The proposed debt cancellation of more than $400 billion would have been one of the most expensive executive actions in U.S. history and affects tens of millions of borrowers.
Of course they did. If you’re rich, you get a bailout. If you’re not, then fuck you.
The lesson here is don’t let Republicans into power ever. Just 4 years of a pretty ineffective and incompetent Republican administration has still managed to set this country back decades and the damage is going to keep coming. And if you want to mitigate it, I can’t promise Democratic majorities will do so efficiently or quickly because it really depends on which Democrats get picked in the primaries whether or not a hypothetical majority of them will be motivated to address stuff like this in a quick fashion. But I can promise you if we let Republicans hold onto any branch of government or regain all of them, then it definitely will not get addressed and in fact the next Republican administration will make this stuff look tame in comparison. We’re in for a tough decade or two, time we will not get back, because of 2016. All we can do is make sure it doesn’t happen again and try to make it so our kids aren’t still mopping up this same mess when it’s their turn.
I mean you’ve just described a system that will necessarily fail. If four years of tenuous republican control can bring us back 15 years and the dems having the largest supermajority since reconstruction got us a right wing health care bill I doubt the dens can bring us 16 years into the future. So inevitably we’re going to decline.
The lesson here is don’t let Republicans into power ever. Just 4 years of a pretty ineffective and incompetent Republican administration has still managed to set this country back decades and the damage is going to keep coming. And if you want to mitigate it, I can’t promise Democratic majorities will do so efficiently or quickly because it really depends on which Democrats get picked in the primaries whether or not a hypothetical majority of them will be motivated to address stuff like this in a quick fashion. But I can promise you if we let Republicans hold onto any branch of government or regain all of them, then it definitely will not get addressed and in fact the next Republican administration will make this stuff look tame in comparison. We’re in for a tough decade or two, time we will not get back, because of 2016. All we can do is make sure it doesn’t happen again and try to make it so our kids aren’t still mopping up this same mess when it’s their turn.
I mean you’ve just described a system that will necessarily fail. If four years of tenuous republican control can bring us back 15 years and the dems having the largest supermajority since reconstruction got us a right wing health care bill I doubt the dens can bring us 16 years into the future. So inevitably we’re going to decline.
It’s time for a revolution, let’s stop pretending