[applause] united for infrastructure is a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization. It has been our honor for many years to convene and collaborate with leaders in business and government on this important issue. I would like to take a moment to say thank you. Thank you to the city of las vegas and the great state of nevada for hosting us. [applause] i would like to recognize a few local leaders from the community. Mayor john lee. Congressman stephen horse martin. Ethan robertson. Las vegas city councilman brian. And mayor eric garcetti. [applause] id very much like to thank our host committee, the organizations who created the vision for this event. Provider resources to make it a reality. Invited the candidates, and have brought hundreds of their members to nevada to be here with us today. You can see their logos on the banner behind me. Those organizations are in no particular order. The International Union of operating engineers, the American Society of civil engineers, the val
Happen under and unfortunately this is the country has not figured that out including a lot of pretty intelligent people and people with good intentions you know wed love to keep running our stuff the way were running it now by other means its just really unlikely to happen you know this combines 2 things that are really shouldnt be combined one is Climate Change denial the green park and one is that governments can possibly do anything positive the new deal part so these are 2 areas that the predominant Political Forces like to tell us are socialist or theyre impossible or we dont have the money for them so all the branding on this is horrible is there a way to present this that would be more palatable because clearly infrastructure needs to be upgraded that thats something that avalanche need to do somebody needs to do it but and its crumbling how is that going to happen and clearly what sea levels rising. And with asifa cation of the oceans and with all the other problems that come
Guess was basing her thing on f d r Franklin Delano roosevelt and his new deal so the Green New Deal is supposed to be a jobs program and a Climate Change deal we have with us James Howard Kunstler and randy volar jim now tell us what you think of a Green New Deal is it a great jobs program is it a bad jobs program is it a good reason to have a deal its when you wish upon the star program because you know weve entered a kind of period in our history which is a era of Wishful Thinking and i think the truth of the matter is unfortunately were not going to run while disney world the u. S. Military suburbia the interstate highway system. And our great metroplex cities on any combination of all to fuel and all to energy and im afraid its going to come as a is a big disappointment to the American Public the main reason for that is you really cant fabricates. The equipment for all these things and service them and maintain them without an underlying fossil fuel economy platform for that to ha
Our campaign 20 20 coverage continues with Pete Buttigieg speaking to caucusgoers at a town nevadas capital, carson city, live, monday at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. [applause] they just wrapped up with democratic residential candidates in las vegas. Joe biden was among the candidates who sat down to talk about jobs and infrastructure. His caucus will be held saturday. [applause] i guess they like you. [laughter] collection . Election . No, i said they liked you. Oh,. Jerry thank you for joining us. Biden thank you for having me. Jerry infrastructure needs work. Mr. Biden across the board. Jerry with a 1 trillion deficit, its hard to know where to start, but every democrat thinks the country move away from a fossil feel energy and Transportation System to a more green, Climate Friendly system. So the question is if youve got set priorities, where do you start . Fixing the old infrastructure or moving onto a Climate Friendly Green Infrastructure . Mr. Biden i think its a foster oyster.
Cities on any combination of all fuels and all to energy and im afraid its going to come as a is a big disappointment to the American Public the main reason for that is you really cant fabricate the quitman for all these things and service them and maintain them without an underlying fossil fuel economy platform for that to happen under and unfortunately this is the country has not figured that out including a lot of pretty intelligent people and people with good intentions you know wed love to keep running our stuff the way were running it now by other means its just really unlikely to happen you know this combines 2 things that are really should be combined one is Climate Change denial the green part and one is that governments can possibly do. I think positive the new deal part so these are 2 areas that the predominant Political Forces like to tell us are socialist or theyre impossible or we dont have the money for them so all the branding on this is horrible is there a way to prese