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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 11 months agoBut prez is king who change anything by decree…
Pretty sure anything that touches the budget in any way other than minor allocation changes is strictly congress’ business.
For example, when he tried to forgive student loans several years ago he was empowered to do so by a law from 2003 which allowed the Secretary of Education to change rules and waive amounts during an emergency such as 9/11 or a Pandemic. And State AGs still sued him over it and won, despite that legislature.
I wonder if the
got in his way too!
It’s a good read…
House of Cards. How Joe Biden helped build a financial system that’s great for Delaware banks and terrible for the rest of us.
I am not sure that legislation has to do with spending though.
No shit!
What I intend to communicate is that Biden has never been, in any way, serious about any of the focus-grouped, means-tested student loan forgiveness programs that he has been pretending to work toward. He and his advisors clearly know full well that his buddies in Congress will NEVER, EVER pass it. It’s like the overdraft fee thing recently that doesn’t take effect until 2025 and will absolutely be eliminated by Congress before it even takes effect.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
You’re right, it’s totally fine that he doesn’t do anything to put it on the agenda.
Because he’s not a literal king, we can’t criticise him for ignoring people’s needs and failing to say or do anything to push for something that is not only sorely needed but extremely popular across political divides.
It’s totally fine that the entire dem primary field was talking about medicare for all when a popular candidate was forcing them to, and then we didn’t hear one word about it after everyone rallied together to force that guy out. Don’t criticise in election season, you don’t want Trump do you?
I mean, give him some time! He’s just a new baby president! Everyone knows you get a few months to just kind of chill and get a feel for the space.
Oh but we can’t talk about it now, look at what the republicans are doing, it’s just such a crisis right now, we’re just reacting to their crazy antics!
Oh we lost congress in the primaries, now we can’t do anything.
Listen, you can’t expect the president to actually do anything. Because he’s not a literal king.
Fucking libs. You spend all your time telling us to follow a process, and when the process gets nothing done, you tell us not to blame you, it’s just the process! It’s just hard, and slow, and it takes time, and we really need to wait for another four or eight or twelve years, and then maybe another dem will get elected and kind of partially undo some of the damage the last guy did and not actually make any progress to make up for it.
And when we try to point this out, you call us whiny little babies who aren’t educated and mature enough to sit around waiting for Godot to finally pull his thumb out and show up.
Alteon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Look, change is slow. Especially so when dealing with government. The Democrat party is also split between centrists and progressives, and this divide will only grow as more and more young people start to vote. Those changes that we all want to see are also being hammered by a Republican controlled House. Nothing is going to get through there - Biden can groan and moan all he wants, but it won’t do anything. But it’s not like he’s not doing anything…
He’s trying to lower costs of healthcare and prescriptions.
He’s strengthened Medicare.
He actively prevent Medicare cuts by passing a Bill back in 2022.
He’s not doing “nothing”. He’s working with what he’s got.
I mean. I get that there’s a lot of complaints, but to say he’s not doing anything is incorrect. I mean, sure, do I wish more progress was made? Yeah, but I’m not going to blame Biden for it. Now, if Biden had control of the House and Senate, and this shit still didn’t happen…oh yeah, I’d be feisty right now.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Biden’s no Superman, but he’s no Pooperman either
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The rate of change is mostly set by the population. It’s historically slow, because the majority is usually slow to adapt. Change can also be fast (e.g. revolutions), when leadership is completely out of touch.
hark@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Change is not inherently slow, there’s just a vested interest by those with power granted by the status quo to stop it or slow it as much as possible. They don’t want it to change unless they can ensure they keep their power (or expand on it) with the change.
GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Who’s the “we” and the “us” in your comment exactly?
demesisx@infosec.pub 11 months ago
People with integrity. You wouldn’t recognize them because you are not one of them.
GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
ROFL! Hilarious!
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Actual leftists.
Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s because the process is to maintain their status quo, while minimim wage in the country has stayed at 7.25(15k/yr) and congressional pay at $175k/yr since 2009, only one of those has bipartisan support at getting changed despite immense public disapproval: businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-1740… . The logic stated that making more than 80% of the country with just their base salary (dont forget those benefits like healthcare and childcare that are too costly for regular folks) won’t attract qualified candidates. But please another no one talks about Biden’s good sides post, which usually feels like mistruths and sometimes outright lies. Like every month I hear about how many student loans Biden forgave, just they are never the ones he promised, usually were loans that were written-off long ago, and to be honest I don’t know any actual borrowers to receive relief, the only people I know who think that he did something were those who never had any loans.
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Great comment. Remember when Biden said he wouldn’t run for a second term.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unnamed sources within the campaign, not Biden and only on background. Strong take, pal.
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not the one who made him 82 years old. Be mad at time. Oh right, it’s my fault you have to vote for walking corpse.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You think I’d read this shit?
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
It makes no difference to me, I don’t know you, but it’s fascinating you felt the need to insert yourself into the conversation just to announce that you’re not listening.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just got through about half of it and it was absolute garbage. I was offended someone spent the time to write it down.