with cheerful young couples who haven’t forgotten where the toilet is. ... ensure other nations won’t gain a competitive edge by becoming tax havens. By invading the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Monaco, and Liechtenstein? I’m sure American troops will enjoy this more than they enjoyed Afghanistan and Iraq. ... deliver infrastructure Americans can trust, because it will be resilient to floods, fires, storms... What is “resilient to” supposed to mean? Are we getting rubber roads and phone poles that will bounce right back after the hurricane? ... make sure fewer families mourn the loss of a loved one to road crashes. A federal program to increase our dislike of parents, siblings, and progeny so that we won’t feel so bad when they’re killed in a car wreck? ... fund state and local “vision zero” plans... to reduce crashes and fatalities, especially for cyclists and pedestrians. Though I don’t understand how riding a bicycle blindfolded or walking the dog with your eyes closed will fix this. ... build a national network of 500,000 EV [electric vehicle] chargers by 2030... And, knowing how government works, you’ll have to drive to a congressional district with a Democratic incumbent to find one.
a recycling center – of used-up and worn-out ideas from the New Deal, the Square Deal, the Great Society, etc. We thought these notions had rotted away 40 years ago during the Reagan era, but it turns out that the Left/ liberal mind is even less biodegradable than the Styrofoam it resembles. The best I can do is walk you through the junk heap, pointing out pieces of trash that are particularly hazardous to the environment – the environment, that is, of common sense and practicality. It won’t be a pleasant stroll... The plan targets 40% of the benefits of climate and clean infrastructure investment to disadvantaged communities. How’s that going to work? Will 40% of the better weather of Palm Beach be shipped to Detroit? Will the slum-dwellers of the South Bronx have to take a subway to Manhattan to do 40% of their littering on Park Avenue? ... it will... expand transit and rail into new communities. The built, preserved, and retrofitted home you’re getting may turn out to be in a noisy part of town, with the train station on your patio. ... makes substantial investments in... our care economy, starting by creating new and better jobs for caregiving workers. Which would require new and better people to care for. Let’s toss the crabby old folks out of the memory-care units and replace them
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