By dragging their feet and refusing to consider improving our badly dilapidated infrastructure, the Republicans are proving they don’t give a damn about creating more jobs. Their claims that the Keystone XL pipeline will be a great “job creator” is a total myth. Studies have shown that the Keystone XL pipeline will only create about 35-40 jobs at most.

Whereas, repairing our dilapidated infrastructure would create many more new jobs than the Keystone XL pipeline. Just look at the number of bridges, highways, railroad tracks, and other things that make up our infrastructure the to be repaired.

Senator Sanders is so right on with his ideas. He’s the one politician that I actually believe wants to improve our infrastructure, so I really hope his proposed legislation goes to the floor of the Senate and House of Representatives and is given some serious consideration.

Over the years, I’ve heard various candidates for different offices throw around the words “improving infrastructure” as a campaign promise that went nowhere. I remember back as far as presidential candidate Ronald Reagan throwing around words like infrastructure. In fact, at least to me, the whole idea of improving our infrastructure has become a standard campaign promise that never really goes anywhere. They had turned “infrastructure” into just another meaningless buzzword.

Senator Sanders really means what he says. To him, “infrastructure” is not a buzzword. I certainly hope that he keeps this conversation alive because it is another issue he can use against the Republicans and even a few Democrats like to throw that word infrastructure casually.

Our dilapidated infrastructure is hardly something to be taken casually. We have allowed our bridges, roads, railways, utilities, and just about everything else associated with our aging and dilapidated to fall into such disrepair that it has become dangerous.

If the Republican Party, and a few wobbly Democrats really give a damn about job creation, they will take Senator Bernie Sanders legislation seriously.

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