The Biden Presidency

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Caroline13 said:
Oh I've posted articles that we are close to Herd Immunity or already in it. The pandemic could be over, but the politicians want to keep it alive and keep all the sheep in fear and jabbed.



What happened to working on one's HEALTH??????
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You've posted claims. More people making the same claims while not providing any more evidence doesn't change anything.

Getting vaccinated against a potentially deadly disease at pandemic proportions is "working on one's health" and does not preclude other activities that are healthy.
 
Caroline13 said:
Right now as I see it, we are living the New Norm as long as Biden/Harris and their crew are in charge. Masks, distancing, no get togethers, lockdowns = prison, and on and on.

Now I'm hearing Harris is doing more and more of the Presidential interactions....ummmm
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Which was in place during the last president who lied about the virus. You don't seem to know the topic of this thread.

Caroline13 said:
Oh I've posted articles that we are close to Herd Immunity or already in it. The pandemic could be over, but the politicians want to keep it alive and keep all the sheep in fear and jabbed.

What happened to working on one's HEALTH??????
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Do you have a source for "politicians what to keep it alive"? No

And what does this have to do with the Topic? The Biden Presidency
 
Caroline13 said:
Oh I've posted articles that we are close to Herd Immunity or already in it.
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Correction - you posted links to claims that don't really work so well, unless you're invoking the altered and dramatically weaker version of herd immunity where any hint of effect due to reduced infectable population counts as reaching herd immunity. With the vaccines, we are much more quickly approaching the point where the most vulnerable groups to harm are dramatically less vulnerable in general, though that's fairly certainly a bit different from the fairly certainly misused version of "herd immunity being claimed by your anti-vax sources.

Caroline13 said:
The pandemic could be over, but the politicians want to keep it alive and keep all the sheep in fear and jabbed.

What happened to working on one's HEALTH??????
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You mean, that thing that Republicans keep working really hard to undermine for all but the very rich in a plethora of ways and Democrats keep trying to make better across the board? Yeah, that situation hasn't changed.
 
In other news... Virginia's GOP has had something that perhaps shouldn't be surprising happen.

The Republican Party of Virginia has voted four times since December to nominate its candidates for this year’s statewide races at a convention instead of in a primary election. But in a sign of the Trumpian times of denial and dispute in the G.O.P., nearly half of the party’s top officials keep trying to reverse the results and get a primary.

The refusal of these Republicans to admit they have lost, or to agree on a set of nominating rules, has fractured a state party already in upheaval: Republicans haven’t won a statewide election since 2009, and they now find themselves with legislative minorities for the first time in a generation. Even the broken windows at the state party’s Richmond headquarters haven’t been fixed for months.
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Trump may have loudly led the way, but he's not even remotely alone and the effects aren't even remotely gone.
 
Caroline13 said:
Right now as I see it, we are living the New Norm as long as Biden/Harris and their crew are in charge. Masks, distancing, no get togethers, lockdowns = prison, and on and on.

Now I'm hearing Harris is doing more and more of the Presidential interactions....ummmm
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What specifically do you personally observe that leads you to this conclusion? And how do these observations differ compared to one month ago?

Mind you, I'm not interested in whatever inane things you've read on the internet. First hand observations please.
 
mgidm86 said:
I don't think the federal minimum wage is a good place to look for solving income equality.

A federal minimum wage that is a flat value (say $15/hour) is going to yield very different results in each state.

Maybe that is why it is so low now?

In Silicon Valley, Cali, $15 an hour is barely enough to rent a bedroom from somebody, if it is at all. You are struggling and living paycheck to paycheck, and you better have no kids. If you need any car repairs at all you are in trouble.

In some other areas of the country that same wage goes a whole lot farther. Even some areas in Cali are very different.

Rent is half price just 2 hours from here. The businesses in areas where the dollar goes farther won't be able to pay that $15 amount.

The various economies are too different for a federal minimum wage that is anything but very low.

The states need to take care of their people. Either that or have an adjustable federal wage that allows for different local economies. A $15 minimum wage wouldn't change anything in California. In my area the minimum is actually slightly higher than that.
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A $15 minimum wage will give some people in California more money. The perfect is not the enemy of the good.
 
mgidm86 said:
I don't think the federal minimum wage is a good place to look for solving income equality.

A federal minimum wage that is a flat value (say $15/hour) is going to yield very different results in each state.

Maybe that is why it is so low now?

In Silicon Valley, Cali, $15 an hour is barely enough to rent a bedroom from somebody, if it is at all. You are struggling and living paycheck to paycheck, and you better have no kids. If you need any car repairs at all you are in trouble.

In some other areas of the country that same wage goes a whole lot farther. Even some areas in Cali are very different.

Rent is half price just 2 hours from here. The businesses in areas where the dollar goes farther won't be able to pay that $15 amount.

The various economies are too different for a federal minimum wage that is anything but very low.

The states need to take care of their people. Either that or have an adjustable federal wage that allows for different local economies. A $15 minimum wage wouldn't change anything in California. In my area the minimum is actually slightly higher than that.
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Raising the minimum wage increases wages across the board, not just those earning it. This is a fact. And the biggest problem facing this country today is that workers are underpaid while business owners and stockholders cash in.

You just pointed out why it necessary to raise the minimum wage nationwide. The states in particular in many locales refuse to raise the minimum wage as they are bought off by employers who want to pay as low a wage as they can as that means more for them.

If your business only exists by paying subsistence wages, maybe you shouldn't be in business.
 
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Meanwhile oil prices have risen from $25 a barrel to $62 during President Biden's first month in office. Yay?
 
kookbreaker said:
Stop lying.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...t-doubled-during-biden-presidency/6798510002/

Oil hasn’t been 25$ a barrel since April.
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Stop lying, it was May.

Great fact check link BTW

"The claim that oil prices had jumped from about $25 a barrel when Joe Biden became president to more than $61 a barrel now is FALSE. While prices have increased since Jan. 20, crude oil already was trading at more than $53 a barrel at that time."

It's only increased by a measly 15% in the past 30 days.

Yay?
 
dirtywick said:
maybe these fracking companies might make enough money to stay in business
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You mean the old fracking companies? I remember somebody saying "No new fracking." I'll admit I really don't know whether President Biden is for or against fracking. I heard so many different views expressed on fracking by Biden it could go either way.

If you're FOR something AND against it, seems like you're covered either way.
 
ChrisBFRPKY said:
Stop lying, it was May.
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May 2020 is a lot closer to April 2020 than January 2021 is.

Great fact check link BTW

"The claim that oil prices had jumped from about $25 a barrel when Joe Biden became president to more than $61 a barrel now is FALSE. While prices have increased since Jan. 20, crude oil already was trading at more than $53 a barrel at that time."

It's only increased by a measly 15% in the past 30 days.

Yay?
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Golly. Oil prices go up in a harsh winter. Go figure.

Your little gotcha meme-based attack on the President has some rather diminishing returns: one moment its all "oIl pRiCeS DoUblEd iN bIdEN's fIRst mOnTH!" to "oh noes!! everyone get super-dooper concerned about a 15% price increase in a harsh winter".

Its rather pathetic really. Maybe don't get your political and economic info from memes?
 
ChrisBFRPKY said:
Meanwhile oil prices have risen from $25 a barrel to $62 during President Biden's first month in office. Yay?
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You do understand that had to happen don't you? This is a response to increased demand. At $25 a barrel the oil companies were selling below cost. What was the price per barrel before the pandemic?

Interesting, i didn't read the rest of the thread which demonstrated that determined again why you shouldn't rely on the news sources that you frequent.

There was no way the price of oil was going to stay at $25 a barrel. The price of a barrel of light oil today is hovering around the average price for oil for all of 2019. Even at $65, the price is low. FYI, the price in 1980 was $35 a barrel which is the equivalent of $110 today.

Personally, I expect oil prices to continue to rise.

This has little to do with who POTUS is. Production was dramatically slowed as a result of the pandemic. More wells were capped then opened. The oil companies even asked for government funds to help them cap wells, if demand continues to rise as is expected prices will go up.
 
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ChrisBFRPKY said:
You mean the old fracking companies? I remember somebody saying "No new fracking." I'll admit I really don't know whether President Biden is for or against fracking. I heard so many different views expressed on fracking by Biden it could go either way.
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No you haven't.


If you're FOR something AND against it, seems like you're covered either way.
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How is a rising oil-price evidence that Biden is for fracking?
 
ChrisBFRPKY said:
Meanwhile oil prices have risen from $25 a barrel to $62 during President Biden's first month in office. Yay?
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Obviously, there's a cause & effect here. The question is, has Biden caused the rise, or is he benefiting from it?

In other news, the price of rum in Havana is up, as are the salaries of Presbyterian ministers in Massachusetts. Which is the cause, and who benefits?
 
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