Monday, March 15, 2021

Building Back Better has Begun!

It is said that, “We have to have bipartisan cooperation if we’re going to tackle these items,” said Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.).

Wrong.

To Build Back Better we must work for bi-partisan constituents not legislators.  The US House and Senate spent multiple weeks in bi-partisan discussions of the Covid relief bill, that was essentially what the Democratic majority in the House had passed in May of 2020, for the bill to receive precisely 0 (ZERO) Qpublican votes in both House and Senate.

The Clinton administration finally picked up the mess made in the Reagan and HW Bush administrations, then we hemmed and hawed amongst ourselves while Republicans marketed their, largely fraudulent, message much better and we got a W Bush administration.


The Obama administration picked up the mess made by the W Bush administration, then we (Democrats), once again, began to second guess ourselves while the Republicans, again, marketed better and the orange menace's administration (along with the final stage of transformation from Republican to Qpublican) happened.

President Biden is a veteran of the machinations of the Q(Re)publicans in the US federal government and knows we not only must go big, we must market better than the Qpublicans or, once again, we'll fix what was broken only to be sent packing afterward.

The USA has made phenomenal things happen repeatedly when the government has provided around 30% (more when needed) of the money spent into the national economy.  We must do it again, market and take proper credit for, building back better such that we stay and keep the trajectory of the nation (and with us the rest of the world) onward and upward.

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