Build infrastructure

The slogan chosen to subdue the population, apparently in order to install socialism in our country, is “Build Back Better.” Yes, and they also believe they can change the weather. Sorry to be cynical about it, but the proposal is by people who it seems have never built anything or even run a lemonade stand as a kid. Yes, Bernie Sanders and AOC read about it in a book. These two as well as the president have ideas about the economy and the environment that are old and frequently obsolete.

Have any of the elaborate climate proposals been submitted for an economic and thermodynamic analysis? The old phrase, “journey of 10,000 miles begins with the first step,” is always applicable. There are a lot of first steps—conservation, nuclear power, natural gas as a transition—that can be taken. Our climate envoy John Kerry has just been to China to lower the temperature of the globe. I wonder if he spoke with them about not flying squadrons of jets over Taiwan. If the globe is too hot, should we really be allowing space tourism?

With smoke and mirrors and alarm bells, a vast superstructure, in a bill that few have actually read, is proposed. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi always talks about the children and how this is good and necessary. What she does not mention is the debt load that will be saddled on the lives of children she purports to help. Last March President Biden tweeted about the millions of Americans whose water is delivered through lead pipes. A remedy would be a massive construction project. Everyone would be for it. Let’s do that. It’s called hard infrastructure.

CHARLES VERMONT

Bentonville