cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20665840
President Biden on Tuesday announced $2.6 billion in funding to replace all lead pipes in the United States as part of a new EPA rule that will require lead pipes to be identified and replaced within 10 years using the new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.
I don’t support Israel’s genocide in Gaza either or the Biden administration’s ongoing support of it (I think all of that military aid should be going to Ukraine instead, for starters), but you really just shitted up the thread by deciding that reading past the first paragraph was too hard, went off on an unrelated whataboutism tangent, and then when it was pointed out you were wrong, you decided to be a snarky, immature jackass about it instead of just saying “oh, okay”.
It’s not unrelated.
2.6 billion. Even 15 billion sounds like an unimaginably big number.
But for something of this scale, it’s not enough.
I was hoping you could do the math, but here it is:
15 billion divided by 700 million is enough for 24 and almost half a city.
Do you think that’s enough to fulfil this pledge Biden just made?
Because if not. If you do realize there is literally zero way this is accomplished…
How is it uplifting news?
What if I said Santa was going to get you a pony in a decade? Would you get excited?
Really fucking projecting here when you can’t even read, aren’t we? 💀 I swear Redditor-types have some kind of allergy to just admitting when they’re wrong about something and moving along with their day.
So …
You understand there’s no way this will actually be accomplished?
But you think it’s uplifting the American public is being lied to a month before the election with a promise that has 0% chance of coming true?
You do you homie.
But at 700 million a city… Even 70 billion isn’t enough.
I’m sorry I couldn’t help you understand this but it’s obviously not going to work
Oh, I think I understand now: you think that $15 billion is all there is and ever can be because you don’t understand that “a decade” is 10 years and consequently that the EPA has time to get more funding for this over a period of – again – 10 years.
Since I know reading is hard for you, here’s something to enhance your comprehension of that $15 billion figure: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/so_far
Edit: and you never answered: where on god’s green Earth is 700 million coming from? Milwaukee? Because that’s one city, and cities have different amounts of lead pipes.
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From the article you didn’t read before you posted…
I even quoted it in my first comment:
But with all the insults and just the sheer difficulty of having to explain things to you in a way you can understand, I’m gonna have to tap out
I’m truly sorry I can’t help anymore, and I hope you find someone with more patience willing to assist you.
Quick edit:
Shit. You’re a mod from that animal abuse troll sub…
I thought I’d blocked all of you already, now it makes sense why this was so difficult
Yeah, I didn’t initially recognize the $700 million not because I hadn’t read the article but because my brain genuinely couldn’t reach the conclusion quickly enough that you were actually so mind-numbingly inept to take one city, Milwaukee, and say “oh, okay, I guess we can extrapolate that to every city now” (bearing in mind that actual estimates already exist). I guess the US is just several dozen Milwaukees in a trenchcoat.
And yes, mhm, that vegan troll sub. That’s us I guess. Hi.
Fiscal Year 2025 started October 1st, Congress approved a stop gap so they can continue appropriations. You think a president shouldn’t announce anything or do anything in the months leading up to an election?
Also, it’s lead pipes. We don’t use them anymore. Every pipe replaced is a step forward. Biden just announced a deadline.
They’ve been consistently disbursing funds for this and this time is no different. Here’s last May’s news : https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces-3-billion-lead-pipe-replacement-advance-safe
One that we have zero chance of meeting…