Joe Biden is crushing 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?

FTR this change in heart for how to fight for the middle class started with Carter, not W Clinton.

The basic underlying idea was that the economy didn't need to be as tightly regulated and that some governmental functions should be subcontracted to the private sector.  Carter deregulated the airlines, among other things, which opened up fare wars.  What Carter didn't see coming was the drastic change in anti-trust, which Reagan brought in, which has eliminated competition in many business sectors.

The Reagon Revolution really shook up the Democratics, and Clinton's campaign and economic team reflected that, with his third way, which was a campaign gimic used to blunt the private business can do it better meme.  Clinton was very smart, but he wasn't an economic historian, and if he did see, he didn't have the support to swing the economy back.  With the Wall Street centered economic team he had my guess is they were all in on building business from the top down, supply side, makes sense.

Obama was running on Health Care & charisma until the housing crash blindsided the election.  His economic team were holdover from Clinton's.  Obama won the primary by getting the Kennedy wing on his side and the promise he made to them was Healthcare.  The economy was a distraction from that for him, and his Clinton economic team did what they did for Clinton.

Biden won the primary by paying off, politically, his rivals, primarily Sanders & Warren, promising progressive policies during the campaign, but more importantly promising that Warren would have first choice at filling a number of obscure but critical positions in the administration, which she filled with progressive believers.  Biden, the old Irish pol that he is, keeps his political promises, thus he stayed the course.  He was helped, immensely, by the covid crisis, which created the opportunity for two major transfer cash to the middle class acts, but his gut sense that Reaganomics was dead and a return to New Deal values is a political winner was spot on.

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?

Be careful with that sarcasm.  tSCOTUS ruled a couple of years ago that citizens living within the operating zone of the border patrol do not have the right to require a search warrant for BP agents to search their property.  Since all of Michigan is in that zone they can break down your door anytime they want to.

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

Floyd Robertson wrote:

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.

I waffle between picking out the good parts or just doing as I did today, the headline.

She is a college professor, and the blog is a side hustle. I'm impressed she does it 6 days a week with so much detail.

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.

TravelinMan wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:



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.

I noticed that Lina Khan has been making the talk show rounds.

From what I been reading, but not posting, changing antitrust enforcement is a big lift because of all the case law dating back to when Reagan stopped enforcing it, so maybe she is talking about that. She is also the face of the administration on the new rule about overtime.

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Just imagine how much more he would get done if he were younger /s

The quote below is exactly why I keep saying that Joe Biden is the best President we have had since FDR.

It is a combination of his faith in making the government work for the people, and his understanding that "Reagenomics" has failed the people and his efforts to create the foundation of a new economic direction which we call Bidenomics.

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON wrote:This morning, Arlette Saenz of CNN reported on the six months of behind-the-scenes negotiating Biden and his team engaged in to get House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) behind Ukraine aid. Meetings, phone calls, defense briefings, and so on, laid out for Johnson just what abandoning Ukraine would mean for U.S. and global security.

Biden urged his team to stay in close contact with Johnson, as well as House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), but to avoid attacking Johnson in order to allow room to move discussions forward.

Counselor to the president Steve Ricchetti, a key negotiator, told Saenz: “He just kept saying, ‘Keep talking. Keep working.’ You know, keep finding ways to resolve differences. And that was his direction.”

Biden’s focus on the slow, steady work of governance is a change from the actions of Republican leaders since 1981 whose goal was not to build up successful programs that helped Americans in general, but rather to slash the government. Killing programs requires only saying no to other people’s ideas and riling up voters to endorse that anti-government program by flame-throwing on right-wing media.

Over the years, it seems we have become accustomed to the idea that flame-throwing defines politics, but in fact, Biden’s reliance on slow, careful negotiation harks back to the eras when leaders sought to build coalitions and find common ground in order to pass legislation.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-24-2024

Spartans4Life wrote:Is this the guy crushing it?

https://news.yahoo.com/watch-biden-reads-pause-aloud-000004671.html

Yes, next question.

Spartans4Life wrote:Even CNN calling out the Liar in Chief.  Anytime the child molester opens his mouth he lies.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-check-biden-makes-false-and-misleading-claims-during-pennsylvania-campaign-swing/ar-AA1nk4MX

The story about his uncle sounds like family lore, and really in detail is meaningless, the mistake about his earnings is flat out wrong in recent years so yes, that one.

The rest of this is mostly nit picking by the press, mostly to support that these exaggerations by Biden somehow equate to Trump's whoppers, so the press can keep pounding it into your head that they are the same type of person, while clearly Biden is far better.

Motown Spartan wrote:

Spartans4Life wrote:Even CNN calling out the Liar in Chief.  Anytime the child molester opens his mouth he lies.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-check-biden-makes-false-and-misleading-claims-during-pennsylvania-campaign-swing/ar-AA1nk4MX

Oh man, if you're upset over false and misleading claims being made by POTUS, have I got a surprise for you...

And is name is Donald Trump

GRR Spartan wrote:A whole 39 posts from 4Life in nearly 99 months.

Multi screen named troll must have found his password list.

He shows up for a few hours every few months.

Spartans4Life wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

He shows up for a few hours every few months.

Sorry GRRamps and Gussie, I'm employed with a fam, not collecting SSI like you two who spend countless hours in this liberal cesspool. Can only take so much of the garbage you libs spew.

Always a red letter day when you show up as you are so open to new ideas. /s

Cameron wrote:

Motown Spartan wrote:

Oh man, if you're upset over false and misleading claims being made by POTUS, have I got a surprise for you...

Trapper Gus wrote:

The story about his uncle sounds like family lore, and really in detail is meaningless, the mistake about his earnings is flat out wrong in recent years so yes, that one.

The rest of this is mostly nit picking by the press, mostly to support that these exaggerations by Biden somehow equate to Trump's whoppers, so the press can keep pounding it into your head that they are the same type of person, while clearly Biden is far better.

Not a very substantive response to some seemingly valid fact checking. Sure, the poster in question is guilty of flagrant hypocrisy, but still, that's more lies than I would like my president to tell.

I'm not going head to head with each accusation.  Some are election hyperbolic, some are misstatements, some are what Joe was told when he was 5.

None of them is material to future policy, which is really the only thing that matters.

Do you want higher taxes for the rich, and higher wages for the working man, aka Biden or the opposite, aka Trump?

BTW you guys are the ones who crap all over my detailed posts until the details tell the story you want to hear, well ....