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https://crooksandliars.com/2021/10/mehdi-hasan-build-back-better-plan10/08/21 10:49am
What's In Biden's Reconciliation Bill, In Sixty Seconds
Mehdi Hasan flamed the media for failing miserably at doing its job: informing its audience, specifically with regard to anything about President Joe Biden's reconciliation bill, other than its price tag.
By Aliza Worthington
Mehdi Hasan flamed the media for failing miserably at doing its job: informing its audience, specifically with regard to anything about Pres. Joe Biden's reconciliation bill, other than its price tag.
He took a deep breath, and then...
has an extended child tax credit to cut child poverty by nearly half.
Universal Pre-K for three- and four-year-olds.
Free school meals for an extra nine million kids.
New money to repair run-down schools.
Two free years of community college.
Twelve weeks of paid family and medical leave for the first time in American history.
New powers for Medicare to negotiate drug prices, which will bring down the costs of your prescriptions, which is a good thing, given that we often spend twice as much as people in other countries.
Expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing aids, helping millions of seniors.
Lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60, again, helping millions of seniors.
Expanding home care, and paying higher wages for home care workers, again, helping millions of seniors.
Closing the Medicaid gap for low-income Americans and getting healthcare to four million uninsured people.
New money for housing choice vouchers to tackle homelessness.
New Justice Department grants for non-profits that work on reducing community violence.
And, of course, action on climate change, including a clean electricity performance program that will create nearly eight million new jobs and financial incentives to buy electric vehicles, to build charging stations for them, and for homeowners to weather-fit their homes, plus new forestry programs, flood control programs.
So stop focusing on the 3.5 trillion, and focus on the popular, necessary, and good stuff that is being invested in over yeah! ten years."
I didn't know whether to give him a standing ovation or an oxygen mask after that, but I can certainly give him props for doing what hardly any other outlet or politician is doing: focusing on the truly transformative changes this bill would have on tens of millions of people who are struggling with everything from housing to health care to schooling. And if you care about, you know, EXISTING HERE ON EARTH, it even helps encourage healthy ecological behavior.
But we're not hearing that information being hammered home in news segments, or interviews with politicians. We're mostly only hearing about the price tag, and whether or not some group or other is willing to go up or down in spending. You know who's not doing that? President Biden. He's the only one I hear consistently asking both the media and Congress to focus on what they want IN the bill, not what they want to spend ON the bill.
Now, thanks to Hasan, everyone has this handy guide to use if they're in a big hurry. All it takes is sixty seconds.
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BumRushDaShow
(128,712 posts)Beartracks
(12,806 posts)But then I guess you might've opted to inform me that babylonsister is not a 'man.' So I'm glad I didn't do that.
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BumRushDaShow
(128,712 posts)if you get my drift.
Beartracks
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BumRushDaShow
(128,712 posts)That one is about to meet it's maker.
Celerity
(43,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,712 posts)I am on MIRT.
Celerity
(43,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,712 posts)and all the bullshit has gone poof!
Celerity
(43,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,712 posts)more like a dim bulb.
Celerity
(43,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,712 posts)elleng
(130,825 posts)(and Mehdi.)
Beartracks
(12,806 posts)I've been looking for a summary like this to share with my Fox-watching relatives.
Thsnks!
onetexan
(13,033 posts)True Blue American
(17,982 posts)Can read anytime.Thanks!
WarGamer
(12,423 posts)They need to reset the minimum SS benefit to start... mandatory inflation PLUS 1% annual increases with expanded aid for housing and food costs.
questionseverything
(9,646 posts)I thought it got negotiated away awhile back?
ffr
(22,665 posts)Not one mistake.
https://embed.crooksandliars.com/embed/dP4A7xka
Duppers
(28,117 posts)beaglelover
(3,462 posts)Price tag to $2 trillion??
babylonsister
(171,048 posts)They may still be negotiating that. I'm in favor of whatever it takes to get this done. Tweaks can happen down the road.
I always remind myself of Obamacare.