Joe Biden heeft het Coronasteunpakket voor de arme bevolking gesaboteerd

Biden
zit nog niet in het Witte Huis en laat al zien waar hij staat als
het gaat om steun voor de arme bevolking in financieel moeilijke tijden: aan de kant van
het inhumane neoliberalisme.

Er
is de laatste weken al veel gezegd over het Coronasteunpakket in de
VS, Trump sprak er schande van dat de steun voor gezinnen enz.
bestond uit slechts $ 600,.– per persoon, dus een gezin
met 2 ouders zou dan $ 1,200.– krijgen, waar hij $ 1,200.– per
persoon eiste (Trump is overduidelijk al bezig met de
presidentsverkiezingen van 2024).

Nu
blijkt dat ook Joe Biden, de gekozen president, zich tegen het plan van
Trump heeft verzet….. Terwijl de humane kant van de partij, ofwel
de meer socialistische kant van de Democratische Partij, zich pal
achter het plan van Trump had geschaard.

Nogmaals
heeft Biden hiermee laten zien dat hij niets van de linkse krachten
in de Democratische Partij wil weten, ofwel hij geeft deze krachten
een ferme schop na, nadat hij geen van deze krachten opnam in zijn
administratie voor de komende 4 jaar, hij heeft louter rechtse
rotzakken aangesteld die voor hetzelfde geld in de Republikeinse
Partij hadden kunnen zitten……

Kortom
naast een buitenlandbeleid dat waarschijnlijk nog slechter zal zijn
voor de wereld dan dat van George W. Bush, Obama en Trump, heeft de
grote arme onderlaag in de VS niets te verwachten van deze
oorlogsmisdadiger en ordinaire neoliberale corrupte hufter……..

Het
volgende artikel dat dieper op het steunpakket ingaat werd eerder gepubliceerd op Moon of Alabama, ik nam het over van
Information Clearing House:

Deficit Hawk Joe
Biden Sabotaged Pandemic Relief Efforts

By
Moon Of Alabama

Biden: een bivakmuts ontbreekt nog bij deze corrupte oorlogsmisdadiger

December 23, 2020
“Information
Clearing House”
– The recent negotiations about a pandemic relief bill are a preview
of Joe Biden’s presidency.

U.S. President Donald
Trump asked for a $2,000 check for every U.S. citizen. ‘Moderates’
rejected to send checks. Some people on the left and right kept
pushing for them.

Washington Post,
December
9

Trump
has privately indicated a willingness to send another round of
stimulus checks of as much as $2,000,
according to one person in direct communication with the president.
Congress in March approved a round of $1,200 stimulus checks that the
Treasury Department disbursed to more than 100 million American
families in a matter of weeks.

A
second round of stimulus checks was left out of the $908 billion
bipartisan framework unveiled last week by a group of moderate
lawmakers
hoping to break the months-long impasse over stimulus negotiations.
Sens.
Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have been pushing for
the checks to be included in the final package,
with Sanders going as far as saying he will vote against the relief
legislation unless they are approved.

“While the
amount is yet to be determined, direct payments to American workers
continue to be a high priority of the president’s,” a White House
spokesman said in a statement.

Congress compromised
on a paltry, means tested $600 check.

USA Today,
December
20

The measure
contains a $600 direct payment to Americans who earned up to $75,000
in 2019. That is less than the $1,200 checks approved in the
Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act in March.

It provides
$600 per child, up from $500 in the spring. The bill also includes
$1,200 for couples making up to $150,000 a year.

Some lawmakers on the
left and on the right are furious over the meager result.

Newsweek, December
22

Democratic
Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard criticized the COVID-19 economic
stimulus bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday,
calling the amount of direct assistance payments a “slap in the
face.”
…
“This bill dished out hundreds of
billions of dollars going toward special interests, going toward the
military-industrial complex, going towards foreign countries
meanwhile saying, ‘Here’s what’s left for you. You get 600 bucks,'”
Gabbard said in a video
…
In a Sunday floor speech, Missouri
Senator Josh Hawley said the $600 checks were “hardly adequate
and we should not pretend otherwise.” Hawley forced a vote on
Sunday to raise the amount of the direct assistance to payments to
$1,200, the amount of direct payments allocated after the CARES Act
passed in March, but that attempt failed.

Turns out that
President-elect Joe Biden had sided with the ‘moderates’ who favored
not to send any check. He thereby successfully sabotaged those
Democrats who were pressing for a bigger one.

New
York Times,
December
21

[T]he
agreement on a new pandemic aid package showed the ascendance of
moderates as a new force in a divided Senate and validated
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s belief that it is still
possible to make deals on Capitol Hill.
…
“I’m glad we
forced the issue,” said Senator Susan Collins, the Maine Republican
who, along with Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia,
were leaders of a months long effort to break the impasse over
pandemic aid even as the virus exacted a growing economic and health
toll on the country.
…
Mr. Biden on Sunday applauded the
willingness of lawmakers to “reach across the aisle” and called
the effort a “model for the challenging work ahead for our nation.”
He was also not an idle bystander in the negotiations.

With
Republican and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate far apart
on how much they were willing to accept in new pandemic spending, Mr.
Biden on Dec. 2 threw his support behind the $900 billion plan being
pushed by the centrist group.
The total was less than half of the $2 trillion that Speaker Nancy
Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, had been
insisting on.

Mr. Biden’s
move was not without risks. If it had failed to affect the
discussions, the president-elect risked looking powerless to move
Congress before he had taken the oath of office. But
members of both parties said his intervention was constructive and
gave Democrats confidence to pull back on their demands.

Biden and the
Democratic leadership have now settled for half of what they had been
offered three months ago.

Matt Taibbi, December
15

In September,
as time wound down toward Election Day, the bipartisan “Problem
Solvers” group released a $1.5 trillion aid plan which they pitched
as a version of that theoretical compromise between Democratic and
Republican positions. Though the group contained some Democrats, it
was dismissed by Party leadership.

Trump continues to
demand $2,000 checks.

NBC,
December
22

President
Donald Trump is demanding lawmakers raise the second round of
stimulus checks to $2,000 per person, from $600.

“I am
asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low
$600 to $2,000, or $4,000 for a couple,” Trump said in a video
posted to Twitter Tuesday night.

While the
president did not outright threaten a veto of the $900 billion Covid
relief bill, he did call it an unsuitable “disgrace.”

Three years ago the
Republicans enacted a $1.5 trillion tax cut for the rich. Now, pushed
from presidential power, they are again becoming deficit hawks.

The ‘moderate’ Joe
Biden and the ‘moderate’ leadership of the Democratic Party will
support them in that.

– “Source“
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