Perhaps the suit cost even more than the two grand Trump and more decent Congress critters were willing to give as a token to US. Whatever the cost, it is an empty suit. And then Kentucky voters hand us Rand Paul as a follow-up act. As if the intent is to deliver insult upon insult, for having lost the Civil War.
Student debt, which grew as Biden climbed the Senate ladder and helped lenders tighten bankruptcy laws, spiked from $24 billion issued annually in 1990-91 to $110 billion in 2012-13, according to data from the Pew Research Center.
...“Joe Biden bears a large amount of responsibility for passage of the bankruptcy bill,” Ed Boltz, president of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, said in an interview with IBT.
That legislation created a crisis, said Northeastern University law professor Daniel Austin. Federal Reserve data show that about 1.1 million people face student debt loans of $100,000 or more, and roughly 167,000 face student loans of $200,000 or more.
“It is perverse and obscene,” Austin told IBT. “We are creating a generation of indentured people. It is mind-boggling that we would do this to a whole generation of young people. I can’t understand any other modern society doing this.”
The Chinese are paying to send their best and brightest to our nation's elite graduate programs in science and technology because they know education is a societal good needed from them to overcome and pass our nation because of how our nation's oligarchs and their bought politicians screw instead of help educated people. It matters more to the oligarchs (such as Bloomberg and the tool, Biden) that "domestic tranquility" be force fed smart people rather than being a more competitive and more innovative society.
GET THEM ON PAYMENTS AND THEY WILL LOSE FOCUS ON SOCIAL JUSTICE IN FAVOR OF MAKING PAYMENTS ON TIME. WHO TO? YOU DO NOT NEED A WEATHERMAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THAT WIND BLOWS. OWNED POLITICIANS ARE EVIL. THERE IS NO OTHER, BETTER CHARACTERIZATION.
It is cutting off the nose to spite the face. It is Joe Biden.
January 20.
UPDATE: OWNED POLITICIANS ARE EVIL. IT IS LINCOLN PROJECT. IT IS TWO-PARTY EVIL, NEVER FORGET THAT. IT IS TRUMP LYING, THEN SHOWING TRUE COLORS IN OFFICE. THE EDUCATED WERE not FOOLED. FOOLS WERE. THERE IS NOWHERE TO TURN WHEN BOTH PARTIES' POLS ARE BOUGHT BY THE SAME OLIGARCHS/PLUTOCRATS/ASSHOLES.
"We're not going to let the government shut down, nor are we going to
let the American people down," said Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., the
majority leader.
Fuckers like Steny and Joe have let "the American people" down year after year over their decades holding office and becoming millionaires during the process.
FURTHER: DWT again, at this link, an ending few paragraphs, italics emphasis added - bracketed explanatory commentary added:
[...]
Not a lot of California fans of Mr. Summers. Nanette Barrangan represents a lot of hard-pressed working families and Summers didn't amuse her at all. "Larry Summers is completely disconnected from the reality of people across this country who are struggling to pay their rent and bills, put food on the table, and buy medicine. This $2,000 isn’t about trying to expand the economy, this extra money is about survival for so many. Tell him to come to my district and ask whether or not people need that money. What a poor take from someone who has always been about the policies that are good for the wealthy and not those that would uplift the poor and working class."
Colin Byrd is mayor of Greenbelt, Maryland in the heart of the district Steny Hoyer represents. Colin's going to run a primary race in 2022 for this seat. I asked him what he thought of Summers' little presentation. He was enthusiastic about one thing: "I agree with him on increasing funding for state and local governments, testing, and accelerating vaccines, but his emphasis on expansion neglects the fact that economic growth does not necessarily mean that poor people and unemployed people are doing better. He also shouldn't be so squarely focused on 'expansion' and 'GDP.' While it is technically possible that 'expansion' and 'GDP' may indicate that the economy is getting better across the board, positive trends on such variables can also just mean the rich are getting richer. Moreover, while consumer spending may be, in some ways, limited by restrictions, for example, on flights and restaurant closures, those types of things are not the only or even the main things that Americans need to spend money on. At the most basic level, many Americans would use stimulus money on groceries, rent, mortgage payments, clothing, and forms of transportation other than 'flights.' Moreover, people who are out of work-- of which there are many, due to the pandemic-- can use the stimulus checks to help replenish their savings, which have likely had to be drawn down on in unexpected ways. Finally, while Josh Hawley, Donald Trump, and Bernie Sanders are indeed an odd alliance [wanting more than the insulting six hundred buck token amount to be allocated as aid for renters and mortgage servicing, home power, and food], the notion that politicians of different political parties and ideologies agreeing on an issue is necessarily a bad thing is extremely absurd. That is reflexive, thoughtless partisanship that distracts from the substance of the issue on which they have found consensus."
Thank God, Biden pledged not to bring this out-of-touch sociopath [Larry Summers, not Steny Hoyer, being the sociopath referenced] into his administration! That's all we'd need after 4 years of Trump!
Follow a few items. Not playing by cartel rules and expectationns? Disorder in the World Order? Why not maintain the trade war into Biden days? It would be for their own good, yes/no?
Read about it. The post ends here. The hope is Santa was good to every reader. Even those in China. One parting thought: Is Santa merchantalist? Does he have a deep and endless pool of low-labor-cost elves where he can exploit natural resources at the North Pole and finagled from elsewhere, causing economic imbalance, chaos, suffering and Angst among the world's other power players? Does he want a New Silk Road?
UPDATE: A Google search = china mercantilism -with- timeframe = past year
How Biden-Harris operate trade issue levers, after Trump's trade war approach to China, will matter greatly toward our national and individual prosperity. More than pushing Iran around. More than Ukraine and Hunter. More than BREXIT. More than a lot of stuff. BRIC nations matter. What's the value of a dollar, and what effects arise from that value lessening internationally while domestic wages stay frozen?
Here and here. There is opportunity in suffering. The problem is those atop things see a different opportunity than those under foot, the latter wanting reform, the former wanting things to not fundamentally change beyond getting the squeeze tighter..
And if you think only one side of the Jan. 20 garbage in garbage out is truth; be prepared to observe the next two years and the 2022 mid-term elections.
Garbage is. Garbage will be.
UPDATE: Garbage with a Wikipedia entry. Do realize neither you nor I write Wikipedia entries, but somebody does. Minimizing the issue of the power, reach and intent of Davos attendees can have collateral damage. Garbage imperils, is one way to view it.
Try a view here and here. Enjoy your holiday time. And agree with your friends. Whatever they say, agree. It is civility and convenience rolled into one.
FURTHER: A websearch = Klaus Schwab "the great reset"
The first returned linked item, a PDF of something Schab co-authored.
Here, here, and here. These people have no consciences, for doing things this way.
Term limits? Or would the resulting revolving door prove even worse?
Two parties, each one lacking integrity. And then they will deliver to us the Great Reset. I pity the future these people are preparing for the bulk of the young of our nation. The Jarads will always do okay, with parents buying them into Harvard, and inheriting fortunes. But US, they wipe their feet on US.
UPDATE: From bill bullet points posted by DailyMail: "The 5,593-page bill provides for direct payments of $600 to most Americans "
It does not take too many pages to say give individuals six hundred bucks. These DC "bipartisan" robber baron servants are a national shame and disgrace.
Bloomberg a few Christmases ago got a massive tax break. This Christmas you are getting 5593 pages for your tax dollars, six hundred bucks, spend it wisely, Happy Holidays. Raw deal? Not for Bloomberg. He buys bipartisan. Getting great return on investment. How do you feel for your reps inflating the Bloomberg ROI?
Same as it ever was. Aside from any virus concern, robbers should wear masks. That's the way it's always been in John Wayne movies. But we don't have The Duke to clean out the nest of villains. What shall we do?
FURTHER: [NOTE This paragraph is in error, the link is to the earlier March 2020 legislation, not the latest immense pork barrel.] NCSL has a fairly comprehensive spending breakdown post. Less smoke and mirror stuff than MSM, more numbers here, numbers there analysis.
Government by shell game arguably is unsound, but if people really see what's happening there'd possibly be tar and feathers being prepared by some of US for most of them. And the dollar gets cheapened again, more and more of that stealth diminishing of retirement savings many rely upon.
Who does trust this process? Why is there not dead zero trust in these operators?
FURTHER: While not familiar with the Armstrong site, hence shooting in the dark in a manner; nonetheless; linkis here and here - very recent posts - terse, and posting nothing I would disagree with. We, US, being played this way is pure ugliness, meanness, and conduct indicative of a failure of governance..
More WEF online stuff, here and here. The latter link called "issues that matter most."
There is ambiguity in what matters most; especially, to whom.
At a guess TPP and other trade deals will be on the Biden agenda, and the Davos agenda. Coincidental, of course. The New World Order gets its Great Reset, and those issues mattering most seem consonant with MSM coverage in our nation. Again coincidence is stark but reassuring. The question? Reassuring to whom?
"Sophistry" is a term with a meaning, and the term exists because the practice exists. What actually is in store for US, per international mover and shaker will?
John Kerry Talks ‘Great Reset’: ‘We’re at the Dawn of Extremely Exciting Time’
Win McNamee/Getty Images
What might include the Green New Deal with infrastructure and job reformation and growth might also turn out to be what Breitbart disparages. I.e., it could be plowing US under - deeper, because deep down, we're no threat to plutocracy.
Be vigilant about it. It will have a big-time impact beyond sloganeering.
$600 Is Not Enough, And It Won’t Get Easier - Dems
refused to seize a rare opportunity to outmaneuver McConnell - now the
final COVID relief bill skimps on benefits, provides tax breaks to the
rich, and notches a big win for austerity extremism.
Congressional
leaders announced an agreement on a new $900 billion stimulus bill that
will deliver a boost in unemployment benefits and provide $600 checks
to some families. Democratic leaders are depicting this as a big win and
are promising that these kinds of emergency spending bills will become
“much easier” in a new Congress under Joe Biden. Both of those arguments
are ridiculous.
Here’s the truth: Democrats had a rare opportunity to win on a wildly popular proposal
for much bigger survival checks, but they chose to lose. Here’s some
more truth: one-time means-tested checks of $600 is not a big victory,
and not even the bare minimum that should be considered acceptable
during an economic meltdown that has been punctuated by mass starvation and intensifying poverty.
According
to a bill summary circulating on Capitol Hill, the legislation provides
a mere $286 billion for the survival checks and unemployment benefits,
and an additional $51 billion for food aid and rental assistance. That’s
not nothing, but it’s obviously inadequate. For comparison, only three
years ago, Republicans passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut that enriched the wealthiest one percent of households.
There is more to Sirota's post, so check it out. That said -
Joe Biden's fingerprints are all over this sell-out. Joe who was foisted on us by Dem insiders, along with Bloomberg, along with Lincoln Project Republicans, who are not friendly at all to US.
Owned bastards. Serving wealth royally, dumping on US. We need a revolution. Prompt, clean, and decisive. However, even if it has to be one seat at a time, one state legislature at a time, erosion and accretion in that slow painful reform way is better than anything about Joe Status-quo.
BOTTOM LINE: However long it takes - - - Defeat Bloomberg and his cohorts, who buy sweet deals. Do it by removing/replacing those selling the deals.
___________UPDATE__________
Down with Tyranny, here, a post from days ago, titled, "Trump, AOC & Bernie Agree There Should Be Much Bigger Pandemic Checks-- So Who's Preventing It?"
From the opening paragraphs:
Biden's not lifting finger to rally Democrats around a real pandemic relief check, which should be $2,000 per person per month. Instead, McConnell and the Senate Republicans + Manchin and his conspirators among the House "Problem Solvers" and Blue Dogs are grudgingly agreeing to a measly one-time $600.00 check. What assholes! Last night, Jeff Stein, writing for the Washington Post, reported that Trump agreed with the progressives and his White House staff had to keep him "from issuing a statement calling for substantially larger stimulus payments for millions of Americans." He told allies on a phone call late yesterday that "he believes stimulus payments in the next relief package should be 'at least' $1,200 per person and possibly as big as $2,000 per person."
People are going to go hungry and get evicted because of this:
Trump was in the middle of formally drafting his demand for the larger payments when White House officials told him that doing so could imperil delicate negotiations over the economic relief package, the officials said. Congressional Republicans have insisted that the relief bill remain less than $1 trillion, and it’s currently designed to cost around $900 billion. Larger stimulus checks could push the package’s total over $1 trillion.
An official White House statement said that Señor T "has heard from Americans all over the country who are hurting through no fault of their own, and he’s made clear he wants the next round of relief to include stimulus checks at a significant number. We’re working with Congress to settle on an agreement that can pass as soon as possible." Last Sunday, Trump told Fox's Brian Kilmeade that $600 isn't enough. "Right now," he told Fox viewers, "I want to see checks-- for more money than they're talking about-- going to people... I'm pushing it very hard, and to be honest with you, if the Democrats really wanted to do the deal, they'd do the deal."
There's more detail in succeeding paragraphs;, again, this link.
That means Trump would have signed off on bigger relief checks for ordinary people, but Pelosi and Schumer acquiesced in the sell-out. It may have even been them and Biden pushing to begger the relief checks, and not necessarily McConnell. Closed door negotiations allow all kinds of backstabbing of the people.
From DWT, the image and the quote. And that image. It must be true because I read it on the Internet.
A sucker born every minute.
The Orange Pestilence is still flogging his hats like an Old West magic elixir salesman with a covered wagon full of 'em. This week, he's signing them.
[...] I'm still getting the emails. From the whole grifting family. 10 a day, easily. They're still pleading for money "to defend the election, "to overturn the results," "to stop the steal," and it's like mega church pastors selling blessings and a place at the front of the line at the pearly gates. Trump is siphoning so much money away from the suckers now that those pastors are gonna be furious. They're going to be dying from envy. Very, very little money actually does go to "defend the election" of course. It never did. It's not going to Georgia either. It's going right into the Orange Pestilence's pants pockets. It's what he does. It's what he's always done.
You know that old saying Dan Quayle attracted, "Born on third base and thought he'd hit a triple." There is a Fred and Don version - Fred taught Don.
Born on third base, and thought he'd stolen third.
Intent on stealing home.
So wear that MAGA hat with pride if you'd spent from savings to "Stop the Steal."
Remember, you gave him your money.
He did not steal it from you. He did not have to.
Last, something not many realize.
The new (but in its own way the always meaning) of "MAGA"?Make Amoral Grifters Affluent. In the plural. The whole family works the levers. It's true. I didn't make that up. I read it on the Internet.
And it worked. Better than Trump University, the steaks, the vodka, the ties.
