Deep dive into what the Democrats' $1.2 TRILLION "real infrastructure" bill actually wants to fund. Huge slush and pork...

Hey, didja hear, citizen?

Late Friday night duh Democrats (with the help of 13 traitorous RINOs) passed a bill--now a LAW--to spend $1.2 TRILLION on what they claimed was "infrastructure."

Now, until duh Dems took power over ever single branch of duh gruberment, "infrastructure" meant roads, bridges, airports, rail lines and the like.  But now, wif' duh new, IMPROVED definition, it means half a TRILLION in corrupt slush-fund money for Democrat cronies supporters.  Cool, eh?

So as you read thru the list below, "highway programs" are probably not terribly corrupt (well, except for Boston's "Big Dig" of course).  But look at the billions given to weird "research programs"

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$273 billion for the Federal-Aid Highway Program

For the surface transportation block grant program, the highway safety program, the congestion mitigation program, air quality program, national highway freight program, and carbon reduction program

$1.25 billion for the "Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program"

SAY WHAT???

$3 billion for the Tribal Transportation Program

$2.2 billion for the Federal Lands Transportation Program

$1.4 billion for the National Park Service

$180 million for the US Fish and Wildlife Service

$130 million for the Forestry Service

$1.5 Billion for the Federal Lands Access Program

$1.14 Billion for the Territorial and Puerto Rico Highway Program

$250 Billion for the Congestion Relief Program

Will impose new federal fees on parking and road use during peak periods, intended to reduce driving during those hours.  Brilliant!  Cuz everyone I know drives at 8:30 am and 5 pm just for the hell of it, right?  Also, if Pelosi, Schumer et al are shaking down drivers in congested cities for money ("imposing new fees"), why does that require a quarter of a billion taxpayer dollars to do that?  Answer: Consultants, silly.  And who will get those fat consulting contracts, eh?

Do you even need to ask?

$2.5 Billion for Charging and Fueling Infrastructure grants

$1.4 Billion in PROTECT grants

When Democrats want to pass a law they know voters wouldn't like--say, a law giving amnesty to illegals, or a slush-fund they can steer to their big donors--they create cryptic, misleading names for those bills, precisely so they'll have a cutesy acronym--knowing the Media will always use the cute acronym.  For example, who could possibly oppose a $1.4 BILLION project named "PROTECT," eh?  Well, what does it do?  Who cares, cuz it says "Protect," so it must protect something, eh?  Not even close. Actually the cutesy acronym stands for "Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient and Cost-saving Transportation."  Any idea what that actually means?  Of course not--which is the whole point. 

When you see "transformative" and "resilient" in a program's name, you can be sure that program is a stinker--cuz otherwise they wouldn't have had to hide its real purpose with a cute acronym.

But what actually constitutes "transformative" or "resilient" in transportation, eh?   Answer: a never-identified bureaucrat who'll get ten million dollars in kickbacks from a grant recipient.  Cool.

$250 million for reducing truck emissions at port facilities

$275 million for Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects

Additional $1.5 Billion for Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects Program

Half a Billion dollars for a "Healthy Streets Program"

Will "provide funding to deploy cool and porous pavements and expand tree cover to mitigate urban heat islands, improve air quality, and reduce flooding."  And you can bet they've already chosen a contractor.

"Must conduct equity assessments for tree canopy gaps in marginalized communities."

$500 million for Transportation Resilience and Adaptation Centers of Excellence

There's that trendy, vague term "resilience" again.  And if that doesn't sound trendy or vague enough, throw in "Adaptation Centers of Excellence."  No one but the congresswhores and staff attorneys who drafted that language knows what it really means or does--which means they can do whatever they like with the half a billion and declare a huge, total success, and no one can contradict 'em.  Brilliant!

$75 million for the Open Challenge and Research Proposal Pilot Program

Provides grants for "proposals to research needs or challenges identified or determined as important by the Secretary."  Which "secretary" is that, eh?  Answer: It's a slush-fund totally controlled by mayor Pete.  One expects the first "challenge identified or determined as important" is how to increase the number of married homosexuals in government.

$735 million for the Highway Research and Development Program

$550 million for the Technology and Innovation Deployment Program

$127.5 million for Training and Education

$550 million for the Intelligent Transportation Systems Program

A federal program that "enhances American productivity through the integration of advanced communications technologies into the transportation infrastructure and in vehicles."  We've already got cell phones, so what kind of "advanced comm tech" do ya think they have in mind?  Hint: tracking every vehicle so they can bill you for miles driven--a Democrat pet project for years.  Federal gasoline tax wasn't enough for the bastards.  They're determined to make driving so expensive that everyone but the elites will be forced into "safe, comfortable, efficient" public transit.

$405 million for the University Transportation Systems Program

Grants to colleges and universities for transportation research and development

$132.5 million for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics

By law, the director of that bureau is Buttigeig's senior advisor

$350 million for the Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program

$50 million for the Prioritization Process Pilot Program

"Prioritization process" is another all-purpose, vague buzz-phrase.  Since no voter knows what it actually means, the Deep-State bureaucrats who take the money and run will be able to declare a huge success, even if the entire program just funded two three-day gab-fests.

Half a BILLION to fund a program called "Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program"

Will fund studies of the feasibility of removing an "existing transportation facility" that “creates a barrier to community activity.”  Got any idea what that actually means?  Unless you're a Democrat pol, you don't have a clue--which is the whole point.  

A certain Democrat constituent group wants to demolish elevated expressways that go through downtown areas.  Of course if you work in a downtown area that's gonna double your commuting time.  But obviously neither the Dems nor their Certain Constituent Group care about that.   And if that causes tens of thousands of commuters to switch to public transit, that's the real goal here.  Demolishing downtown expressways is just a means to accomplish that goal.

$150 million for Planning Grants

$350 million for Capital Construction Grants

Annual listing of "socially disadvantaged businesses enterprises"

$100 million for the Tribal Transportation Facility Bridge Set-Aside

$570 million for the construction of ferry boats and ferry terminals

$25 million for bollard installation (big posts to stop terrorists in cars)

$1.1 Billion for the Appalachian Regional Energy Hub Initiative

Over a BILLION dollars to "study the effectiveness of" a giant ethane storage and distribution system in the Appalachian region for natural gas and natural gas liquids, including hydrogen"

One of bidenfail's early appointments was to make Joe Manchin's wife--an elementary-school teacher--the co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission.  Cynics believe the "Regional Energy Hub Initiative" is a bribe to Manchin to get him to vote for the Dems' far more costly, far more corrupt "social-infrastructure" bill.

$100 million for the Denali Commission

An Alaskan development fund.  Bribe to get RINO Alaskan senator Murkowski to vote for the package.  She did.

$75 million for studying how to enact income-based road usage taxes

$50 million for a per-mile road usage fee pilot program

Wwill test a per-mile road usage fee nationwide. Tracking methods will include  smart phone applications and telemetry data collected by automakers.

The law specifically orders that the "advisory board" for this program must include "advocacy groups focused on equity."  Of course you don't know what that actually means, but you can make a very good guess that no specially-protected minority groups will have to pay the extra per-mile fees--in the name of "equity," of course.  Cuz nothing is more equitable than taxing different races at different rates, eh?  Oh wait, John Roberts will probably RULE that the per-mile road-use "fee" isn't a tax, in which case it's perfectly fine to make one race pay while others don't.  Because, equity, citizen.

$100 million for digital construction management systems

A new "Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles"

What the hell is "New Mobility"?  Don't worry, the Democrats will tell you after it's a done deal.  Like Pelosi's infamous video'd bullshit just before the bastards passed Obamacare: "You have to pass the bill to see what's in it."  Seriously, she said that.  In front of dozens of video cameras.

$10 million to incentivize interstate freight compacts

$10 BILLION for "Multimodal Infrastructure Project Grants"

The clever Dem specified that the criteria for getting a grant from this ten-billion-dollar pork fund must include whether a project "would benefit a historically disadvantaged community or population."

$4 billion for the National Culvert Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Program

$18.75 million for the National multimodal cooperative freight research program

Buttigeig will control this slush-fund, which will "establish a national research agenda" and issue grants to achieve objectives such as "diversifying the freight workforce."  It's also ordered to promote zero-emission transportation--although it's hard to see how electric vehicles qualify as "zero-emission," since some sources claim such vehicles actually use...wait for it...electricity--most of which is made by burning carbon-based fuel.  

But we understand AOC is pushing wood chips, cow dung and old newspapers to make electricity without emitting CO2.  Wait...what??

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