Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Joy Reid is getting dragged on twitter and facebook for promoting that Biden should drop out.. [View all]emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)everyones social security, poor and rich alike, when we have massive foreclosures, inadequate welfare funding, homeless children, millions thrown off food stamps, lack of job training, child protection services throughout the nation unable to monitor for abuse, meals on wheels programs going under., Medicaid cuts to home services, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security all in danger..infrastructure anyone? Public education? Serious need in many areas of the country fo4 updated dispatch services, better resourced EMS and firefighting? Adoption and foster family services in terrible shape?
I mean almost every ExISTING social safety net program is in jeopardy, but since protecting those is not inspired, bold, young, new we get plans catering to certain demographics or a problem de jour. Do we need 200 billion dollars thrown at the Opioid rehab industry when a) rehab is predominantly faith-based b) experts agree suboxone and therapy the best treatment available and that is covered by Medicaid and Medicare? Alcohol is our number one drug problem, but yeah
a massive investment in Opioid addiction treatment SOUNDS sexier. Could we invest five o4 ten or twenty billion?
How about save trillions so we can help vulnerable populations and just getting loan forgiveness programs operable, freezing interest during hardship or forebearance, bring down the interest rates going forward, cancel on an income basis, but not raise folks taxes for a giveaway to under forties with high paying jobs who took out huge loans! Not while working class folks are losing their homes!
This scattershot approach to income equality may make for voter excitement, but does little to
fix deep,socioeconomic inequities, to prioritize our needs, to address those the worst off in America and yet these bold plans often reward people who Do Not Need more rewards.
PS I owe student loans. I will have paid some times over by the time I finish paying. I would be in Bernies or Lizs enormous group of those eligible for amnesty, But I look around and I see mentally ill with no housing, elderly foreclosed upon, a whole community gentrified out of existence, and I have to say, no thanks to your inspiring waste of money we can ill afford.
No thanks. Fix what we have and are in danger of losing first. And start talking about the deficit.
Do not ask me to pay higher taxes so affluent people can get more social security money!!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden