How about 100 billion to Americans struggling or cancel some student loans. We can’t have affordable healthcare. But we can keep sending billions to other country.
How about you tax billionaires and do both.
Yeah that’s ideal but if we can only have one, this is by far the less popular of the options
You mean that other initiative he’s been working on that the Republicans have been fighting tooth and nail against?
It is not about the money Fred. If they wanted to, they would find the money - politicians always do. The only time when there is no money available is when they don’t want to do a certain „project“
That would cover about 5% of all student loan debt.
What’s the difference between a billion and a trillion?
About a trillion.
Current US student debt: $1.77 trillion.
Biden: “Hey! Stop the genocide of those Palestinians!”
Also Biden: “By the way, here’s $10 billion”
100 billion. One hundred billion dollars.
The article said most will go to Ukraine, with $10 billion for Israel.
it should all go to Ukraine in my opinion
This report says $40 billion of the $100 billion. The dollar amount doesn’t matter. At the end of the day the US doesn’t have a nationwide healthcare system and 18% of the population is in some sort of housing insecurity.
How about domestic aid
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He had a student loan forgiveness program last year that Republicans blockaded…
No, no, shh, everything is biden’s fault and we are all going to throw a tantrum about it
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Gerrymandering in 2010 fucked this country bad, mate. The only thing that can fix it is a massive amount of people voting to overcome the Gerrymandering.
It’s working. 2022 was supposed to be a “Massive Red Wave” they barely won the House and lost the Senate.
Register to vote, get everyone you know to register, and vote. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s meaningless.
If it wasn’t, they wouldn’t try as hard as they do to stop you from doing it.
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You don’t need the more. You can type it “Like tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars being sent to Israel…”
Maybe we will, maybe we won’t.
Looks like to me that although we have pledged 10 billion to Israel, it would be on a tight leash with many caveats attached. Biden did get both Israel and Egypt to allow aid in to the people of Gaza. Ol’ Diamond Joe was working that Scranton charm.
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The SAVE plan is a huge improvement for addressing student debt long term and they are still perusing other means for loan forgiveness.
The parties, because both are shit
Correct your self. We fucking all hate Republicans and Democrats.
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Gotta say it the long way or else!
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In case anyone is wondering, that’s $300 for every man, woman, and child in the United States. Not just tax payers, every single person
Or about $12 for every single person in the entire world.
On a separate note, war machines are very expensive and definitely overpriced.
If my government could just give every American just 0.0000005% of that most people would be in a mich better place economically and mentally in this country.
About 300 million US citizens so that’s $333. Less than the stimulus checks the first 2 years of covid
The problem is always that we small people never have the big picture of such things. Sure, 100 billion is much, but one never gives money for free. There is something about it that will give USA as a country a huge advantage.
Give everyone 5k? Like more Biden bucks?
I just drafted my vote for someone else.
Who else can someone vote in a way that doesn’t help a Republican (likely Trump) become the next POTUS?
I don’t personally believe either decision is going to save America from misinformation, extremism and possibly collapse in the long run.
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Zero American Presidents have been third-party. The only election where a candidate outside the two major parties of the era got a large-ish share of votes was in 1912 when Theodore Roosevelt ran in the Bull Moose party and split the Republican vote. (edit: maybe 1860 too)
Here’s a graphic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PartyVotes-Presidents.png
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The modern delusion that a vote for a GOOD candidate is a wasted vote is horse shit.
No, it is not. (It is horse shit in the sense of being a terrible situation, but it is not a delusion.)
Here’s a simple explanation of why it’s a wasted vote, especially if the race is close:
Politics in the Animal Kingdom
You break the 2 party system
Yes, that would be great, but it requires changing the voting system. Unfortunately, the people with the power to do it have a strong incentive to block it.
It requires changing the voting system in every state individually.
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I certainly hope you don’t think that Republicans aren’t also wholely in support of Israel. They also have absolutely zero sympathy for Palestinians at all.
Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital, effectively kicking the two state solution in the nuts, was widely condemned by world leaders, and was officialy cited by Hamas as the reason to start a new intifada. Biden didn’t change course on this.
He also officially recognized the Golan Heights as being part of Israel. Biden didn’t change course on this either.
Then there was that Iranian general he had assassinated. He recently mentioned the Israelis being on board to help assassinate him till they backed out last minute, despite Israeli protestations to the contrary. I assume, because assassinating another country’s generals is a potential casus belli, and even Netenyahu didn’t want to antagonize Iran that openly.
He also announced a peace plan which suggested Israel annex (a further) 30% of the west bank, then helped push through the Abraham accords. In retrospect, it’s likely that the normalisation of relations between Israel and some of its Arab neighbours, was seen as a betrayal by Hamas, and a threat to Iran. Biden didn’t change course on this, and it is rumoured that Israel and Saudi Arabia were about to sign a deal, until Hamas attacked.
You think neither is an option? I do. Sorry, but I’m not helping someone I don’t agree with. Some call it a spine.
Unfortunately you can’t just recuse yourself from society. You’re still impacted by who the president is even if you don’t vote for them.
You’re still using public utilities. Driving on public roads. Interacting with people who went to public schools.
Acting like both choices are the same because they will always eventually do something you don’t like is disingenuous and you know it.
and I don’t believe any of those factors are improving without either a collapse or a revolution. There are better wastes of paper found in most bathrooms.
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