• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    People are too stupid or don’t pay enough attention

    Biden ended a bunch of CARES Act provisions that benefited working families and children. Medicaid enrollment was cut. The monthly paid out child tax cut extension was ended. Mandated Paid Sick Leave ended.

    That’s what people were stupidly noticing.

    Meanwhile, greedflation jacked up the prices of consumer goods straight into 2023. Biden Dems were angry when people refused to stop paying attention to prices that outpaced salaries, while the Feds twiddled their thumbs.

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      25 days ago

      Medicaid enrollment was cut.

      By Congress, not Biden, though the Consolidated Appropriations Act as a demand by Republicans.

      The monthly paid out child tax cut extension was ended.

      Again Republicans voted against the reauthorization because they didn’t want to hand Democrats a “win”.

      Mandated Paid Sick Leave ended.

      This was only ever intended to be temporary as it only applies when there was federal or state quarantine in effect. Democrats in the House introduced the Healthy Families Act which would guarantee all workers 7 sick days a year. The act was filibustered by Republicans in the Senate.

      Democrats are not the problem here.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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        25 days ago

        Democrats are not the problem here.

        no amount of facts are going to sway the ‘but both SIDES BAD UNNHH’ no matter how much you try to rub the data in their stupid faces.

        A plurality of morons voted directly against their own best interests or there was some gigantic, undetectable fraud. Either way, country’s fucked.

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      25 days ago

      It’s true that inflation outpaced wages, but this was only for a period following Covid. And while everyone pointed out when inflation pulled away, no one seemed to notice when wages bounced back.

      Tens of millions of deaths globally will inevitably cause supply chain issues, and no amount of fiscal policy will prevent that scarcity. So people have to pay more for the same value. But things also recovered under Biden to more than compensate for that deficit. Here’s the growth rate of inflation and wages over the past four years:

      1000002708

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        25 days ago

        To people literally dying of corporate capitalism, Harris’s mantra was, “Look at these charts, people — everything’s pretty good!”

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          23 days ago

          I would say it’s more like, “Things aren’t as bad as the right would have you believe, and we have actually done a lot to prevent it from being worse.” She didn’t pretend America wasn’t struggling. I remember her talking about the rising costs of groceries frequently, and she advertised the planned first time homeowner tax credit as something intended to make housing more affordable. Trump’s solution was instead deporting a lot of residents working jobs that generated a lot of value relative to their wage, and making pretty much everything more expensive with tarriffs.

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      24 days ago

      It’s hilarious that you replied to a comment about people “being stupid or not paying enough attenrion” and showed everyone you are one of those people.

      The Legislative branch was responsible for the criticism you aimed at Biden, and guess what? Republicans controlled the House, and in the Senate, there are 49 Republicans, 47 Democrats, and 4 Independents.

      Which means the Democrats had no legislative power at all in the House, and no meaningful power in the Senate.

      Do you even know who introduced the CARES Act? Joe Courtney, a Democrat.

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      25 days ago

      Biden? Are you sure it wasn’t the fuckwit Republicans in Congress? You might want to check your sources.