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© Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Biden outlines plan to ease economic inequity amid pandemic
By STEVE PEOPLES AND ALEXANDRA JAFFE WILMINGTON, Del©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
78 Comments
ulysses
The only lawyers sticking with trump are rudy types, no one else will hire them.
ROFL.
ulysses
The economy will rebound under Biden, and trump will crawl out and try to take credit.
Cant say the trump corporation will do well, they are going bankrupt soon!!!!
bass4funk
That would be a first for any lawyer.
And there are so many more that will easily.
ulysses
The only ones making money under trump are the lawyers, and even they are too disgusted to take his money.
When lawyers dont want anything to do with trump, you know it's over for him!!!!
bass4funk
both will go down in history books, I’ll take the credit one.
Yes, wear masks, never go out, don’t riot or loot, burn down your stores snd it might work. Hope California and New York recover.
ulysses
Tackle the virus, the economy will rebound as Japan has proved.
ulysses
trump remember Covid only when he wants to claim credit for the vaccine , otherwise it doesn't exist .
Meanwhile his witch doctor wants people to rise up against Covid prevention.
Sneezy
Excited for the Republicans to change their minds from "Covid deaths and infections are no big deal and are probably fake" to "Covid deaths are the worst thing to have ever happened, why won't Biden do something about it?" at 12:01pm on January 20, 2021.
ulysses
trump claiming credit for a vaccine for a disease he said didn't exist!!!!
That's rich. ROFL
bass4funk
Probably.
But he got that vaccine going, Joe give credit to the President and give him some palm.
bass4funk
I heard that since 1978
Hmmmm....not working in California, not even working in Japan
ulysses
trump meanwhile wants donations for his lawsuits.
And if you contribute less than 8K, it goes into trump's pockets.
Trying to make money out of people's miseries is trump'd hallmark!!!!
ulysses
trump has given up on the country, he is happy golfing and doing nothing.
He said Biden would forget about the virus after Nov 4.
Well Biden hasn't but trump sure has!!!
ulysses
Biden has his priorities right. Shutting down the virus is the key to solving economic problems.
bass4funk
Talk to China.
bass4funk
Thanks for admitting that it “doesn’t make it less true.”
Biden has China so who knows...
And now Biden will blow that away for the new GND the price tag should run about $37 trillion and higher.
lincolnman
So Bannon is arrested and indicted for swindling Trump supporters out of money for "the wall" and you think he's not a "bad person"? OK..
Thanks for admitting they were smears....and that they failed....that's progress...
Who is "Individual-1"? Who runs the Trump Org currently under investigation? Who's the President's personal lawyer that is under investigation for illegally representing a foreign government and campaign finance fraud? Where are both the President's former campaign manager and his former "fixer" sitting now?
Who's richer, Trump or Biden? Who ran a sham University? Who bankrupted six companies? Who was President that took the budget deficit to its highest in history? Who still has his clothing line made in Chinese sweatshop factories, cheating US workers out of jobs?
bass4funk
If you want to believe them, you can, millions don’t.
Wakarimasen
Lincoln
Bannon being charged doesn't make Trump a bad person and nor does it make Joe and Hunter good people.
The "smears" may not have won the election, but doesn't make them any less true or relevant to what is to come.
Trump crime family - who have been investigated up the wazoo but not been charged with anything......
The Bidens have made a fortune from being Bidens and close to Joe's political power.
wtfjapan
Good thing the Trump administration provided the USA with not 1 but TWO different vaccines.
wrong Pfizer didnt take any monies from the operation warp speed they used all their own money to develop the vaccine, they will though get over $billion to supply 100million safe doses. same goes with the UK based drug company
Sneezy
No-one did this.
Yes, that is true.
OK. Given the huge spread of Covid throughout the US, I think lockdowns are appropriate.
I think this is a bad move from Biden. Then again, I didn't have high hopes for him.
I agree we should all go far left. That is the correct political position.
It's true, actually.
I do. Everyone can read his actions and draw correct conclusions, if they have the wit to do so. This is how, when it was revealed that Trump called US troops who died in France in WW1 "suckers", and that he didn't attend the centenary commemoration of WW1 because he didn't respect them, I was able to call it way back when it happened, in 2018. You can read my posts. I was right.
OK.
Uh, you've listed the problems of economic inequality. I don't think Biden will go anywhere near enough to solving them, but you're listing these problems as if getting rid of them would be bad. These problems, cause by economic inequality, need to be eliminated.
Sneezy
"Immigrants in the US should starve and die of a preventable disease." - bass4funk, November 17, 2020.
jack o helen
Trump must have put out some kind of ad hiring Republicans to cook up as many outlandish conspiracy theories they can. The funny thing is, all of his court cases are based on rumors, hearsay within hearsay, and innuendos. That's why the courts keep throwing them out at a record pace. No facts whatsoever.
In any case, Trump's fixation on this, and not on his job is destroying America. He needs to help in the transition of power, or there could be dire consequences concerning the security of America. And to all those Republicans who gave a bankrupt con-man, who never had any political experience a chance to hold the office of POTUS in Trump, they should give Biden a chance to hold the office of POTUS as well. Like Trump, this is Biden's first shot at being the leader of America, and I'm sure he will do a better job at it.
Bob Fosse
I think your crystal ball is broken.
bass4funk
Biden...”Joe Biden” won more votes than any other President in either party, making history, more than Obama, Bush and Clinton....Joe Biden......riiiiiight. ROFL!
That’s changing, even in California Republicans are slowly winning in what was a liberal echo chamber of the US west coast.
Yes, if.
Simon Foston
bass4funkToday 11:55 am JST
What a stupid system you've got there. I thought the Japanese vote value disparity in elections was bad but it's nothing compared to the US Senate, with each State getting two Senators regardless of the population size, and then actually letting these people wield some serious power, e.g. to approve Supreme Court nominations. I don't know how anyone can defend it either, especially not with that tired, tedious old "it's not the east and west coasts that run the country" line because when Democrats win a majority it's voters in large red States like Texas who get shafted.
Bob Fosse
trump was against that was he?
SuperLib
Don't forget that Trump set the precedent that Presidents can declare national emergencies and go around Congress and divert funds. Thanks for that.
FizzBit
Same circus, different Master of Ceremonies.
lincolnman
Hmmmm......
New York federal prosecutors on Thursday charged President Donald Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon and three others with defrauding donors of hundreds of thousands of dollars as part of a fundraising campaign purportedly aimed at supporting Trump's border wall.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/bannon-build-the-wall-indictment/index.html
Of course, because those pathetic smears worked so well and resulted in Trump's landslide win, right?
The Trump Crime Family Empire...indeed...
Slickdrifter
I love how the leftist's here blame Trump for the Virus and how he is doing nothing to about it. or did not enough about it.
You are going to see just how much pressure Biden will get on implementing locks down.
He has already rolled back the idea.
Operation Warp Speed produced to high effective vaccines.
Here are the facts.
https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/explaining-operation-warp-speed/index.html
Lets all just go far left here and yeah, Trump did nothing.
((((Didn't attend a White House virus meeting in 5 months.))))
Absolutely fabricated and false the above comment a total fabrication!!!!
================================================================
If anyone thinks Donald J. Trump does not love our country. I would say to you. You know nothing of the man.
Disagree with him. Despise him if you may which we have seen a barrage of divide and hate for four years and from day 1.
Under Biden this what you have took forward if he levels the playing field economically.
1. Social problems: There are a lot of social frictions attributed to inequality like more people participating in riots. It also results in an unfair allocation of opportunities to citizens.
2. Inherited wealth: Inherited wealth promote unfairness to individuals and makes some people lazy than others since they can easily satisfy all their needs with less effort.
3. Increased crime rates: A research carried shows economic unequal societies have high crime rates. Inequalities act as an incentive to commit a crime in order to gain more.
4. Unemployment: High levels of unemployment are contributed by market failure due to inefficient distribution of resources in the free market. This increase levels of poverty in the society.
5. High prices to consumers: In monopoly industries, the bargaining power of suppliers is high resulting in increased prices for the consumers. This results in an unfair distribution of income between suppliers and consumers.
6. Health effects: Income inequality among citizens limits access to health care facilities and healthy food. Adequate health facilities are unavailable to the poor population in the society and this leads to a decrease in health.
7. Increase political inequality: In societies where wealth distribution is concentrated with a few people, the political powers are always in favor of those few wealthy people. This results in a lot of corruption and oppression of the poor.
8. Increased constraints: There are many factors that hold people back like the income, race, poor background and others affecting their success.1. Social problems: There are a lot of social frictions attributed to inequality like more people participating in riots. It also results in an unfair allocation of opportunities to citizens.
Bob Fosse
You’re going to talk about waves again now? What happened to the 4 more years red wave you were certain was coming?
bass4funk
Like that Blue wave that cost them so far 11 House seats? Yeah, we should wait and see. Trump is Not happy and neither are the Democrats.
Bob Fosse
Georgia voting ballots go out from tomorrow. Wait and see, you know what happened last time.
bass4funk
As long as the GOP keeps the Senate appropriate funds will be distributed proportionately to ensure the House doesn’t botch the money and use it for anything else other than helping Americans and Americans ONLY.
Wakarimasen
Plus "More people may die" is just the most idiotic statement.
They say Trump is history but still can't stop blaming him for all the ills of the world.
Wakarimasen
Sneezy.
Don't think I implied that I am sad that imperialism is coming to an end. Just observing that the US appears to be in a downward spiral.
If anything Joe will go back to starting wars to export "American values", beefing up the existing ones and getting more "engaged" with US adversaries. None of which I think makes sense.
Slayer
Sleepy Joe really put me to sleep with that press conference. Sounded like he was still on the campaign trail.
Stev
The toddler in charge of the WH should've let the transition get going but his tantrum is still on.C'mon GOP enough of pampering him already.. serve the people not your own politics
Baradzed
In my opinion, the spread of the virus depends a lot on the society itself. You can’t blame the government solely if the country has lots of ignorant misbehaving people.
Sneezy
Hahaha "I want to stop interventionist neoliberal foreign policy, also I'm upset that imperialism is coming to an end". Pick a lane, my friend!
Wakarimasen
“Once we shut down the virus and deliver economic relief to workers and businesses, then we can start to build back better than before," Biden said during remarks in Wilmington, Delaware
Good luck with that. With the current chat looking like he is bringing back a bunch of Obama era relics and Neo Libs, I predict 4 years of inaction and grift.
If McConnell controls the Senate they will get away with it by blaming him. If he doesn't they will further alienate the Bernie crowd.
And once all this post election furore dies down expect ongolng noise around Crossfire Hurricane and Hunter's shenanigans.
The decline of the Empire continues.
Stewie
250000 dead and rapidly climbing. Over 100000 new infections per DAY. While some readers on here think it is acceptable, I can assure you that the world is mortified.
The damage that trump has done to America will take at least a generation to remedy. The damage to the fabric of social cohesion will stay with America for a very long time. If this was a murder case trump would be charged with being an accessory.
I truly feel sorry for all the intelligent people who can see through the foul web of lies and insults from trump, and hope that they can see a civilised way forward out of the chaos
lincolnman
Trump still tweeting "the election was rigged, fraud, stolen"...
But his legal team is quitting their challenges in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and his lawyer in Arizona "conceded that he was “not alleging fraud” or “that anyone is stealing the election”....
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/16/trump-backers-drop-biden-vote-challenge-case-in-wisconsin.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-goes-from-bad-to-worse-for-the-trump-legal-team/ar-BB1aZSen
So Trump supporters, want to explain that to us....
lincolnman
Finally, competence in government after four years of incompetent bumbling...
Strangerland
This I'm actually inclined to agree with, though it's written a little conspiracy theory-ish. But in reality, the divide between the super rich and the working class is getting so wide that the super rich become like a ruling class, operating under a different set of rules and reality than the rest of us, only made possible off the efforts of the working man.
Joe Blow
I will say that all this Luciferian and disgusting Great Reset (following the "New Normal") talk from WEF shows that all this partisan bickering between the Left and Right is nonsense. It's become clearer than ever that there are only two sides: the oligarchs, and the rest of us. They continue to keep us divided and conquered with petty politics when what we need is to unite to defeat these elites before they turn us all into Matrix-like disposable units.
Sneezy
lmao "Trump needs a break". From what? Golfing? Trump and his supporters in the Q Cucks Klan have gone from "he's bursting with energy" to "he lost on purpose so he could chill in Hawaii for four years because he's so tired".
proxy
So if these vaccines don't pan out, Biden might want to reconsider tying his presidential wagon to wiping out a pandemic.
Alex
TRUMP didn't do anything ....he ensured 255K people died unnecessarily.... that's his greatest achievement in his presidency.
Pukey2
These past few weeks has seen the Biden camp with more ideas than the man-child has ever had during his whole 4-year term. All people ever got from him was You'll see our healthcare plan in two week's time, we have a beautiful plan, we're going to do this soon, we're going to do that soon, terrific, beautiful, I'll tell you about it later, we don't have any specifics at the moment, it's going to get better, it will disappear before you know it, blah blah blah.
sunfunbun
When has he ever been checked in?
Strangerland
How did they do this? How did the trump administration cause these vaccines to come about?
Strangerland
“Sleepy Joe” my ass. More like “Tired Trump” or “Dejected Don”.
Bob Fosse
“On my watch” yeah sure. You don’t get to pick and choose, it’s a bundle.
sunfunbun
The vaccines were obviously a thing that would have been researched and made by science and scientists, whether Trump was president or not. Had Trump listened to scientists in the first place, the effect of the Coronavirus would have obviously been lessened in the most COVID ravaged nation in the world, under his watch.
SuperLib
Trump just seems mentally checked out at this point.
Blacklabel
Good thing the Trump administration provided the USA with not 1 but TWO different vaccines.
sunfunbun
There is a sense of security and relief that Biden is President elect. His movement forward, with true purpose and protocol, shows all how unbelievably ridiculous the past 4 years has been under Trump, where lack of a clear vision and no true clarity in a plan or execution thereof has been a source of unease and downright fear for Americans and the world.
I can only hope Trump stops his juvenile lack of courtesy and tradition of helping the United States transition.
As Obama has said, the presidency is a temporary job. You want to leave the office with the country better off than when you entered. Trump has failed in the worst 4 year term I've ever seen and America wants him out.
One would hope Trump would want to leave on a positive note, with even a bit of dignity and grace, but I don't see it happening. He won't congratulate Biden and invite him to the White House because Trump is the sorest of losers.
proxy
Who believes for a minute that all the tech billionaires who support Biden are going to lay down and roll over to be taxed more?
Arrrgh-Type
Out of control inequality is one of the great challenges facing America today. Politicians of all stripes should realize that this, regardless of party. Even Florida, which voted decisively for the Trump this year, passed a $15 minimum wage. Hopefully this is only the start.
u_s__reamer
Biden had better make a "New Deal" for Americans ( a prophylactic preventative shot of socialism-lite) to revive the economy and eradicate Trumpynomics that have only aggravated the inequalities of American society, ironically selling his supporters down the river.
Also important is to send a message in 2021 to the Republicans that they must be held responsible for the plague of Trumpism with all its toxic consequences for the mental health of the nation by breaking precedent with America's coddling and cossetting of its ex-presidents and their accomplices that has traditionally spared them from indictment and incarceration for their crimes. Trump and his cohorts must never be allowed to run for public office again after they have "paid their debt to society".
Finally, as an antidote to the wacko conspiracy theories redolent of the "Witches of Salem" that have visibly made shocking inroads into the minds of a not inconsiderable number of the 72 million and despite the objection that "you can't fix stupid", a great investment must be made in education and science to eradicate the ignorance that made Trump's "Presidency of the Absurd" possible.
Cricky
When trailer parks are empty due to supporters of Trump congregating on mass as a seething mass of contagens, Trump sits alone caring nothing for those who die, his feelings are hurt. Biden has one hell of a job ahead. Luckily the new Vice President can do what Trump refuses to do.
viking68
Is it too early in the morning for the people waging the disinformation campaign on reality?
Deaths are up 33% from two weeks ago.
"What the hell is the matter with these guys"? Biden.
TrevorPeace
I would love to see Trump thrown under the proverbial bus. Biden should pull all stops and prosecute to the fullest extent.
PTownsend
This is Covid45, it's on Trump and his admin. Trump's neglected his duties and has shown he cares zip about the problems he's failed to deal with and the general population is suffering from. So why is he having others fight to keep his job. More corruption ahead?