Posted on 04/10/2020 3:57:46 AM PDT by Libloather
Former Vice President Joe Biden is pivoting to the left as he begins his general election campaign against President Donald Trump, promising to eliminate student debt for a huge portion of people making under $125,000 a year and lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60.
Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, announced both policy proposals in a Medium blog post on Thursday afternoon, arguing the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus epidemic made both moves necessary. But both shifts - especially on student debt - are designed to appeal to younger and left-leaning voters who were skeptical of his candidacy and instead supported Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the primary. Sanders ended his candidacy yesterday.
“Recovery will require long term changes to build a more inclusive and more resilient middle class, and a greener and more resilient economy,” Biden wrote. “We have to think big - as big as the challenges we face. As we start to lay the groundwork for recovery, we have to build back better for the future.”
Biden’s campaign emphasized that both proposals fit within his long-standing goal to rebuild the American middle class, though it also acknowledged Sanders’ influence.
“Senator Sanders and his supporters can take pride in their work in laying the groundwork for these ideas, and I’m proud to adopt them as part of my campaign at this critical moment in responding to the coronavirus crisis,” Biden wrote.
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THE FREE CRAP CAUCUS! I live it
Everything Joe is “proposing” is being proposed and written by others in his campaign. His controllers are happy enough with him if he can avoid soiling his depends in public.
And to think he will have the backing of millions of Medicare recipients who still think Democrats “represent people like me.”
TWO authors.
Those aren’t quotes from Creepy Joe. This is...”gvfrsi ziggqpn mo serty”
Pervert trying to buy an election. Promoting communist theories.
Over these past several weeks, and over these next several weeks the US is getting a bellyful of what socialism and totalitarianism looks like - first hand. Scarcity of basic necessities, fear of your neighbor, restrictions on travel, told when and where you can/cannot go... Yeah, ain't central planning and control great!
Go left Joe - and it'll be President Trump in a landslide, with huge coat-tails. We need that, so go left Joe, go left...
"We cannot let this, we’ve never allowed any crisis from the Civil War straight through to the pandemic of 17, all the way around, 16, we have never, never let our democracy sakes second fiddle, way they, we can both have a democracy and elections and, at the same time, correct the public health... you dog-faced pony soldier!”
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No fkg way. Empty promise. No one whos busted their a$$ to work and pay off the education loans that they chose to get will want anyone to skate from the same responsibility that they themselves committed to and honored. Sallie Mae will object. Every hardworking tax payer will object. The only approval will come from self entitled cocky irresponsible rejects living in their parents basement. This will be a net loss for Biden and win for Trump. The entire Biden family are scared desperate fools...as is the democratic party as a whole.
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