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[-] BB69@lemmy.world 85 points 9 months ago

Go talk to the House of Representatives

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago

But prez is king who change anything by decree...

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Pretty sure anything that touches the budget in any way other than minor allocation changes is strictly congress' business.

For example, when he tried to forgive student loans several years ago he was empowered to do so by a law from 2003 which allowed the Secretary of Education to change rules and waive amounts during an emergency such as 9/11 or a Pandemic. And State AGs still sued him over it and won, despite that legislature.

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I wonder if the

2008 legislation that he wrote eliminating student loan bankruptcy forgiveness in exchange for $250,000 from MBNA

got in his way too!

Vote blue no matter who $hitlibs are counting on people not being able to do basic research and just taking their corruption apologia at face value.

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

It's a good read...

House of Cards. How Joe Biden helped build a financial system that’s great for Delaware banks and terrible for the rest of us.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/biden-bankruptcy-president/

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I am not sure that legislation has to do with spending though.

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No shit!

What I intend to communicate is that Biden has never been, in any way, serious about any of the focus-grouped, means-tested student loan forgiveness programs that he has been pretending to work toward. He and his advisors clearly know full well that his buddies in Congress will NEVER, EVER pass it. It’s like the overdraft fee thing recently that doesn’t take effect until 2025 and will absolutely be eliminated by Congress before it even takes effect.

They think we’re stupid.

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 69 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This meme is full of shit:

First Biden term: Increased health benefits for veterans, lowered insurance premiums for people who sign up through ACA, opened special enrollment resulting in 2.5 million Americans signing up for insurance, lowered the cost of insulin, streamlined ACA applications, removed medical coverage caps for children, increased transparency in pharmaceutical pricing, investing 2.5 billion in mental health, expanded telehealth across the nation, especially for rural communities.

The American healthcare system sucks, and Biden has made definite significant improvements to make it suck less for tens of millions of people in just a few years.

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[-] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 50 points 9 months ago

As I have said before and will say again the president is not a dictator.

Spending bills must originate in the house which is currently controlled by the party of no. You can threaten not to vote all you want but you will only hurt yourself.

As it is this meme is just misleading.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 13 points 9 months ago

The president has the most powerful tool at his disposal: The bully pulpit.

The president is the de facto leader of the political party, the president can make anything a headline in every news source, and the president has very deep pockets to make use of these powers.

For all of their flaws, both the Bush and Trump administrations used these tools to their advantage. They picked something they wanted, and made it happen through heavy pressure on their part members up and down that various branches of government, through directions given to appointed department heads, through heavy media blitz and through every other avenue of influence they have.

Biden has done a better job than his democratic predecessor to use these powers, but no Democrat in the white house in recent memory has used these powers like the republicans do

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

So you’re solution is to just make everything a sideshow cuz it worked once for a sideshow.

[-] conquer4@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

He is probably reluctant because being apart of Obama's use of it to reform social security, Medicare, and pass affordable care act. Only to be burned and be a lame duck for 6 years

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[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 28 points 9 months ago

Wtf is/are retail politics?

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 26 points 9 months ago

Meeting with people on a small scale to discuss politics and justify your positions.

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago

Man I’m glad I asked.

I couldn’t figure out anything other than retail like retail store.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

Well, that's the metaphor it's going for. It's 'retail', going in for small amounts of voters, rather than 'wholesale', going in for large amounts.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Does that mean I can demand to see the manager?

[-] kralk@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

The thing about retail politics is we just saw a republican primary where everyone was doing retail politics EXCEPT the guy who easily won. I hope Biden's team is smarter than that.

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[-] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Biden can come up with the best healthcare plan ever and the GOP won't approve it because Biden/liberals/Democrats/etc.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

and yet they don't even try.

[-] conquer4@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Biden was apart of the affordable care act, I think he knows better than a majority of people how hard it is to pass any sort of Healthcare bill. In this day and age, Republicans would vote against founding social security, to give you a idea about how obstructionist they are.

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[-] Coldgoron@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

How about some inflation regulation so I can afford a place to live or you know the rest of the hierarchy of needs.

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[-] ExfilBravo@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago
[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 37 points 9 months ago

i'm pretty sure a union can help more with that than joe

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 23 points 9 months ago

That and a Democratic Congress that can actually raise the minimum wage.

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