 10 gigabyte internet speeds?

• by garmaine on 11/6/21, 12:31 PM

  Bad news for crypto.

• by ianai on 11/6/21, 12:41 PM

  Previous upload and convo of the senate bill text for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28047538

  Much ink gets spilled over the machinations leading up to legislation. But the machinations being in the open as they were give us normies a chance express our opinions on it in real time to our representatives. It’s actually the opposite of lobbyists and crony capitalism. Granted, two things can be true and lobbyists and “well funded interests” get their say all throughout the process. Still a world of difference from a bill coming out from closed door meetings with nobody outside even seeing it.

• by Bombthecat on 11/6/21, 1:34 PM

  Tesla stock will explode! Plus the hertz order was confirmed!