QUESTIONS ON SPENDING - BIDEN SIGNS FIRST BILL TODAY

OK - so you all are going to have to be my outlet of all things "political" .... my youngest has decided I am not "allowed" to speak about politics with her because she feels "stress" when we talk ... I am always up for a good debate (that's means no yelling or personal attacks - something her siblings need to learn, but I've got it) ... but since I can't speak with her .... You guys are in for it ... LOL

Okay - so President Biden is signing his Infrastructure Plan into law today (any bill that gets signed by the president, in my mind, makes it a law)  ... and the spending has the following items already laid out:

$110 Billion  Highways/Bridges (combines, not each)

$ 65 Billion  High Speed Internet

$ 39 Billion  Public Transportation

My issues are actually 2 fold ... First - we have not heard anything about WHERE the money is to be spent.  There are places in the midwest which still do not have ANY sort of internet, not even "dial up" -- remember dial-up? it was s-l-o-o-o-o-w ... and you couldn't have Call Waiting on, else it would bump you off the internet -- what a pain in the butt that was.  I remember 14.4 MB connections and thinking how great it was when it jumped to 28.8 MB!!  and them 56 MB -- we thought we were in heaven! It only took 2 hours for a YouTube video to upload.

I have not heard anything that says the money can't simply be used to put in 5G in the biggest city in any state ... yup, so while the kids in northern Minnesota still have to get to the school parking lots to gain internet, the kids in Minneapolis could be getting free 5G ... how STUPID is this??

Nor does it say where the money should be spent within a state ... it does not specify that money for the Public Transportation needs to be used to upgrade EXISTING materials - such as maintenance of buses or subway trains ... this means - that in Iowa, they could use the money to make a brand new railway statin which was never there before -- or in Minneapolis, they could use the money to expand the current Light Rail system they have before they finish the projects they already have on the books.

While I'm thinking about this -- there isn't even anything that says that Interstates/Bridges couldn't also be combined with the Public Transportation portion.

In our state they have talked about running the Light Rail system up to Hwy 8 for a few years now, maybe 8 yrs. now ... they are planning on taking it straight up the Interstate - right up the median - in fact they even spent money widening the median spaces "just in case" they got the money to do it.

Yeah -- I'm hoping there's a LOT more structure to how the monies are actually supposed to be spent.