Economy
No help at our border, but Biden announces $5 billion going to bike paths, wider sidewalks
In the world of Democrat delusion, they think $5 billion is necessary, at this point in time, to make bike paths and widen side walks. You cannot make this up. They have approved $40 billion in aide to Ukraine in a heartbeat under President Biden, while having rejected former President Trump’s request for a mere $5 billion to secure our border.
The news also comes as fentanyl and the drug overdoses are the number one cause of death in the U.S. There’s also an increase in human smuggling and extortion to pay to cross the border. But no; let’s make some bike paths and widen sidewalks. That is an immediate emergency.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced Monday that money will be used over five years under his department’s new “Safe Streets & Roads for All” program. The $5 billion ini federals funds will be used “to slow down cars chia more speed cameras, carve out bike paths and wider sidewalks and urging commuters to public transit” reports Daily Mail.
“The aim will be to provide a direct infusion of federal cash to communities that pledge to promote safety for the multiple users of a roadway, particularly pedestrians and bicyclists.” The announcement also coincides with the six-month anniversary of President Biden’s infrastructure legislation, and the beginning of the 2022 “infrastructure week.”
The desire to fix roads is a noble one, as “road traffic injuries also are the leading cause of death among young people aged 5-29. Young adults aged 15-4 account for more than half of all road deaths” reports Daily Mail, which adds:
Still, much of the federal roadmap relies on cooperation from cities and states, and it could take months if not years to fully implement with discernible results – too late to soothe 2022 midterm voters unsettled by this and other pandemic-related ills, such as rising crime.
The latest U.S. guidance Monday invites cities and localities to sketch out safety plans in their applications for the federal grants, which are to be awarded late this year.
It cites examples of good projects as those that promise to transform a high-crash roadway, such as by adding rumble strips to slow cars or installing speed cameras, which the department says could provide more equitable enforcement than police traffic stops; flashing beacons for pedestrian crosswalks; new ‘safe routes’ via sidewalks or other protected pathways to school or public transit in underserved communities; and other ‘quick build’ roadway changes designed with community input.
Economy
CO leaders stating they won’t use any city money to support migrants or to alleviate the crisis in Denver
In February 2018, Denver city leaders sent a valentine to foreigners interested in relocating to the progressive mountain city and a message to any elected officials looking to stop them:
Draped on Denver’s City and County building was a large, blue banner: “Denver ❤️ Immigrants.”
Then-mayor Michael Hancock event posted on social media that it was a statement of “love” to let immigrants know that Denver is “an open and welcoming city.” However, six years later, Denver residents are facing an uphill battle of repercussions from the liberal leaders’ actions. Amid a crisis that has seen more than 40,000 migrants arrive in the city since late 2022, Denver leaders have a new message: If you stay in Denver, you will suffer.
“The opportunities are over,” an official with new mayor Mike Johnston’s office told a gathering of migrants in Spanish inside a city shelter in late March, according to a video obtained by a local television station. “New York gives you more. Chicago gives you more.”
On Monday, Douglas County filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado and its Democratic governor Jared Polis in Denver District Court over the issue.
The lawsuit is challenging the constitutionality of two state laws passed by Democrats in the Colorado legislature: a 2019 law that restricted the ability of local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials in civil cases, and a 2023 law that prohibits local governments from entering or renewing detention agreements with ICE and that prohibits them from funding immigration detention facilities owned or operated privately.
“The nation is facing an immigration crisis. The nation, the state, and local governments need to cooperate and share resources to address this crisis,” the lawsuit states, adding that the 2019 and 2023 laws in question “prohibit the necessary cooperation and create dangerous conditions for the State and migrants.”
Teal contends that “the state doesn’t have the inherent authority to limit the ability of a local jurisdiction to work with any agency, regardless be it local, state, or federal.” By doing so, he said, “the state is inhibiting the local communities, the local jurisdictions from providing for the safety” of their residents.
“We are seeing what is going on in Denver, and we do not want that coming here to Douglas County. It is not safe,” Douglas County commissioner Lora Thomas, a former state trooper, said during a Monday morning press conference announcing the lawsuit.
Douglas commissioner Abe Laydon said on Monday that the lawsuit “is about putting America first and about putting Coloradans first.” As a Latino, he said, he recognizes “the plight of those seeking refuge and asylum here in the United States,” but he added that “Douglas County is a place where quality of life comes first.”
National Review reports on the mile-high city’s crisis:
In January, the city was housing and feeding almost 5,000 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, in hotel shelters. Other migrants slept in tents on sidewalks and in parking lots, adding a new wrinkle to Denver’s ongoing struggles with panhandling and squalid homeless camps.
At intersections throughout Denver, migrants with water bottles and squeegees head into traffic to try to make a few bucks washing drivers’ windshields.
To address a migrant-driven financial crunch, the city is now cutting hours at local rec centers, slashing park programming, and freezing hiring in some departments. To save a little money, the city has decided against planting flowers in some of its parks and medians this spring.
The migrant crisis has cost the Denver region at least $170 million, according to a conservative estimate by Colorado’s Common Sense Institute, which looked at city spending as well as school and hospital costs, and is almost surely an undercount.
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Kevin
May 17, 2022 at 3:22 pm
So tired of this administration with their heads buried in the sand!!
Lisa
May 17, 2022 at 4:00 pm
If baby killers can protest outside supreme court justices can’t American citizens for closed borders protest at the borders?
Lee Qualley
May 17, 2022 at 6:22 pm
Why can’t they distribute the formula at the border to our own citizens, this administration just blows my mind! The warehouses stocked with everything for the illegals rushing into our country
what is nuance
May 18, 2022 at 1:37 pm
it’d be nice if you added some quantifiable data regarding money spent vs. results for “help at our border”. Oh wait that doesn’t exist and there is so much nuance around it. How many billions of dollars of sidewalks and bike paths are in America? How much spent on them yearly?
5 billion is so little for our federal government and you give us no real analysis.
Wish everything was as simple as you make it seem. so much nuance in this world, but let’s just throw nuance in the trash. 5 bills clearly would fix fentanyl and illegal immigration, lmao.
I wish I lived in the same black and white world you dumbos live in. I guess that is what happens when you do “journalism” and don’t work for a company in the real world that actually produces things. You would quickly learn things aren’t even close to being black and white. Are y’all that disconnected from reality?
get a real job and go outside. Hopefully a bot wrote this, Yo BOT, go outside. Probably did knowing 2022.
“fentanyl and the drug overdoses” the drug overdoses… lmao, which drug, there are so many???
Disgusted
May 18, 2022 at 2:06 pm
Here is my take on the whole bike issue. We have been living in an area where every city dweller thinks coming into our area to recreate is just fine. But they also think they own the road and act like they do. I am generalizing now.
But they contribute zero to the roads like those of us that pay license tabs,and ask to donate on top of that. Nor do they put a penny into the gasoline prices. So in actuality they have no right to be on the roads we pay for. So how about licensing Bicycles as well. So that they can feel like they contribute in a small way. It doesn’t have to be much, but I think Minimum $20 a year would be fair. And we would not be as annoyed with them as we are now.
But it looks like Biden wants us the even pay more for Bike paths. We are already paying for more than we use and for things we totally disagree with.
walter j sivigny
May 19, 2022 at 9:42 am
You can bet he has a relative or a crony in the cement business.
MicMac69
May 20, 2022 at 4:03 am
If the “americans” were less stupid and a bit better educated road accidents dues to excessive speed and non respect of traffic rules and deaths by overdose would be much lesser. The lack of civic awareness and education keeps the crime rate high and the corruption overwhelming…
BILLY SULLIVAN
May 20, 2022 at 8:52 am
clueless administration