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Two scenarios for the years ahead
(www.doomsdayscenario.co)
Grousing about Mr. Graff's silly hyperbolic description of the DOT
Want to take this seriously as much of it merits serious discussion, but I just don't know what to do with weird nonsense like this:
The Transportation Department, which has had such a literal renaissance of imagination, innovation, and investment under Mayor Pete and the flood of infrastructure money from the Inflation Reduction Act, would be cut back extensively.
Here is the DOT's own propaganda: US DOT highlights infrastructure accomplishments What the heck does "literal renaissance of imagination, innovation-" mean here? Gosh Biden's years were such a letdown, and then they tout the barest accomplishment of their jobs as the second coming as if people don't have eyes and ears.
What if suddenly living in Denver versus Austin or Charlotte versus Tampa start to come with very different sets of rights as an individual in terms of your family’s access to basic health care, what books your child gets to read in school, whether you can walk the streets without carrying your “papers,” whether your kid’s school requires basic vaccines, or even whether the public water supply is considered safe?
This is already the case in the Rust Belt. Default is you don't have basic healthcare, your kid goes to some fake voucher school or an extremely underfunded school (books comment is weird, Texas decides most of the books already), you can't get vaxed or operate in the economy without your "papers", public water supplies are not safe by modern standards. This crumbling ramped up during Trump 1 and became the default in the pandemic and the region didn't really recover.
Anyway the Fed isn't my friend and the decline of that faction isn't the part of this mess that has me worried. Has the Fed been really helpful or a positive influence where you are located? Mostly to me they are ICE and FBI offices and I don't think those folks do good work.