Showing posts with label 2020 election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2020 election. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Harvard Poll: Stressed-Out Gens Y and Z Heavily Favor Biden


New poll from Harvard University's Institute of Politics shows that Americans aged 18-29 are unhappy with the government and favor Biden over Trump by 2-1.  Most young people think that government is not doing what it is supposed to do:
Although fewer than 10% believe the country is working as it should be, a majority of young Americans prefer reform over the replacement of current institutions. When asked whether they believed America’s current institutions were working as needed, only 8% of young Americans agreed. A majority (51%) of them believed reform to present institutions was necessary to address existing problems, and about two in five preferred replacing all institutions and creating an entirely new model.
The problem is that Biden is going to be giving them more of the government that they don't see as working.  A vote for Biden is a vote to keep the deep state in place.  There is a reason that 94 percent of Washington voted for Clinton--because she was going to maintain status quo big government.  And in the fall, likely 94 percent of Washington will vote for Biden (or whomever the Democrats nominate in the end) for the exact same reason.  You don't get change or reform by putting the same people in charge.


Monday, April 27, 2020

Stimulus update


Young people are the ones that are going to bear the economic costs of the response to the coronavirus pandemic.  If the costs were to be levied on the boomers or older generations, I'm sure that Congress would have spent it more judiciously.  :

https://twitter.com/novogratz/status/1253426742326226944

Sunday, April 26, 2020

Biden wants to skew spending even more heavily towards the old.


In 2019, Medicare accounted for over one-third of the federal deficit.  That is, spending on Medicare exceeded premiums and taxes by $300 billion.  That gap will be bigger still this year.  Now Biden wants to make the program even more costly.  Elections have consequences.   

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/11/832025550/bidens-health-play-in-a-covid-19-economy-lower-medicares-eligibility-age-to-60