That's a pretty obnoxious comment Ned. This was a grant that Biden approved for a badly needed water infrastructure project and Beelzebub yanked it away by calling it a DEI project. What the hell makes it DEI other than its a mostly Hispanic area? If Republicans want people to trust them, we need to see them helping non-millionaires instead of treating them like undeserving trash.. That includes you ftr.
If you've followed my posts you'll know that I believe the federal government is too big and too involved in what, in my opinion, should be states responsibilities. California has a problem and they are dependent on the federal government for money to fix it? If it's a real problem, they can come up with the $20million. My comment as not meant to be obnoxious. it's just that I look at our system and see taxes collected by the FEDs, money goes to DC (or wherever) a cut for overhead comes out, and then someone in DC determines who is worthy of a grant and who isn't. And remember, this is borrowed money. As many of you have pointed out we're running a budget deficit.
That, to me, doesn't seem very efficient. Why should a state be dependent on the federal government for money? It is/was the same with education. The federal department doesn't/didn't teach one child, make up one curriculum, heat one building, determine one salary in a state school system, but is being dependent upon for the most basic of education funding. How does that make sense? In addition when the feds add strings to the money, the states yell and scream that education is a state responsibility. In my experience, a basic management tenant has been to assign the authority and, where possible, the responsibility to the lowest possible management level.
Sorry if you think that's an obnoxious position, but our government is too big and is incapable of managing large programs and large budgets. Just look at the decades of fraud ,waste and abuse in defense, Medicaid, Medicare, COVID funds, etc ...too big!!
Look at responses/posts on this board and throughout the media. No matter who is president and from either party, during a four year administration there are always instances of government waste and/or inefficiencies. The constant is the "government". Too big and inefficient