You’ve read more than once right here at PJ Media about the $7.5 billion that Presidentish Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act put on the table as an inducement to build a network of 500,000 EV charging stations up and down the nation’s interstate highways. And you’ve read about how few have been built — eight, at last count.
Well, that was a bargain compared to today’s boondoggle.
The same law also set aside $42.45 billion — that’s three Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers — to deploy high-speed internet to millions of Americans who currently lack access. That mostly means rural folks, who are usually the last to get anything new, like drug-resistant herpes or imaginary personal pronouns.
This is the part of the column where I’d ask you to guess how many Americans had been wired for high-speed internet after 2.5 years and all of those billions, and then you’d say, “Zero?” and then we’d both say we need a drink.
Because the answer truly is a big, fat zero.
FCC commissioner Brendan Carr posted to X a few days ago, “Mostly, the $42.45B is just sitting there. Not even one shovel’s worth of dirt has been turned.”
The infrastructure act is typical Bidenomics, loaded up with rules and regulations that make it impossible to get anything done quickly. As Carr put it, they include “rate regulation, thumb on the scale for government-run networks, technology bias, union preferences plus many more problems.”
they are just trying to decide how the money gets to whos pocket
Zero !!!