Democrats blocking Biden's agenda represent some of nation's poorest

[Uncle Joe]

Several of the leading Democrats in Congress who have stood in the way of Joe Biden’s $3.5tn budget package, which includes popular provisions widely expected to help working-class Americans, have taken that stance despite representing districts that have some of the highest rates of poverty and income inequality in the country.

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Biden’s budget proposal includes provisions – such as universal preschool, paid family leave, expansion of Medicare and tax increases for the wealthy and corporations – that are favored by most Americans and are expected to reduce poverty and income inequality.

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In Manchin’s West Virginia, 16% of residents lived in poverty in 2019, making it the state with the sixth highest rate of poverty in the country. In addition, almost a third (29%) of children in the state lived in a family that is “either not getting enough to eat or is behind on housing payments”. In 2020, the state’s poverty rate declined due to the government’s Covid-related relief programs.

“I’ve struggled my whole life, working minimum-wage jobs, and people in my neighborhood have a hard time keeping the lights on,” says Pamela Garrison, a retired nurse in Fayette county, one of the poorest in the state. “But our representatives don’t have our backs. My senator gets up there and says he’s speaking for his constituents. Well, I’m one of his constituents and he’s not looking out for us.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/11/joe-manchin-henry-cuellar-reconciliation-bill-poverty

[Walleye]

1. We need to get these people in some TV ads

[Rebl2]

4. Excellent idea

[PSPS]

2. "I'm one of his constituents"

Sorry, Pam. I hate to break it to you. You're not one of his constituents. To become one of those, you have to pony up the big cash and become one of his "big donors." Absent that, you'd have to be in charge of one of the energy companies in which he has a large financial stake. Absent that ... well, sorry. Thoughts and prayers!

[CentralMass]

3. + 1,000

[Ray Bruns]

5. Democrats blocking Biden's agenda represent some of nation's poorest

And yet these bastards will march into a voting booth and put these people right back into office.

[lees1975]

6. They vote against their own interests and that has to stop

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2021/10/a-quirk-of-american-politics-voting.html