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Wow.  No one has started such a thread yet?

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

 

18 minutes ago, Tweety said:
18 minutes ago, DesiDani said:

Step back and think about why?

Because they are decent and hardworking people?

I agree with you, they are decent and hardworking people.  However, if that is what he was trying to say he should have stopped here:

10 hours ago, Curious1997 said:

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What about your vegetables and fruits? Meat? You want to pay twice what you currently pay? Nannies, caretakers, office cleaning? These are personal references from friends and acquaintances. They are trustworthy and hard working. Quiet and polite [emphasis added]. 

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However, he felt the need to add this:

10 hours ago, Curious1997 said:

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They do the work you can't get Americans to do. They never cause trouble or impose because they have too much to lose [emphasis added].

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To me, this implies that some, and not necessarily he, take advantage of these individuals due to their tenuous and potentially illegal presence here.  

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24 minutes ago, chare said:

I agree with you, they are decent and hardworking people.  However, if that is what he was trying to say he should have stopped here:

However, he felt the need to add this:

To me, this implies that some, and not necessarily he, take advantage of these individuals due to their tenuous and potentially illegal presence here.  

Agree which is why I said what was said was insensitive and the poster might appreciate being educated.

 

 

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On 3/6/2021 at 8:30 PM, NRSKarenRN said:

Somehow FOX finds THIS is the most important part of the s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill  H.R. 1 For The People Act of 2021.:

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"COVID relief bill offers convicted murderers stimulus checks, Cotton slams. Inmates are included among those who receive stimulus checks, just as they were in both of the previous Covid relief bills"

And yet this current president took 800dollars of my stimulus check away because I am in the below poverty income bracket and qualified to not have to pay federal taxes. However, I have always paid sales and other taxes.

 

 

On 3/6/2021 at 8:30 PM, NRSKarenRN said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, DesiDani said:

Step back and think about why?

I don't need to step back and think about why.  I lived with migrant agricultural workers for a season and I worked with them for years.  They aren't interested in getting into trouble but lots of white people are convinced that trouble is all they are looking for and their interactions reflect that. It's amazing what you (generic) learn when you spend more time listening than talking. Since my spoken Spanish is far inferior to my Spanish comprehension I did lots of listening.  

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Can you show me where Biden advocated to reduce payments to people such as yourself? There must be record of his words or EO or presidential guidance seeking that reduction, right? Are you assigning that to Biden because someone told you he reduced that? Who told you that?

 

20 minutes ago, OldEMTNurse said:

And yet this current president took 800dollars of my stimulus check away because I am in the below poverty income bracket and qualified to not have to pay federal taxes. However, I have always paid sales and other taxes.

 

3 hours ago, Curious1997 said:

Sounds like you are being impulsive as usual. 

Give the man a chance. It's only been a short time. Just like he's sorting the vaccines, he's appointed the right people and they will get it right. 

Just trying to figure out where you stand.  I discuss the mounting crisis at the border.  You keep replying with how great immigrants are, when no one here has said we don't want any immigration. 

Please, on the vaccines.   Biden doesnt deserve any credit for anything related to the vaccines.   Anyone here who tries to is being disingenuous and/or a troll.

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5 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Just trying to figure out where you stand.  I discuss the mounting crisis at the border.  You keep replying with how great immigrants are, when no one here has said we don't want any immigration. 

Please, on the vaccines.   Biden doesnt deserve any credit for anything related to the vaccines.   Anyone here who tries to is being disingenuous and/or a troll.

In your opinion apparently Trump deserves credit for WarpSpeed but Biden doesn't get credit for increasing vaccine production or increasing the actual number of immunizations.  We are familiar with that Trumpian fealty. 

Invoking the DPA

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The policies of the Trump administration made the vaccine possible despite being generally anti-science in a good number of other areas.  Should have been one of his shining outgoing moments had he not instigated rebellion instead.

Biden has continued to promote the vaccine, making it available and continuing the "America First" idea in getting the vaccine out and is now the responsible administrator.    I don't think anyone is saying "he gets credit for the vaccine".

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I think that people that don't file income tax there still is a way to get a stimulus check.

https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/non-filers-enter-payment-info-here

5 minutes ago, Tweety said:

The policies of the Trump administration made the vaccine possible despite being generally anti-science in a good number of other areas.  Should have been one of his shining outgoing moments had he not instigated rebellion instead.

Biden has continued to promote the vaccine, making it available and continuing the "America First" idea in getting the vaccine out and is now the responsible administrator.    I don't think anyone is saying "he gets credit for the vaccine".

People above are giving him credit for ramp up of production.  Based on what?  Everyone in the vaccine business has their own motivation to ramp up production.  I know of one big company getting out of the covid vaccine business because they are too far behind the others. 

Yes, he can keep promoting it.  Big deal.  The more people who get it are the ones directly or indirectly promoting it.  Who here knows someone getting the vaccine because of Biden's influence?

 

 

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14 minutes ago, Beerman said:

People above are giving him credit for ramp up of production.  Based on what?  Everyone in the vaccine business has their own motivation to ramp up production.  I know of one big company getting out of the covid vaccine business because they are too far behind the others. 

Yes, he can keep promoting it.  Big deal.  The more people who get it are the ones directly or indirectly promoting it.  Who here knows someone getting the vaccine because of Biden's influence?

 

 

You don't know so it can't possibly be true married to vague anecdote is a interesting strategy for a discussion board. 

Do you know anyone who works at Pfizer? I do.  Research nurses, scientists, computer geeks.  I've been in that plant a number of times.  

Does that make my anecdote more believable than yours? No? I'm not surprised. Anecdote is not the same as data or evidence. 

Yes, invoking the DPA to obtain needed equipment for a company to expand vaccine production happened because of Biden.  

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4 hours ago, Beerman said:

Yes, he is at fault and should have been prepared.  The real issue is that he and the Democrats are just fine with how this is playing out.

The "President who should have been aware this would happen and have acted on it" I was referring to was Trump.

If it was obvious this was going to happen just because Biden was elected President, why didn't Trump act in the two and a half months after Biden was elected?

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