YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Biden’s Grand Finale

I wonder what took Biden so long on the climate stuff. Even if he feared it would be unpopular when he planned to run again, or when Harris ran, he was out of excuses on Nov 6. The same is true of public pension beneficiaries.

The medical debt issue is complicated, and no one seems to want to understand it. Removing medical debt from being a credit liability is the least that can be done. It skirts the issue of why there's such corrosive medical debt, and always has been in this country (the commonest cause of personal bankruptcy in this country is now, and always has been, an inability to pay medical bills), but at least it removes one small consequence of the corrosion.

Fred

I am a senior who receives both social security and pension however both come to a whopping 2200 a month which puts me in the income bracket where I don't qualify for help from the government and automatically get $200 a month taken out for Medicare. While I believe that everyone should be able to live in a world where they don't have to worry about going without healthcare housing or food, I think addressing the income inequality of people on the low end of the income spectrum should be a primary concern.

Biden's late stage thumbing of his nose to Wall St., Hedge Funds, and For Profit Medicine, along with protecting the world from more oceanic oil/gas catastrophes could all have been done much earlier, if he had not be placating funders in the event of his second term. I don't know the state of Biden's health but it is a known fact that men don't age well after 80 and the few who make it into their 90's or to 100 are indeed rara avis. I for one, wonder if his awful performance in debate with the horrid Trump, was not the result of a panic attack, as the enormity of his hubris and his gamble with America's future at stake did not just overwhelm him. In these last few days he seems to be making attempt to restore some balance after his herculean work during the pandemic. He may have been counting on the second term to let him catch up on other pressing and grave problems. Who knows? We are not likely to find out for decades and in the meantime, the traitors in our midst, seduced by visions of Evangelical rule (in defiance of the Gospel proclamation by Jesus, firmly separating the autocratic governance of Rome from the religious life ) and the ludicrous reincarnation of Roman decadence by our own home grown white supremacists and feckless brain addled Richy Riches, will swan and swill their way into oblivion.

Happy to be one of those pensioners who will get back what they whacked off of my Social Security. I worked a lot of social service jobs, including as a day care teacher, that paid into social security even while living off anywhere from $6,000 to $15,000 a year, before ending up as a state university professor, earning a state pension. I put in 28 years' worth of social security: if I had 30 years, I believe I would not have been subjected to the "Windfall Elimination Provision." Anyway, it will be nice to get back some of what they took away. I'll have a few more bucks to send to Democracy Now and the Lever.

You can be certain that the guy who presided over the US becoming THE BIGGEST producer of oil and gas in the World checked with the Oil/Gas Giants before he locked away any drilling fields. 
Is THIS what the Lever is referring to when they boast that they"... tirelessly investigates, researches, writes, fact-checks...", in their clumsy attempt to distinguish themselves from corporate media???