Highways For Fishes and the Nation's Air Travel Safety

Much is being said about the disturbing condition of the nation air travel and it's safety. Unlike when the media during the Biden Administration, the strongest words of criticism and concern was of flight delays early in the term.  Accidents and close calls of which there were many were slighted for much more important news like anything and everything "Trump the Criminal".

And now, after less than 3 months time in office, the new Secretary of Transportation is taking heat for others' asparations, incompetence and misplaced priorities, and why we can't have nice things.  

In October of 2022, half way through his term as Secretary of Transportation, Mayor Pete Buttgig was in high demand as a surrogate for Democratic candidates campaigning for midterm elections,  mainly because no one wanted to be within a mile of Joe Biden.  And while only 14th in the line of succession, just below HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, He/Him received more campaign surrogate requests than VP Kamala Harris, also for obvious reasons.

With billions from the 'Build Back Better' slush funds at his disposal, Pete needed to show America of the promised progress he would make on the nation's infrastructure.

Let's see.  Pushed forward the important unfinished interstate highway exchanges?  Nope.  Expanded port facilities?  Nope.  Long needed Upgraded Air Traffic Control System?  Nope.

Highways for Fishes.  Check!! 

    

From the DMF archives of Oct 20,2022:

A few days ago, Secretary Mayor Pete visited King County Washington on the dems midterm campaign outreach and toured a 'culvert replacement project' near Issaquah.  So excited He/Him wanted to tell you about how it will help move us ahead in our nation's Great Leap Forward.

Pete sounds like the host of an edutainment series for kids of all ages. "Secretary Mayor Pete’s World.” He's a master at breaking down complex issues, like holes under roads, and his enthusiasm for this remarkable feat of engineering is infectious. 

Here Secretary Mayor Pete explains to the overtaxed great unwashed what a culvert is and why we should care.

They actually used some of this footage for campaign commercials.