With President Biden set to address a joint session of Congress Wednesday night, the White House is spending today unveiling the second half of its infrastructure plan: a $1.8 trillion proposal to strengthen a broad array of social programs.
American Families Plan
Republicans do not want strong families. They want strong corporations.
I get your drift. I believe what is wanted re the corporations is oppressive, meanspirited, greedy disguised as strong.
Good on Joe, who, presently, is the President of the United States, an Office not held by Donald Trump.
Go for it.
That includes being the President of the People of the United States of America…and the PEOPLE want the Infrastructure Plan
The GOP has already tanked its own participation in any of that. A group of Republican senators released a document last week committing themselves to a plan that neither raises taxes nor increases the deficit.
GQP has repeatedly demonstrated no ability to look forward.
The Party of No has nothing to offer. I have to think people are starting to notice.
Uh-oh. What’s gonna happen if the low-earning Republican base figures out sociamalism = free stuff?
Is Vegas posting the odds on GQP no-shows?
Bet they will be bigly.
But they want strong “family-owned” corporations! You know, like the Exxon-Mobil family, and the General Dynamics family.
America fails to solve the problems Biden is addressing at its peril. America claims to be the greatest country in the world but not solving education and the other problems the social safety net portion of the Biden infrastructure plan addresses means America falls behind China as a global super power. That is unacceptable.
It is amazing that it has come to that: where racism, misogyny, bigotry, hatred and nativism overwhelms the desire to save oneself.
Only half of the members are allowed in anyways, due to social distancing, so will be hard to tell who’s not there by choice.
How about raising SS payments to those that depend on it as their only source of income and are taking in less than $1.200 a month. The way inflation and rent have increased these past couple years, many that I know are having a hard time getting by.
A family with two working adults and two kids made out pretty well if they were both laid off. The extra UE benefits have been going on over a year. First about 4 months of $600.00 each., then a couple months of $300. and now many months of 400.00 extra every week. Between a married couple the UE benefits will average about $900. weekly Add in the three one time stimulus checks doubled for a couple, and you’re in the neighborhood of an extra 50 grand plus your regular unemployment checks. Any wonder retail, housing and everything else has been booming?
As the SC has told us, corporations are people, too.
I suppose they must form families … like trusts or cartels, you know.
The IRS funding boost might be the most important policy proposal in here…we lose a ton of tax funding due to the wealthy and corporations doing very shady things that they know they won’t be held accountable for. Ramping up enforcement, and focusing it on those playing games with overseas accounts and other tricks, would net huge numbers…it’s probably something like $300 billion per nearby now. That’s effectively welfare for the wealthy and corporations, on top of all the goodies they get through government funding and tax breaks…and it’s a big factor in the increasing inequality of the nation.
Biden is doing the popular things people want and that will make conditions in the nation better. Republicans are playing with fire by standing against all of it…they are losing the younger generations that are facing a worse future, and who understand how the economic deck has been stacked in favor of the wealthy. When people start feeling the improvements, when they start seeing the difference the economic assistance and infrastructure spending makes in their lives, they are going to view the Republicans as trying to ruin their lives, and with good reason. This all should be obvious to the Republicans, who are choosing racism and oligarchy over the ideas of American freedom, and doing it more openly…they are setting a course to their own destruction, but if they manage to gain power again it will probably destroy the nation along with them.
It really exposes the doublethink that “rugged individualism” really represents. There is an unmistakable emphasis in Western (and American in particular) culture on the rights and freedoms of the Individual, but at the end of the day, humanity is still largely tribal and on the whole we don’t operate as private individuals, no matter how much we profess it as a virtue.
When push comes to shove, the needs of the perceived tribe (one steeped in racism, misogyny and nativism) overrides the individual liberty and prosperity for these people. Their need to belong to the group is stronger than their personal happiness and advancement if it would put them outside it.
Great Post. Youngsters are participating more in politics. They should.
They have about ten years to get this country to turn itself around. Their elders have forsaken them–based on Dem vs GOP participation–and our challenges ain’t waitin’.
How about shoring up Social Security. The amount a person receives is poverty level. It has not kept up with inflation in any way.
Yesterday I saw what appeared to be a privately-owned box truck with a driver who looked very poor. Sign on the back of the truck read, “F…k Biden”. How dumb can one be?
In my area here, you’d never know there was an election. Never reported in the papers. The signs are all still up. Some have even been rotated to different political agit prop.