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After promising that most K-8 students would be in schools in the first 100 days,  apparently Joe is afraid to lead on this and has drastically scaled back that goal.

Instead, we're shooting for about half to go to school at least one day a week,  by the end of April.

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-02-09/bidens-goal-for-school-reopenings-suddenly-became-more-attainable

 

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3 hours ago, Beerman said:

Whether it paid for itself or not wasn't really important to me or many others.  It still had many positives, and let people keep more of their money.

The tax cuts where good, but we need reductions in govt spending to go with then.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/did-the-u-s-tax-overhaul-do-what-it-promised-11578114001

I completely agree that we should cut taxes by spending less; less spending=less needed revenue.   The Trump tax cut though was paired with massive federal spending increases.

But I don't see anything beneficial about the Trump tax cuts, if it makes sense to give people cash by just adding to national debt, why not give everybody a million dollars and just add that to our national debt?

1 hour ago, Beerman said:

No, not better directed at him.  But, it could include him.

It is interesting though, that the Democrats such as Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer are always complaining about how bad things are.  Well, what have they been doing all these year

You mean other than having everything blocked by obstructionists?

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never mind.

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21 hours ago, MunoRN said:

I completely agree that we should cut taxes by spending less; less spending=less needed revenue.   The Trump tax cut though was paired with massive federal spending increases.

But I don't see anything beneficial about the Trump tax cuts, if it makes sense to give people cash by just adding to national debt, why not give everybody a million dollars and just add that to our national debt?

You mean other than having everything blocked by obstructionists?

I'm sure you realize the difference between giving everyone a million dollars, and giving taxpayers, who are still paying taxes, some of their money back.

It's hard to fathom that everything would be hunky dory if the Democrats have gotten everything they wanted the last 40 or 50 years.  

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48 minutes ago, Beerman said:

I'm sure you realize the difference between giving everyone a million dollars, and giving taxpayers, who are still paying taxes, some of their money back.

There's a difference in scale, but I think it's just as non-sensical to run the country on debt rather than pay-as-you-go regardless of the amount of debt we're creating.

If the difference is that you're saying that taking out more debt to give people their taxes back only becomes problematic when we're giving people more than what they paid or owe in taxes then I would disagree, that's the same basic fiscal nonsense just on a different scale.

That's not to say that their are times when it makes sense to give people money so that they'll spend it which then revs up the economy which then generates more revenue than was spent in money to stimulate the economy, but it's not a way to run a fiscally solvent country, business, household, anything.  

54 minutes ago, Beerman said:

It's hard to fathom that everything would be hunky dory if the Democrats have gotten everything they wanted the last 40 or 50 years.  

I agree, democrats shouldn't get everything they want, but then again neither should republicans.  Each side plays an important role in keeping the other in check.  That's how we end up with implementing laws best represent the general will of the country.  But the problem is that Republicans haven't had the goal of ensuring the country is run based on the will of the people, they've been going out of their way to make sure the US government doesn't work as intended.

Using infrastructure spending as an example, overall support for infrastructure spending has been at over 80% for many, many years, but despite that funding has been repeatedly blocked by republicans representing a small portion of the population.  As a result, we're now going to have to spend far more than if we had been more proactive.  That's not fiscally conservative, it's just dumb.

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1 hour ago, Beerman said:

 

It's hard to fathom that everything would be hunky dory if the Democrats have gotten everything they wanted the last 40 or 50 years.  

Maybe not hunky dory but probably a smaller national debt. Historically, the GOP actions focused on supply-side, voodoo economics adds to the debt, then a Democrat comes into power, slowly starts to make headway on lowering it. Then bam, the cycle repeats once a Republican comes into office.

Yes, yes, before anyone clucks at me, the last ten months are an exception, but you know, pandemic and all. 

 

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Found tonight:

 

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I'm not surprised that there isn't one word said on here about Biden and his recent racial gaff. 

Saying the not as bad "n" word????

I wonder what would be happening if Trump said it?.....

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59 minutes ago, Cclm said:

I'm not surprised that there isn't one word said on here about Biden and his recent racial gaff. 

Saying the not as bad "n" word????

I wonder what would be happening if Trump said it?.....

He was talking about Satchel Paige who played in the Negro League, that's the name of it.  

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1 hour ago, Cclm said:

I'm not surprised that there isn't one word said on here about Biden and his recent racial gaff. 

Saying the not as bad "n" word????

I wonder what would be happening if Trump said it?.....

Because we've seen enough of both of them to know their true feelings on the matter?  Don't bother telling me that either of these instances don't reflect Trump racism because he didn't actually use a pejorative term.  

Trump tells congresswomen to 'go back' to the 'crime infested places from which they came'

and....

“Haitians. We don’t need more Haitians. Why are we having all these people from sh**h*** countries come here? Why not more Norwegians? Or Asians who could help the economy?"

Quote from Bob Woodward book "Fear" verified by at least 3 independent sources.

There are many more of the like exhibiting his ethnic and religious bigotry toward millions of people he was supposed to serve as president.  

 

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1 hour ago, Cclm said:

I'm not surprised that there isn't one word said on here about Biden and his recent racial gaff. 

Saying the not as bad "n" word????

I wonder what would be happening if Trump said it?.....

The word he used may be outdated, but it's not comparable to the "bad n word".

Biden makes enough gaffes and has a history of legit racist comments.  We don't need to invent them.

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58 minutes ago, MunoRN said:

He was talking about Satchel Paige who played in the Negro League, that's the name of it.  

I didn't even know that!  It makes the supposed "gaffe" news report even more ridiculous.

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5 minutes ago, nursel56 said:

I didn't even know that!  It makes the supposed "gaffe" news report even more ridiculous.

He used "negroe" as a adjective.  Not referring to the Negroe League.  

But, you're right.  A very minor gaffe, and I don't think had a racist motive.

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