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By HOPE YEN and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Jsapc
Did you maybe want to write "he refuses to do anything"? Because refusing to do "nothing" means exactly the contrary of what you're probably trying to say.
SuperLib
Jeeze.
Murky to China, NASA, people moving states, COVID.
On a thread about infrastructure.
Ever get the sense Conservatives lack the knowledge to debate the issues and instead throw handfuls of unrelated right-wing talking points at you just to have a response?
It's like, "I can't counter any of the specifics you're giving, but I just know Conservatives are better so I have to fight the battle even if I don't understand what we're talking about."
Laguna
Infrastructure is key for economic growth. Ever 1/2 hour saved on the freeway is another 1/2 hour of productivity. Business leaders greatly support this plan.
agondocz
Given the historically low levels of interest rates and control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency, one would have thought that the Republicans would have seized the opportunity the fund rebuilding America's future.
They blew it.
SuperLib
Well let's not forget Trump and the GOP added to the debt with a free tax giveaway that went to the top.
Biden is adding to the debt by investing in infrastructure, the workforce, and overall American competitiveness.
The former has been proven to have little to no impact on jobs and business investment, just enriching those who already have money. The latter has been proven to produce long-term gains for everyone and the economy overall.
But Bezos thanks you, so there's that.
ulysses
donald, the king of debt, created the 3rd largest budget deficit under any president.
This for a president who wasn't involved in any war is an achievement, though not one anyone will be proud of.
donald ran the country like he ran his businesses, building up unsustainable debt. But unlike his companies America doesn't have the option of declaring bankruptcy!!!
No surprise , common people's causes don't concern the GOP' .
SuperLib
It's been proven. You don't have to believe me, but everyone else here will. You can hang out alone with your ignorance.
Giving up the debate point so soon? Your choice.
Have a good night.
Wakarimasen
More borrowing and more spending is just what is needed. Final days of this system coming soon.
Express sister
Probably he’s more grateful to Trump and the Republicans. You know, for the tax cuts that benefitted the wealthy owning class, like Bezos, and corporations, like Amazon, and did nothing for workers? You know the cuts you said were amazing and excellent and the best thing ever? Those cuts?
bass4funk
so how do you explain the lowest increase of just $0.5 trillion in Biden's first six months?
Why is it that the Democrats don’t make an exact detailed and itemized outline of where each dollar is going to prove what you say?
Biden's Infrastructure Bill, about $1.2 trillion. US lawmakers near deal on $1.2tn infrastructure bill.
Uh-huh, lol, no one with a functioning cerebral cortex believes that. With the rising prices of gas, food, housing and basic necessities everyone knows taxes will have to eventually go up to pay for all this. Bezos, Dorsey or Zuckerberg won’t.
Blacklabel
its just people going back to work after reopening after a pandemic.
no jobs have been "created".
Blacklabel
because Biden has failed to get his 6 trillion in spending passed yet.
As soon as he does (if he does), its 34.5 trillion.
bass4funk
Biden is adding to the debt by investing in infrastructure, the workforce, and overall American competitiveness.
Where? Looking how Biden Defunded NASA and pretty much cushioned and softened and perfumed the military allowed China to take over our biggest corporations, I fail to see the US competitiveness in this administration.
The former has been proven to have little to no impact on jobs and business investment, just enriching those who already have money.
That’s absolutely not true, not only did the pandemic and the draconian lockdowns destroy more than half of small businesses, blue states continue to still hand out unemployment benefits instead of pushing people back to work and let’s not forget the thousands of low-skilled illegals that are flooding into the States will have less work and that means more government entitlements will go out to millions that can’t work, don’t want to work or have no work to go back to.
The latter has been proven to produce long-term gains for everyone and the economy overall.
Well, that’s not what thousand of people are saying that are leaving the largest States like California and NY
But Bezos thanks you, so there's that.
bass4funk
I did so many times already.
Well, now we have Joe and he refuses to do nothing. Scary.
bass4funk
Scroll through the archives
The military wasn’t taking a drastic hostile approach as they are now
Im expecting Biden not to be seen as weak by the eyes of our adversaries.
bass4funk
But they were very careful, they didn’t try and challenge him and they never, ever referred to him as weak. The man was the first President to call out China unabashedly.
He did.
bass4funk
According to Biden? Oh, please!
I believe the people that are making a made exodus out of these mismanaged States, looking at the numbers
JT readers don’t make the bulk of the US population or people that are leaving these states
No, I’m always on the side of the blue collar worker.
bass4funk
Yes, it has, prices are going up and not down anywhere, that’s just a statistical fact.
Give him another 3 years and we are all screwed. Financially.
bass4funk
Don’t even try and contemplate liberal logic
You’ve don’t it before
Ok, so now that China has perceived Biden as inept and weak, how will he protect Taiwan?
A woke military will never defeat China
.
bass4funk
Liberals don’t want to confront issues, why?
That goes both ways
bass4funk
I mean, the Dems won’t even get rid of Swalwell and the man is just more than compromised this continues to show to China that the US is weak, they’ll probably, but they’ll never bite unless it involves Jan 6. Then the Dems don’t miss a beat on anything.
bass4funk
The National Debt increased by more than $8 trillion under a single term Trump. The greatest in history. Biden is about to blow that shy high and if he finishes his term, he’ll surpass both Trump and his former boss. https://www.westernjournal.com/young-not-stupid-6-bidens-infrastructure-bill-infrastructure-94/
Blacklabel
U.S. drops cases against five researchers accused of hiding ties to Chinese military
Who brought the cases (Trump) and who dropped them? (Biden)
Thanks Trump!
Blacklabel
so how did Biden's lack of an infrastructure deal turn into complaining about Trump again?
I hear now that Biden is trying to add amnesty for illegal aliens and DACA recipients into his "infrastructure" bill. Along with a bunch of new crazy capital gains taxes on dead people and people who havent even made a "gain" yet.
Commodore Perry
It would be great if the UK put together a solid foreign policy to contain China. Instead, the US has to go it alone. With Biden at the helm.
Says it all.
Commodore Perry
This infrastructure bill will be another drain on the US economy, already strained by the pandemic nd the mishandling of it by the Biden administration.