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This page has been set up to describe and to challenge the blocking senator Joe Manchin.
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https://newrepublic.com/article/164822/joe-manchin-betrays-west-virginia-build-back-better Excerpts see below |
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And this, in a nutshell, is American politics generally and the United States Senate particularly: a multimillionaire old white guy telling poor people that they just need to get off their asses and work and the government shouldn’t be helping them. |
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Although there’s still a chance Manchin may support some version of the Build Back Better Act, his announcement Sunday morning—on Fox News, natch—that he couldn’t vote for the existing version of the bill is politically devastating for his party and the president he presumably supported and voted for. That will be the focus of most of the punditry. But it’s even more devastating for the people of West Virginia, who are falling further behind the rest of the country with each passing decade and who have been sold a fantasy about the source of their problems and how they will be fixed. But the accepted story line is that government and liberalism are destroying the state. It’s the precise opposite of the truth. What has ravaged the state is the free market: automation, technology, a cheaper and cleaner coal alternative, and heavy prescription drugs. |
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Joe Biden sought to step into this morass and say to people in West Virginia and across the country that they deserve the things that citizens of all other developed nations, and many developing ones, already have. But now Joe Manchin, given extraordinary power by the structure of a body that shouldn’t even exist, overrules the president of the United States and says to the people ravaged by these things that, no, the government can’t help them. Sorry, single mom who works at the Dollar General in Grantsville and would like to go to community college to better her lot: We can’t make community college free, and we can’t possibly subsidize daycare centers where you can safely plant your toddler while you take those bookkeeping courses at night at Glenville State. All that free stuff might make you a ward of the state. |
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And no, we can’t tax rich people to pay for it. We need rich people to get richer, so they can pass the benefits of their wealth down the economic food chain. Does Joe Manchin think this way? He did say that thing in late September: “Means testing, work requirements are all very, very important in these things. Some can pay, some can pay a little, some can’t pay at all, that is means testing. I cannot accept our economy, or basically our society, moving toward an entitlement mentality.” No, we can’t have that. Before you know it, we’ll turn into Scandinavia. Or Mongolia or Uruguay or Uzbekistan or any other of the hundred or so countries around the world that offer new parents paid parental leave. |
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So that’s where the United States of America is now, behind Mongolia and all those other countries, all because of one man—and the power that is given to him by the structure of our national legislature. West Virginia will keep falling behind. And Joe Manchin can watch it all unfold through the windows of his Maserati. |
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The original tweet |
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Page created 25th. December 2021. Edited 9th February 2022 |
