• @Krono@lemmy.today
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    72 years ago

    I agree the infrastructure bill is a step in the right direction, but its mostly just clearing the maintenance backlog. Our infrastructure will be upgraded from “crumbling” to “poor”. Its easy to forget it, most Americans already have.

    Now instead of being 20 years behind China, our infrastructure will only be 15 years behind. As the richest country in the history of earth, we can do so much better than this.

    And as for climate, tinkering around the edges isn’t meaningful. We are still going full speed ahead towards climate ccatastrophe. We need radical change to save our civilization, and this bill ain’t it, jack.

    • Alto
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      82 years ago

      As the richest country in the history of earth, we can do so much better than this.

      This always pisses me off. Look how far we’ve gotten with such piss poor leadership for so long. Imagine what the nation could look like if we had even just mostly competent leadership for the last 50 years.

      • @Krono@lemmy.today
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        82 years ago

        I dont agree that it’s a competency issue.

        Our leaders are hyper-competent when fighting for the interests of wall street, the military industrial complex, the oil and gas industry, the insurance industry, etc.

        Powerful moneyed interests are their real constituents. They only pretend to care about the needs of real working Americans when they need votes.