Joe Biden is crushing it.

Jake from State Farm wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/opinion/economy-vibes.html

Our economy is doing well, thanks to Joe Biden.

WTF? The bots are telling me we're in a recession.  

Ban Guns wrote:WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands more firearms dealers across the United States will have to run background checks on buyers when selling at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores, according to a Biden administration rule that will soon go into effect.

The rule aims to close a loophole that has allowed tens of thousands of guns to be sold every year by unlicensed dealers who don’t perform background checks to ensure the potential buyer is not legally prohibited from having a firearm.

It’s the administration’s latest effort to combat gun violence. But in a contentious election year, it’s also an effort to show voters — especially younger ones for whom gun violence deeply resonates — that the White House is trying to stop the deaths.

“This is going to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and felons,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. “And my administration is going to continue to do everything we possibly can to save lives. Congress needs to finish the job and pass universal background checks legislation now.”

Trapper Gus wrote:

Ban Guns wrote:WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands more firearms dealers across the United States will have to run background checks on buyers when selling at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores, according to a Biden administration rule that will soon go into effect.

The rule aims to close a loophole that has allowed tens of thousands of guns to be sold every year by unlicensed dealers who don’t perform background checks to ensure the potential buyer is not legally prohibited from having a firearm.

It’s the administration’s latest effort to combat gun violence. But in a contentious election year, it’s also an effort to show voters — especially younger ones for whom gun violence deeply resonates — that the White House is trying to stop the deaths.

“This is going to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and felons,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. “And my administration is going to continue to do everything we possibly can to save lives. Congress needs to finish the job and pass universal background checks legislation now.”

https://apnews.com/article/biden-administration-background-checks-atf-rule-70261cc0512eea8d52ef9585a9a48ab2

Go git um Joe!

The latest action will cancel $7.4 billion dollars in debt for 277,000 people across the country.

Of those receiving discharges, nearly 207,000 borrowers are enrolled in the SAVE plan, 65,000 people are in income-driven repayment plans and 4,600 are through fixes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
Those who are approved for the loan cancellations will start receiving emails on Friday.

Zoom out: "Thanks to this Administration's efforts, around one out of every 10 Federal student loan borrowers has now been approved for some debt relief," according to the White House.

What they're saying: President Biden pledged in a statement Friday that he will "never stop working to cancel student debt – no matter how many times Republican elected officials try to stop us."

"From day one of my Administration, I promised to fight to ensure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier to opportunity," he said.

Trapper Gus wrote:

The latest action will cancel $7.4 billion dollars in debt for 277,000 people across the country.

Of those receiving discharges, nearly 207,000 borrowers are enrolled in the SAVE plan, 65,000 people are in income-driven repayment plans and 4,600 are through fixes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
Those who are approved for the loan cancellations will start receiving emails on Friday.

Zoom out: "Thanks to this Administration's efforts, around one out of every 10 Federal student loan borrowers has now been approved for some debt relief," according to the White House.

What they're saying: President Biden pledged in a statement Friday that he will "never stop working to cancel student debt – no matter how many times Republican elected officials try to stop us."

"From day one of my Administration, I promised to fight to ensure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier to opportunity," he said.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/12/student-loan-cancellations-7billion-biden

Joe keeps nibbling away at the student loan problem.

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The intrigue: Democrats are also seeing signs that they are closing the gap with the GOP among voters who say which party is better at fighting crime.

An Axios-Ipsos Latino Poll conducted in partnership with Noticias Telemundo and released this month found that Republicans had only a 4-point edge on which party was better at dealing with crime.
Previous polls had them leading Democrats by double digits.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics like the COVID-19 outbreak that suddenly halted normal life around the globe in 2020.

U.S. government officials will work with the countries to develop better testing, surveillance, communication and preparedness for such outbreaks in those countries, helping to “prevent, detect and effectively respond to biological threats wherever they emerge,” Biden said.

The Global Health Security Strategy, the president said, will help protect people worldwide and “will make the United States stronger, safer, and healthier than ever before at this critical moment.”

The U.S. made remarkable strides in reducing poverty in recent decades, but one group was left behind — working-age adults who aren't raising children.

Why it matters: While key tax breaks and support programs lift a significant percentage of children, parents and older Americans out of poverty, they barely move the needle on this group, finds a striking series of papers from the Hamilton Project at Brookings released Wednesday.

State of play: One out of every two people in the U.S. who live in deep poverty — 50% below the poverty line — is a member of this population.

More than 70% of the homeless population falls into this group, which totals about 14 million adults aged 18-64, says Robert Greenstein, the founder of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and author of one of the papers.

Trapper Gus wrote:https://www.axios.com/2024/04/16/homicide-rate-us-voters-trump

The intrigue: Democrats are also seeing signs that they are closing the gap with the GOP among voters who say which party is better at fighting crime.

An Axios-Ipsos Latino Poll conducted in partnership with Noticias Telemundo and released this month found that Republicans had only a 4-point edge on which party was better at dealing with crime.
Previous polls had them leading Democrats by double digits.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics like the COVID-19 outbreak that suddenly halted normal life around the globe in 2020.

U.S. government officials will work with the countries to develop better testing, surveillance, communication and preparedness for such outbreaks in those countries, helping to “prevent, detect and effectively respond to biological threats wherever they emerge,” Biden said.

The Global Health Security Strategy, the president said, will help protect people worldwide and “will make the United States stronger, safer, and healthier than ever before at this critical moment.”

https://apnews.com/article/biden-pandemics-virus-outbreak-mpox-global-worldwide-11571e564eda19f091bdad50d367cbcd

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You go Joe!  Rebuilt the middle class.

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Trapper Gus wrote:Joe got funding for Ukraine, Taiwan & Israel passed against Trump's wishes.  Bipartisan majorities for all three.  

Joe, making us work together.

Cam gonna stroke out.

Motown Spartan wrote:This is Cameron whenever anyone thinks something nice about Joe Biden.

Trapper Gus wrote:https://uaw.org/in-historic-breakthrough-volkswagen-workers-become-first-southern-autoworkers-to-win-their-union/

You go Joe! Rebuilt the middle class.

TravelinMan wrote:Nobody can afford to buy a house, cost of living is WAY up, and we need to forgive student loans to help the Poors, but the economy is kicking ass? Weird.

Thom Hartman wrote:...Both homeless and today’s inflation are the result of America — unlike many other countries — allowing housing to become a commodity that can be traded and speculated in by financial markets and overseas investors.

...

It started with a wave of foreign buyers over the past 30 years (particularly from China, Canada, Mexico, India and Colombia) who, in just the one single year of 2020, picked up over 154,000 homes as their way of parking money in America. Which is part of why there are over 20 times more empty houses in America than there are homeless people.

...

But foreign investment has been down for the past few years; what’s taken over and is really driving home prices today are massive, multi-billion-dollar US-based funds that sweep into neighborhoods and buy everything available, bidding against families and driving up housing prices.

As noted in a Wall Street Journal article titled “Meet Your New Landlord: Wall Street,” in just one suburb (Spring Hill) of Nashville, “In all of Spring Hill, four firms … own nearly 700 houses … [which] amounts to about 5% of all the houses in town.”

...

Trapper Gus wrote:

TravelinMan wrote:Nobody can afford to buy a house, cost of living is WAY up, and we need to forgive student loans to help the Poors, but the economy is kicking ass? Weird.

You might need to read this Thom Hartman piece on how come we have a housing crisis before you tie student debt and housing prices together.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-homelessness-stalks-america-like-866

Thom Hartman wrote:...Both homeless and today’s inflation are the result of America — unlike many other countries — allowing housing to become a commodity that can be traded and speculated in by financial markets and overseas investors.

...

It started with a wave of foreign buyers over the past 30 years (particularly from China, Canada, Mexico, India and Colombia) who, in just the one single year of 2020, picked up over 154,000 homes as their way of parking money in America. Which is part of why there are over 20 times more empty houses in America than there are homeless people.

...

But foreign investment has been down for the past few years; what’s taken over and is really driving home prices today are massive, multi-billion-dollar US-based funds that sweep into neighborhoods and buy everything available, bidding against families and driving up housing prices.

As noted in a Wall Street Journal article titled “Meet Your New Landlord: Wall Street,” in just one suburb (Spring Hill) of Nashville, “In all of Spring Hill, four firms … own nearly 700 houses … [which] amounts to about 5% of all the houses in town.”

...

TravelinMan wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

You might need to read this Thom Hartman piece on how come we have a housing crisis before you tie student debt and housing prices together.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-homelessness-stalks-america-like-866

You’re right.  Foreigners have more rights, and often times receive more benefits than citizens in America.  Somewhere along the line America decided political correctness was more important than caring for its own people.

Trapper Gus wrote:

TravelinMan wrote:

You’re right.  Foreigners have more rights, and often times receive more benefits than citizens in America.  Somewhere along the line America decided political correctness was more important than caring for its own people.

Would have thought that something along the line of "Money Talks; BS Walks" would have made more sense for you.

The housing price and availability problem is the direct result of the Reagan Tax Cuts, followed by the GW Bush Tax Cuts, followed by the Trump Tax Cuts.

Joe Biden is the first President since Eisenhower, to "get it" as to what makes the economy work for the middle class, and the first President since FDR to do something significant (LBJ's Medicare/Medicaid & Obama's Obamacare were helpful but not focused at the heart of the problem) about it.

TravelinMan wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

Would have thought that something along the line of "Money Talks; BS Walks" would have made more sense for you.

The housing price and availability problem is the direct result of the Reagan Tax Cuts, followed by the GW Bush Tax Cuts, followed by the Trump Tax Cuts.

Joe Biden is the first President since Eisenhower, to "get it" as to what makes the economy work for the middle class, and the first President since FDR to do something significant (LBJ's Medicare/Medicaid & Obama's Obamacare were helpful but not focused at the heart of the problem) about it.

Why didn't Clinton or Obama "get it" in your opinion?

kingstonlake wrote:Breaking news just in.

An immigrant has more rights under immigration laws than I do as a citizen.

My rage cannot be measured.

Where do I sign up to switch my rights?

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON wrote:With the passage of the national security supplemental bill through the House of Representatives on Saturday, Punchbowl News noted today, President Joe Biden became the winner of this Congress.

Trapper Gus wrote:

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON wrote:With the passage of the national security supplemental bill through the House of Representatives on Saturday, Punchbowl News noted today, President Joe Biden became the winner of this Congress.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-22-2024

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Trapper Gus wrote:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-22-2024

I wish she could learn to write in shorter form. Some of us still work full-time.

TravelinMan wrote:Nobody can afford to buy a house, cost of living is WAY up, and we need to forgive student loans to help the Poors, but the economy is kicking ass? Weird.

Axios wrote:Federal regulators vastly under-enforced antitrust laws in the hospital sector in the last two decades, a new study finds.

Why it matters: Unchecked mergers during a period of rapid consolidation represent a significant factor in rising health costs, according to the study in the American Economic Review.

What they found: Of the 1,164 mergers of acute-care hospitals between 2002 and 2020, the Federal Trade Commission only took enforcement action against 13 of them (1%), according to the study.

However, the FTC could have flagged 238 (20%), based on the agency's own tools for screening mergers that could reduce competition and raise prices.

Health care prices increased at least 5% as a result of hospital mergers between 2010 and 2015 that the FTC could have — but did not — flag as anticompetitive.

Trapper Gus wrote:

TravelinMan wrote:Nobody can afford to buy a house, cost of living is WAY up, and we need to forgive student loans to help the Poors, but the economy is kicking ass? Weird.

Axios wrote:Federal regulators vastly under-enforced antitrust laws in the hospital sector in the last two decades, a new study finds.

Why it matters: Unchecked mergers during a period of rapid consolidation represent a significant factor in rising health costs, according to the study in the American Economic Review.

What they found: Of the 1,164 mergers of acute-care hospitals between 2002 and 2020, the Federal Trade Commission only took enforcement action against 13 of them (1%), according to the study.

However, the FTC could have flagged 238 (20%), based on the agency's own tools for screening mergers that could reduce competition and raise prices.

Health care prices increased at least 5% as a result of hospital mergers between 2010 and 2015 that the FTC could have — but did not — flag as anticompetitive.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/24/hospital-antitrust-enforcement

Joe Biden, with Senator Warren's help, is trying to put teeth back into antitrust enforcement.