That’s cause he’s still basically a 90s Republican.
… But at least he’s not a straight up nazi
I know it’s hip to call Biden a 90’s R because he didn’t pass every policy the left wants with a slim majority, but do you even know what a 90’s Republican is / stood for? Because that’s when the party turned to Newt and I don’t see him doing ANYTHING close to that.
One of the weird things that sticks out to me from the Gingrich era is a David Letterman top 10 list. Top ten ways to mis-pronounce “Newt Gingrich”. One of them was “Neutered Lungfish”.
So every time Gingrich gets brought up, that’s what goes through my head. “Neutered Lungfish.”
The portrayal of “Bidenomics” as a success story serves as a classic illustration of how power structures manipulate economic indicators to project an image of prosperity, obscuring the underlying reality. While the figures may indicate growth and a decrease in unemployment, they are detached from the lived experiences of millions who continue to suffer from food insecurity and financial hardship. The discontinuation of essential aid programs reflects a broader systemic failure, where policies are shaped by elite interests at the expense of the vulnerable. It’s a pattern we’ve seen repeatedly in the history of state-corporate management of the economy, where the welfare of the general population is subordinated to concentrated private power.
Or. Or. Or. Get this… maybe the success is that they prevented it from getting so so much worse. And that it will take time before things turn around for the working class because there is nothing the federal government can do as long as the GOP exists to immediately fix any of the problems. Like what the hell do you think Biden can do that he isn’t?
What a bunch of crap. Even Republicans love the success of Bidens economy, even though they’ll never admit it publicly.
You can’t complain when you’re never satisfied.
Tbh, yeah. I think the reason Biden is a tough sell is that his presidency has been a continuation of a decades long tradition of not dealing with the real problems in our society. The president isn’t exactly at fault, because it’s the legislature that refuses to meaningfully deal with any real issues and the courts that enforce that learned helplessness, but they catch the blame because they’re the closest we have to an HMFIC.
What bothers me is that the Biden admin seems resigned to this fate and has now made addressing hidden/shitty charges a priority for their election platform. Like, cool, but we’ve got 99 fires raging, and hidden, shitty charges MIGHT be number 99. The Biden administration has done a lot of things that I agree with, but the only even remotely meaningful change has been the Amtrak revitalization which, tbh, could have been much more aggressive. I’ll also give Biden credit for (seemingly) starting to right the ship in terms of federal agency appointments. It’s like, the ship is fucking capsizing, but the electrician has showed up and he’s going to finally fix that flickering light. Like, okay, great, but that’s not the priority at the moment, in case you haven’t noticed. I’d like it a lot more if the Biden administration was pounding the fucking table when they’re blocked on attacking big policy issues. Put the republicans on the defense, entreat the American people to get involved and call their legislators, scream this shit from the rooftops, act like it’s a problem and you’re passionate about fixing it. Instead, we’re getting probably flimsy legislation on hidden fees.
I know sure as fuck I won’t get this stuff from the Republicans, so I might still vote for Joe, but it’s hard to be enthusiastic when there’s no appetite for having the big fights that we really need to be having.
I don’t see anything being done about the extreme cost of living. Food and rent prices are still stratospheric, wages have not caught up, and homeless tents are everywhere. Maybe Wall Street investors are doing better, but we the people sure aren’t.
Rent prices are dependent almost exclusively on local market circumstances, and essentially all urban markets are plagued by a drastic lack of supply due to underbuilding of housing for decades combined with more and more people wanting to move to cities. The federal government doesn’t actually have that much authority to regulate housing, which is something generally relegated to the states. However, Biden has provided some incentives for loosening zoning codes and some other programs to encourage more housing construction, though there’s a lot of work that needs to be done.
Democrat state and local governments have absolutely done a horrendous job here as well, to be clear, though California at least is beginning to change course out of raw necessity.
Rent prices are dependent almost exclusively on local market circumstances, and essentially all urban markets are plagued by a drastic lack of supply due to underbuilding of housing for decades
That would explain a gradual increase in housing costs over decades, but it doesn’t explain housing costs skyrocketing in only a few years.
combined with more and more people wanting to move to cities.
What in the world for? I can’t imagine wanting to live in conditions like that.
The federal government doesn’t actually have that much authority to regulate housing, which is something generally relegated to the states.
Well, they’re failing catastrophically, and almost no one seems to be complaining. Do people like paying outrageous property taxes?
However, Biden has provided some incentives for loosening zoning codes and some other programs to encourage more housing construction, though there’s a lot of work that needs to be done.
That isn’t going to do anyone any good as long as billionaires are allowed to hoard real estate.
Democrat state and local governments have absolutely done a horrendous job here as well, to be clear, though California at least is beginning to change course out of raw necessity.
California is the worst of them. My family and I fled California in the early 2000s because of extreme housing costs. Last I heard, our modest suburban house sold for over a million dollars. Madness. The whole place must be a giant slum by now, with dozens of people per house.
Those are a signifigant issues globally.
And each country blames it’s own leaders, when the problem seems to be more systemic than the fault a single country’s leader.
Well, rumor has it that Chinese billionaires have been buying up housing in western nations in order to park their money outside of China where the Chinese tax authorities can’t get to it. If that’s true, then that would drive up housing costs in multiple countries at the same time, and those countries’ leaders aren’t stopping it, so those leaders are to blame.
Canada actually passed a law prohibiting foreign buyers of real estate. It hasn’t had much of an effect on housing costs, because when you’re looking at millions and millions of people, a handful of billionaires really doesn’t change the underlying problem very much.
