I will be perusing this assault on the US taxpayer identifying some of the pork, needless and harmful elements of it.  It is 2468 pages so it will take time.  I am just scanning for numbers of at least a billion dollars.  I may also miss important wording that is very harmful to America.  Actjually almost all of this is harmful.

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Page 3-4:  (1) $10,000,000,000 for hazardous fuels reduction projects within the wildland-urban interface;
(2) $4,000,000,000 for, on a determination by the Secretary that hazardous fuels within the wildland-urban interface have been effectively treated to prevent the spread of wildfire to at-risk communities, hazardous fuels reduction projects outside the wildland-urban interface

Assessment:  This is at least $14 billion in the first two pages of the bill that is pork.  Reducing vegetation is up to individuals or local communities.  It also reduces vegetation that takes in CO2 which is supposedly the deadliest risk to mankind.

The other aspect that shows it is bogus is that it is a huge, made up round number.  One or more people just threw a dart at a board to get these numbers.

Page 14:  $10 billion for similar fuel reduction projects on tribal lands

Pages 20-21:  $2.250 billion to be used for staffing salaries, and other workforce needs and expenses to support the development of a Civilian Climate Corps for carrying out projects on non-Federal land through the Forest Service State.....

Page 31:  $2.17175 billion for unknown projects from a 20 year old act (Rural Energy for America Program established under section 9007 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002

Page 33:  $960 million to upgrade equipment supporting greater that 10% ethanol or 20% biodiesel.

Assessment:  This is the responsibility of the equipment owner.  Ethanol needs to be banned from gasoline.

Page 34:  $9.7 billion to repower rural energy systems to reduce fake (opinion) greenhouse gases

Page 48:  $2.664,5 billion for fiscal year 2022, for grants for construction, alteration, acquisition, modernization, renovation, or remodeling of agricultural research facilities......

Page 54:  About $80 billion for a Rebuild America Schools program

Page 126:    $9 billion for TUITION ASSISTANCE FOR STUDENTS AT HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, TRIBAL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, AND MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS

Pages 167-169:  $2.609 billion to Department of Labor agencies.  

Assessment:  This appears to be additional funding beyond their normal annual funding with no apparent need.  The various stimulus bills of 2020 (maybe 2021 as well) had many millions going to US government agencies with no real limit on the use.   I would like to see funding for these agencies for the last five years along with funding from the stimulus bills and this one.

None of this is infrastructure related and should be removed along with all other non-infrastructure funding.

Note that I am not reading to be tested on the contents.   I am scanning for costs of about a billion dollars and higher.  You will not see the many appropriations of $50 million or $450 million or similar.  I may also miss important elements.

Page 183:  $9.054 billion for YOUTH WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES

Pages 185-195:  $23.35 billion for re-employment activities and grants

Page 200:   $450 million for migrant worker programs

Page 202:  $3.6 billion for adult education and literacy

Page 222:  $1.48 billion for direct care (health) worker programs

Pages 250-251:  ~210 billion for birth to age five child care.   Assumption is $40 billion per year for fiscal years 2025 - 2027 even though those years have unstated funding (it is "as required" and I assumed $40 billion/ year).

Page 292:  $2.5 billion for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2027 to improve compensation of Head Start staff

Page 333:   $500 million for school kitchen equipment

Pages 343 - 344:   $5 billion for clean heavy duty vehicles:

Implement a program to make awards of grants and rebates to eligible recipients, and to make awards of contracts to eligible contractors for providing rebates, for up to 100 percent of costs for ‘‘(1) replacing eligible vehicles with zero-emission vehicles; ‘‘(2) infrastructure needed to charge, fuel, or maintain zero-emission vehicles; ‘‘(3) workforce development and training to support the maintenance, charging, fueling, and operation of zero-emission vehicles; and ‘‘(4) planning and technical activities to support the adoption and deployment of zero-emission vehicles.

Page 346:   $3.5 billion to reduce air pollution at ports

Page 350:   $27.49 billion for a greenhouse gas reduction fund

Page 374:   $10 billion for the Superfund

Page 374-375:  $750 million to reduce waste in communities

Page 377:  $10 billion for Environmental and Climate Justice block grants

Page 379:  $30 billion for drinking water lead service line replacement

Page 399:    $9 billion  to institute guidelines for State energy offices to provide rebates to homeowners and aggregators for whole-house energy saving retrofits

Page 415 - 417:   $9 billion for a high efficiency electric home rebate program.

Page 445:  $3.5 billion for a weatherization assistance program

Page 446:   $3.2 billion for critical facility modernization.   See text for suitable project types.

Page 452:  $2 billion for electric vehicle infrastructure buildout

Page 463:  $1 billion for electric vehicle equity program.  Projects that increase deployment and accessibility of electric vehicle supply equipment in underserved or disadvantaged communities...

2) SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES.—The amount of a grant awarded under this section for a project that involves, as a primary focus, single-family homes shall not exceed 60 percent of project costs

Pages 471-472:   $10 billion for transportation electrification

Assessment: In part this looks like more charging for EVs of various sizes.

Page 474:  $30 billion.     "The Secretary of Energy may make commitments to guarantee loans for eligible projects under section 1703
of the Energy Policy Act of 2005."

I believe that this is part of that Energy Bill (Source)

"SEC. 1703. ELIGIBLE PROJECTS.
(a) I N GENERAL.—The Secretary may make guarantees under this section only for projects that—
(1) avoid, reduce, or sequester air pollutants or anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases; and
(2) employ new or significantly improved technologies as compared to commercial technologies in service in the United States at the time the guarantee is issued.
(b) C ATEGORIES.—Projects from the following categories shall be eligible for a guarantee under this section:
(1) Renewable energy systems.
(2) Advanced fossil energy technology (including coal gasification meeting the criteria in subsection (d)).
(3) Hydrogen fuel cell technology for residential, industrial, or transportation applications.
(4) Advanced nuclear energy facilities.
(5) Carbon capture and sequestration practices and technologies, including agricultural and forestry practices that store and sequester carbon.
(6) Efficient electrical generation, transmission, and distribution technologies.
(7) Efficient end-use energy technologies.
(8) Production facilities for fuel efficient vehicles, including hybrid and advanced diesel vehicles.
(9) Pollution control equipment.
(10) Refineries, meaning facilities at which crude oil is refined into gasoline.

Page 477:  $3 billion for loans for manufacturing facilities for low emissions vehicles.

Page 478:  $1 billion for zero-emission vehicle facility conversion grants.

Page 479:  $2 billion for miscellaneous low carbon projects.

Page 483:  $8 billion for electric line and intertie grants and loans

Page 499:  $17.5 billion to provide grants to agencies to assist them in meeting the requirements of section 543 of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8253) or to assist agencies in reducing the carbon emissions of new or existing Federal buildings and Federal fleets

Pages 501 - 502:  $5 billion to carry out the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program established under section 542(a) of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007

Pages 504 - 505:  $2.5 billion for low income solar.  

" COVERED FACILITY.—The term ‘‘covered facility’’ means
(A) a community solar facility at least 50 percent of the capacity of which is reserved for low-income households;
(B) a solar generating facility located at a residence of a low-income household; or
(C) a solar generating facility located at a multi-family affordable housing comp

Pages 516 - 542:  Subtitle F—Affordable Health Care Coverage.  ENSURING AFFORDABILITY OF COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN LOW-INCOME POPULATIONS.

I did not read this thoroughly but suspect that it further uses tax payer money to provide medical care for those who choose to be deadbeats.

Pages 543 - 624:  Subtitle G—Medicaid — FEDERAL MEDICAID PROGRAM TO CLOSE THE COVERAGE GAP SEC. CLOSING THE MEDICAID COVERAGE GAP

Page 624:  Subtitle H—Children’s Health Insurance Program.  PERMANENT EXTENSION OF CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM.

Starting at Page 636:  PROVIDING COVERAGE FOR DENTAL AND ORAL HEALTH CARE UNDER THE MEDICARE PROGRAM

Page 667:   $7 billion for:  Subtitle J—Public Health PART 1—HEALTH CARE INFRASTRUCTURE AND WORKFORCE SEC. 31001. FUNDING TO SUPPORT CORE PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR STATE, TERRITORIAL, LOCAL, AND TRIBAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AT THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Page 673:  $10 billion for hospital infrastructure

Page 674:  $10 billion for community health center capital grants.

Page 676:   $1 billion for purposes of making awards to eligible entities for the establishment, improvement, or expansion of an allopathic or osteopathic school of medicine, or a branch campus of an allopathic or osteopathic school of medicine

Page 679:     $1 billion to remain available until expended, for purposes of making awards to schools of nursing

Page 682:  $6 billion to remain available until expended, for (1) the program of payments to teaching health centers that operate graduate medical education programs under such section; and (2) the award of teaching health center develop ment grants pursuant to section 749A of the Public Health Service Act

Page 684:     $5 billion for PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS SEC. 31021. FUNDING FOR LABORATORY ACTIVITIES AT THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION.

Page 685:  $1.25 billion for FUNDING FOR STRENGTHENING VACCINE CONFIDENCE (CDC)

Page 686:  $1 billion for FUNDING FOR SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITIES AT THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION.

Page 689:  $8 billion for FUNDING FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND PREPAREDNESS RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND COUNTERMEASURE CAPACITY.

Page 691:  $3 billion for FUNDING FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS FOR HEALTH

Page 720:  $2.5 billion for FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY VIOLENCE AND TRAUMA INTERVENTIONS

Page 723:  $2.86 billion for SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING FOR THE WORLD TRADE CENTER HEALTH PROGRAM.

Page 727:  $10 billion for the Next Generation 911.

Page 747:  $4 billion for distance learning.

Page 748:  $10 billion for resilience of critical manufacturing supply chain

Page 750:  $1 billion for the creation of a Privacy bureau with the Federal Trade Commission to support the work of the Commission related to unfair or deceptive acts or practices relating to privacy, data security, identity theft, data abuses, and related matters.

Pages 751 - 799:   Approximately $273 billion for a myriad of housing programs, rental assistance to meet the scam need of  "Creating and Preserving Affordable, Equitable and Accessible Housing for the 21st Century"

Pages 800 - 842:  Over $35 billion for "21st Century Sustainable and Equitable Communities"

Assessment this is a continuation of federal money (taxpayer) being used to support deadbeats in the USA.

Page 843:   $10 billion to provide down payment assistance to first time homeowners under a newly created First Generation Downpayment Fund


Page 883:    $4.95 billion for the MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

Page 914:   $2.8 billion appropriated to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for fiscal year 2022

Apparently this is to make citizens out of illegals:

"or the purpose of increasing the capacity of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to efficiently adjudicate applications described in sections
245B and 245(n) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as added by sections 60001 and 60003 of this Act, respectively, and to reduce case processing backlogs

Page 899 is the start of the portion of the bill that may seek to legalize illegals.

Page 915:  $2.5 billion for community-based violence intervention initiatives

Page 916:  $5.3 for Indian housing/medical projects

Page 925:   $5.1 billion for parks related projects

Page 944:  $4.75 billion for water and drought related projects

Page 960:   $9.5 billion to provide funding and technical assistance for the purposes of restoring a marine, estuarine, coastal, or Great Lake habitat; or providing adaptation to climate change, including by protecting, restoring, or establishing ecological features that protects coastal communities from sea-level rise, coastal storms, or flooding; or designing or implementing blue carbon projects.

Page 960:   $2.5 billion for NOAA water related projects.   Through direct expenditure, contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements to provide funding and technical assistance for the purposes of restoring a marine, estuarine, coastal, or Great Lake habitat; or providing adaptation to climate change, including by protecting, restoring, or establishing ecological features that protects coastal communities from sea-level rise, coastal storms, or flooding; or designing or implementing blue carbon projects.

Page 1044:  $5 billion.    Procurement of electric vehicles and related infrastructure for the Federal fleet (excluding any vehicles of the United States Postal Service and including non-tactical vehicles of the Department of Defense), and the management, acquisition, and allocation
of such electric vehicles and infrastructure and working with Federal agencies to allocate and lease resources as necessary.

Page 1045:  $7 billion.    Acquire electric vehicles for the Postal Service fleet, of which $3,000,000,000 shall be for the purchase of electric delivery vehicles and $4,000,000,000 shall be for the purchase of the related infrastructure to support such vehicles.

Page 1048:  $1 billion for the Technology Modernization Fund

Page 1048:   $2 billion for the Federal Citizen Services Fund

Page 1049:  $5 billion for planning and establishment of regional innovation initiatives pursuant to the Stevenson-Wydler Act

Page 1050:  $10,391,804,000 for Department of Energy laboratory infrastructure

Page  1056:   1,080,996,000 to carry out activities to support infrastructure at Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories for civilian research and development purposes, including General Plant Projects and General Plant Equipment

Page 1057:  $2 billion for DOE research and development activities

Page 1065:  $4 billion for NASA infrastructure

Page 1068:  $1.195 billion for National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) research

Page 1069:  $2 billion for NIST support of American manufacturing

Page 1070:  $1 billion for National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278c-278e) for construction of new research facilities, including architectural and engineering design, and for renovation and maintenance of existing facilities.

Page 1071:   $1.24 billion for NOAA to remain available until September 30, 2026, to carry out the provisions of the Weather Research
and Forecasting Innovation Act (15 U.S.C. 8501 et seq.), the National Integrated Drought Information System Act (15 U.S.C. 313d), the National Climate Program Act (15 U.S.C. 2901–2908.), the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act (33 U.S.C. 4001–4010), the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act (33 U.S.C. 3701–3708), title III of the America COMPETES Act (33 U.S.C. 893, 893a, 893b, and 893c), and the Weather Service Organic Act (15 U.S.C. 313 et seq.)

Page 1077:   $1.024 billion to acquire hurricane hunter aircraft and airborne phased array radar

Page 1079:  $3.43 billion for National Science Foundation (NSF) infrastructure

Page 1081:  $7.55 billion for NSF research and development

Page 1087:  $1 billion for the Uplift Accelerator Program (Small Business Administration - SBA)

Page 1100:  $1 billion for Business Incubators (SBA)

Page 1122:  $9.5 billion to increase equity investment in the  Small Business Investment Company program

Page 1150:  $4.465 billion for SBA Small Dollar Loan funding

Page 1154:  $1 billion to extend fee reductions

Page 1157:   $2.118 billion for SBA direct debentures funding

Page 1170:   $1.25 billion for SBA administrative costs

Page 1172:   $9,900,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, for competitive grants to support access to affordable housing and the enhancement of mobility for residents in disadvantaged communities or neighborhoods, in persistent poverty communities, or for low-income riders generally.

Page 1180:  $3 billion in grants to non-state entities for carbon reduction projects.

Page 1183:  $3.95 billion for grants to eligible entities described in subsection (b) to improve walkability, safety, and affordable transportation access for disadvantaged communities.

Page 1190:  $1 billion  to remain available until September 30, 2026, to the Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration for the purposes described under section 202 of title 23, United States Code

Page 1193:  $6 billion for for projects to advance local surface transportation priorities.  Not sure what this means.

Page 1194:   $10 billion to remain available until September 30, 2026, for financial assistance under chapter 261 of title 49, United States Code.  This is under a section:  PASSENGER RAIL IMPROVEMENT, MODERNIZATION, AND EMISSIONS REDUCTION GRANTS.

Page 1213:  $5 billion to the ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION to develop regional economic growth clusters....whatever the hell those are.

Page 1616 - 1617:  $28 billion for New Markets tax credit through calendar year 2024 then $5 billion per year forever after  2024.

No thanx.

Reserved post 6

Attached File

Bribes, payoffs, rape, waste, fraud, grift & rape...



...amongst other devious things

Creates a brand new executive branch agency called "Civilian Climate Corps."

Only 9% of allocated money was directed at infrastructure related projects.  The other 91% of those trillions were going to be spent on feel-good shit, boondoggles and the usual fraud, waste & abuse found in federal funding bills.

That's a long way of saying rerouted to political sponsors

(Not) Shovel Ready part II,    union jobs payoffs w/ very little reaching rural America.

Pork, lots of pork and union payoffs.

Making a reservation.

Before reading the bill I guessed 10-15% "might" be valid and justifiable infrastructure.  I am not to page 200 yet and so far anything remotely close to infrastructure is not a valid US government expenditure.

Pet projects and BS.

I'm going to guess that they will have an LE component.

It's just one. We can print more.

I'm sure those inflation rates were made up anyway.

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does this include the 80billion for the IRS to hire 80,000 agents or did that already pass?

Its a slush fund for Democrat politicians just like the shovel ready BS from Obama.

... exactly like Obama's Infrastructure Stimulus.

Where is the line item for amnesty for 7 million illegals which will turn in 20+ million for other family members and all of the free shit they will get.

I not only has stranger things than we do imagine, it has stranger things than we CAN imagine.

I thought the infrastructure bill already made it through the senate and was signed by FJB?

Whoever voted for that and signs it should be tarred and feathered.

Already exists, but not as an official entity.  There's a global organization of climate 'troops' that do the dirty work.  I can't remember what they're called, they have a lot of membership globally and pass themselves off as local people out for local stuff.

Ravaging the body of the country before it's even quite dead.  

Yeah.  Mostly about dumping billions of dollars on them to do their "good works."

Lol we are fucked.

I hope it is fucking dead!  Doubt it as the dems know they have one year to get it done, assuming we have fair elections.

Rape x1 only pls.  Kthxby!

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Look above.  Page 914 may be it.  There are 30-50 million illegals here.

Looks like a bunch of wealth redistribution.

It is.   I am not quite halfway through the bill but I will make it.

Moar inflation

Wait until the middle/end of 2022, lower it to 1-1.5T, reverse Trump tax cuts, get Manchin to vote on it, leave Rs with a bomb as they leave, blame it on Capitalism, profit?

We are BEYOND fucked!

Funny they also have included extentions to IRS tax code in Section 45Q giving coal fired power plants a massive tax credit....

This entire bill a fucking payoff to everyone so they will hold thier nose and let the Communism in.

This isn't about the fucking environment, it's not about jobs, this is about an agenda.

set up to fund more lavishly compensated government positions designed to increase the cadre of stooges and their families beholden to big government and sucking on that giant teeter for their life's sustenance..

as one of the shitbird judges said while sentencing years of prison to one of the trespassers of January 6th.. "this government has been very good to me"..

Just read the first few paragraphs.
A lot of the wild lands, in California at least, are federal land. The state is supposed to maintain it, which they haven't. This gives big $$$ to the state for that fucking asshole newsome to hide and then skim off some for his presidential run and the rest to illegal aliens. Plus, anything thats good for California will get none, including clearing fire areas.

I've been saying this to friends.  They're trying extra hard to wreck things because their chances are so slim come November.  They're cutting the brake lines for the next congress.  They would have done that naturally because their ideas are shit, but they're trying extra hard to sabotage the next crew.

There's a chance Brandon may not get it

Communists and globalists love their euphemisms...and laugh at us for believing them at their word.

Build back better means ...Destroy the USA of our founders and then build their new world order on Amerca's ashes.

Cloward Piven the shit out of the middle class...steal all the money...bankrupt the treasury put it all into the elite's pockets.

Destroy,steal,conquer,and opress...that's what "Build Back Better" really spells out when you put on these special glasses.

A trillion here, a trillion there and soon you're talking real money

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The sole purpose of the Government was to build roads and bridges and to protect the country. Now it's operating as a business..