Biden built the strongest safety net in U.S. history. Now it’s collapsing around him.
Biden built the strongest safety net in U.S. history. Now it's collapsing around him.
The child poverty rate more than doubled in 2022 as Covid-era aid programs expired, erasing major economic gains for the poorest Americans.
Capitalists will always view the uplift of their captive labor market as a bad thing. Covid era expansion of government aid was always intended to be life support for a monetarily ensnared working class in order to maintain the exploitation on the other side of the pandemic. Why do you think they are so adamant about the "return to work"? It isnt just the corporate property developers suffering directly from unused realty, but the middle managers suffering from irrelevance of not being able to physically wield power over employees. Keeping workers stuck in a cycle of poverty is how late-stage capitalism operates most efficiently for the ruling class.
They are pretty open about that. The wealthy feel that they need to cause pain in the economy globally in order to diminish workers' ability to make demands. They have the means and the motive to make 2008 happen again.
....the middle managers suffering from irrelevance of not being able to physically wield power over employees
Imagine thinking middle management have any more influence than the rest of us working peasants to influence over the ruling the 1%. What an utterly bizarre thing to claim.
Capitalists will always view the uplift of their captive labor market as a bad thing.
I'm a neoliberal capitalist pig and I love uplifting the poor. I literally dedicated my life to it. I fully support just straight up handing the poor money.
You'll also note Joe Biden is a capitalist pig-dog too, and literally fought for this program
Keeping workers stuck in a cycle of poverty is how late-stage capitalism operates most efficiently for the ruling class.
This is the opposite of the truth.
It really is crazy that under the COVID relief bills we saw direct payments to citizens, the child tax credits, and no cost healthcare at point of service for ONE disease. And then poof it was gone.
Especially on that last one, I’m surprised I don’t see it wrapped into the Medicare for All movement more often as an example of a dramatic expansion of the government’s role in healthcare for all Americans, however temporary and limited.
I'm not saying I wish covid was worse, but maybe if it's been like a little worse we could of got single payer healthcare?... I dunno I really thought that was going to make it obvious how much better that'd be.
I know what you are saying. These folks were actively asking for the 2% of Grandma's and immunocompromised to be sacrificed for the greater good. Maybe if they saw their ERs shut down in the suburbs and country line they did in the city, they would take it more seriously
Democrats don't want Medicare for All anymore than Republicans do. So it's not surprising that they dropped benefits as quickly as possible before people got used to them.
title sounds like clickbait. it's so weird to use collapsing, when the real story is the covid era programs are expiring (as OP thankfully points out, thanks OP).
US will always be US...years after we received the meager covid relief funds, a certain group was still complaining about too much free money...
Not collapsing. Being torn right the fuck back down, by conservatives and Republicans who hate Americans and don't care about the well-being and safety of our most vulnerable.
Yet another democrat "we'd love to but..." When will people learn that Manchin switching sides is all part of the play? Lieberman did the same to nerf the ACA. When democrats get a majority, it's always by a small enough margin that you can pay a couple of people off to switch sides. Then with the tiniest of temporary victories, democrats can still claim "this is the greatest mostest bestest amazingest progressivest president in US history" which sounds impressive until you see the reality. It's a baby rattle that distracts the dumbest diehard democrat fans who think democrats actually intend to make progress. Meanwhile the rest just vote democrat because they're not republicans, but we're not stupid enough to think it'll make a difference in this crooked system.
"strongest safety net in American history" yeah can people stop making up outright lies about Biden? He's barely doing anything, I have two cats and they both probably get less sleep
You could have bothered to read even the first paragraph of the article before commenting...
Just two years after orchestrating the largest expansion of the U.S. safety net in a half-century, Biden’s $2 trillion bet that big-government policies could vastly improve life for the poorest Americans is coming to a close.
It's an objective fact. It probably says more about our previous leaders than it does about Biden.
What happens if he does get impeached? Are we having a new election a year a before the next one? Or does VP Harris become president harris?
Nothing happens other than him getting a bump in the polls. No presidential impeachment has ever led to a conviction, even when they were caught in tape doing the thing they were accused of... All an impeachment has ever done its made the party that conducted the impeachment perform worse at the polls because they're seen as "playing politics."
To add to the other comment Biden would need to be impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate (where Dems currently have a majority). If it were somehow successful, Harris would become the new president until what would have been the end of Biden’s term.
Basically impossible right now, but helpful to know what the process looks like.
"Biden officials pushed hard to make that program permanent but couldn’t overcome opposition from centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who argued the government’s spending was stoking inflation."
F@#& Joe Manchin!
Centrist my hairy ass. If it walks and talks like an obstructionist republican ballsack...
Joe Manchin gave us the IRA. Don't forget that.
...then he's a centrist.
Next time you see some loser with FJB written somewhere, cross out the B and put an M
LOL, "centrist".
That man is not a centrist.
Too bad an Executive Act could've made that negligible, but I'm glad that Biden and the democrats insist on playing by the rules when their opponents are bragging about cheating
The important thing is that we found a way to blame Joe Biden for everything.
This is a great video about that. Really gets to the core of the complete phallacy of the DNC strategy. I'm starting to think they're intentionally ineffective at this point.
https://youtu.be/MAbab8aP4_A?si=SIEcDNKIFIa3CTwa
an executive act can also be reversed by the next republican president