Trump pulled the plug on Biden’s funds for Appalachia, and the same MAGA towns he gutted are freaking out: “This is f*cked up”

[T. A. Gardner]

Here you are posting foolish tripe that you can't back-up, and then you call others stupid; perhaps you ought to look in the mirror.

You're the one posting "foolish tripe." The questions I asked should be self-evident in their answers. Yet, you persist in making irrelevant appeals to authority. What, are you really too stupid to be able to assess whether tearing down an old building or two and making it "green space" will materially and economically benefit a small, impoverished, town?

That goes right down the list. The list, as I've now pointed out REPEATEDLY is taken from the OP linked article. Are you too stupid to be able to go to post #1 in this thread and read that goddamned article too? How fucking stupid do you have to be to be that oblivious?

 

[Crepitus]

Answer these questions about the projects I listed:

Creation of a "green space" that is a park using natural landscape. How does that economically benefit a small town with high unemployment?

Construction of a to rarely be used "resilience center" for use during large scale emergencies. How does that economically benefit a community the rest of the time when there is no disaster occurring?

A multi-state corporation installing home solar panels decides not to open a warehouse in a W. Virginia town because they lost subsidies. How does the loss of something that never was there hurt a community? How does the loss of a business that will cause overall electric prices to rise and sells a product few in the town they were putting this warehouse could afford, help that community?

How does a recycling center with low-paying jobs that has to be perpetually subsidized help a community? That doesn't even mention how the town will become a dumping ground for masses of materials to be recycled.

None of that requires "sources."

Actually greenspace is good for the populace in several ways, and creating and maintaining it creates jobs too.

And maybe you haven't noticed but "large scale emergencies" are getting a lot less rare.

How does the loss of a business that was going to bring work in harm a community? You can't seriously be asking that.

A recycling cent job is better than no job, and how do you know it will have to be subsidized?

And none of that required anything but common sense.

 

[Tbird19482]

The BBB has passed and is now law, Tball.

MAGA isn't a person, Tball.

Nothing is being 'held off', Tball.

I've read it. It doesn't require lawyers to understand it. It is now law.

None. It is now law.

MAGA isn't a person, Tball. The only ones whining about the BBB is DEMOCRATS.

YOU ARE one really STUPID mother fucker.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Actually greenspace is good for the populace in several ways, and creating and maintaining it creates jobs too.

What, somebody to mow the lawn or something? Some job that is... Aside from that, my bet is an out-of-town contractor would build it then leave when finished.

And maybe you haven't noticed but "large scale emergencies" are getting a lot less rare.

No, they're not. It's just with increasing population that the scale of them is increasing. The number isn't. That aside, it doesn't change that a building to handle them that is worthless the rest of the time is an expensive failure economically.

How does the loss of a business that was going to bring work in harm a community? You can't seriously be asking that.

Because it was based on government subsidies. The business wasn't sustainable without them. That makes the business an economic risk at best.

A recycling cent job is better than no job, and how do you know it will have to be subsidized?

And the community having to deal with thousands of tons of garbage / trash that is being recycled, most of which simply ends up unrecycled? Aside from that, recycling is a net loss economically.

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[Into the Night]

Biden's funding for Appalachia, primarily through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, aims to diversify its economy beyond coal by investing in infrastructure (highways, broadband), clean energy (hydrogen, solar), workforce training, and environmental cleanup, creating jobs, boosting local economies, and building long-term resilience through programs like ARC's ARISE, improving access to markets, healthcare, and education.

Key Benefits & Investments

• Infrastructure & Connectivity:
  • Appalachian Development Highway System (ADHS): Funding to complete this system, creating jobs, connecting businesses to markets, and improving access to services.

There are already roads and freeways there.

• Broadband: Investments to expand high-speed internet access, with subsidies for low-income residents.

Broadband is already available there.

• Economic Diversification & Jobs:

Racism does not help anyone.

• Clean Energy Hubs: Transitioning former coal communities into advanced energy economies (solar, hydrogen), with significant funding for projects like the Appalachian Hydrogen Hub.

So instead of using plentiful energy sources, subsidize the most expensive sources of energy. Cut it.

• ARISE Program: Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) funds for manufacturing, tourism, and workforce training to prepare residents for new industries.

Communism doesn't work.

• Environmental Remediation:
  • Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Cleanup: Funds for cleaning up coal waste and protecting communities from landslides.

You can't protect communities from landslides.
Coal 'waste' is just rock.

• Workforce & Community Development:
  • Training: Projects like childcare training centers to build local capacity and skills.

So, subsidize childcare to people that don't need it. Communism doesn't work.

• Community Benefits: Focus on local hiring, fair wages, and community-led development through initiatives like Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs).

Hiring is already local throughout the region.

• Resilience & Disaster Recovery:

Already covered by FEMA.

• Support for rural energy efficiency and renewable upgrades.

So, subsidize expensive methods of creating electricity instead of using cheap and available sources.

• Disaster relief funds for impacted areas, focusing on housing, infrastructure, and economic restoration.

Already handled by local resources and FEMA.

Goals of the Funding

• To create sustainable, well-paying jobs in new sectors.
• To reduce reliance on extractive industries.
• To improve quality of life by connecting communities and upgrading essential services.
• To achieve socioeconomic parity with the rest of the nation.

Communism and socialism doesn't work, LeftNut.

 

[Into the Night]

Says the scumbag condoning the pedo party.

He is not a Democrat.

 

[Into the Night]

Are these questions based on facts, or right wing propaganda?????

Government programs are not 'right wing propaganda', idiot.

 

[Into the Night]

Here you are posting foolish tripe that you can't back-up, and then you call others stupid; perhaps you ought to look in the mirror.

These government programs exist, idiot.

 

[Into the Night]

Actually greenspace is good for the populace in several ways, and creating and maintaining it creates jobs too.

No, it doesn't.

And maybe you haven't noticed but "large scale emergencies" are getting a lot less rare.

No such indication. Source?

How does the loss of a business that was going to bring work in harm a community? You can't seriously be asking that.

Ask the Church of Covid and the Democrats, that DESTROYED thousands of businesses and started an economic depression that lasted five years.

A recycling cent job is better than no job, and how do you know it will have to be subsidized?

Because it doesn't make money, and produces waste anyway.

And none of that required anything but common sense.

And you don't have it.

 

[Into the Night]

YOU ARE one really STUPID mother fucker.

So the BBB being passed into law causes someone to be stupid??

Lame, Tball.

 

[Tbird19482]

So the BBB being passed into law causes someone to be stupid??

Lame, Tball.

Do YOU get stupider every day naturally or do you work at it?
It must be naturally because you wouldn't ever work that hard .
You are one really stupid ASSHOLE.

 

[Into the Night]

Do YOU get stupider every day naturally or do you work at it?
It must be naturally because you wouldn't ever work that hard .
You are one really stupid ASSHOLE.

YOU'RE the one that tried to connect a law with other people being stupid, Tball.
YOU'RE the one with TDS.
YOU'RE the one that tried to claim the BBB wasn't law.
YOU'RE the one that tries a lame Mantra 1a.