So far, the mega-billions out the door already seem to have gone without much monitoring or control. That's about the only bipartisan thing so far - lack of oversight.
Infrastructure rebuild is a good idea, but who is going to be the "general contractor" determining what, when where and why? Is this going to involve another special federal agency with a pedigreed politician appointed to be the disbursing agent? How much of the work will be done by companies using illegal alien labor, with the money paid them being sent out of the country as "remittances" and thus never cycling through the US economy as promised?
We have all seen over the years how construction contracts issued by all levels of government have the greatest tendency for abuse, special "sweetheart" dealing, and outright criminality.
Don't get me wrong - I really like the idea of spending money to get something of value, and nothing is of greater value (other than national defense) than critical infrastructure. I'm just wary about how many percent of the moneys end up buying nothing due to crummy procurement practices and political indirect payoffs. Unless there is REAL oversight over the expenditures, all we will end up with is shoddy work (which will be dangerous and need to be redone) and disgust over the process.
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