US Presidency

luki said:Good article about the likely trajectory of Bidens first 100 days and the similarities between Trump and Bidens Keynesian deficit spending policies.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202101261081886847-fresh-start-or-picking-up-reins-will-bidens-first-100-days-really-change-us-political-trajectory/

EDCLARKE said:
They campaigned on it being $2000 cheques over and above the $600 and then almost immediately reigned it in . I'm not trying to argue republicans good democrats bad , or that trump was great as he clearly wasn't (he was just different) , my position is republicans bad democrats bad , and that both sides will do more to protect their political donors than they will to help out the ordinary people , and i think this has been shown quite clearly in the last few months. People think that the democrats are a left leaning party but they are not they are a right wing party , and the supposed progressive element within the party (Aoc ,Ilan Omar , Rashida Talib and friends) is a smoke screen to keep voters on board , they Tweet all the right stuff and say the right stuff in interviews but when an opportunity comes to actually try and do something they go missing . (particularly recently with the medicare for all force the vote movement).
I think the fact that we are discussing whether or not it was $2000 or $2600 dollars shows what a bunch of grafting c**ts most American politicians are , when you compare that with the kind of financial help most European countries have provided.

Billwest said:
I agree that it is not democrats good Republicans bad either (apart from Trump, that is). In most times there is not a massive amount to choose between the two - on economics anyway, on abortion rights race etc there is more - but since the coming of Trump the Republican part has sold out to him, a mistake they are going to pay for one way or the other I think. The Democrats main faults seem to be complacency. Trump's base is based on the economically disaffected - sure with a dose of racists on the fringes - and unless Biden can find some way of engaging with them, this could be a tough 4 years in Washington.
Although, like you say, there is a significant progressive element within the Democratic party, I don't think there is a smokescreen, I just don't think they have much influence over all. The media attention they receive from both mainstream media and Trump-supporting media, is out of all proportion to the power they have.

EDCLARKE said:
Nothing to do with the presidency but a little bit of joy coming out of the states!

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Billwest said:
Maybe i'm not understanding you right, but If they have already received $600, then that only leaves an extra $1400 to pay doesn't it, or did they offer an additional $2000?
The politics of the passing legislation in Congress sounds like it has been victim to massively divided state of US Politics. So Pelosi blocked a bill she might otherwise supported, i read somewhere that McConnell said his greatest achievement of the Obama 2nd term was attempting to block every single piece of legislation Obama tried to pass. If no legislation can be passed in a bi-partisan way, then it makes it difficult for a president to get his legislative agenda accepted. For this, both democrats and republicans are responsible, from the sound of it. Let's face it, in any sensible system, government would not be run by 70-somethings (Trump, Biden, Pelosi, McConnell) who should be put out to grass.
As you say, if affordable healthcare is accepted across the board, surely those same voters would not be asking what form this legislation took, but why the previous president spent 4 years criticising it and saying he would repeal it.

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