{"id":436948,"date":"2022-04-25T03:44:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T00:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joe-biden-infrastructure-spending-is-pointless-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2022-04-25T03:44:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T00:44:29","slug":"joe-biden-infrastructure-spending-is-pointless-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-biden-infrastructure-spending-is-pointless-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe Biden infrastructure spending is pointless and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f3d0c5156c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-biden-infrastructure-spending-is-pointless-and-other-commentary\/#%E2%80%9CJoe_Biden_infrastructure_spending_is_pointless_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Joe Biden infrastructure spending is pointless and other commentary&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-biden-infrastructure-spending-is-pointless-and-other-commentary\/#Libertarian_Joes_Spend-More_Get-Less_Rule\" >Libertarian: Joe\u2019s Spend-More, Get-Less Rule<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-biden-infrastructure-spending-is-pointless-and-other-commentary\/#Conservative_Putins_Pricey_Win\" >Conservative: Putin\u2019s Pricey Win<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-biden-infrastructure-spending-is-pointless-and-other-commentary\/#Media_desk_The_Gray_Ladys_New_Man\" >Media desk: The Gray Lady\u2019s New Man<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-biden-infrastructure-spending-is-pointless-and-other-commentary\/#Culture_critic_A_CRT_Alternative\" >Culture critic: A CRT Alternative<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-biden-infrastructure-spending-is-pointless-and-other-commentary\/#Russiagate_report_Dems_Document_Hail_Mary\" >Russiagate report: Dems\u2019 Document Hail Mary<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CJoe_Biden_infrastructure_spending_is_pointless_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Joe Biden infrastructure spending is pointless and other commentary&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/joe-biden-27.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Libertarian_Joes_Spend-More_Get-Less_Rule\"><\/span><strong>Libertarian: Joe\u2019s Spend-More, Get-Less Rule<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>President Biden\u2019s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill expanded requirements that federally funded projects use often-costlier US-made materials, and new rules \u201cwill make it harder to get waivers,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/04\/19\/bidens-protectionist-regulations-undermine-his-own-infrastructure-plans\/\">fumes Reason\u2019s Christian Britschgi.<\/a>: Waivers must go through the Office of Management and Budget, which one critic likens to having the Department of Education OK every kid\u2019s permission slip to miss a day of school. \u201cThe president wants to make \u2018historic\u2019 investments in infrastructure, but he\u2019s also deeply committed to regulations that ensure those investments will buy as little infrastructure as possible\u201d \u2014 giving us \u201cless bang for the buck.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservative_Putins_Pricey_Win\"><\/span><strong>Conservative: Putin\u2019s Pricey Win<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin \u201cmay yet get what he demanded from Ukraine and the West right before his invasion,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spectatorworld.com\/topic\/why-putin-wont-save-the-west\/\">notes Daniel McCarthy at Spectator World<\/a>. \u201cNATO membership may be on the table\u201d for everyone but Ukraine. Kyiv might even acknowledge Russia\u2019s \u201cpossession of Crimea.\u201d His demand for \u201cindependence for the \u2018breakaway republics\u2019 of Donetsk and Luhansk may prove more elusive. Maybe two out of three ain\u2019t bad.\u201d But Putin \u201cpurchased these gains at the price of revealing his country to be a Potemkin power. Its forces are hollow, undisciplined, ill-led, demoralized.\u201d The \u201cillusion of Russia as a \u2018great power\u2019 has been dispelled\u201d \u2014 except among \u201cthose in the West who have a habit of inflating threats.\u201d Face it, \u201cthe Russian military is unprepared to defeat anyone but itself. It is not in NATO\u2019s league.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Media_desk_The_Gray_Ladys_New_Man\"><\/span><strong>Media desk: The Gray Lady\u2019s New Man<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Joe Kahn, The New York Times\u2019 next executive editor, \u201chas the kind of background and temperament\u201d that was \u201ca classic type\u201d for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>room leaders \u2014 a half-century ago,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/04\/20\/joe-kahn-new-york-times-00026519\">observes Politico\u2019s John Harris<\/a>. The \u201cwhite male born into a wealthy family\u201d has \u201can Ivy League diploma\u201d and \u201cproved his skill as a reporter at a young age.\u201d How at \u201ca moment of radical disruption in the news business\u201d did \u201cthe Times settle on such a profoundly traditional choice?\u201d Modern newsrooms \u201chave been buffeted in recent years by ideological and cultural fissures . . . pitting older traditionalists against younger employees who believe the profession\u2019s old conventions about objectivity and neutrality are an obstacle to illuminating the true moral stakes on questions of racial or sexual equality.\u201d The Times hopes \u201ca leader with a low-key temperament can tamp down conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Culture_critic_A_CRT_Alternative\"><\/span><strong>Culture critic: A CRT Alternative<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cZora Neale Hurston offers an alternative to critical race theory,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/zora-neale-hurston-offers-an-alternative-to-critical-race-theory\/\">argues John Hood at The American Spectator<\/a>. During World War II, she \u201csuggested her fellow Americans take comfort and inspiration\u201d from quick-witted African-American folk hero John de Conquer: \u201cWhite America, take a laugh out of our black mouths, and win!\u201d She \u201cthought laughter was one of humanity\u2019s most powerful weapons against adversity, despair and tyranny,\u201d notes Hood, and that white and black America should \u201clean into our common aspirations and values.\u201d Hurston \u201crejected New Deal-style progressivism, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ism and other forms of collectivism that sought to subordinate personal agency or responsibility to group identity,\u201d directing \u201cspecial scorn at activists she termed \u2018racial cardsharps\u2019 who argued the only way for blacks to transcend past enslavement and mistreatment was to demand compensatory handouts and preferences.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Russiagate_report_Dems_Document_Hail_Mary\"><\/span><strong>Russiagate report: Dems\u2019 Document Hail Mary<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Special counsel John Durham is targeting \u201cFusion GPS, the opposition-research firm hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee (via law firm Perkins Coie) in 2016 to concoct the infamous \u2018dossier\u2019 against Donald Trump,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/fusion-gps-attorney-client-privilege-cover-clinton-campaign-2016-presidential-election-john-durham-donald-trump-russiagate-steele-dossier-fbi-dnc-simpson-fritsch-sussman-11650575751\">recounts The Wall Street Journal\u2019s Kimberley Strassel<\/a>.\u00a0He\u2019s \u201casked a federal judge to compel Fusion, the DNC and the Clinton campaign to hand over\u201d 1,455 documents. Dems claim the docs are \u201ccovered under attorney-client privilege,\u201d as \u201cFusion was retained not to do oppo-research, but to \u2018support\u2019 Perkins Coie\u2019s \u2018legal advice\u2019 to Democrats.\u201d This \u201cabsurd claim is the only refuge left to the first high-level campaign called out for funneling its political operations through a law firm.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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