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  "text": ">Better infrastructure\n\nBiden admin passed an infrastructure plan and so far 400B of that has been dispersed to states through over 40K projects. Several key states' major bridges are being replaced (Kentucky, Maryland; Pittsburgh already replaced one). Total \"In America\" investment for high-speed Internet and other projects has topped 600B. Republicans voted against most of this, but they're happy to take the credit for any good it does.\n\nOn the Ukraine front, the money allocated and passed for that is actually money spent here in the US, most notably to PA among others, to manufacture replacement arms and munitions to backfill vacancies created by sending aging stock to Ukraine. We're not sending much money there; most of it actually stays here. They get arms for defense, we invest in jobs and economies locally.\n\n>Needs to lower inflation\n\nThis isn't something you can do with a wand; it's also the Fed's job to do this, not Biden personally. Fed has stabilized inflation to basically a flat line/slight reversal. Given that we came out on top of a *global* recession means our bad was better than most. Meanwhile we still have a high GDP, extremely low unemployment (50-year low; I never want to hear \"nobody wants to work\" again - everyone is working), month-over-month jobs report increases, average wages are up, and the DOW just hit 40K for the first time ever. Consumers are being picky about where they're spending, but they're still spending in large amounts.\n\nInflation sucks, but by every measure, this economy is red hot and not slowing down.\n\nYou may be conflating inflation with higher commodity costs for things like groceries. Inflation doesn't have much to do with that, especially now that the excuse of pandemic supply chain issues is gone, inflation is flat, etc. The cost of some items has way outpaced inflation; nothing about inflation makes Doritos $6. This is just good 'ol corporate greed. If you quit buying it, they'll lower the prices. Target announced a 1.9% drop in foot traffic this week for the quarter; this was conjoined with an announcement of price cuts for grocery and other items.\n\n>Bring down the cost of education\n\nAny time this is brought up, it devolves into conservatives yelling that they had to suffer school loans and so should anyone else, end of story. Except veterans, but like... kinda.\n\nI would agree with you, this should be addressed. Higher education shouldn't bankrupt normal families. Less so if your degree allows you to do work for societal good, IMO (think: teachers, lawyers, doctors, nurses, social workers, etc.).\n\nNot sure how straight-up money solves this. Republicans don't like hand-outs, won't vote for aid forgiveness, and generally don't want to work on this. But keep yelling about it. It's important.\n\n>Bring down the cost of healthcare\n\nThings like insulin for seniors are now capped at $40ish bucks per month. There was similar program providing for hearing aids and other items at reasonable rates. There are plenty of avenues that could be explored for this, but I have been informed that any kind of fixing of healthcare is \"SOCIALISM\" and can't possibly be done. Much of what was written about education applies here.\n\n>Make Internet more affordable\n\nObama admin tried to make Internet a Title II service to be neutral, regulated, and make it recognized as a critical service that needed to be provided at affordable rates, a la Telephone service, Water, etc.\n\nTrump-era FCC rescinded this. Biden-era FCC just put some of the rules back.\n\nSpending for increased broadband service is included in the infrastructure bill. Because Internet service is provided by for-profit companies, this doesn't automatically make Internet cheap. It just helps make it available. Someone's gotta squeeze all that fresh Web content from the Internet fruit, after all...\n\n>Biden administration disappointing\n\nYou're allowed to have your opinion, but by the numbers, just... no. He's boring, he's old, but he's effective at getting the right people to do the right stuff. Our economy is revving, they're slowly turning a large ship in the right direction, and at no point has he had a press conference discussing ways to inject bleach solutions or eat horse paste.\n\nHow many heads of major agencies have resigned or been dismissed during this presidency? I don't know, and that's the way it should be. Agencies need stability, which we have. What we need is a functional Congress who can get anything done, and I assure you it's not a \"both-sides\" issue.",
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