biden trying hard to counter any popularity boost he'd normally gain from being a wartime president in the US.
Is Biden even a wartime president at this point? We're doing sanctions, but we haven't actually committed any ground troops to this shit show.
good point. it definitely is a time of war in the public perception though, people get riled up about this, they care and that can be used for campaigning. i ... at least hope that most americans don't expect biden to send ground troops, that would be ww3. imagine losing the midterms because you didn't kick off the apocalypse.
Remember when Bernie called out Biden for wanting to cut Social Security, and Biden was like "no i didn't?" and none of the moderators of the debate thought any further about it? lol.
But yeah, spending decades talking about how we might be able to make amends with conservatives by extending the olive branch of addressing the Deficit by freezing Social Security, and defacto cutting it by not tying it to any CPI or Cost of Living metrics. This mummy thinks austerity makes him look austere.
Both of my shitty chud parents are on social security now and they desperately need it and a very evil snide part of me would love for them to be cut off since that's what they want for everyone else when it doesn't effect them.
SI will almost certainly be gone by the time I'm their age anyways so I'd almost rather they inflict misery on the boomers now
I dont know a single person under 40 that is expecting SI or anything remotely helpful in the future.
I'm expecting it, because its endured 80 years of this conservative deficit hawkery and anti-government hysteria.
But I also don't think the $12k/year stipend is going to buying much when import/export markets collapse in a post-globalist world.
in 2050, Social Security will be administered in monthly $ 50 Amazon gift cards.
In fairness, 60% of the economy will just be people handing packages back and forth between each other to make Big Number Go Up.
At this point my retirement plan is the inevitability of fascists lining me up against a wall.
"We need to reduce the deficit by cutting government spending."
"So, that fifty billion more than Trump that you pushed into the military, that's gone?"
"We need to unite to fight Russia, this isn't the time to discuss cuts to the military budget."
Measure it like any other budget bill (in ten year increments that you usually never describe that way) and it's way more already
post a link, lib https://www.reuters.com/world/us/speech-biden-shift-build-back-better-bill-4-point-economic-rescue-plan-2022-02-28/
Out is talk of remaking society with a Build Back Better social-spending agenda.
In is talk of restraining deficits and putting an end to inflation, two of the concerns that Democrat Joe Manchin, the swing vote in the U.S. Senate, thought the administration had failed to emphasize enough.
"the swing vote" is like pro wrestling kayfabe, he's a heel or face as needed.
He will also announce plans to increase safety inspections at nursing homes to reduce their cost and bad patient outcomes, especially those owned by private equity firms.
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/02/18/andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-timeline/4492406001/
He also wants the federal government to hire more people based on their skills instead of educational qualifications alone.
"meritocracy is good, the problem is crony meritocrats"
for too long skills like "smoking crack" and "being Joe Biden's son" have been overlooked.
After the dems lose at least the house we can get bipartisanship.
Yay?
The most blursed moment in Obama's political career was the moment when he said he was going to downsize large chunks of Medicare and Social Security only for the House Freedom Caucus to kill the proposal because it didn't go far enough.
Probably bought this country an extra decade or two of life, before a full-on collapse into fascism and civil war. So... uh... thank you Louise Gohmert for saving America.
The job of democrats has been to reduce the deficit through austerity after the republicans run it up from wars and tax cuts.
Infrastructure week is coming to a close. There are still potholes on my drive to work. Thanks Biden.
