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chinese firms partnering up with private kenyan companies controversial tech giant wall wave will be involved in the project now joining us now to discuss this further is georgia rena beer our correspondent in nairobi we should be seeing her in just a moment joy are you there there you are good to see you yes. so announcements of chinese loans joy are often followed by worries over a deepening debt tropp in the borrowing countries are we seeing similar criticism in kenya today. yes definitely there is criticism in kenya but despite this criticism the president of kenya i mean teams that as long as it is not being used in recurrent expenditure and he s not a word man he says that this in the long term will benefit kenya s economy because it s closing the infrastructure gap with the roads the railway as well as
pull up lobster pots and flounder and haddock for us to eat. this is not this isn t something you wave your hand out and say let s put them out of business. this is an industry you should be proud of and people we should be fighting for. trump has a half assed to use a term people would normally would use, infrastructure program. he had a huge tax cut for the rich. what do the democrats have to counter those two things. we do have an infrastructure plan. i never heard of it. where is it. we released last week. where is this infrastructure? what s it look like. what we have to recognize is that it becomes hard to put forth a viable infrastructure plan when you ve got an administration that just passed off $1.5 trillion on the next generation. what we have and what i would challenge this administration on which is exactly what you pointed out, it s one thing to say we have such an infrastructure gap we need to spread the money around.
proposal or something else to bring democrats on the table, not really a lot that would give democrats information to cooperate with the white house or deeply unpopular president. sara murray in a sunny warm west palm beach florida. thank you. i want to talk about the nation s crumbling roads. joining me now is author of the too big to fail, failing infrastructure and the way forward. and casey senior managing director for society of civil engineers. casey, the white house says the opening number, you heard sarah repeat it there as well, about $200 billion. is that enough? that s over ten years. so talking 20 billion a year in terms of federal investment. asc has been looking at this issue for a number of years, and we identify almost a $2 trillion infrastructure gap in this countsry and all categories of infrastructure not just transportation.
they were going tap that for infrastructure. you re looking at $250 billion to $300 billion a year that would be presumably allocated to just this sort of thing. and we re asking for? yeah. and part of it is just simpley you know, they re diverting this money here, and it s the wrong way to do it. imagine in 1956 that a gas tax seemed like a user fee. we have a lot of different ways to get around. my brother bought an electric car, for crying out loud. he s not paying a lot in the gas tax him. they re going to charge by the mail. what needs to happen since we re not building highways anymore, you have to build highways by using tolls and by using private companies to generate capital to build these things. and increasingly, that s where we need to be going toward in maintenance, as well. we do have an infrastructure gap here. the money s being siphoned away, and the money the money s out there. we re not spending on this. thank you as always. you know, if consumers get sl
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