Biden not yet holding a formal news conference raises accountability questions (yahoo.com)
Where is Joe Biden? The media has not seen a Presidential absence like this in 100 years. But then, king Biden is king, and as such, who cares since there is no longer a Covid crisis anymore. And all this talk of a crisis at the border, just more right wing lies. So what is there to report to the American people? Right?
I get it. You're so used to a president that was into empty posturing that a president who actually works and gets things done confuses you. The only people complaining are those who want to claim he's a liar, anyway. Where's the upside, when the complainers are all just slavish minions to a narcissistic demagogue?
Passing ONE BILL is not getting things done lol
Passing ONE BILL that accomplishes a lot of stuff is sure as hell getting things done! LOL
Sure it did. Loads of pork will do that. Oh and lets not forget the 1.9 trillion added to the debt.
What pork? Did you worry about Trump's massive addition to the debt, especially the 2 trillion dollar tax reduction for the wealthy, which he promised would be repaid and was not?
Here are the proposal’s major pieces:
- It extends a $300 per week jobless aid supplement and programs making millions more people eligible for unemployment insurance until Sept. 6. The plan also makes an individual’s first $10,200 in jobless benefits tax-free.
- The bill sends $1,400 direct payments to most Americans and their dependents. The checks start to phase out at $75,000 in income for individuals and are capped at people who make $80,000. The thresholds for joint filers are double those limits. The government will base eligibility on Americans’ most recent filed tax return.
- It expands the child tax credit for one year. It will increase to $3,600 for children under 6 and to $3,000 for kids between 6 and 17.
- The plan puts about $20 billion into Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing and distribution, along with roughly $50 billion into testing and contact tracing.
- It adds $25 billion in rental and utility assistance and about $10 billion for mortgage aid.
- The plan offers $350 billion in relief to state, local and tribal governments.
- The proposal directs more than $120 billion to K-12 schools.
- It increases the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit by 15% through September.
- The bill includes an expansion of subsidies and other provisions to help Americans afford health insurance.
- It offers nearly $30 billion in aid to restaurants.
- The legislation expands an employee retention tax credit designed to allow companies to keep workers on payroll.
Looks good to me, and very necessary today.
Gee don't see where we tax payers are bailing out the blue cities pension plans. That's in there as well. Also don't see the rest of the pork that has nothing to do with Chinese virus relief.
You're a pretty good cherry picker.
You see the pork. It is union pensions all over the USA.
Tucked inside the $1.9 trillion
stimulus bill that cleared the Senate on Saturday is an $86 billion aid package that has nothing to do with the pandemic.
Rather, the $86 billion is a taxpayer bailout for about 185 union pension plans that are so close to collapse that without the rescue, more than a million retired truck drivers, retail clerks, builders and others could be forced to forgo retirement income.
The bailout targets multiemployer pension plans, which bring groups of companies together with a union to provide guaranteed benefits. All told, about 1,400 of the plans cover about 10.7 million active and retired workers, often in fields like construction or entertainment where the workers move from job to job. As the work force ages, an alarming number of the plans are running out of money.
The trend predated the pandemic and is a result of fading unions,
serial bankruptcies and the misplaced hope that investment income would foot most of the bill so that employers and workers wouldn’t have to.
Do you want these retired workers to lose their pensions? How are they to live?
I am anti-union for sure, but I don't want this result. You?
The bill is known an American Relief package, not just a covid bill, except by you,
and is clearly needed in today's climate.