{"id":74779,"date":"2021-05-27T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=74779"},"modified":"2021-05-27T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:41:11","slug":"harley-schlanger-update-the-insanity-of-the-infrastructure-debate-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/blog\/2021\/05\/27\/harley-schlanger-update-the-insanity-of-the-infrastructure-debate-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Harley Schlanger Update: The Insanity of the \u00abInfrastructure Debate\u00bb in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Insanity of the &quot;Infrastructure Debate&quot; in the U.S.\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zz14kJ7tbew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the White House is quibbling with members of both parties in Congress over the size of the proposed infrastructure bill, what is clear is that the debate has nothing to do with building modern platforms of infrastructure. Instead, it represents a defense of the bankrupt ideologies governing both parties: while the Republicans want to limit spending, many Democrats &#8212; including Biden &#8212; are committed to an insane \u00abGreen\u00bb agenda, which includes destroying the existing energy grid in pursuit of the lunacy of a \u00abzero-carbon footprint.\u00bb But the proposal to tear down hydroelectric dams to prevent \u00abhuman interference with the rights of free-flowing rivers\u00bb is a sign of the intellectual degeneracy and dishonesty of the debate, as is the neo-liberal insistence that \u00abcheaper is better\u00bb and preference for \u00abpay as you go\u00bb schemes when it comes to upgrading the national platform of infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the White House is quibbling with members of both parties in Congress over the size of the proposed infrastructure bill, what is clear is that the debate has nothing to do with building modern platforms of infrastructure. Instead, it represents a defense of the bankrupt ideologies governing both parties: while the Republicans want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":72826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,629],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-74779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","category-harley_schlanger_daily_update","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74780,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74779\/revisions\/74780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}