Guess How Many High-Speed Internet Connections Biden Built With $42.45 billion provided by The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
PJ Media | 06/18/2024 | Stephen GreenYou’ve read more than once right here at PJ Media about the $7.5 billion that Presidentish Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act put on the table as an inducement to build a network of 500,000 EV charging stations up and down the nation’s interstate highways. And you’ve read about how few have been built — eight, at last count.
Well, that was a bargain compared to today’s boondoggle.
Otter, Flounder, and Boondoggle.
The same law also set aside $42.45 billion — that’s three Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers — to deploy high-speed internet to millions of Americans who currently lack access. That mostly means rural folks, who are usually the last to get anything new, like drug-resistant herpes or imaginary personal pronouns.
This is the part of the column where I’d ask you to guess how many Americans had been wired for high-speed internet after 2.5 years and all of those billions, and then you’d say, “Zero?” and then we’d both say we need a drink.
Because the answer truly is a big, fat zero.
FCC commissioner Brendan Carr posted to X a few days ago, “Mostly, the $42.45B is just sitting there. Not even one shovel’s worth of dirt has been turned.”
Well.
It’s only been 1,557 days since the start of the planDEMic.
Since “The End” wasn’t that long ago, it obviously will take them awhile to get the engine restarted.
C’mon man!
The fifteen-hundred-day ‘slowdown’ just ended a week ago!
(The bureaucracy is still ooh’ing and awe’ing over the element known as Administratium. Seriously!)
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proud of that one
Ahh, sitting where??
On their arses.
[ This all reminds me of a very old joke told to me by my mentor:
His motto was simple:
“I work very slowly,
and I do very very poor work.”
. that way I do very little poor work . ]
However, he actually had a sense of humor, and therefore knew the difference.
I miss him.
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Move that same time-line start to December 1941 instead of November 2021 and the US has invaded Europe and is about to invade Guam and Tinian. Of course the planning for all that cannot be compared to an EV charging station.
Can I get some penicillin with that, please?
Some genius made the grant submission system entirely online, and the page times out after just a few seconds, so if you don’t have high speed internet, you’ll never get through.