Derec
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Home elder care and non-infrastructure stuff like it.What parts of the Biden bill does this not apply to?
Home elder care and non-infrastructure stuff like it.What parts of the Biden bill does this not apply to?
Home elder care and non-infrastructure stuff like it.What parts of the Biden bill does this not apply to?
As a personal anecdote, my Dad developed a rare cancer. At that time, I was literally needing to a day off from work every month or so because I had max'd out at the 9 weeks of vacation. My Dad would pass away about 18 months later and my vacation and sick time were exhausted. In fact, I had to go back to work before I was ready because I had nothing left to cover it.Home elder care and non-infrastructure stuff like it.What parts of the Biden bill does this not apply to?
First, I really get what happened to your family, it sucks big time! My parents were fortunate, and paying a little over $6k a month was affordable for the last 15 months of their lives. I was also fortunate in that I was a remote worker at the time, so I could manage those emergencies much easier, and it was still 18 months of hell.As a personal anecdote, my Dad developed a rare cancer. At that time, I was literally needing to a day off from work every month or so because I had max'd out at the 9 weeks of vacation. My Dad would pass away about 18 months later and my vacation and sick time were exhausted. In fact, I had to go back to work before I was ready because I had nothing left to cover it.Home elder care and non-infrastructure stuff like it.What parts of the Biden bill does this not apply to?
That was just 18 months of intensity. Taking care of a mother or father who is just aging poorly for years? Like needing to go home early from work because the fire department showed up to your home for the second time in a month? Putting parents in a home? You know the cost? And how that doesn't just make the problems go away, or the intensity of trying to find a home?
And of course, you need to make a decent amount of money to justify working as a second parent due to the very high cost of daycare (think a mortgage payment for one child). In America, a person that wants to work shouldn't have to stay at home because they can't afford to work.
Derec, these things are real, and do impact a good worker's ability to work and do their jobs, lower or middle class (upper can afford the help).
The bigger proposal doesn't necessarily mean, however, that the party has given up on bipartisan talks just as they gain steam.
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Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has repeatedly insisted that infrastructure talks are currently on two tracks: The first track is bipartisan, while the second track will include priorities that have no chance of getting GOP support.
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Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has been pushing for an aggressive approach to the infrastructure talks and is angling to insert a large expansion of Medicare into Democrats' plan. Earlier this week, Sanders said he opposed the emerging bipartisan agreement.
Not a very good pitch for HSR. Much better would be some video of high-speed trains in action, showing them in action over much of the rest of the industrialized world.Funding a high-speed rail network would create millions of union jobs, help decarbonize the transportation sector, connect more communities, and create new housing and economic opportunities. But the federal government spends at least three times as much on roads than transit and rail combined each year.
Call your representatives now and urge them to support increased high-speed rail funding in our upcoming infrastructure package.
This Wednesday, June 16, from Union Station, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc/@repaoc) participated in a federally owned high-speed rail fundraiser
In Exclusiva para el Tiempo Latino he gave these statements in Spanish: "We need investments here in the trains, for our infrastructure, not only for rich communities, but for humble communities"
Yeah... she needs to play RR Tycoon. High speed rail to Albany would require a lot of stuff. It isn't as if they haven't given it a thought. The electrification, the new track, the new alignment in places where there is little flat ground to work with...
So the Dems and the Reps have compromised on an infrastructure bill. Bets on how many Republicans will actually vote for it
Also, bets on how many Republicans will take credit for it.
As I said above, this defeats the whole idea of a compromise.
So the Dems and the Reps have compromised on an infrastructure bill. Bets on how many Republicans will actually vote for it
Also, bets on how many Republicans will take credit for it.
Biden just said that he will not sign the compromise infrastructure bill unless the Congress also passes the 6 Trillion "Dems only" bill through reconciliation.
I think this is very disingenuous and defeats the entire purpose of a comprise.
Let's see if the Republicans will go along with that one.
Let's see if the Republicans will go along with that one.
Which one? The bills or the way the women dressed?
No it doesn't. He is compromising (a lot, by the way) for now but he is sending a signal he wants to continue his plan in the future.As I said above, this defeats the whole idea of a compromise.
If the $6T is to spent immediately, you'd have a point. If it is to be spread out over 4 or more years, you really don't.Also, spending 6 trillion after just having spent a great deal of money on COVID related spending is pretty irresponsible. Especially with inflation heating up.