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From: scott@none.none
Baxter wrote in
news:tamoii$c22$1@gioia.aioe.org:
> On Tuesday, the venerable Gallup organization reported that just 27
> percent of Americans expressed confidence in their institutions — the
> lowest level of trust since the questions were first asked half a
> century ago.
>
> On Wednesday, Mitch McConnell showed us why Americans feel this way.
>
> Republican senators announced that, under orders from the Senate
> Republican leader, they were pulling out of House-Senate talks
> finalizing details on bipartisan legislation to help the United States
> compete with China on semiconductor chips.
Democrats forced semiconductor manufacturing to China because it involves
a lot of nasty elements and chemicals plus pollutes the environment.
Baxter dumbdumb.
> It wasn’t because McConnell objected to the China bill; he was one of
> 19 Republican senators who voted for the Senate’s version. It’s
> because he objects to a second, unrelated bill Democrats are working
> on to lower prescription drug prices.
Did you read the draft? Until you do, don't bitch at McConnell.
Baxter dumbdumb.
> McConnell wants to stop Democrats, including Sen. Joe Manchin III
> (W.Va.), from using a process known as “reconciliation” to pass that
> prescription-drug bill by a simple majority vote, immune from any GOP
> filibuster. And to stop Americans from getting cheaper prescriptions,
> he is willing to sabotage American manufacturers (and therefore assist
> China) by denying them $52 billion in support under the U.S.
> Innovation and Competition Act.
Reconciliation is inappropriate for the "Innovation and Competition Act."
Democrats never look down the road farther than the end of their noses.
"The United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA) (S.
1260), formerly known as the Endless Frontier Act, is United States
legislation sponsored by Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Todd Young (R-
IN) authorizing $110 billion for basic and advanced technology research
over a five-year period. Investment in basic and advanced research,
commercialization, and education and training programs in artificial
intelligence, semiconductors, quantum computing, advanced communications,
biotechnology and advanced energy, amounts to $100 billion. "
I don't see any prescription drug price reductions there.
Baxter dumbdumb.
> In both cases, Americans lose — because McConnell thinks it’s to
> Republicans’ advantage in the midterm elections. He is willing to hurt
> the country, and help the Chinese, in order to harm Democrats’
> political standing.
>
> “Let me be perfectly clear: there will be no bipartisan USICA as long
> as Democrats are pursuing a partisan reconciliation bill,” he tweeted.
>
> And let me be perfectly clear: This cynicism has destroyed Americans’
> faith in their government.
Let's be clear. It's because of apathetic "Americans" that we are in this
mess to begin with. It started with the Clintons and Willy's debt pile
shuffle to make it appear as though he had balanced the budget when he had
not. He stuck Bush with $4 trillion dollars in war debt. Then came that
disaster Obama.
8 years of Obama and Biden cost the dumb fucks who voted for him 8 years
of 401k / retirement profits. 8 years, people. Now Joe Biden is in the
driver's seat costing the US trillions of dollars in earning because of
his anbd Yellen's fiscal mismanagement.
Baxter dumbdumb.
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