Cont: The Biden Presidency (3)

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Fast Eddie B said:
That sounds more like a philosophy than a policy.
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Neoliberalism is contemporarily used to refer to market-oriented reform policies such as "eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers" and reducing, especially through privatization and austerity, state influence in the economy.[11] It is also commonly associated with the economic policies introduced by Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom and Ronald Reagan in the United States.[9] Some scholars note it has a number of distinct usages in different spheres:[48]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
 
Roger Ramjets said:
What policies would those be?
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The habit of insisting upon means testing for benefits is a big one. It's like they want the working poor to hate the idea of a social safety net.

Biden's statement about the railroad strike pretty much sums up how they see labor.

I loved Kamala Harris's student loan forgiveness plan as an example of galaxybrain establishment Democratic thought:

Now Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., has released a plan to forgive student debt. Well, sort of.

Borrowers will have a lot of boxes to check before they can get the $20,000 in student debt forgiveness on the table in her proposal.

They will have to be 1) a Pell Grant Recipient who 2) starts a business in a disadvantaged community and 3) manages to keep that business afloat for at least three years.
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I mean, really. This person is vice president.

Only successful business owners need apply. Screw working people.
 
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On railroad worker news that I wasn't expecting...

‘We Never Stopped Applying Pressure’: Hard-Fought Success on Rail Sick Days

After months of negotiations, the IBEW’s Railroad members at four of the largest U.S. freight carriers finally have what they’ve long sought but that many working people take for granted: paid sick days.

As part of that announcement -

“We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.
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It seems that while Biden did help crap on workers with the strike stuff, he and his administration didn't just ignore the workers after.
 
Aridas said:
On railroad worker news that I wasn't expecting...

‘We Never Stopped Applying Pressure’: Hard-Fought Success on Rail Sick Days

After months of negotiations, the IBEW’s Railroad members at four of the largest U.S. freight carriers finally have what they’ve long sought but that many working people take for granted: paid sick days.

As part of that announcement -

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“We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.
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It seems that while Biden did help crap on workers with the strike stuff, he and his administration didn't just ignore the workers after.
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Damn senile, doddering, really a right-winger moderate! :rolleyes:
 
Suddenly said:
The habit of insisting upon means testing for benefits is a big one. It's like they want the working poor to hate the idea of a social safety net.

Biden's statement about the railroad strike pretty much sums up how they see labor.

I loved Kamala Harris's student loan forgiveness plan as an example of galaxybrain establishment Democratic thought:

I mean, really. This person is vice president.

Only successful business owners need apply. Screw working people.
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Right and she has no clue whatsoever what the problem with the debt is in the first place. How is a person already in debt supposed to start a new business and keep it running for three years? On top of that add the person is right out of college. What banks are going to give them loans to start these businesses?

You don't have a link so I'm going to hope she doesn't really have that plan or she's already getting crushing negative replies.
 
Well, one step further than before for baseless insanity.

Impeachment articles have been sent to committee with a party line vote.

The measure charges Biden with “high crimes and misdemeanors” over his handling of the U.S. border with Mexico.
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Sadly, I can fairly easily see Biden being impeached (and not convicted) of this utter claptrap. If they do it again after, Biden can also be a twice-impeached President! That'll show us Democrats how it feels! Except not, of course, because, as usual, the Republican Party's case on everything to do with impeachment would be literally insane if it were actually being forwarded seriously, rather than as a power flex, and the Democratic Party's case is consistently and solidly based in facts, reason, and patriotism.
 
I can’t believe Biden started a coup in Russia to distract from Hunter’s plea deal.
 
The student debt relief plan that was designed that was designed to get shot down (and to be pretty minimal just it case it wasn't anyway) just got shot down. I'm sure that means the more legally robust way to go about it, which Biden could have done at any time along the way but hasn't, is coming any minute now.
 
Delvo said:
The student debt relief plan that was designed that was designed to get shot down (and to be pretty minimal just it case it wasn't anyway) just got shot down. I'm sure that means the more legally robust way to go about it, which Biden could have done at any time along the way but hasn't, is coming any minute now.
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I'm going to wait until I'm in a better headspace to read that one. I'm a bit eager to see how naked their hypocrisy is w/r/t standing but might need a beverage first.
 
I could have sworn the Rail Workers just thanked Biden for the benefits they just got thanks to his behind-the-scenes negotiations. Did I just imagine that or did that actually happen? Why is the first source I find on it from the electrical union?
 
Suddenly said:
I'm going to wait until I'm in a better headspace to read that one. I'm a bit eager to see how naked their hypocrisy is w/r/t standing but might need a beverage first.
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Yep, this is my question as well. How did they have standing?

And before you say, "Because it's our tax dollars and the president is using them in an unconstitutional way," remember that the USSC shot down that argument many years ago with Bush's plan to give tax money to churches. That was not shot down because it is ok for the president to give money to churches, but because the people complaining were merely citizens and therefore didn't have standing to bring the suit.
 
Standing only matters when it's a Democratic issue, otherwise they can make a ruling just because they feel like it.
 
tyr_13 said:
I could have sworn the Rail Workers just thanked Biden for the benefits they just got thanks to his behind-the-scenes negotiations. Did I just imagine that or did that actually happen? Why is the first source I find on it from the electrical union?
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Posted that about 10 posts before yours, after all.

Still, are you actually asking why this looks like it hasn't been picked up at all by the MSM? There are probably a few reasons for that, the most prominent of which is likely that the MSM just doesn't need to scramble to find, something, anything positive to create some illusion of balance between the evil being done by the Democrats and the good, like they seem to think they need to do for the Republicans. There's also no "left-wing propaganda machine" to speak of to do so and the right-wing propaganda machine is obviously not going to touch something like that with a 10-foot pole is they can avoid it.
 
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