THE WPA BUILT 10,000 BRIDGES AND EVERYONE KNEW IT.
DEMOCRATS:
Don’t ignore the lessons of the past.
Take credit and give credit to President Biden every single time an infrastructure project is mentioned — from the initial awarding of design plans, to the announcement of how many people will be employed, to the time that the first shovelful of dirt is turned over — and then for every day leading up to the 2024 election.
Yes I know that 13 sane Republicans voted for the bill.
So what.
Don’t take the namby pamby approach — “Yes it was a bipartisan approach to a recognized need to solve our crumbling infrastructure problems,” should not be heard in any Democratic speech or see on any campaign literature.
Some variation of:
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“President Biden got the most important infrastructure bill in 50 years passed!
What does that mean for you?
It means bridges that don’t fall down, roads that you drive without destroying your car on the potholes, bike trails for our community, and more and better train travel to major cities plus the long ignored parts of the country, (like here… fill in your example).
What does “infrastructure” mean for you?
Let me tell you — “Infrastructure” is too complicated a word. When you hear the word “infrastruture” I want you to replace that word in your head with a much shorter and more understandable one — Jobs!
What does infrastrucuure mean — it means jobs!
That’s what infrastructure means for you and our community. If not for you yourself, it may be your twenty year old child who’s tired of minimum wage jobs, or your neighbors and their kids.
President Joe did this for you — the 90% of America that knows what it’s like to work for a living, not the 1% that the GOP has spent the last 40 years proving that that’s the only group they care about.
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I happened to work for a Louisiana congressmen (Democratic) in the late 1970s (they had them then). When we would go to the rural parishes in his District (which were most of them — he had one surburban area), people where still talking about “Huey put that road in!”
Sounding like it had happened last week — not forty years before.
Lesson learned.
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There should also be something on every Biden Infrastructure project that identifies it as such. The WPA built 10,000 bridges, as well as post offices and trails and bridges in National Parks. The WPA emblems are still on them.
Rectangular shield from one of 10,000 bridges built by the WPA.
The photo in the headline is by Vincent Green, and is of the much more uncommon shield shape.
