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The steel plant that saved Vance’s family from poverty is getting $500M from Biden. One worker says that ‘doesn’t really change anything’ (www.politico.com)

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A steel plant at the edge of this riverside town played a pivotal role in the family history of Sen. JD Vance.

The plant, Vance wrote in his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” was nothing less than an “economic savior” for his grandparents. A steady job there for his “Papaw” is what lifted his grandparents “from the hills of Kentucky into America’s middle class.”

Its future looks bright too, thanks in part to a grant of up to $500 million from the Biden administration. The money is aimed at helping its owners replace a coal-fired blast furnace so that steel can be produced with clean hydrogen and natural gas — improvements that would cut climate and air pollution and help ensure the plant stays open for another generation.

But the political benefits for the Biden administration — and by extension Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee — are less clear. This is true not just in Middletown but in similar communities across the country that are on track to receive funding from either the Inflation Reduction Act or the bipartisan infrastructure law, arguably the two biggest domestic accomplishments of President Joe Biden’s time in the White House.

Both measures remain largely unknown to the public, polling has shown. Perhaps as worrisome for Harris is that the federal investments may not do much to break the country’s partisan divide, even in places that have benefited from the spending.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“I don’t really look for the government to do anything for you,” he said. “It’s more like just stay out of my way.”

This is the problem. Instead of giving up on the government actually doing anything positive, these people should be demanding more. But their tiny brains have been so poisoned with hate that they only see the government as useful for harming others. The switcharoo their shitbag idols have pulled on them has them completely incapable of focusing on the real problems while the wealthy pillage the country further.

“I will terminate Kamala Harris’s green new scam and rescind all of the unspent funds, give all of the unspent funds back to building roads, bridges and give it back to the government,” Trump said at a North Carolina rally last week.

It's almost as though they think that by not spending this money bettering communities it'll somehow reduce how much they have to pay in taxes. No! Get the free handout!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

If the government hadn't intervenened he would probably be out of a job sooner than later...