The $1.2 Trillion Plan to Rebuild America
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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American infrastructure might be crumbling but B1M quality is flourishing.
LOL. Sure is
Everyday, we edge closer to the editing god
Its nor crumbling its just outdated, go to Mexico my parents country you will see what crumbling is.
@@Student0Toucher that's a low bar for a nation that claims being the greatest, right?
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YOU MONSTERS! You cut away from the steam roller just before it started flattening that asphalt.
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@@TheB1M It's cool, just keep putting out quality content.
@@TheB1M Lol it’s all good mate 😂
@@TheB1M i won't forgive you. ever
Lol, I felt it too.
8 mins to cover 1.2 trillion in infrastructure. You guys should do a whole mini series on this, he’ll each section in the bill could probably be a mini series.
Well there's only a few billion going to infrastructure the rest is going to destroying the foundations of our society
🤣🤣 100$ towards roads and everyone who was on capital hill to vote on the “infrastructure” bill pockets the money
Well that's all the infrastructure involved in the infrastructure bill.
Since when has the name of the bill actually fully addressed the thing it said it would
Love this idea!
It’d be required viewing for Congress
1.2 trillion over 10 years. That's 120 billion a year. It won't even come close to addressing these issues.
Exactly. More goes to military contractors, foreign governments lol. They never ask “how are we gonna pay for it” with those. This is horribly underfunding the problem.
@@thesauceman8457 yea but _""h o w y o u g o n n a p a y f o r i t l i b r u l""_
@@thesauceman8457 The Department of Defense had a budget of $721.5 billion in 2020. Every year we are spending over 700 billion dollars on defense alone but its been such a huge political shitstorm just to allocate 100 billion a year on much needed infrastructure. This country's priorities on in the shitter. The crazy thing is that if you even breath a word of lowering that defense budget you are accused of being unpatriotic.
you're right, might as well not even bother
@@cboy0394 you don’t understand why it’s necessary
Honestly, I'll believe it when I see it. The last time there was a push for infrastructure, with Obama's "shovel-ready projects" my local highways dept spent three years widening a single overpass, because there's no oversight or accountability.
Overpasses do generally take a very long time to widen. Particularly if they need to keep that highway open (ie if there is no reasonable way to reroute traffic during construction).
Why USA does not have HSR
Most of the bill will line someone's pockets and promised projects will be abandoned. Happens quite often here in Michigan.
true lmao
Not 3 years. Thats ridiculous.
If B1M covered all 2700 pages of that paper, I'd watch all of it.
wellll..... mmmmm... I think I'm going to skip that one :)
You'd be to upset at all the crap & pork democrats hid in it.
@@haworthlowell805 like what?
Especially since the taxpayer needs to know
page 1666 "give all the money to Israel"
Fun fact: US highway system and infrastructure developed in 50s and 70s were used to counter or act a deterrent if potential American airports and bases were destroyed or rail lines were destroyed an alternative form of logistical management was required.
@pyropulse okay bro
yes, our HIGHWAY system was to transport military power from the East to West Coasts. This was created after the 1st world war. Back then it took 2 months to cross this nation.
so what you're saying is America's insane bloat of highway & motor vehicle infrastructure should be included in what you count as military spending?
@@InnuendoXP no, they decided it would be used as public use, so no
@@soniajulie6465 the US arms industry also employs civilians, many of their products have consumer production models to fund military R&D, and the military can requisition transport routes at their behest
"If it's one thing Americans can agree on, it's infrastructure." Bruh... we can't even agree on the DEFINITION of infrastructure! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
omg, really? infrastructure is all the things from power, water, sewage, roads, trains, atc
@@LordInter I think a big debate was if broadband internet was “infrastructure” enough to be included in the bill
@@joebond2099 ah gotcha, that makes sense, part of me does think that it's then going to be superseded by 5g and sat tech but I dunno 😊
@@LordInter I think it's about how the infrastructure should look like and what impact it has, e.g. transport: should the US stay with car dependancy or should they open up for public transport or concentrate more on public transport or bicycles.
@@LordInter obviously, but don't tell that to this "infrastructure" bill.
The tragedy is, this would've been the perfect time to adopt a few big changes that would make the USA better.
Things like exclusionary mono-zoning regulations, minimum parking, improper road design, lack of walking and cycling infrastructure, and so much more.
That's in the next bill
YES! We don't need trains connecting Maine to Florida. We need investments in cities to encourage Biking and walking. We need better public transit. Infill development and an end to single-family home housing in urban cores.
monozoning regulations and minimum parking requirements are a big part of what has made american infrastructure so bad. the US is way too car dependent and the only way to fix the infrastructure is to get most of the cars off the road.
No mixed-use zoning, parking maximums, and better but also reduced road infrastructure in order to encourage alternative modes of transport (walking, biking, etc). Perhaps, even standardizing Passivhaus design in our building codes, would all be steps in the right direction.
I’d rather drive a bike through Moab to get to work than take public transportation.
One thing to consider is each state also has its own budget to invest in its infrastructure as well. Florida has been upgrading their highways, airports, and added the bright line train all on its own.
Florida was given the Money In 2009 to do that, the former Governor rejected that, so he could invest in the privately owned bright line plan and make money off It. Just pointing out Florida could have done this 10 years ago.
the whole state had construction, atleast on the east cost of the state, all the way from miami all the way to jacksonville i saw the highways being constructed, and recently they are adding another hangar or whatever in opa locka airport down in miami
"Orlando International Airport received a $50 million Airport Terminal Program grant to complete the South Terminal C expansion project"
“Crumbling Infrastructure” sounds like a delicious dessert tho
as long as USA getting ruined, I want some.
someone should name a desert after this
@@yungunit8299 is your entire personality just obsessing over the west. Please do something productive. Much love. ❤️
@@altoic1 Lol yeah obbsessed, and defo insecure about their own countries ways
If one feels the need to bring others down to bring oneself up, perhaps it's time to question whether oneself was high up anyway?
@@st20332 Lol not Americans talking about how they’re the “best” all the time
The infrastructure problem will never be solved until the federal and state governments stop giving grants to cities to build unsustainable suburban hellscapes on the fringes of their city limits. Roads and utilities don't last forever.
100% agree with this! We need to densify America.
If you were the president,what would you do?
@@ArielViera density brings disastrous consequences. Quick disease spreading, excessive travel times, and many more. Density (and the lack thereof) can be good, but not when taken to a polar end, within moderation. The physical state of the roads should be contributed to by the ones who live or own property there, not by the few people who choose the line of work required.
@@imrytebeehyneu nuke the cities, solve 99% of all infrastructure problem
@@fortnitegamer-yp4hd On the other hand, density allows for a far more efficient spread of health and transportation resources. And that's not considering the indirect benefits, like increased physical activity or reduced energy consumption per household that allows government to better manage community resources. In comparison with most of the western world, America is pretty extreme in terms of the density of our cities. LAs don't exist outside of North America. I'm sure moderation required, sure, but considering what already exists, I highly doubt whatever OP meant would go beyond reasonable limits.
You know you need an upgrade when even the DC Metro is only 40% operational (i ride the metro everyday). Subway trains, yes subway trains arrive every 30-40mins. Now I had to wake up 1-2hours early because of it! That’s in the Government’s backyard!
I think DC metro is best in the US tho. It's expensive af, but I was surprised how clean it was when I visited. It felt very modern compared to other subway systems in US. Wish it had platform screen doors and more lines
@@jaehongsong4904 yes, but recently there has been a derailment, and another track switching malfunction last week.
Wow wtf how can voters accept that for so long?
Be happy you don’t live in Boston, the trains show up more frequently, but they’re slow, dirty, crowded, and derail constantly
Ahhh DC voters Taxation without representation. That should tell you how DC residents deal with such things.
Lets hope they make roads more efficient and not expand the concrete nightmare they've got now.
in other words....they start spending it on, setting up transportation networks and fixing/improving existing transportation systems?
In some places there taking down freeways that gon through cities and in others they keep building lanes
Hopefully, they can fix the roads and improve our ports, and transportation system. We should see improvement within decade.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 There should be a "not one more mile" rule on the road funding. No freeway widenings, no new highways, no new interchanges. Just fix the stuff we have, or even downsize some of it to make it cheaper to maintain in the future. The US road system is so huge and bloated that there's no way to maintain it all. In the past there was so much focus on building new freeways you'd get freeways to nowhere built out in rural Iowa (not part of interstate system, just a random freeway in a field) just to funnel money to road construction interests.
@@brianvanderstar4048 Yeah, much of the transportation network needs to be redesigned. No one who can afford a car is gonna take the bus if you're just gonna be stuck in the same traffic as all the people in cars, or commute a train that goes 4 times a day..
"On this vote, the yays are 69"
Nice.
Rough timestamp 1:03.
I came searching for this because I knew someone had to have beat me to it
Sooner or later America's gonna realize that endless suburban sprawl is more financially wasteful than building denser, walkable areas.
Yeah but the people don’t want to live in dense areas.
@@slugoo6474because the only dense walkable areas that exist are 1000 story highrises with 100 lanes of traffic
Sooner or later, Europeans will realize the US is more than metropolitan suburbs and understand rural Americans require transportation so they can drive an hour from their food deserts to the closest small town with stores.
@@toytacambery9427 sooner or later, they’ll learn to just leave us alone😂
@@slugoo6474A lot of people my age do. Things are changing.
$1.2 Trillion for “Infrastructure.” We’ll be lucky if 1/4 of that goes to infrastructure at all.
democracy
Bureaucracy, Pork and Pet projects make up the other 75 percent
Theft will be rampant.
@Kenneth Tham his definition of infrastructure consists of whatever his news site tells him, tyvm! Because that’s where we should be getting definitions from. Not dictionaries, pundits.
@@ItsAllFake1 Sorry, but none of those things are in the infrastructure bill that just passed. They would have been included in the Build Back Better Act, which will most likely not pass.
I wonder how many pages of those 2700 are compromises etc. on totally unrelated things just to get the bill through.
2699.5 of em no doubt. All going to congressional pet projects.
Most of the bill is not gonna help but just waste more US money. Inflation is the most likely thing to happen from this bill. Nothing else.
@@EmpReb Hopefully the US can get their stuff together this time and not waste money.
10% infrastructure, 90% welfare and pork.
@@williamhuang8309 Only after Purging our Admistraive state and Congress. Which I don't see happening before a huge collapse.
1:04 'Will this plan really be enough to save America's crumbling infrastructure?'
Short answer: No.
Long answer: No, not really. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2017 Infrastructure Report Card(an assessment of the nation's infrastructure), the US will need to invest $4.59 trillion by 2025 to improve the nation's infrastructure.
It's sad how in this country we waste almost a trillion dollars on the military every year BUT God forbid investing 5 trillion over a decade...
@@carlosgarciasanchez lol cos we need to protect europe with our military
@@bly4t From whom? Aliens? You think Russia will just invade one day cuz it feels like it? Why not try to lessen tension and improve relations with countries like Russia or China? Then protecting other countries won’t even be necessary.
Oh right, I forgot, it wasn’t about protecting anyone was it? It’s because the military industrial complex puppets the entire government by paying for so much lobbying so that they can take as much of a cut of taxpayers’ money as they want.
And of course they get away with it scot free because somehow neocon idiots will even defend these companies for stealing their own hard-earned cash.
@@LSC69 there is something called NATO and that is why european govs dont really spend on military
@@bly4t Your military spending has nothing to do with Europe and everything to do with the military industrial complex and its bottom line.
Noooo not more money to roads. 110BN could build soooo many high-speed railways. I hate our government, stupid self-centered people making stupid decisions for us.
55 + 65 + 110 + 7.5 + 39 + 66 = 342bn, a quarter of the entire bill. Are you going to make another video on what the other 858 billion is being spend on in this _Infrastructure_ bill?
That’s already pre-planned for budget overruns.
650bn (highway & waterway) + 10bn (cybersecurity) + 8bn (ports) + 25bn (airports) + 11bn (pedestrian safety) + 17bn (Army Corps of Engineers) + 21bn (abandoned site clean-up) + 23bn (natural disaster mitigation) + 100(ish)bn (utilities & power grid) = remaining 858bn in spending give or take
The other 858 is to cover American bureaucracy.
@@IvanKP_97 Highways are covered on 6:14 110bn for roads and bridges. I'm fine (happy even) if 720bn is spend on it combined but what's the distinction?
Cant do that, the other part isn’t even infrastructure.
Public transit *only* got 39B? out of 1.2 trillion? the lack of public transit is THE REASON we have to keep rebuilding our roads every few decades
The quality of the editing has gone up recently 🤩 These videos are such a pleasure to watch, narration + visuals are on point!
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RealLifeLore and B1M have such quality videos and break things down so well, it's truly a gift to watch this stuff for free.
RealLifeLore? No way. They're politically biased.
If they could properly manage the projects, the bill could be half the cost with better results. I've seen perfectly good roads torn up and repaved while potholes on other roads are ignored (despite being maintained by the same entity). I've seen new roads put down only to be immediately torn up because they want to work on the power, gas, or water under the road. And the patchwork they do after is terrible. In general though, I haven't felt the effects of the supposed bad infrastructure other than an occasional pothole. My power never goes out, the highways are in good shape (except when they are under construction), etc.
The roads in my town in a major South Carolina city (possibly the largest city, if I had to guess), are horrendous. Trust me, our roads are terrible in this country. They weren't made to last this long without being replaced.
Just say you hate roads and want Americans to die if you think this is senseable
Omg this is so true. Literally in my hometown, they paved a brand new road only to immediately rip it up because electrical work needed to be done. So now a year on, what once was a new road is now a horrible road as there’s all these uneven sections where the road was dug up so lines could be laid. And now cuz everyone’s complained, they’re just gonna tear everything up and repave the road again
Well i mean the bill hadnt even kicked in when you posted this comment
This bill is a step in the right direction, but it fails to address the fundamental problems that face America: such as car dependency, suburbia, etc. It also plans for road WIDENINGS and subsidies for (electric)cars, when it should focus more on public transit and bikelanes.
Unfortunately those items get pushed aside for the benefit of big oil. But something at this point is better than nothing. We can't continue on as a fix it after it breaks country.
@@Alaois You are very right, but I think that the federal government can encourage states to focus on surtain key goals and for example stop giving them federal money to construct more and wider highways (states get 9$ for every 1$ they spent), but instead invent such schemes for train connections, etc.
you really cant just get rid of suburbia and car dependency. suburbia is here to stay. unless you just wanna bulldoze the living hell out of american cities
@@oscargurdian9389 Yeah, it would be downright impossible to bulldoze the entirety of suburbia, but at least making sure new developments aren't a suburban hellscape is a step in the right direction. Then, you can start making small changes to the design of suburban neighbourhoods e.g. adding footpaths to cut down the walking distance.
Hyperloop 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 what a fucking tremendous waste
yeah that 1.2 trillion is TOTALLY going to infrastructure, not agendas and programs
America is built very inefficiently. I lived there for a few years and the suburbs are pretty depressing. Need to drive 20 minutes to buy a loaf of bread. Hard to imagine how they can sustain this without heavily increasing taxes
where you from?
It’s $500B, at best. The rest goes elsewhere. And when all is said and done, expect only half of that to be used like you think.
STATES spend the money, not the federal government. If they mismanage it, that is on the states. Of those, 36 are controlled by Republicans.
And nobody will go to jail because accountability is DEAD in USA.
The only thing I know is a lot of politician's relatives are lining up with their shiny new construction outfit to carve out that pork for the family. I'll be stunned if even 25% actually goes to building anything historically considered infrastructure. From what I've read in the bill they have taken some significant liberties with what the meaning of the word is.
This. It's called the infrastructure bill but a lot of the money will be allocated elsewhere. Politicians like to sneak other types of spending into bills and that's what they've done with this bill as well.
Build back better!
let's go Brandon
For what shall it profit a merica if it makes whole its bridges yet forfeit its economy?
But it will trickle down. Right? because that work or just do nothing. Like always and then bitch about it more.
The definition of 1.2 trillion dollars of taxpayer dollars promised to improve the lives of taxpayers.
Completely "co-opted" for uses that are directly used for anything but The law abiding american taxpayer.
Like what?
You covered about 200 billion of spending.. Where's the other 1 trillion going?
Pre-planned Budget overruns.
@@miroslavmilan AKA: 'Kickbacks', 'Rakeoff', 'Cronyism', and just-plain 'THEFT'.
Same thing as every other bills….payoffs to political supporters. This channel is treating this very seriously when thats not how bills are made.
@@megaswenson You can look it up instead of just lying about the bill.
@@vayate1234 imagine the look on your face when half of these projects don't have any outcome and the money is lost
My home town has had a sign up announcing a new train station since 2006, we are on the north east corridor one of probably the busiest commuter railways in the USA (I would think at least)
Even you know infrastructure is a lie
The NEC is the busiest commuter railway in the US and they still can't afford to build one station?
@@justanotherasian4395 I cant just blame the federal government because I guess the nj state legislature is responsible for getting it done
@@justanotherasian4395 They rebuilt some stations near me a few years ago 🤷♂️ Although they’re not new, just upgraded
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I hope for longer videos from this channel some day
You should check out his other channel then. ruclips.net/channel/UCN3aYbtQ7yCqk9DM56B0kEw. Its just as good.
@@erichooper9858 I'm already subbed ahahaha
Dude, the bit at the beginning with the Senate vote gave me chills. Very well edited!
Yep.
So awesome.
Tremendous money to be funneled away and never seen again
Kamala scared me too
@@yournameshere I'll take very common and over used joke for 500
@@unovayellow6953 cope
If it’s actual infrastructure then I’m in. But something tells me it’s BS
Probably is.
God bless America
@@arishemghoul9571 God Bless the World
If this is anything like the last trillion dollar infrastructure bill, most of the money will go to lobbyists and not to actual infrastructure. How about the federal government stays out of it and lets the states handle their own infrastructure?
I still wonder if we'll get to see a High Speed Rail in the US
They ate trying to build it in California and texas
Unlikely
They’ll build one, and after it goes bankrupt and starts begging for money from the government there will never be another one.
There already is. There is a train that goes 265 km/h
@@johnfrench6564 In the U.S.? Where?
It always sounds great until you realize that only a small amount will actually go to Infrastructure . The crooks line their pockets first .
its really sad, the title lists the bill as 1.2 tril, but they only list 342.5 billion of it. and of that 342.5 only 230 goes to something of value. amtrac and public trans have no federal justification. so there trying to spend 1.2 trillion with just 230 billion doing anything. and they cant figure out why they cant get red votes. not even the video brings it up
yup, the fact anyone has any faith in this garbage bureaucracy shows how absolutely hopeless the future really is.
Congratulations, the quality of your videos is amazing!
USA is now focusing on spending over 766 billions dollars on military equipment and weapons than manufacturers and infrastructure bill in the United states
Every time the US decided to make huge investments in infrastructure networks, that ended up making a huge impact on other countries' infrastructure policies. I hope this time, it will happen again and provide the world with something more than just an update of the already built facilities/networks (which is always required in order to keep things working well).
@@agnez112 bot
Really? Wow, can you throw some examples of this? I've never really *felt* any global ripples from an American infrastructure policy reform... but that's cuz I don't pay attention to policy changes or politics lol.
@@samuraijosh1595 Wo Men Chi Wo Bing Chilling
The promises of infrastructure investment,
over the last 40 years have been too little,
too late.....
Raygun said it best,
The cost to fix what we are ignoring now,
in the future, will cost a hell of a lot......
They have been saying that since then,
but doing less than is needed.....
@@danielhutchinson6604 hey how much are you bing chilling your bin
This subject is being discussed in every home in America these days. So thrilling to see it covered on B1M. I hope they focuse on public transportation and building infastructure where human are the priority and not cars. Cheers!
😂😂😂😂 sir this is an America.
cars carry humans...stfu
😂 "every home in America" Shill or idiot, we'll never know.
@@willblack8575 Trains carry us wayyy better..stfu
Wait a minute, I thought this was B1M not BLM…
My local road Is getting paved because of this bill. It will be nice to no longer live on a dirt road.
You explained what's being done with about 200 or 300 billion dollars. What about the other trillion? That's almost almost of it, being spent on what?
well you know... other things...
@@MM-ym8kk like what
@@idkfrcyz5i 22:43
C- grade followed by a shot of DC Metro. Genius editing!
The final commentary about this money not being enough to tackle all the infrastructure issues makes me remember the F-35 program, which cost $1T+ to complete, with lots of delays and failing software. As a construction developer myself, I can totally relate that infrastructure-related project will ALWAYS be plagued with timelines, over-budgeting and under-delivering.
Remember though, the $1T+ cost of the F-35 program covers the operations and sustainment costs over the course of 40+ years for more than 2,000 aircraft.
As a Canadian visiting the US for the first time in years, a couple of weeks ago: I was SHOCKED at the state of the sidewalks and roads. I couldn't walk 10 paces without tripping on a heaved sidewalk crack, it was crazy. The other thing I noticed, was just how many cars were abandoned all over the place. I've returned actually grateful for all the construction road closures and such. Not to mention my free healthcare....... God Speed America! I hope you kids can get your act together.
Ever visited Montreal? Roads are not great, to put it mildly. As for your "free" healthcare, it is common knowledge that Canada's system makes people wait long lines. Neither the American nor Canadian (nor British) systems are good, to be honest.
USSR of Canada? What you say is pretty good for a Communist country. I am amazed.
Hmmm.... Did you visit a democrat city or a southern town? Democrat cities are awful infrastructure wise. In the south we have boarded up business, but the roads are alright 😄.
@@tuele4302 I'm a Brit, if I didn't want to wait I could simply go private and be seen immediately. If you didn't want to pay could you be seen for free? No, you can't. I'll stick with the UK system, thanks.
Now let's hope the 1.2tn is actually going into infrastructure which is highly unlikely
The money is spent by states. If they misuse it, that's on them.
Its not. Only a small portion is. They just call it infrastructure bill for low information voters who dont bother to find out what’s in the bill.
@@aguyfromnothere Unlike me, a high information voter who read all 2,000+ pages and am very aware of everything inside of the bill because I am not a low information voter. I bet that I, just like you, can recall where all the money is going towards. I feel so smart because I have finally found somebody else who is as hyper-woke as I am.
@@aguyfromnothere mr high information voter, please explain how this works.
it will not. besides the US need 5 trillion at least by 2025 to fix their most important infrastructure problems. but they will never put that much money in their own country. because creating illegal wars terrorism illegal coups and all those things is more important for your government.
I’m only 18 years old, and I’m extremely worried for the future of this nation. I might not even get to turn the age to become a president for it completely collapsed. Our infrastructure is crumbling, economy is broken, national security destroyed, and so much more. No man on that hill cares for us. They only care for themselves. I want to see the US prosper and thrive, but I may never even see it turn 300 years old. It seems that no one will stand up and fight for what’s right, and those that do are pushed out. What on earth are we gonna do
If you think for 1 second that the 1.2T bill is for "infrastructure", I have a bridge to sell you for dirt cheep. This is only about lining pockets under the guise of "the common good".
Ironically you are selling it for 1.2T as well.
I’m fortunate to live in a state that invests in its infrastructure, at least roads and bridges, pretty well. I look forward to seeing how they utilize their portion of this infrastructure bill. I’ve heard speculation they may reactivate some defunct rail lines as well, which definitely excites me. I’m a truck driver, but if I can avoid driving on my days off, that would make me very happy.
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Where do you live?
@@jan-bean He lives in Wakanda.
I'm glad we're getting infrastructure, but the question now is how will it be implemented. The U.S. is notorious for terrible inefficiency because everything is pushed off to private companies that don't care about the quality and just want to milk the government for as much money as possible.
I don't think that's correct at all.
Lol don't say both parties are addressing climate change. Make no mistake, the republican party is still in a harsh state of denial on the topic.
The production of this video is a serious step-up guys from previous vids! Very well done 👍
Always love the videos
USA is a joke. USA has old, neglected, outdated, failing, decaying and crumbling infrastructure. USA looks like one big RUST BUCKET.
This was so well-made. I loved the archival footage!!
I don’t think enough will get done whatsoever, the money will likely just be pocketed by the wrong people…
They'll use the money for more wars instead.
What a joke! Each state could spend 1.2 trillion on “infrastructure” repairs.
False
Have you seen the roads in Michigan? Our state would love a portion of that ;p
@@TheRealLink your govenor campaign on fixing the rds…..
lets just hope they build it back in a fashion that is sustainable and walkable and doesn't go crazy as they did with the road network in the 1970s which is led to a lot of urban sprawl and other issues in the present day including heightened car usage which hopefully can be tackled with some of the transport finance as long as it's done properly.
USA is a joke. USA has old, neglected, outdated, failing, decaying and crumbling infrastructure. USA looks like one big RUST BUCKET.
You misspelled destroy as rebuild.
The most fascinating part about the plan - it will never come to fruition.
What makes u say that?
Plans to include funding for hyper loop?? Let’s hope those plans fall through. Give that money to Amtrak
You should look more into Hyperloop. It's not currently feasible, practical or more efficient in any way than current locomotive solutions and likely won't be for decades if ever
hmmm how about the FRICKING MONORAILSSS??
@@wlot28 I think you misread what this person was implying.
@@looseygoosey1349 My point still stands
WOOOOOOW!!!!!!
In the US it's still legal to have PFAS in DRINKINGWATER?!?
we (in The Netherlands) just had a HUGE scandal around PFAS released in our environment, making clear this stuff is not only highly toxic (carcinogen even), but also doesn't break down at all for decades or even centuries.
ps: there's a (few) documentary(-ies) about the scandal made by ZEMBLA (also available in English)..................... worth watching
Part of the infrastructure problem is our sprawling development. When a mile of water pipes or electrical wires serve only a few houses instead of many, that's less property taxes available to fix the infrastructure when it breaks. Sprawl looks cheap at the outset - cheap land, low taxes - but it's costs become apparent when the infrastructure needs fixing.
This point you made is most of the problem
That’s facts. America needs to implement more dense living environments for sustainable development. Also walkable neighborhoods and eventually cities in which you don’t need to own a car. Those already exist, of course, but the vast majority of new housing developments do not follow this model and are instead disgusting car dependent sprawl.
Welcome to suburbia
Adding on to my own comment: some people in suburban developments complain about subsidizing urban people with welfare programs. The truth is, their suburban development gets subsidized by taxes from the cities, whether to build new infrastructure or repair the old. If this infrastructure bill just builds more sprawl, it's going to make the problem worse, not better.
You are correct. Infact, cities are already running out of money and replacing paved roads with dirt ones because they have no money. When a certain group of people in this country ask the question how are we going to pay for it or imply somehow that we won’t have money for something, the only place that is true is for exactly what you described. Not just bikes has an entire series talking about this issue and how it’s unsustainable if anyone reading is curious in learning more.
Hopefully most of it doesn’t just go to expanding highways. America needs better public transport like trains.
Nah we’re good
America isn't Europe. Won't work, too big
Ahahah , wait he's serious , ahahahah :D
@@seethebutter Being big is irrelevant China has good Public transportation but In America its difficult to do it nation wide I think it would be good on big cities only
@@Student0Toucher Yes the cities that already have it are the ones where it (largely) makes sense.
I believe that even though this may not be enough, at least they are finally attempting to help the issue
American infrastructure may be doomed but their military spending will boom
Actually it's really clever if the chinese tanks are coming the bridges will collapse and the invation be slowed down a lot or even stopped
@@vomm why would China invade their puppet state?
@@will0ughby lol
Everything is crumbling because we build our infrastructure entirely around car-centric transportation, from wasteful zoning, to minimum parking requirements, to the enormous money sink of the interstate highways system.
An average R1 Single Family zoned neighborhood, with it's minimum building setbacks and plot size, will waste millions over its lifetime on plumbing, sewage, gas, and electric infrastructure just because of how large and spread-out those systems need to be just to cover that single community.
It's insane just how inefficient cars make society as a whole lol
Conduct a survey of over a million people, 30% of people living in cities and 70% of people living outside of cities, and see how many people would want to live in massive cities with walk able conditions or a system like we have now.
Cities get most of their food by road. Letting roads deteriorate and short-sighted urbanites starve is efficient. Insane, but efficient.
1.2 trillion is not going to be enough. These projects have been long overdue for decades.
Biden originally proposed a package over 2 trillion dollars but the Republicans voted to decrease it
If only 1.2 trillion went towards our national debt
That would still do nothing though
Seeing this channel grow and the production quality increase brings me so much joy!
I think if we invested in everyone in this country not just the rich states we would be all better off. By rebuilding our communities in the south and Midwest. Building state of the art hospitals, public schools, public funded college education, rebuilding our roads, bridges, sewer systems, and even cracked sidewalks, building new suburban and urban cities in states with undeveloped land. Also encouraging women to have more children and grow the population. The more people you have in your country the more money is being spent. Also encouraging people to start businesses and supporting them. It’s just that simple. If I were president that’s what I would do. Tax the super rich and cut down the budgets on things we spend too much money on. The trillions we spent in Afghanistan could have gone towards fixing our communities and even building new ones. It’s sad what America is doing to itself. It hurts as an American citizen.
$1.2 trillion won't build much in America if construction costs are anything like that California high speed rail.
You actually fell for the fake news? Show me the Great High Speed Rail and ... nothing. You are a classical American, lmao!
@@MrFlatage I like how this classical american has the absolutely american union jack
@@isdattomatojuice9897 Love how you Chinese trolls cannot use capital letters or end sentences. Any 1st grader would wipe the floor with you. Entire world knows what a false flag is too. Sorry. Feel free to fight the facts for a mere 50 cents.
@@MrFlatage Uh? did i miss something but...what has China now to do with the US investing one trillion dollars for infrastructure?
@@domitravel795 Yup you totally missed starting a sentence with a capital letter. And like the NSA report to US Congress stated? Challenge one Chicom troll? More will show up.
@4:03 US spending just 1.5% of its GDP on infrastructure is because we spend so much money on defense.
It's clear that US needs to invest in:-
(1) Nuclear-Energy => PWRs & FBRs
(2) Semi & High-Speed Railways => Bullet & Maglev trains
(3) Public Rental Housing
(4) Green Hydrogen
(5) Hydrogen-FCEVs, Aircraft & Ships
I have learned to be skeptical. I hope I'm wrong, but I expect this money to be wasted and for the wealthy few to scoop up most of it, leaving our infrastructure worse off than it already is.
no your being realistic , your end up paying for it, so will your children and seeing as the Democrats don't believe in Meritocracy, all the 'new' stuff will be need to replaced 10 years down the line, but America will be Bankrupt and won't be able to.
@@davidrenton Interesting, I mostly agree except for the democratic part and the 10 year bit. I think it is a whole government issues and when we do build stuff it tends to be really good. We just don't do it very often.
that's the American way my guy! of course that's gunna happen! that's what happens when, instead of ensuring the flow of money gets used on the intended job, you pass it from hands to hands til it finally gets to the company doing the work. the more hands that get to touch the money, the more that's gunna get skimmed off the top. the federal government should be taxing the mega corps properly, using that money for these kinds of projects, and rather then handing the money to the states, who subcontract that out to giant construction companies, who often again subcontract to smaller local guys, the federal government should just have a pool those local guys can pull from. the whole system is broken.
Also doesn't help that the taxes I mentioned earlier keep getting smaller and smaller. they were designed for this purpose, using the money to fix infastructure and such, but over the years the republicans have let the companies pay them off directly, and so now these companies don't pay squat in taxes, they hide behind tax heavens and stupid tax laws in order to keep as much money in their profits as possible.
America = profits>ANYTHING else.
Strange? That $1.2 trillion just up and vanished shortly after being approved. No one saw that coming 🙄
My cities has a lot of improvements happening via the money.
Damn, that’s Grand Rapids, MI on 4:43. Cool to see the city where I studied on B1M video.
I was thinking the same thing!
The amount of money presumably devoted to public transit is laughable (compared to infrastructure proper, road/bridges). Granted, most drive. Fair, but why give in to this vicious cycle, over-reliance on cars is unsustainable esp. in already crowded cities! Congress and the Govt seem to be happy to let the next gen deal with it, pffffff
public transport sounds like communism and doesn't make my friends rich, we can't do that
ban buses they are taking up more space than a single car. We should remove tax from cars and have bigger roads for more affordability. If you can't drive you can't survive! remove regulations. Work harder if you can't afford a truck!
It's alot of money that's certain but it's barely gonna put a dent into the infrastructure problem. Alot of it will probably lost or wastefully spent on bureaucratic nonsense. Not to mention that even the infrastructure that does get built like road will probably rapidly deteriorate because car utilization continues to ramp up.
INFRASTRUCTURE IS A LIE
No it will go to corporations.
It’s a good thing grandpa knows how it was done - he witnessed it all being built. :D
Wait, hyperloop? What the hell?
Why not invest in Star Trek transporters? They are about as likely to happen
Wow 39 billion dollars for public transportation that’s almost enough to build one metro system. I’m very glad my taxes will be contributing to 110 billion dollars of lane expansions that surely won’t make the urban landscape even more hideous and destroy useful buildings.
1.2 Trillion actually falls short of what is really needed. The American Society of Civil Engineers do an annual report card on condition of our infrastructure and costs to repair or replace. It was over 4 Trillion a decade ago. Current amount is a start, we can pass additional spending bills in future.
1.2T but they still won’t give us high speed trains
Nothing left for real investments.
10% for politics, 10% for the agencies that will give all the permissions, 10% for architects to plan it, 10% that always vannish, 10% for claims that will come. 10% for the bosses of these projects, 10% for insurrences, 10% for the works, materials and equipment. 10% for the wages and the last 10% for all small costs. So at the end not much will change as this will be divided by all the states.
Cuz most of that money is going to their pockets lol
@@TylerSolvestri facts. you know whats up
I think they also should reconsider the way they live, especially about transportation by car. You don’t need to rebuild highways in cities for example, instead drastically transform the road so they can be streets, and increase the walkability by densifying communities.
Great video! By the way, I saw that you are subscribed to the channel of the city of Nantes, France. I live here so I was curious, why did you subscribed to it?😂
Not everyone wants to live on top of each other though. People here like owning land and being further away from one another. I personally never liked the density of European cities and i think most Americans don’t either; it’s exciting for the first couple of days but after a while just too crowded. I think it is our individualistic nature that likes things spread out
@@superiortoall22 you don't have to make cities more dense to make them walkable, you could have streetcar networks in the suburbs that connect to wider tram networks in the city
it's idiotic to put it mildy that you would build an entire body of houses just for ALL types of shops to be somewhere completely else.
@@superiortoall22 You don't have to live on top of each other to build a supermarket in a neigherbourhood, which is literally forbidden with the US ways of city planning
@@Agate717 that would be nice if automobiles weren’t the main mode of transportation in the US. Oklahoma City is a great example of failure of a suburb to city rail system; it’s a waste of money because it just wasn’t a necessity, people already have cars. I think the infrastructure bill would be better served improving roads in rural areas and expanding roads in large cities to meet the growth explosion; also accountability of where the money is going, not into the pockets of politicians and CEOs while they slow play the construction to earn more funding. I would say that sidewalks in smaller towns would be nice.
*Build Back Broke*
7:05 Climate Change seems like a good term for covering up Congress not doing their job of proper stewardship of our country
Honestly, I'm amazed we even gave ourselves a C-, I lived in NJ and moved to New England (CT), literarily all infrastructure in every way has seemed on the verge of failing since I could remember. I've always been worried about every bridge I've ever seen stateside having large rust patches, even the George Washington Bridge, I've seen the Hudson river when looking out for a NYC cab break checking me for no apparent reason, until I also step on the brake because of the view of the river I wasn't expecting to see when looking forward.
One thing I noticed when moving to the east coast (NJ and then RI, with plenty of routine bridge inspection work in CT, too) is that the roads are generally is much worse shape than elsewhere. Designs are badly outdated, it wasn’t very well taken care of (especially in RI), just looks worn out all over the place. There are so many improvements needed here, any construction currently going on is just the tip of the iceberg
USA is a joke. USA has old, neglected, outdated, failing, decaying and crumbling infrastructure. USA looks like one big RUST BUCKET.
Sadly, the United States will actually start to take this seriously until one of those bridges do actually fail.
Just do the whole 2700 pages, and you have my time and money as well.
Great video!
We would be lucky if 10% of the money is used for actually used for real infrastructure projects
It's clear the money will just magically disappear
@@vomm of course, just as this 1.2T will be magically conjured by The Fed
Does it seriously mention the hyper loop ?
I thought it was quite clear for everyone that this concept is stupid in every possible way.
They're not spending money on it. They're just entertaining the idea.
@@RR-us2kp Well that's reassuring ! Starting to understand the distrust towards the gvt in the US 😅
We need to keep AMERICA looking great so this money needs to be spent on our country instead of helping other countries with their problems so this needs to happen for our beautiful AMERICA THE UNITED STATES.
Another excellent video with only a touch of how it normally get funded, which was very well done.
One thing you could have elaborated slightly (or I might have missed it) on how big the country is. Many people fail to grasp that still.
Is also going to be a challenge considering the labor shortage going on. Traffic cones, a week as hell wanted signs, are going to be decorating our landscape as well.
There is no labor shortage. There's just low wages.
@@anniehimself which is a result of the labor shortage. People are starting to go to jobs that pay more, or changing careers.
Construction jobs actually pay quite well.
@@rick67hou Aren't construction/developing costs in the US right now crazy expensive too? Seems like an uphill battle for US
@@ScreenWatch12 materials cost is the highest it's ever been. Best time to fucking build something aye? Buy high sell low.
@@ScreenWatch12 I'm not in the industry, but quite a few things are increasing in price.
Wait, you say US infrastructure has been failing for decades, so why hasn't it failed yet? May be, your infrastructure is not as bad as people say it is.
Here, here always during election year. They say anything about infrastructure.
The problem is, they are repairing a flawed system instead of improving it.
Ah, no wonder i30 is getting major intersection upgrades. One by 360 and one by 635 here in Texas. Not to mention the increase in sidewalks. It all makes sense now.
i already see cones everywhere in my hometown. lines are redrawn everywhere and bridges are being built at warp speed… its crazy how fast we can get things done when we put an urgent and together mindset
What town
I would love to see a much longer, or much more, videos talking about American infrastructure and this bill in particular
USA is a joke. USA has old, neglected, outdated, failing, decaying and crumbling infrastructure. USA looks like one big RUST BUCKET.
Dude, We just want rail.