Biden is addressing the needs of labor.

[Dogmaphobe]

A person would have to be retarded beyond words to think that opening the borders to millions of undocumented aliens actually HELPS labor.

 

[San Souci]

Uncle Joe has been impossible for Trumpanzees to peg and they've tried it all. He just keeps his nose to the grindstone, get those shots in arms, passes a massive piece of legislation benefiting workers instead of the Paris Hiltons and Jeff Bezos's of the world, and ignores the clownery about Mr Potato Head and Dr Seuss.

Still enjoying a 60% approval rating. Hell, 59% of REPUBLICANS approved of the COVID bill. Yessir, America is coming back and Biden owns Trumpublicans - Not by Tweeting stupid insults, but by doing the tough job of GOVERNING and cleaning up the ginormous mess he inherited ... One day at a time!

Let us see. He does not answer questions. Stays inside. Only reads scripts. No puzzle here. He is Braindead Senile.

 

[San Souci]

A person would have to be retarded beyond words to think that opening the borders to millions of undocumented aliens actually HELPS labor.

Besides ,do ya think we get the BEST people from those shithole Countries?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Chicom Joe Biden is as popular as Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

This is a needed correction that will have consequences for Party alignment and future elections.

Why Joe Biden Resonates With Blue-Collar Voters

Why Joe Biden Resonates With Blue-Collar Voters (Published 2019)

Joseph R. Biden Jr. has durable support from a multiracial coalition of working-class voters who view him as one of their own.

www.nytimes.com

​

The President's recovery package is receiving widespread, bipartisan support throughout the nation, but the enthusiasm among blue collar workers is a confirmation of his commitment to a faction that had become, quite rightfully imho, so alienated from the Democratic Party that it was willing to take a desperate shot in 2016.

The former guy's fake promises that he would revive coal mining, reinvigorate steel production, and restore manufacturing - as bogus as his vows to make Mexico pay for a big, beautiful wall and replace 'ObamaCare' with "Something terrific!" that "covers everybody!"- left them in despair, but they have been given reason to be cautiously optimistic.

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Union leaders and their Democratic allies pointed to an $86 billion aid provision in the package that would prevent multi-employer pension plans from collapsing. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who pushed for its inclusion, said it would “not only protect these pensions, but will stimulate our local economies and prevent a major bailout that would have cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars if we did nothing.”​

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Phil Smith, the head of governmental affairs with United Mine Workers of America, said while their workers had their pensions shored up in 2019, the rescue plan provides a “backstop” to protect their retirement accounts, and listed it along with other wishlist items that the union plans to tout internally, as well as though its social media channels.​

​

“That is such a signature accomplishment that has been worked on for more than a decade,” Smith said. “It’s huge!”​

​

They also welcomed expanded benefits that will soon begin flowing to thousands of unemployed mine workers. Other union leaders said out-of-work members whose families are suffering through the pandemic will make them aware of their eligibility for COBRA subsidies to help them afford healthcare.​

​

“Unions are often in the position of having to explain to our members that after we fight, and after we mobilize, the negotiators come back and it’s not everything we wanted,” said Damon Silvers, policy director for the AFL-CIO. “President Biden’s American Rescue Plan is one of those extraordinary moments when that’s actually not true.”​

​

“This is what we fought for—right down the line.”​

​

The Biden blitz is coming

The president is preparing to embark on a new, far more public-facing phase of his term.

www.politico.com

​

Biden's commitment to fulfill the former guy's phony promise to rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure is especially encouraging for the labor sector as well as for the nation in general.

America is coming back!

 

[schmidlap]

View attachment 468717

If you have no rational arguments, cartoons are a convenient, self-pleasuring way to indulge one's indefensible biases. Meanwhile, Biden's fulfilling his commitment to working class Americans is succeeding.

In our polarized republic, it is rare for 70 percent of voters to agree on anything, let alone a point of bitter partisan contention. But Joe Biden’s COVID relief bill, and its impact on the working class, is an exception to the rule.​

​

Multiple surveys show that a supermajority of the public approves of the recently passed American Rescue Plan. And a CBS News poll suggests that the electorate’s conception of whom the law helps — and whom it does not — may inform its warm feelings for the policy:​

​

The party’s core challenge over the past five years has been the erosion of its support among non-college-educated voters...​

​

But if the public comes to see Biden’s party the same way it sees his first legislative priority — as a friend to workers, not the wealthy — then reconciling blue America’s substantive commitments with its electoral imperatives could prove easier than feared. ..​

​

Republicans are staring down their own post-Trump nightmare scenario. The Trump coalition’s geographic efficiency has been a boon for the GOP in many respects. But it is nevertheless a minority coalition that’s heavily reliant on the support of working-class voters who were politically inactive before the party nominated a celebrity. If the GOP’s Trump-era losses among college-educated voters prove durable, while its gains in rural white turnout prove fleeting — or worse, if its support among non-college voters reverts to the pre-Trump mean — then the party will have great difficulty winning back the White House, even with a substantial Electoral College advantage...​

​

he GOP chose to display unified opposition to a relief program that boasted 70 percent support in polls, and which was poised to deliver $5,600 in cold, hard cash, along with thousands more in child benefits, to every working-class family of four in the United States...​

​

“We’ve seen time and time again that that trickle-down does not work. And by the way, we don’t have anything against wealthy people,” the president said Friday, “but guess what? You gotta pay your fair share. Because folks living on the edge, they’re paying.”​

​

Thus, Democrats and Republicans are about to have a national debate over whether the tax code is unfair because the wealthy pay too little, or because they pay too much. This is favorable terrain for Democrats: Not only does the party hold the more popular side of the tax argument, the debate itself serves to heighten the salience of each party’s class loyalties...​

​

As promised during the 2020 campaign, Biden’s tax plan will not raise the income tax rate of any household that earns less than $400,000. Its proposed increases in the corporate and capital-gains tax rates will take a bite out of some upper-middle-class families’ incomes. But the indirect nature of these levies — and their modest consequences for non-superrich households — makes them unlikely to provoke much backlash in the newly blue suburbs. Biden’s tax plan doesn’t pit the proletariat against the bourgeoisie; it pits the 99 percent against the one percent.​

​

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/poll-biden-stimulus-democrats-working-class-voters.html

​

​

 

[Cellblock2429]

View attachment 468717

If you have no rational arguments, cartoons are a convenient, self-pleasuring way to indulge one's indefensible biases. Meanwhile, Biden's fulfilling his commitment to working class Americans is succeeding.

In our polarized republic, it is rare for 70 percent of voters to agree on anything, let alone a point of bitter partisan contention. But Joe Biden’s COVID relief bill, and its impact on the working class, is an exception to the rule.​

​

Multiple surveys show that a supermajority of the public approves of the recently passed American Rescue Plan. And a CBS News poll suggests that the electorate’s conception of whom the law helps — and whom it does not — may inform its warm feelings for the policy:​

​

The party’s core challenge over the past five years has been the erosion of its support among non-college-educated voters...​

​

But if the public comes to see Biden’s party the same way it sees his first legislative priority — as a friend to workers, not the wealthy — then reconciling blue America’s substantive commitments with its electoral imperatives could prove easier than feared. ..​

​

Republicans are staring down their own post-Trump nightmare scenario. The Trump coalition’s geographic efficiency has been a boon for the GOP in many respects. But it is nevertheless a minority coalition that’s heavily reliant on the support of working-class voters who were politically inactive before the party nominated a celebrity. If the GOP’s Trump-era losses among college-educated voters prove durable, while its gains in rural white turnout prove fleeting — or worse, if its support among non-college voters reverts to the pre-Trump mean — then the party will have great difficulty winning back the White House, even with a substantial Electoral College advantage...​

​

he GOP chose to display unified opposition to a relief program that boasted 70 percent support in polls, and which was poised to deliver $5,600 in cold, hard cash, along with thousands more in child benefits, to every working-class family of four in the United States...​

​

“We’ve seen time and time again that that trickle-down does not work. And by the way, we don’t have anything against wealthy people,” the president said Friday, “but guess what? You gotta pay your fair share. Because folks living on the edge, they’re paying.”​

​

Thus, Democrats and Republicans are about to have a national debate over whether the tax code is unfair because the wealthy pay too little, or because they pay too much. This is favorable terrain for Democrats: Not only does the party hold the more popular side of the tax argument, the debate itself serves to heighten the salience of each party’s class loyalties...​

​

As promised during the 2020 campaign, Biden’s tax plan will not raise the income tax rate of any household that earns less than $400,000. Its proposed increases in the corporate and capital-gains tax rates will take a bite out of some upper-middle-class families’ incomes. But the indirect nature of these levies — and their modest consequences for non-superrich households — makes them unlikely to provoke much backlash in the newly blue suburbs. Biden’s tax plan doesn’t pit the proletariat against the bourgeoisie; it pits the 99 percent against the one percent.​

​

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/poll-biden-stimulus-democrats-working-class-voters.html

​

​

/----/ " If you have no rational arguments, cartoons are a convenient, "
Sometimes the best rational response is to laugh in your face. BTW, Trump had the lowest UE rate for Blacks and Hispanics in history. Of course, you aren't permitted by your handlers to give him credit for that.

 

[Blues Man]

The snivelers will snivel, of course, but the President's policies are receiving impressive support from labor.

Actually rebuilding the nation's crumbling infrastructure, rather than just making fake promises about it like the former guy, is vital.

Tell me something about that crumbling infrastructure.

Now we know the federal gas tax is supposed to be earmarked for upkeep of federal highways.

in 2019 alone the federal government collected over 26 billion dollars in gasoline taxes.

And let me emphasize that was in a single year. Now add to that all the money states collected via their own gas taxes.

So tell me where the fuck has all that money gone that we need to approve more government money for roads and bridges?

 

[schmidlap]

Sometimes the best rational response is to laugh in your face. BTW, Trump had the lowest UE rate for Blacks and Hispanics in history. Of course, you aren't permitted by your handlers to give him credit for that.

The irony for the former guy's tenacious butt barnacles is that their God Emperor was supportive of a Biden-like stimulus package and would have signed it into law.

After the Cry Baby Loser pulled off his MAGA Hat Trick, losing his Party the House, the Executive, and the Senate in a single term, he fulfilled his inability to ever accept blame for anything by lashing out at McConnell, claiming the Georgia Senate losses were due to McConnell’s refusal to back such stimulus checks as part of the coronavirus relief bill passed in December.

“This latter point was used against our Senators and the $2,000 will be approved anyway
by the Democrats who bought the Georgia election—and McConnell let them do it!”
Cry Baby Loser squealed.​

 

[Indeependent]

My co-worker lives in Hempstead, NY and that a lot of Blacks are upset that these trespassers are going to take their jobs.
Biden is indeed making a better life for non-US citizens.

 

[schmidlap]

Tell me something about that crumbling infrastructure.

Now we know the federal gas tax is supposed to be earmarked for upkeep of federal highways.

in 2019 alone the federal government collected over 26 billion dollars in gasoline taxes.

And let me emphasize that was in a single year. Now add to that all the money states collected via their own gas taxes.

So tell me where the fuck has all that money gone that we need to approve more government money for roads and bridges?

Trump's promise to invest $550 billion in American infrastructure had yet to take shape more than three years into his presidency.​

It would cost a lot to fix the nation's roads, bridges and dams. At one point there was a tentative agreement with Democratic leaders in Congress for a $2 trillion infrastructure plan. ​

But that deal fell apart in May 2019 amid Trump's clashes with Democratic leaders over what he called their "phony investigations" of him.​

Asked about the $550 billion promise, a Trump campaign spokesman in January pointed us to an order Trump issued in 2017 that produced proposed rule changes in January 2020. The administration says the changes will reduce the time needed to obtain permits for infrastructure projects. ​

But those steps don't address the $550 billion pledge.​

In June, news reports said the Trump administration is preparing a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure plan. But no details have emerged.​

The campaign did not reply to our July requests for information.​

As Trump enters the final months of his term, we've seen no action on this promise, so we rate it Promise Broken.​

Trump-O-Meter: | PolitiFact

www.politifact.com

​

So, what did the former guy do with that revenue and that from prior years after he had vowed to rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure?

That funding source had become inadequate.

The federal gas tax, which through the Highway Trust Fund has paid for highways since 1956 and transit since 1982, has been a key revenue stream for a portion of the nation’s infrastructure but has lost its buying power as cars have become more fuel-efficient. It hasn’t been increased since 1993, so it has not kept up with inflation. And with automakers such as General Motors saying they’ll phase out gas-powered combustion engines altogether within the next 20 years, it faces looming irrelevance.​

​

The problem is there’s no clear, easy replacement.​

​

Lawmakers say they prefer the idea of having a user fee pay for highways, but they’re loathe to ask people for the money. Democrats and Republicans alike have suggested replacing the gas tax with a fee based on vehicle miles traveled, but detractors argue that such a system is not yet ready for nationwide implementation.​

​

That leaves general revenue.​

​

The federal government has transferred more than $140 billion from the general fund to pay for highways and transit since 2008, according to the Tax Policy Center. Lawmakers and policy analysts increasingly say such transfers will likely continue.​

​

If approved by Congress, the mammoth investment in infrastructure that President Joe Biden has proposed will probably be paid for largely through general funds, debt or other financing measures.​

​

But that bill, which includes everything from rail to broadband as well as highways, is characterized as a one-time infusion of federal dollars aimed at economic stimulus. If it does pass, Congress will still need a steady stream of funding for maintenance and to give state highway departments a level of certainty for planning...​

​

Increasingly irrelevant gas tax awaits a better idea

​

​

Funding for future maintenance must also be addressed,

 

[Blues Man]

Tell me something about that crumbling infrastructure.

Now we know the federal gas tax is supposed to be earmarked for upkeep of federal highways.

in 2019 alone the federal government collected over 26 billion dollars in gasoline taxes.

And let me emphasize that was in a single year. Now add to that all the money states collected via their own gas taxes.

So tell me where the fuck has all that money gone that we need to approve more government money for roads and bridges?

Trump's promise to invest $550 billion in American infrastructure had yet to take shape more than three years into his presidency.​

It would cost a lot to fix the nation's roads, bridges and dams. At one point there was a tentative agreement with Democratic leaders in Congress for a $2 trillion infrastructure plan. ​

But that deal fell apart in May 2019 amid Trump's clashes with Democratic leaders over what he called their "phony investigations" of him.​

Asked about the $550 billion promise, a Trump campaign spokesman in January pointed us to an order Trump issued in 2017 that produced proposed rule changes in January 2020. The administration says the changes will reduce the time needed to obtain permits for infrastructure projects. ​

But those steps don't address the $550 billion pledge.​

In June, news reports said the Trump administration is preparing a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure plan. But no details have emerged.​

The campaign did not reply to our July requests for information.​

As Trump enters the final months of his term, we've seen no action on this promise, so we rate it Promise Broken.​

Trump-O-Meter: | PolitiFact

www.politifact.com

​

So, what did the former guy do with that revenue and that from prior years after he had vowed to rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure?

That funding source had become inadequate.

The federal gas tax, which through the Highway Trust Fund has paid for highways since 1956 and transit since 1982, has been a key revenue stream for a portion of the nation’s infrastructure but has lost its buying power as cars have become more fuel-efficient. It hasn’t been increased since 1993, so it has not kept up with inflation. And with automakers such as General Motors saying they’ll phase out gas-powered combustion engines altogether within the next 20 years, it faces looming irrelevance.​

​

The problem is there’s no clear, easy replacement.​

​

Lawmakers say they prefer the idea of having a user fee pay for highways, but they’re loathe to ask people for the money. Democrats and Republicans alike have suggested replacing the gas tax with a fee based on vehicle miles traveled, but detractors argue that such a system is not yet ready for nationwide implementation.​

​

That leaves general revenue.​

​

The federal government has transferred more than $140 billion from the general fund to pay for highways and transit since 2008, according to the Tax Policy Center. Lawmakers and policy analysts increasingly say such transfers will likely continue.​

​

If approved by Congress, the mammoth investment in infrastructure that President Joe Biden has proposed will probably be paid for largely through general funds, debt or other financing measures.​

​

But that bill, which includes everything from rail to broadband as well as highways, is characterized as a one-time infusion of federal dollars aimed at economic stimulus. If it does pass, Congress will still need a steady stream of funding for maintenance and to give state highway departments a level of certainty for planning...​

​

Increasingly irrelevant gas tax awaits a better idea

​

​

Funding for future maintenance must also be addressed,

Why won't you answer my question?

The federal government collects BILLIONS annually in gasoline taxes alone so where has all that money gone that we need to allocate more?

 

[Indeependent]

Tell me something about that crumbling infrastructure.

Now we know the federal gas tax is supposed to be earmarked for upkeep of federal highways.

in 2019 alone the federal government collected over 26 billion dollars in gasoline taxes.

And let me emphasize that was in a single year. Now add to that all the money states collected via their own gas taxes.

So tell me where the fuck has all that money gone that we need to approve more government money for roads and bridges?

Trump's promise to invest $550 billion in American infrastructure had yet to take shape more than three years into his presidency.​

It would cost a lot to fix the nation's roads, bridges and dams. At one point there was a tentative agreement with Democratic leaders in Congress for a $2 trillion infrastructure plan. ​

But that deal fell apart in May 2019 amid Trump's clashes with Democratic leaders over what he called their "phony investigations" of him.​

Asked about the $550 billion promise, a Trump campaign spokesman in January pointed us to an order Trump issued in 2017 that produced proposed rule changes in January 2020. The administration says the changes will reduce the time needed to obtain permits for infrastructure projects. ​

But those steps don't address the $550 billion pledge.​

In June, news reports said the Trump administration is preparing a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure plan. But no details have emerged.​

The campaign did not reply to our July requests for information.​

As Trump enters the final months of his term, we've seen no action on this promise, so we rate it Promise Broken.​

Trump-O-Meter: | PolitiFact

www.politifact.com

​

So, what did the former guy do with that revenue and that from prior years after he had vowed to rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure?

That funding source had become inadequate.

The federal gas tax, which through the Highway Trust Fund has paid for highways since 1956 and transit since 1982, has been a key revenue stream for a portion of the nation’s infrastructure but has lost its buying power as cars have become more fuel-efficient. It hasn’t been increased since 1993, so it has not kept up with inflation. And with automakers such as General Motors saying they’ll phase out gas-powered combustion engines altogether within the next 20 years, it faces looming irrelevance.​

​

The problem is there’s no clear, easy replacement.​

​

Lawmakers say they prefer the idea of having a user fee pay for highways, but they’re loathe to ask people for the money. Democrats and Republicans alike have suggested replacing the gas tax with a fee based on vehicle miles traveled, but detractors argue that such a system is not yet ready for nationwide implementation.​

​

That leaves general revenue.​

​

The federal government has transferred more than $140 billion from the general fund to pay for highways and transit since 2008, according to the Tax Policy Center. Lawmakers and policy analysts increasingly say such transfers will likely continue.​

​

If approved by Congress, the mammoth investment in infrastructure that President Joe Biden has proposed will probably be paid for largely through general funds, debt or other financing measures.​

​

But that bill, which includes everything from rail to broadband as well as highways, is characterized as a one-time infusion of federal dollars aimed at economic stimulus. If it does pass, Congress will still need a steady stream of funding for maintenance and to give state highway departments a level of certainty for planning...​

​

Increasingly irrelevant gas tax awaits a better idea

​

​

Funding for future maintenance must also be addressed,

So you’re saying that the billions spent on NYS’s infrastructure proved NYS didn’t need Federal funding.
OK.

 

[Harry Dresden]

View attachment 468717

If you have no rational arguments, cartoons are a convenient, self-pleasuring way to indulge one's indefensible biases. Meanwhile, Biden's fulfilling his commitment to working class Americans is succeeding.

In our polarized republic, it is rare for 70 percent of voters to agree on anything, let alone a point of bitter partisan contention. But Joe Biden’s COVID relief bill, and its impact on the working class, is an exception to the rule.​

​

Multiple surveys show that a supermajority of the public approves of the recently passed American Rescue Plan. And a CBS News poll suggests that the electorate’s conception of whom the law helps — and whom it does not — may inform its warm feelings for the policy:​

​

The party’s core challenge over the past five years has been the erosion of its support among non-college-educated voters...​

​

But if the public comes to see Biden’s party the same way it sees his first legislative priority — as a friend to workers, not the wealthy — then reconciling blue America’s substantive commitments with its electoral imperatives could prove easier than feared. ..​

​

Republicans are staring down their own post-Trump nightmare scenario. The Trump coalition’s geographic efficiency has been a boon for the GOP in many respects. But it is nevertheless a minority coalition that’s heavily reliant on the support of working-class voters who were politically inactive before the party nominated a celebrity. If the GOP’s Trump-era losses among college-educated voters prove durable, while its gains in rural white turnout prove fleeting — or worse, if its support among non-college voters reverts to the pre-Trump mean — then the party will have great difficulty winning back the White House, even with a substantial Electoral College advantage...​

​

he GOP chose to display unified opposition to a relief program that boasted 70 percent support in polls, and which was poised to deliver $5,600 in cold, hard cash, along with thousands more in child benefits, to every working-class family of four in the United States...​

​

“We’ve seen time and time again that that trickle-down does not work. And by the way, we don’t have anything against wealthy people,” the president said Friday, “but guess what? You gotta pay your fair share. Because folks living on the edge, they’re paying.”​

​

Thus, Democrats and Republicans are about to have a national debate over whether the tax code is unfair because the wealthy pay too little, or because they pay too much. This is favorable terrain for Democrats: Not only does the party hold the more popular side of the tax argument, the debate itself serves to heighten the salience of each party’s class loyalties...​

​

As promised during the 2020 campaign, Biden’s tax plan will not raise the income tax rate of any household that earns less than $400,000. Its proposed increases in the corporate and capital-gains tax rates will take a bite out of some upper-middle-class families’ incomes. But the indirect nature of these levies — and their modest consequences for non-superrich households — makes them unlikely to provoke much backlash in the newly blue suburbs. Biden’s tax plan doesn’t pit the proletariat against the bourgeoisie; it pits the 99 percent against the one percent.​

​

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/poll-biden-stimulus-democrats-working-class-voters.html

​

​

lots of people agree with the bill because they are getting some cash...

 

[schmidlap]

lots of people agree with the bill because they are getting some cash...

That was the reason the former guy desperately wanted such a stimulus, but he was impotent in getting his Republican Senate to follow him.

How much of the President's considerable edge over the former guy is due to his winning the support of the middle class and how long that might last is a matter of conjecture. His popular child tax credit may become permanent.

.

RealClearPolitics - Favorability Ratings: Political Leaders

RealClearPolitics - Favorability Ratings: Political Leaders

www.realclearpolitics.com

 

[Street Juice]

>> Washington Post audio of Trump berating and threatening Georgia Secretary of State for not "finding" votes to change election result. Sedition?

You might want to quietly update your signature.

 

[Cellblock2429]

My co-worker lives in Hempstead, NY and that a lot of Blacks are upset that these trespassers are going to take their jobs.
Biden is indeed making a better life for non-US citizens.

/——/ BREAKING NEWS: Dementia Joe puts 770,000 on the unemployment line.
U.S. weekly jobless claims total 770,000

 

[usmcstinger]

LMAO! Biden has been part and parcel of the Democrat smack down of the American worker for nearly 50 years!

You are damn right. WaIt until the Union Workers will have to go on Biden Care as they did on Obama Care. When Biden starts100s of taxes to pay for Illegal Immigrants and Biden Care, the one's who will be hurt the most will be the "workers who work with their hands" ( a Biden Term ).

 

[EvilCat Breath]

100,000 of the invaders are self described children. If this addresses the needs of labor its child brothel labor.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

This is a needed correction that will have consequences for Party alignment and future elections.

Why Joe Biden Resonates With Blue-Collar Voters

Why Joe Biden Resonates With Blue-Collar Voters (Published 2019)

Joseph R. Biden Jr. has durable support from a multiracial coalition of working-class voters who view him as one of their own.

www.nytimes.com

​

The President's recovery package is receiving widespread, bipartisan support throughout the nation, but the enthusiasm among blue collar workers is a confirmation of his commitment to a faction that had become, quite rightfully imho, so alienated from the Democratic Party that it was willing to take a desperate shot in 2016.

The former guy's fake promises that he would revive coal mining, reinvigorate steel production, and restore manufacturing - as bogus as his vows to make Mexico pay for a big, beautiful wall and replace 'ObamaCare' with "Something terrific!" that "covers everybody!"- left them in despair, but they have been given reason to be cautiously optimistic.

View attachment 466163
Promises, Promises​

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Union leaders and their Democratic allies pointed to an $86 billion aid provision in the package that would prevent multi-employer pension plans from collapsing. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who pushed for its inclusion, said it would “not only protect these pensions, but will stimulate our local economies and prevent a major bailout that would have cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars if we did nothing.”​

​

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View attachment 466162​

Phil Smith, the head of governmental affairs with United Mine Workers of America, said while their workers had their pensions shored up in 2019, the rescue plan provides a “backstop” to protect their retirement accounts, and listed it along with other wishlist items that the union plans to tout internally, as well as though its social media channels.​

​

“That is such a signature accomplishment that has been worked on for more than a decade,” Smith said. “It’s huge!”​

​

They also welcomed expanded benefits that will soon begin flowing to thousands of unemployed mine workers. Other union leaders said out-of-work members whose families are suffering through the pandemic will make them aware of their eligibility for COBRA subsidies to help them afford healthcare.​

​

“Unions are often in the position of having to explain to our members that after we fight, and after we mobilize, the negotiators come back and it’s not everything we wanted,” said Damon Silvers, policy director for the AFL-CIO. “President Biden’s American Rescue Plan is one of those extraordinary moments when that’s actually not true.”​

​

“This is what we fought for—right down the line.”​

​

The Biden blitz is coming

The president is preparing to embark on a new, far more public-facing phase of his term.

www.politico.com

​

Biden's commitment to fulfill the former guy's phony promise to rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure is especially encouraging for the labor sector as well as for the nation in general.

America is coming back!

Unless if Biden pledges top paying jobs and management positions to Trans people, his plan is a failure

Yeah, lets pay mentally ill people oodles of money.