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Bidens Approval Drops to New Low
March 22, 2022 at 4:53 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2022/03/22/bidens-approval-drops-to-new-low-2/
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President Bidens public approval rating fell to a new low of 40% this week, a clear warning sign for his Democratic Party as it seeks to retain control of Congress in the Nov. 8 election, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.
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WarGamer
(12,440 posts)I'd suggest running in 2022 on reforming Social Security, particularly how to help lower income people who have minimal SS credits because of raising children, caring for others or just a career of low wages.
Say "No retiree in the US will receive less than $1200/mo and EVERY retiree will receive an annual benefits increase."
applegrove
(118,642 posts)SS is a winning issue for us.
brooklynite
(94,535 posts)XanaDUer2
(10,663 posts)Democrats imo, need to concentrate on issues like this
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)XanaDUer2
(10,663 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,284 posts)unless you have 60 Senators.
brooklynite
(94,535 posts)And if they did, how would you claim to be able to get 60 votes in the next Congress
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)drug that doesn't work.
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,156 posts)His new SS chief has only been on the job about 4 months I think. So maybe in the works. It is the type of thing to run re-election on. But we have to keep a House of Congress or we are in trouble in 2023.
Peregrine Took
(7,413 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)WarGamer
(12,440 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Social Security is the bedrock of American retirement. Roughly 90% of retirement-age Americans receive Social Security benefits, and one-in-four rely on Social Security for all, or almost all, of their income. The program has not only ensured that middle-class workers can enjoy the sound and secure retirement they worked so hard for, it also lifted over 17 million older Americans out of poverty in 2017 alone.
The Biden Plan will protect Social Security for the millions of Americans who depend on the program. With Social Securitys Trust Fund already in deficit and expected to be exhausted in 2035, we urgently need action to make the program solvent and prevent cuts to American retirees.
But the Biden Plan doesnt stop there. As president, Joe Biden will strengthen benefits for the most vulnerable older Americans including widows and widowers, lifelong workers with low monthly benefits, and old-age beneficiaries who may have exhausted their other savings. Specifically, the Biden Plan will:
Put Social Security on a path to long-run solvency. The impending exhaustion of the Social Security Trust fund imperils American retirement as we know it. Waiting to act only jeopardizes the program further, and will make an eventual solution that much more difficult. The Biden Plan will put the program on a path to long-term solvency by asking Americans with especially high wages to pay the same taxes on those earnings that middle-class families pay.
Preserve the nature of Social Security. Social Security is one of our nations great public policy successes, in large part due to the fact that participation in the program is shared across almost all workers. Efforts to privatize the program such as an approach suggested under the Bush Administration will undermine the programs solvency, while putting at risk individuals income in retirement. Similarly, proposals to make the program means-tested so that only low-income retirees workers receive benefits jeopardizes the programs universal nature and key role as the bedrock of American retirement. Ultimately, the success of Social Security is largely due to the fact that almost all Americans can rely on the program to make their retirement more secure.
Provide a higher benefit for the oldest Americans. At advanced ages, Americans become more vulnerable to exhausting their savings, sometimes falling into poverty and living a life of hardship. The Biden Plan will provide the oldest beneficiaries those who have been receiving retirement benefits for at least 20 years with a higher monthly check to help protect retirees from the pain of dwindling retirement savings.
Implement a true minimum benefit for lifelong workers. No one who has worked for decades and paid into Social Security should have to spend their retirement in poverty. The Biden Plan will revolutionize the Social Securitys minimum benefit, which has deteriorated over time to the point of being entirely ineffective. Under the Biden Plan, workers who spent 30 years working will get a benefit of at least 125% of the poverty level.
Protect widows and widowers from steep cuts in benefits. For many couples, the death of a spouse means that Social Security benefits will be cut in half putting pressure on the surviving spouse who still needs to make the mortgage payment and handle other bills. The Biden Plan will allow surviving spouse to keep a higher share of the benefits. This will make an appreciable difference in the finances of older Americans, especially women (who live longer on average than men), raising the monthly payment by about 20% for affected beneficiaries.
Eliminate penalties for teachers and other public-sector workers. Current rules penalize teachers and other public sector workers who either switch jobs or who have earned retirement benefits from various sources. The Biden Plan would eliminate these penalties by ensuring that teachers not eligible for Social Security will begin receiving benefits sooner rather than the current ten-year period for many teachers. The Biden Plan will also get rid of the benefit cuts for workers and surviving beneficiaries who happen to be covered by both Social Security and another pension. These workers deserve the benefits they earned.
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)I know people who have worked a few years, then taken care of kids for 10-15 years... then worked another 10-15 years and then stepped into being a caregiver for aging parents into their 60's.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)SS is a big deal.
JI7
(89,249 posts)mvd
(65,173 posts)the wealthy pay in more, another thing should be addressed - all the 5 week wait months. They are hard on people like my mom who rely on SS for their whole income.
TheProle
(2,167 posts)applegrove
(118,642 posts)yardwork
(61,604 posts)BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Im lucky that I really dont have to worry about finances, but I was just blown away at the store the other day. Pet food has jumped up alarmingly, among other things. I dont eat a lot, but my grocery bill has cereal increased.
Im glad my feathered ladies give me eggs every day. 🐓
XanaDUer2
(10,663 posts)$26. Um, no
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)I am hardly pay check to paycheck but a stop into Publix to pick up some luncheon meet and salad fixings shouldn't be over $50.
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 22, 2022, 06:34 PM - Edit history (1)
But in the mid 90's I used to go to the grocery store and if the shopping cart was FULL... (full size cart)
Then it'd be a 50/50 chance to break $100
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)I really paid attention the other day as I shopped, and I was shocked at the prices.
I did get a pineapple for $1.99, and I considered that a bargain!
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)We had a dog with allergies and it was eating a raw food diet.
The base meat for the formulation was ground beef. I'd wait until ground beef was on sale for 99 cents a pound then I'd buy all they had and freeze it.
I haven't seen ground beef for less than 3.99 in a long time.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)I look for marked down steaks, and sometimes get some good deals.
Dogs are spoiled as hell.
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)But then someone told me that they have a short egg-laying life and then they end up in the pot...
Of course, I wouldn't do that and would just let them run around and be chickens even as they aged lol.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)I wont even eat chicken because Ive gotten so attached to mine.
My oldest is about five, still laying. One of the younger ones sometimes lays double yolkers, which is always a nice surprise.
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)... literally fucked up the whole economy worse than the great depression in shorter time by lying about the virus and his poll numbers didn't go down like that.
I'm thinking there ... HAS ... to be some revolt on the dem side for this seeing MAGA was never going to vote for Biden in the first place.
I'm thinking what the hell is it !?!
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)And he didnt get re-elected, thank god.
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Botany
(70,503 posts)This is GOP/corporate media crap.
bucolic_frolic
(43,156 posts)At least in polls.
genxlib
(5,526 posts)The old expression of "its the economy stupid" is really too broad. It is more specific than that. It all boils down to the personal economic experience. And the personal economic experience is bad right now.
All those patriots who talk about willing to do anything to support freedom are mostly full of it. When push comes to shove, they are still unhappy about the least possible sacrifice.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Toss this "poll" in the trash & hand it over to someone more precise, & professional.
"Online at which sites?
Why only English speaking?
1,005 adults, including 432 Democrats and 366 Republicans
Did they select one city in America?
One State?
Did they run this poll online at MSM? FOX?
I could have run this poll & for 1/4th what this bullshit thing cost to fund.
Btw, Who paid for this Poll?
tritsofme
(17,377 posts)Reuters/Ipsos isnt some crooked right wing outfit.
Im sure you wouldnt be attacking the pollster if the result was more to your liking.
Budi
(15,325 posts)This miserable excuse for a professional polling org, is what drove that headline.
Without knowing the aggregate of how, where & why, they ran such a particular poll & passed that data off as headline worthy is pretty shabby.
They should be embarrassed.
It tells us absolutely nothing we couldn't have found on Fox, MSM or NY Times & their stepchild, Politico.
Its not worthy of a headline.
Its says nothing.
1000 English speaking people, online, out of 100/200 million adults in the US.
tritsofme
(17,377 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Where are the aggregates to this top notch professional polling organization? They certainly must have the entire data before them. Where online was this poll? How were the polling questions worded?
tritsofme
(17,377 posts)I dont like the result either, if it makes you feel better to attack the pollster 🤷
Budi
(15,325 posts)I have questioned nothing here but the methods of the pollster.
And IPSOS is supposed to be one we are to rely on??
Jfc.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The former guy hovered in the low 30s for practically his entire term in office and the media could never quite bring themselves to say that his re-election was in trouble. In fact, when the wholly-predictable returns came in for 2020, they still couldn't quite bring themselves to say that the people had spoken loudly and clearly. Instead, they went haring off after one preposterous story after another peddled by the former guy and his cadre of apparatchiks.
Forgive me if I don't swoon.
Celerity
(43,349 posts)37.1% approval was his lowest ever on aggregate, December 16, 2017
He was at 45.9% approval on election day, Nov 03, 2020
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
If just 21,461 votes (split between just 3 states, GA, WI, and AZ) had flipped from Biden to Trump, Trump would still be POTUS as that would leave it 269-269, and the House would have elected Trump, as they had control of 26 state delegations, the exact number need to win
The only real shot we had to kick them under 26 was FL (WI is too gerrymandered, and the 3 tied states would not have helped, as the Rethugs already did not have control of any) and we lost ground in FL, in terms of number of seats held. We went from being one down, 13 D to 14 R, to being 5 down, 11 D, 16 R.
Native
(5,942 posts)people
Chainfire
(17,536 posts)Raise prices, blame it on the President, then you can put the puppet that will do your bidding back in. I suspect by the midterms there will be another crisis to jack everything up again. It is a double win for big business and big money, they get to scalp us and make sure that they continue to rule.
We have probably passed the point that the people can regain control of the country. Erase your hard drive and polish you jackboots.
The bad guys won.