Frankly, I find this to be condescending garbage. The indication here by Malliotakis is that Republicans only oppose the bipartisan infrastructure bill because of politics. I reject that wholeheartedly. Do we like to own the libs from time to time? Sure we do, but this goes much further than not handing Biden a win on one of the chief planks of his policy platform.
The reality is that the country is in the midst of an inflationary boom, with today’s numbers being enough to make your eyes water. Producer price inflation rose to 8.6% year over year, which is the highest increase ever recorded in a country that has seen its share of financial crises. The middle-class is struggling under the weight of high energy costs and a supply chain crisis. The worst thing the government can do right now is pump more funny money into the economy via some boondoggle infrastructure bill.
And to be sure, it is indeed a boondoggle. Everything from “tree equity,” to payoffs for Joe Manchin’s wife, to money for fixing “racist” roads, is in there. But even if we assumed the bill was itself sound — and it’s not — who in their right mind would trust the Biden administration to be responsible with the distribution of these funds, especially since so much of it goes through our corrupt, inefficient bureaucracy?
