Biden Presidency

[duwayne]

We had Christmas cards arrive in late February that had been postmarked in mid-December.

[missouriboy]

Mar 27, 2021 16:05:07 GMT walnut said:

I have posted about this before, and maybe I'm the only one around here noticing, but the US postal service is in a state of collapse. Stuff in "pre-shipment" and never scanned in for a month. Spoke to post office lady, she says I'm not the only one. Massive, massive problems.

Some warehouses are seriously backed up, and if your package passes the event horizon at one of those locations, it might never be seen again.

What would happen if you put a significant number of stamps on Joe Biden's butt?  

[walnut]

Mar 28, 2021 2:14:58 GMT missouriboy said:

Mar 27, 2021 16:05:07 GMT walnut said:

I have posted about this before, and maybe I'm the only one around here noticing, but the US postal service is in a state of collapse. Stuff in "pre-shipment" and never scanned in for a month. Spoke to post office lady, she says I'm not the only one. Massive, massive problems.

Some warehouses are seriously backed up, and if your package passes the event horizon at one of those locations, it might never be seen again.

What would happen if you put a significant number of stamps on Joe Biden's butt?  

It's certainly worth a try IMO. I'll donate $5

[Ratty]

Mar 28, 2021 2:14:58 GMT missouriboy said:

Mar 27, 2021 16:05:07 GMT walnut said:

I have posted about this before, and maybe I'm the only one around here noticing, but the US postal service is in a state of collapse. Stuff in "pre-shipment" and never scanned in for a month. Spoke to post office lady, she says I'm not the only one. Massive, massive problems.

Some warehouses are seriously backed up, and if your package passes the event horizon at one of those locations, it might never be seen again.

What would happen if you put a significant number of stamps on Joe Biden's butt?  

Don't post him over here. We have enough problems.

[missouriboy]

I should be more generous ... but ...

[missouriboy]

Transportation Secretary Floats Taxing Drivers by the Mile to Pay for Infrastructure Bill

And you thought that was what the gas tax was for ...

“If we believe in that so-called user pays principle, the idea that part of how we pay for roads is you pay based on how much you drive, the gas tax used to be the obvious way to do it, it’s not anymore. So a so-called vehicle miles traveled tax, or mileage tax, whatever you want to call it, could be the way to do it,” he said during an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

If the latter is featured in the legislative proposal, people should keep in mind it’s more of a temporary measure, Buttigieg said.

Has there ever been anything like a temporary Federal Tax?  Somewhere maybe? ? ?  Forgive me for absolutely NOT believing him.


www.theepochtimes.com/transportation-secretary-floats-taxing-drivers-by-the-mile-to-pay-for-infrastructure-bill_3751766.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-03-28

[missouriboy]

www.theepochtimes.com/stop-critical-race-theory-before-it-destroys-america_3751003.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-03-28

This was also interesting ...

And, it goes without saying, the Caucasian race (variously defined according to the situation—there is now something called a “White Hispanic”)

Well ya think?  Last I looked, Hispanic referred to Hispania (the Iberian Penninsula), and yes, they were (are) a slightly "tanner" version of white.  Who would have thought?  

[walnut]

Mar 29, 2021 12:56:11 GMT missouriboy said:

Transportation Secretary Floats Taxing Drivers by the Mile to Pay for Infrastructure Bill

And you thought that was what the gas tax was for ...

“If we believe in that so-called user pays principle, the idea that part of how we pay for roads is you pay based on how much you drive, the gas tax used to be the obvious way to do it, it’s not anymore. So a so-called vehicle miles traveled tax, or mileage tax, whatever you want to call it, could be the way to do it,” he said during an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

If the latter is featured in the legislative proposal, people should keep in mind it’s more of a temporary measure, Buttigieg said.

Has there ever been anything like a temporary Federal Tax?  Somewhere maybe? ? ?  Forgive me for absolutely NOT believing him.


www.theepochtimes.com/transportation-secretary-floats-taxing-drivers-by-the-mile-to-pay-for-infrastructure-bill_3751766.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-03-28

They never stop talking about "our crumbling infrastructure". I guess they've never traveled that much to other countries. We don't need a wholesale overhaul. It's another liberal boondoggle but with some bipartisan support. It's like "do it for the children", who's going to object?

[missouriboy]

Mar 29, 2021 13:22:37 GMT walnut said:

Mar 29, 2021 12:56:11 GMT missouriboy said:

Transportation Secretary Floats Taxing Drivers by the Mile to Pay for Infrastructure Bill

And you thought that was what the gas tax was for ...

“If we believe in that so-called user pays principle, the idea that part of how we pay for roads is you pay based on how much you drive, the gas tax used to be the obvious way to do it, it’s not anymore. So a so-called vehicle miles traveled tax, or mileage tax, whatever you want to call it, could be the way to do it,” he said during an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

If the latter is featured in the legislative proposal, people should keep in mind it’s more of a temporary measure, Buttigieg said.

Has there ever been anything like a temporary Federal Tax?  Somewhere maybe? ? ?  Forgive me for absolutely NOT believing him.


www.theepochtimes.com/transportation-secretary-floats-taxing-drivers-by-the-mile-to-pay-for-infrastructure-bill_3751766.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-03-28

They never stop talking about "our crumbling infrastructure". I guess they've never traveled that much to other countries. We don't need a wholesale overhaul. It's another liberal boondoggle but with some bipartisan support. It's like "do it for the children", who's going to object?

But the children don't do that kind of work anymore.  Unlike my uncles who moved off the farm in the 40s and became tradesmen.  Now we have to import labor from the great southland to do what we won't.  

[sigurdur]

fee.org/articles/biden-administration-argues-for-warrantless-home-entry-and-gun-seizures-before-the-supreme-court-a-year-after-breonna-taylor-s-death/?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=2021_FEEDotOrg

Biden Administration Argues for Warrantless Home Entry and Gun Seizures Before the Supreme Court a Year After Breonna Taylor’s Death
A cursory overlook of the justice system’s operations reveals that the expansion of police powers almost always impacts marginalized communities more harshly - communities the Democrats claim to stand for

[sigurdur]

President Joe Biden's COVID team appears to have entertained an electronic test-and-trace program pioneered by the University of Illinois that would have let businesses deny service to patrons based on their health data, a PowerPoint presentation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows. The program has eerie echoes of China's surveillance system, which uses data from citizens' phones to impose quarantines.


freebeacon.com/coronavirus/covid-tracking-apps-have-eerie-echoes-of-chinese-surveillance-system/

[walnut]

Mar 30, 2021 19:16:27 GMT sigurdur said:

President Joe Biden's COVID team appears to have entertained an electronic test-and-trace program pioneered by the University of Illinois that would have let businesses deny service to patrons based on their health data, a PowerPoint presentation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows. The program has eerie echoes of China's surveillance system, which uses data from citizens' phones to impose quarantines.


freebeacon.com/coronavirus/covid-tracking-apps-have-eerie-echoes-of-chinese-surveillance-system/

We should pre-emptively be avoiding "those" businesses anyway.

[sigurdur]

Yep.

[sigurdur]

www.wsj.com/articles/biden-builds-government-back-bigger-11617231190


ens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic presidential nomination, but you wouldn’t know from President Biden’s first two months in office. First came $1.9 trillion in social spending under the cover of Covid-19, and now comes $2.3 trillion more for climate and political spending dressed as “infrastructure.”

Most Americans think of infrastructure as roads, highways, bridges and other traditional public works. That’s why it polls well, and every President has supported more of it.

Yet this accounts for a mere $115 billion of Mr. Biden’s proposal. There’s another $25 billion for airports and $17 billion for ports and waterways that also fill a public purpose. The rest of the $620 billion earmarked for “transportation” are subsidies for green energy and payouts to unions for the jobs his climate regulation will kill. This is really a plan to build government back bigger than it has ever been.


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The magnitude of spending is something to behold. There’s $85 billion for mass transit plus $80 billion for Amtrak, which is on top of the $70 billion that Congress appropriated for mass transit in three Covid spending bills. The money is essentially a bailout for unions, whose generous pay and benefits have captured funds meant for subway and rail repairs.

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Mr. Biden also proposes to build “broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved areas” by subsidizing government-owned and nonprofit networks. But the Trump Federal Communications Commission unleashed private broadband investment by liberating providers from Obama net neutrality rules, streamlining regulations and limiting how much cities could extort them to install 5G sites. In 2019 providers built over 46,000 cell sites, up from a mere 708 in 2016.

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[Ratty]

Apr 1, 2021 18:08:14 GMT sigurdur said:

www.wsj.com/articles/biden-builds-government-back-bigger-11617231190


ens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic presidential nomination, but you wouldn’t know from President Biden’s first two months in office. First came $1.9 trillion in social spending under the cover of Covid-19, and now comes $2.3 trillion more for climate and political spending dressed as “infrastructure.”

Most Americans think of infrastructure as roads, highways, bridges and other traditional public works. That’s why it polls well, and every President has supported more of it.

Yet this accounts for a mere $115 billion of Mr. Biden’s proposal. There’s another $25 billion for airports and $17 billion for ports and waterways that also fill a public purpose. The rest of the $620 billion earmarked for “transportation” are subsidies for green energy and payouts to unions for the jobs his climate regulation will kill. This is really a plan to build government back bigger than it has ever been.


***
The magnitude of spending is something to behold. There’s $85 billion for mass transit plus $80 billion for Amtrak, which is on top of the $70 billion that Congress appropriated for mass transit in three Covid spending bills. The money is essentially a bailout for unions, whose generous pay and benefits have captured funds meant for subway and rail repairs.

OPINION: POTOMAC WATCH
What's Really in Biden's $2 Trillion 'Infrastructure' Plan?

SUBSCRIBE
Mr. Biden also proposes to build “broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved areas” by subsidizing government-owned and nonprofit networks. But the Trump Federal Communications Commission unleashed private broadband investment by liberating providers from Obama net neutrality rules, streamlining regulations and limiting how much cities could extort them to install 5G sites. In 2019 providers built over 46,000 cell sites, up from a mere 708 in 2016.