Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Debt..
Why aren't Democrats willing to use the House and Senate majorities to raise the debt ceiling, knowing that defaulting on our debts, which Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned could come as soon as mid-October, could have catastrophic impacts on an economy still struggling to recover from the global pandemic?
Raising the debt limit sounds like you are OKing future spending by the federal government, a sort of blank check that many Americans, Republicans and Democrats, are not big fans of.
Which is why Democrats don't want to go it alone on the debt limit suspension or increase. But they been going it alone in many other thing.
In Democrats' minds, they would be getting all the worst parts of raising or suspending the debt ceiling with none of the benefits. They would be handing Republicans a ready-made campaign ad -- albeit one entirely based on the misunderstanding I mentioned -- while also paying off the debt rung up by Donald Trump.
The Republicans are refusing to do so because Democrats are in the majority, and have spending plans in trillions. So when the economy tank, no one else to be blamed. Just a thought.
Die...
Just a thought
Monday, October 4, 2021
Lost...
When President Joe Biden took office in January, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 had swelled to 400,000, and just a month later half a million Americans had died. By June, it was 600,000 Americans.
To put it in perspective, the staggering number of deaths is greater than the number of Americans who were estimated to have died of cancer last year, one of the nation's leading causes of death.
It's higher than the total number of American troops who have died in battle throughout the recent history of the country, and it is about the same as the population of Boston, Massachusetts.
During their first campaign appearance together, Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris targeted the Epidemic situation
She drew attention to public health and cited the example of the Ebola outbreak that occurred during the Obama administration six years ago when Joe Biden was the Vice President. Kamala Harris said that both leaders back then ‘did their job’ resulting in the death of only two people in the United States.
Just a "Back then" thought.
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