Thoughtson Biden's speech/plan?

[Dill]

(04-29-2021, 08:41 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Typical ask for everything in order to get something.

But eventually I think his message will get through to the middle class.  We need a capitalist economy to promote efficiency and progress, but unregulated capitalism leads to all the money in the hands of an elite few at the very top.

For years now the right/Republicans have been able to convince many in the middle class that making rich people richer was better for everyone.  But the middle class has been squeezed for so long it is about to reach its limit.  Jobs have not just disappeared overseas.  They have also disappeared to innovation, and that tend is on the cusp of exploding with recent developments in Artificial Intelligence and robot technology.  If the government does not step in to provide some balance and protection to the current system pretty soon the middle class will be non-existent.

Ben Domenech thinks Biden's speech was a "tissue of lies."

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/foxs-ben-domenech-completely-dismisses-chris-wallace-praise-of-bidens-tissue-of-lies-speech/

Martha MacCallum threw to Domenech moment before Senator Tim Scott gave his rebuttal.

“Last time I was on the air talking at the same time as Chris Wallace about a Joe Biden speech he waxed eloquent about how it was ‘so powerful and unifying,'” Domenech opened. “I don’t think that turned out to be true at all; I think it turned out to be a tissue of lies Republicans rejected. It’s something that did not lead to any bipartisanship. I expect the same results in this speech.”

Domenech then pivoted from calling out Wallace to predictably criticizing Biden’s speech. “It will be a political blip, immediately forgotten it won’t change the course of anything in Washington which is a now mono-partisan affair under Joe Biden.”

According to snap polls, Wallace’s prediction that the speech would be popular with the American people has thus far proven to be true. A CBS/YouGov poll reports that “Speech viewers described the president as  ‘Presidential,’ ‘Caring,’ ‘Inspiring’ and ‘Bold,’ and that “Eighty-five percent of Americans who watched Mr. Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress overwhelmingly approve of his speech.