I hear the infrastructure bill is the largest infrastructure

[doc03]

bill in history. Is that spending in comparison with the cost adjusted for inflation? It sure doesn't look to be as big a
project as what we spent building the interstate highway system and new dams on our rivers in the 50s and 60s. Then there
were all the FDR public works projects.

[SheltieLover]

1. I'd like to know if Fed will give road $ directly to blue cities in red states?

[mitch96]

2. I thought it was the roads project in the 1950's.. A few billion to pave the USA... nt

[honest.abe]

3. My wife is a design engineer for rail construction.

She is already seeing a huge increase in recruitment of people like her and others in related fields. This is going to be a major jobs boost for anyone involved in transportation related construction.

Its clearly a BFD!

[electric_blue68]

4. Interesting, and promising! My dad...

during WWll was part of a special railcar unit that would go out for a few days at a time monitoring the health of the rails under extra strain due to increased train traffic, and often heavier loads for the war effort.
There were suspended wire brushes touching on the rails to detect over wear. The deterioration begins from the inside out (hollow out); thus unseen till they collapse under the weight.
The electrical signal from the rails via brush is displayed on a oscilloscope. The defects will show up - I don't remember if the signal disappears, or gets distorted.
They would stop and mark that portion of the rail for replacement.

[honest.abe]

8. Interesting about rail deterioration from the inside.

My wife is probably familiar with this as she has worked in rail corrosion control.

[WHITT]

5. No

1) It's not inflation-adjusted.

2) People are erroneously contrasting the 1.2t number, when only 550b is new so-called "infrastructure" spending.

3) The bill is chockablock full of Corporate Welfare, special-interest spending, as well as stolen previously appropriated funds, and of course hundreds of billions of federal debt.

4) The day the bill passed the Senate, Senator Blumenthal told reporters that the spending in the bill on actual roads, bridges, water and sewer systems, was so pathetic, he intended to offer an amendment to the BBB bill to add additional hard infrastructure spending. Sadly, unlikely now.

[doc03]

6. So according to you it shouldn't have passed and is

just a scam and the President and the Democratic party lied about it all. Have you been on Faux News yet?

[WHITT]

7. False