Summary

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a memo prioritizing federal funding for communities with marriage and birth rates above the national average.

The directive, which applies to grants, loans, and contracts, also prioritizes projects benefiting families with young children.

A congressional aide criticized the policy, saying, “Considering fertility rates when prioritizing federal grants? We obviously have no idea what the full impact of that will be… It’s absolutely creepy. It’s a little ‘Chinese government.’”

The memo also blocks mask mandates and requires compliance with immigration enforcement.

  • @ZeffSyde
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    271 month ago

    They’ll find some way to draw up a beneficial neighborhood map that excludes black and brown neighborhoods.

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        1 month ago

        They would probably make the lines blue, because they are trying to continue that, and avoid the possibly negative SEO of Red Lining.

        • umean2me
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          41 month ago

          Not to mention, blue means democrat. If the lines are blue they can blame it on the democrats when things go wrong!

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      “This neighborhood has too high of a birth mortality rate, let’s pick this white neighborhood instead”

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        Nah, it will be more racist than that. It will just say “High birth rates of people, PS, we don’t consider non whites to actually be people.”

    • @MunkyNutts
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      1 month ago

      Wouldn’t be surprised if it gets tied to income

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        They already messed with the 2020 census, so red states will benefit from everything more.

      • @ZeffSyde
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        31 month ago

        Good point. Maybe it will be something like: ‘Households already receiving benefits will be ineligible for this program’, and they will count something like food stamps or a child attending public school will keep them out.

        As someone else has said, I’m afraid we are giving them ideas.