American Consequences - June 2021

AMERICAN JOBS PLAN BALONEY Broadband is the new electricity. Try plugging your toaster into it . And, channeling Gyro Gearloose from Donald Duck comic books, the Fact Sheet proposes...

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[fund]... affordable, convenient, car- free access to air travel. It’s called walking . ... reconnect neighborhoods cut off by historic investments and ensure new projects increase opportunity, advance racial equity and environmental justice, and promote affordable access. The neighborhood of Harlem was cut off from the neighborhood of Midtown by that historic investment, Central Park. Let’s get rid of it. Whether this will increase opportunity or advance racial equity, I’m not sure. But we could get some environmental justice by turning the animals that used to be in the Central Park Zoo loose on tourists. ... protect and, where necessary, restore nature-based infrastructure – our lands, forests, wetlands, watersheds, and coastal and ocean resources. Cue the 1969 number-one hit single, “I Can’t Get Next to You,” by The Temptations: I... Can turn the gray sky blue, I can make it rain, whenever I want it to, Oh I can build a castle from a single grain of sand, I can make a ship sail on dry land... I can turn back the hands of time, you better believe I can, I can make the seasons change, just by waving my hand... The fact sheet continues in this vein of magical thinking, saying...

... an investment in 15 decarbonized hydrogen demonstration projects in distressed communities... As if the train station on your patio weren’t bad enough, the Hindenburg is tethered to your backyard flagpole. But the AJP isn’t done with its “there goes the neighborhood” projects... For decades, exclusionary zoning laws – like minimum lot sizes, mandatory parking requirements, and prohibitions on multifamily housing – have inflated housing and construction costs and locked families out of areas with more opportunities. Those “exclusionary zoning laws” pretty much describe the White House, which sits on 18.7 acres of “areas with more opportunities” in thriving downtown Washington, D.C. Looks like a great spot for a trailer park to me. Meanwhile the AJP is... ... advancing environmental justice through a new Civilian Climate Corps... GREETING: You are hereby ordered, for induction into the Civilian Climate Corps, to turn zoo animals loose on tourists in New York.

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