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Consider it dead, along with voting/medical rights, despite Pelosi's theatrical drama
Using a legislative maneuver called reconciliation, the budget resolution is protected from being filibustered in the Senate, allowing a simple majority to approve the legislation in each chamber.
With the evenly divided Senate, Manchin is a needed vote for Democrats. They can pass the budget bill with 50 votes, meaning all Democratic-voting senators need to vote "aye" because no Republicans are expected to support the massive legislation.
But, Manchin wrote Thursday, "I, for one, won’t support a $3.5 trillion bill, or anywhere near that level of additional spending, without greater clarity about why Congress chooses to ignore the serious effects inflation and debt have on existing government programs."
Wall Street bailouts (roughly 3.5 trillion every two and a half years)? No problem
Probably just as good, we're not supposed to have that much pork in our diets anyway.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Friday September 03 2021, @04:45PM (6 children)
It's not an insult. You speak as a mouthpiece for the financial industry. I'll assume you profit from it. Where's the insult? And of course I disagree. You disrespect old people
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday September 03 2021, @10:29PM
The truth is far, far worse. khallow is not a spokeman for anything, he just worships Mammon, and adores richies. He is, in fact, a lickspittle, a scallywag and pollywog, a synchophant, a gamma male, a knave and a poltroon. He most resembles David Spade's character in "Coneheads, The Movie".
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 04 2021, @02:48AM (4 children)
Old people who've been stealing from young people for 80 years (in the case of US Social Security). Other public pension funds may vary in their degree and duration of theft.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday September 04 2021, @04:21AM (3 children)
The only people doing any stealing are the bankers you support. I'll assume you profit from this theft also.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 04 2021, @10:38AM (2 children)
I already mentioned said old people getting a wealth transfer from young people. So your narrative is already disproved. Move on.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday September 04 2021, @03:57PM
The banks are run by old people, so... touche
You are deluded to believe you have disproven anything I have said, You simply recite and profit from neoliberal propaganda of the financial industry. You are paid to believe I am wrong, so you must
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 04 2021, @09:11PM
Yeah, we gotta do something about those gangs of old people running the streets, and robbing from kids.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.