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Originally Posted by Rochard
He is selling this as a "trillion dollar infrastructure movement". However, he wants most of the money to come from the private sector so.... No "act" or action required by the government, basically he is saying "the private sector needs to fix things".
Can you imagine how this will work? The town I live in is over 100 years old, and we are having problems with our sewer and water systems. Everything needs to be replaced. LOL - You want to hand this over to businesses to make a profit off of this? The costs will go through the roof.
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There is some fallacy in that statement. Have you ever bid government funded construction work -- I have.
The prevailing wage laws -- the Davis-Bacon Act both protects wage earners and also tends to inflate government bids. Most government work is bid by the prevailing low bidding General Contractor. That general contractor currently will sub-contract "some of the work" -- bidding documents may limit this. The general contractor will mark up the sub contractor's prices again -- bidding documents may limit this.
In any event, sewer and water as well as road drainage systems are not constructed or renewed by city or county workers - they are maintained.
So, this is your fallacy in your analogy -- there is no change -- sewer and water as well as road drainage systems are government owned.
Unless you meant; we will sell off the public assets -- then you have a point.
Some of this may just be mindless chatter and diversion from real issues. Trumpspeek -- get your boots and shovel -- the shit is getting deep ...