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Aca, student loan debt cancelation, biggest climate change bill ever.
You- "but it's not my pretty pony I wanted."
Attention all whiners- maybe vote them in everytime so they don't have to spend at least half if not all their term cleaning up Republican messes. And vote in primaries for more progressive candidates.
Or just accept things getting shittier because youre lazy and spoiled. Either/or.
The ACA was made mostly useless by not having a government option. The end result was a system where you either had to pay for a shitty overpriced healthcare plan or pay a penalty on your taxes. The tax penalty has since been removed, but the shitty overpriced plans remain. There are a couple of good things like not denying certain cover for "pre-existing conditions" and allowing younger people to stay on their parents' insurance until 26, but those are closer to token gestures than real solutions, as I've said. There is a reason why health insurance profits keep breaking records.
Student loan debt cancellation was mostly the enforcement of an existing program where you already have to jump through hoops just to qualify. By the time you qualify, you've already paid back more than the principle on your student loan debt by a lot. Another token gesture for a problem that biden helped create by backing a bill making student loan debt non-dischargeable through bankruptcy. Sure must be nice to be given credit to barely make a debt in a massive problem he himself had created.
The "biggest climate change bill ever" is argued in terms of dollars spent. Money spent =/= effective action taken. For example, biden was approving oil drilling permits on public lands at a faster rate than even trump's first term. He also slapped 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs and 50% on solar panels.
In each of these cases there has been a massive giveaway to American corporations with a few token gestures to lull regular people into thinking democrats are doing something for them. You may be clapping your hands together and giggling in ecstasy at democrats shaking a rattle, but people who know better and can see these insignificant actions for what they are aren't impressed. Democrats work for the billionaires and them blame everyone else for things getting worse, just like you're doing right now. You're doing the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" argument, electoralism edition.
Student loan debt cancellation efforts lead to the SAVE Plan rollout which reduced many american's payments to $0 monthly.
Biden did permit drilling to meet US demands, but he also did everything in his power to reduce demands.
If you wanted better and more extreme actions then you would need Democrats to have the power to make constitutional amendments, bypass filibusters, and remove corrupt positions, which means 60 Senate Votes. Example: Citizens United SCOTUS decision means either removing SCOTUS judges or passing a constitutional amendment, 60 votes.
We have NEVER given dems true power since 1979, at which point they were a very different party than they are now.
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Biden Pushed for half of all new vehicles to be EV by 2030
Biden admin invested billions into the construction of 37 stations with 226 EV charging ports across the USA
Biden began steps to replace the entire federal vehicle fleet of 645,000 vehicles with electric
But sure believe your magical fantasy where Joseph Biden presses a mysterious button which changes all of the prices on the market to whatever number he puts into the computer that controls all of America.
Setting a goal is a token gesture. We'd get there a lot faster with cheaper EVs, but that would piss off the oligopoly which have been sitting on their asses, keeping EVs expensive, and loading them up with dumb subscription services and other unappealing "features". Japanese manufacturers kicked American manufacturers' asses since the 70s and forced them to get better. The American oligopoly did not want that to happen again with China and Biden sided with the oligopoly, greatly delaying EV adoption.
The charging stations are great. Too bad there won't be as many EVs taking advantage of them since the EVs themselves are still too expensive.
The federal vehicle fleet pales in comparison to the general population. Also:
Which is perfect since they can say they're working towards it and when republicans inevitably get in, they can just stop/reverse it.
China is not a friend to anyone in this world, not even the citizens of China.
While some very cheap EVs had to deal with Tariffs, the majority of the market stayed unchanged.
The US is not a friend to anyone in this world, not even the citizens of the US. You can see this in action as the US exploits people domestically and abroad in the name of profits. The US is the biggest bully in history and projects its power across the entire globe. That's why they have military bases set up everywhere they can. They also use their economic might to force change they want to see. On the surface it looks voluntary, but if you reject the US's offer, they will work endlessly to make your life hell.
Climate change is a global existential crisis, we should be working together to solve it. We can't afford to reject solutions just to continue propping up American power and profits.
When you've got nothing to say, just throw out the "tankie" label. Classic.
When you put 100% and 50% tariffs they really do change the price of stuff
Yeah but the Tariffs were only on the Chinese, honestly the already cheap and low value EVs, so the overall market wouldn't fluctuate much.
I really do believe you're getting what you pay for when you invest in western EV markets instead of Hostile Foreign Dictatorship products.
"Push for" means "accomplish" to people who are fine without accomplishments.