joining us now we welcome back to the
show tennessee republican senator
marsha blackburn senator it's great to
see you again okay let's break down this
big
major whopper you've heard this
president biden
white house press secretary jen sachi
pete buda judge
they keep using this phony ranking that
claims to show how bad the u.s is in
infrastructure that the u.s
ranks just 13th globally in quality of
infrastructure
but this leaves out population size land
mass
total miles of roads and highways the
number of airports for each country
i mean this just feels like major apples
to oranges stuff what do you say
well it is apples to oranges my goodness
i it is just so upsetting to
so many hard-working americans
that we have a president that will say
well the country is
not what it used to be
our rankings are terrible on
infrastructure
go to tennessee look at what we're doing
we have no
debt on our roads but what we see the
biden administration doing is instead of
an
infrastructure bill that is targeted to
roads and bridges and highways and
interstates and
ports and airports and waterways and
broadband
what do you hear them doing they want to
talk about
human infrastructure they want to talk
about health care
infrastructure they're renaming
everything infrastructure saying the
title of infrastructure
has to evolve and what is it all about
they're up to 2.7 trillion dollars
in this bill it is a boondoggle
it is a liberal wish list when they
are spending more money on electric
vehicles
then they are on roads bridges highways
interstates ports airports and broadband
combined all of those combined
this is an issue okay that's a big deal
what you just said you know let's go
through it singapore the netherlands
netherlands and the uae
in terms of land mass on this ranking
you know in this this
this ranking doesn't take into an into
account land mass
those three countries rank higher than
the us but they could
all fit into louisiana all three about
the size of texas in terms of population
alabama has more airports in all three
of these countries
nevada has more roads and expressways
you know
compared to russia and china that's the
right comparison
the us does have better infrastructure
in many parts of the country versus
those two
but you're right so now according to
bernie sanders where
human beings are infrastructure so what
and
if they cared about infrastructure why'd
you spend five percent
of the two and a quarter trillion spent
on roads and bridges but now we're human
infrastructure
what does that mean in terms of how the
government's going to approach us
well it means that what they're trying
to do in order to get their way
is to say everything is infrastructure
but bear in mind we did
five bipartisan coveted relief bills
we have had one partisan coveted relief
bill
they said everything was coveted relief
and then oh by the way
less than 10 of the bill actually went
to covet relief
and the rest of it was their wish list
and now with this boondoggle of a bill
what you've got is everything being
termed
infrastructure human beings i mean ben
and jerry's ice cream is going to be
infrastructure because you want it in
the summertime and it's made by humans i
mean the list goes
on and on the way they're approaching
this is absolutely
ridiculous and what it does is such a
disservice to
our local communities that want to
repair bridges or people that don't want
to drive through a flood plain
in order to get to work or to school
and it is a very dishonest approach
with the american people
well you know i might go for ice cream
and spaghetti meatballs as
infrastructure i'm just kidding i'm just
kidding you know but you know
so you know seven democrats seven dem
seven democrats senators up to seven of
them oppose
this you know bill chuck schumer is
saying we're not going to negotiate it
uh it could easily get filibustered
um so you know and then by the way we
also have another mistake uh wyoming
republican senator john barrasso
is saying the buying administration is
complaining about the public trained
system in public transit in wyoming i
mean wyoming doesn't have public train
systems
they're private and uh you know they're
saying a third of it is outdated i mean
amtrak hasn't been in wyoming
since 1997. you know how about just
getting america vaccinated and reopened
associated press says one in seven
americans say they're worse off
than a year ago you know before the
pandemic and now we've got the johnson
and johnson
jab as you know creating blood clots how
about just focusing on that
well and i have to tell you in tennessee
this past weekend that is what i heard
from
person after person they do not want
high-speed trains to know where
what they want is to get people back to
work children back to school and life
back to normal and time and again i
heard from people why don't you focus on
the basics
let's get the roads and bridges repaired
let's let people work on those
let's see if we can get the southern
border secured
the southern wall that border wall that
is infrastructure
and you know what you've got the
components to complete that wall
laying out there and the dirt on
our side of the border the equipment is
sitting
idle let's put people to work and finish
that wall
let's get the keystone pipeline in gear
that's infrastructure too okay set
that's tens of thousands of workers
senator marcia blackburn
thank you so much for joining us it's
good to see you it's great to have you
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