We already know the economic plan offered by criminal Fuhrer Trump and the Republican Reich. First provide massive welfare payments to the 0.1% and corporate criminals by fleecing everyone else. Second, destroy the economy by causing a plague of Trump* virus. On a brighter note, Joe Biden also has an economic plan called Build Back Better.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, laid out a key plank of his economic agenda for the country — dubbed “Build Back Better” — in a half-hour speech Thursday, offering a competing vision of economic nationalism that President Trump has trumpeted in recent years.
“The truth is throughout this [coronavirus] crisis, Donald Trump has been almost singularly focused on the stock market — the Dow and Nasdaq — not you, not your families,” Biden said during his remarks Thursday afternoon in Dunmore, Pa., near his hometown of Scranton. “If I’m fortunate enough to be elected president, I’ll be laser-focused on working families, the middle-class families that I came from.”
Biden’s economic plans to date have focused on immediate relief for families, small businesses and communities struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. But the proposal he detailed Thursday centered around manufacturing and innovation.
He outlined an agenda to “Buy American,” which includes a $700 billion investment in procurement and research and development for new technologies such as biotech, clean energy and artificial intelligence.
“This will be a mobilization of R&D and procurement investments in ways not seen since World War II,” Biden said.
His campaign posits the new plan will help create 5 million new jobs… [emphasis added]
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For more detail, go to Joe Biden’s website.
Here is the complete half hour speech.
Biden unveils economic plan to spur American manufacturing
Although Biden couches his plan in progressive terms, it’s actually more center-left. Nevertheless, compared to the rabid, reactionary, racist Republican policies, including massive transfer of our wealth to billionaires, foisted on America by criminal Fuhrer Trump* and the Republican Reich, Biden’s plan is a welcome breath of fresh air!
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As I was scrolling and reading your post, Tom, I was thinking to myself re: Joe, in thinking ‘my gawd, he’s like a breath of fresh air!!!’ And here we are at the last sentence, and you said what I was thinking!! AMEN! and…
YES! He! IS!!!
I’m with you:
“OMG – Someone who speaks in complete sentences!”
“What A Breath of Fresh Air!” indeed!
The one thing everyone seems to agree on is that Joe is a “mensch” – a truly human human being, in the very best possible sense of “human.”
Republican politicians – not just Trump* – have embraced all the worst things that human beings are capable of. Being able to differentiate between right and wrong opens one up to the possibility of choosing the wrong – and the have done it to the point that one beginds to feel dirty just being governed by them. Joe is so clean by comparison that it is transforming.
And, with all of that, I didn’t add anything to what you and Pat said except the word clean – he is like a breath of fresh, clean air.
See? See? Democrats are PRO-BUSINESS! As in small businesses especially. Small businesses create lots and lots of jobs HERE, not in overseas sweatshops. What we really need, IMHO, is a carrot-and-stick method to encourage big businesses to bring jobs back here, to reopen factories or build new ones (or both!) within the U.S. Jobs make people happy – they make us feel useful, they provide more than just a paycheck. The overwhelming majority of people want to work for a living, and all we ask is that we be paid a living wage so we don’t need food stamps or welfare.
Hear! Hear!
Oh so very true. Joe has always shown respect to people.
He speaks words of kindness, coming from the heart.
Making everyone feel excepted.
His ways are totally the opposite of the way tRump and his Repugs treat or speak to us.
It will be a blessing to have Joe as our leader.
And be like you stated ” Breath of fresh air.”
Amen!
Joe Biden has always accepted and respected ALL individuals – even those who disagree with him.
As Joanne said: He’s a mensch – with all that implies!
Most definitely.
I am all in!
I was just thinking about the dichotomy, a little while ago: I saw something about Newt Gingshit, and his “Contract ON America” and how he did so much to re-create the Republican party in his venal style. Earlier there was an article about Sen. Joe McCarthy, and his lying, bigoted, “take center stage” approach to politics, which involved Trump’s mentor-in-evil Roy Cohn. My point is that all of the bastards in politics in my not short life have been Rethuglicans. Agnew, Nixon, Reagan, Thurmond, Cheney, Collins, McTurtle, Boehner, Ryan, and on, and on. George Wallace was a Democrat,but only because Lincoln was a republican.
I agree, “a breath of fresh air”.
However, I tried hard to find more, but there is little of the Green New Deal in Biden’s plans, little of what Bernie and Liz fought so hard for except for an industry innovation stimulus plan. Trump has poisoned the political well so badly and with it, a large part of America, that centre-left is what has people rejoicing now, not progressive-left.
That breath of fresh air could do with a little more green, progressive oxygen.
So would I, but considering the alternative, he is the best I’ll live to see.
Thanks and weekend hugs to all!