Personal Commentary ~
There may very well be
other versions of the two infrastructure plans noted below – it's been a
while since they were released but that's the point:
Regardless of what the Republican Party and the Press say, Democrats continue to work every day toward policies "that will lead to better jobs, better wages, and a better future," i.e. an Agenda and that includes an infrastructure plan that will begin to rebuild America and create jobs.
So, please, don't GOP and Media tell you Democrats do nothing -- even as they are trapped in the minority, at the moment.
I am providing a quick look at each plan and the links to find out more. How much more you'd like to know and how far you go is up to you...
( You can read a bit more about the Democrats Agenda here )
Focused Read in 2-5 minutes,
depending on how deep you go into the plans
ONE
January
25, 2017
...Democrats led by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) unveiled a proposed infrastructure plan that would spend $1 trillion over the next 10 years, according to a report.
The plan was an effort to highlight the federal funding they believe is needed to repair old bridges and roads, expand bus and rail systems, and modernize ports, highways, airports, schools, grids, and more.
The funding would come from direct federal spending ...
The plan includes:
$210 billion to repair roads and bridges;
$110 billion to upgrade local water and sewer systems;
$180 billion to replace and expand rail and bus systems;
$75 billion to rebuild schools;
$70 billion to modernize ports, airports and waterways, and more. ... "
You can read the story here
You can read the Senate's “Blueprint
to Rebuild America’s Infrastructure Creating Over 15 Million New
Jobs” here
TWO
May 17,
2017
"House
Democrats Release $85 Billion Infrastructure Plan
House Democrats...introduced a bill to spend at least $85 billion on infrastructure upgrades, staking out their position ahead of a congressional debate over infrastructure spending later this session.
The bill from Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee includes funding for five years of infrastructure projects in the energy, environment, technology and healthcare spheres.
It would spend:
$40 billion to deploy broadband internet around the United States;
$22.5 billion on drinking water infrastructure improvements;
$17 billion on the electric grid, renewable energy and energy efficiency programs;
$3 billion to improve hospitals and infectious disease research facilities;
and
$2.7 on the Brownfields industrial waste site cleanup program.
The bill, called the Leading Infrastructure For Tomorrow’s America, or LIFT, Act, “is a blueprint for critical investments in our nation's infrastructure that will also create jobs, promote economic growth and protect public health and the environment,” Energy and Commerce ranking member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) said in a statement. ... "
You can read the story here
You can read The House LIFT America Act
Invests in Infrastructure bill press release, which includes the bill, here
Focused Thought in 15 seconds
(Oh my word...who can keep up? There's been even more departures since I picked this up to include it in the blog y-e-s-t-e-r-d-a-y!)
Focused Action in 30 seconds
You can share my Tweet here
Focused Point of Interest in 2 minutes,
more if you choose to go deeper into the study
(Hard to read? The illustration ⬆ is of U.S. Audience Groups on Twitter.)
(Hard to read? The illustration ⬆ is of U.S. Audience Groups on Facebook.)
"Fake news sharing in US is
a rightwing thing, says study
University of Oxford
project finds Trump supporters consume largest volume of ‘junk
news’ on Facebook and Twitter
Low-quality, extremist,
sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the US was
overwhelmingly consumed and shared by rightwing social network users,
according to a new study from the University of Oxford.
The study, from the
university’s “computational propaganda project”, looked at the
most significant sources of “junk news” shared in the three
months leading up to Donald Trump’s first State of the Union
address this January, and tried to find out who was sharing them and
why.
“On Twitter, a network
of Trump supporters consumes the largest volume of junk news, and
junk news is the largest proportion of news links they share,” the
researchers concluded.
On Facebook, the skew
was even greater. There, “extreme hard right pages – distinct
from Republican pages – share more junk news than all the other
audiences put together.”
The research involved
monitoring a core group of around 13,500 politically-active
US Twitter users, and a separate group of 48,000 public
Facebook pages, to find the external websites that they were sharing.
Users who shared similar
collections of links were grouped together depending on what they
were discussing: ... "
You
can read more here
You can read more about
the analysis here
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→ Direct sources for Democrats:
* ( Personal favored and most informative follows are shared here with the understanding that readers will always apply their own critical thinking to any information provided anywhere by anyone. #StrongerTogether does not share sources of information lightly but -- no one is perfect! -- so always #DistrustAndVerify I am using a star rating that is strictly based on my situational experience with the work of the media personality specifically in relation to issues of interest to me. )
The Democratic Party Website
Also
C-SPAN (a good place for speeches & hearings direct source (s))
→ Fact checking organizations courtesy of the Society of Professional Journalists
in alphabetical order...
→ Some of my favorite, most informative
follows on Twitter include:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ US Intelligence | Author | Navy Senior Chief | NBC/MSNBC
⭐⭐⭐ Federal Government Operations | Vanity Fair | Newsweek | MSNBC Contributor | Author
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Voting Rights/Voter Suppression | Author | Mother Jones
→ Some of the most credible media -- at the moment:
📰📰📰 Mother Jones
→ Some of the most credible Talking Heads -- at the moment -- and their Twitter handles:
( 📎 Interesting to note: Wallace, a Republican (an inactive Republican I believe she calls herself) s new to the job but for right now she has clearly put country over party and her work on Trump GOP has been credible, IMO... )
...for Networking for Democrats today!
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g. (Unapologetic Democrat)
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(Linked) "...is our 2016 platform...a declaration of how we plan to move America forward. Democrats believe that cooperation is better than conflict, unity is better than division, empowerment is better than resentment, and bridges are better than walls.
It’s a simple but powerful idea: We are stronger together."
( #its2018now )
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Vote411 here
Thank you for focusing!
g., aka Focused Democrat
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