Well I'd rather the doctor drill a hole in my head to relieve brain swelling than have them wait for a MRSA vaccine/cure while I suffer and die
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Honestly an interesting take. The executive has steadily ballooned in its power over the years. Personally I'm glad Biden has the power to at least do this, but would I be happy with Trump or another bad actor having similar latitude in other areas? Tough questions. Of course, these are the same tough questions of checks and balances and federalism that we have been debating since the founding.
Read about what he has done. You don't need to make any assumptions.
What should he do? Decree that college is free now and insurance is banned and so is homelessness etc? Realistically, he's done a lot and is far more progressive than leftists tend to credit him for.
At this point it feels like we are just finding ways to be dissatisfied tbh.
Here is an opinion piece with more deets on stuff Biden has done:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/13/why-progressives-winning-inside-democratic-party/
The main obstruction to min wage increases and public healthcare is certainly not Dems, right? Who fucked up Obamacare? Who's repealing child labor laws? What party controls states with min wages at the federal minimum? I agree we shouldn't count our chickens before they hatch, but one party is supplying the eggs here and the other is stomping on them gleefully...
I share your frustration with the two party system for sure. However, let's deal in realities. Biden signed more executive orders in his first 100 days than any president since Harry Truman. Here's some more info:
https://www.politico.com/joe-biden-first-100-days-presidency
Let's criticize Biden for his actual fuckups (Israel anyone?)
Just because you only pay attention around election time does not mean Biden has been doing nothing this entire time... that doesn't make any sense. Like he hibernated through the term and only just now regained consciousness to campaign again?
This reeks of both-sideism. Please compare the platforms and policies of the two sides you seem equally disillusioned with.
Actual poor people can't get credit cards, then a few dollars of overdraft puts them deep in the negative. Guess how many hours a minimum wage earning american has to work to overcome a SINGLE overdraft fee...
Wait so Biden introduces a plan to at LEAST halve overdraft fees and we're whining before anything even happens? Is it not reasonable to at least take input from the industry you're regulating? Don't you want to know how they will respond and what impact they foresee, biased or not?
except the current user base, that doesn't care about FOSS as you or I do, will continue using the original app which will net them a non-insignificant amount of ad revenue, which is their entire purpose for existing. Makes sense to me
If you actually compared the policy positions of both parties around foreign policy, taxation, healthcare, education, gun control.... the list goes on -- you would know that this argument is disingenuous at best.
I thought it was an apt metaphor, if an imperfect one. We can issue relief while also working to address the root of the issue, which is also what I was getting at with the analogy. The doctor treats the dangerous symptoms but that doesn't mean they aren't also prescribing antibiotics or that other doctors aren't working for cures etc.
That is to say, Biden is pulling the emergency release here with his hands tied. Real reform has to come via legislation, but relieving immediate debt is a good thing for those it impacts.
Also, it shifts the burden onto "someone else"? Don't these former students pay taxes? I'll happily relieve their debt with my tax dollars, but again that does not mean I think this is the final solution. It's merely a band aid