Yes, around the same time that the country started opening up again after covid lockdowns ended, which is also around the same time inflation everywhere started skyrocketing because they all wanted to make up for lost time. Some of the cause is, in addition to more global concerns, gouging.
No, the country did NOT start opening up again. The electoral campaign is over; it's time to talk seriously about the ditch we've been driven into over a very short period of time.
We see this a little differently. I know one of those giveaways was to forgive some student debt.
Well, that item may be the least of it, in part because it hasn't happened yet and may not happen.
It was noted, in fact, that when the courts ruled that the forgiveness of valid student loans by way of an executive order to be unconstitutional...Biden wasn't particularly interested. And this is a guy who'll call half of the citizens of our country "fascists" with much less provocation.
The promise of free money for rich kids to go to college on the taxpayers' dime probably
did succeed in winning the Democrats some additional votes last Tuesday, so the purpose of the loan forgiveness promise most likely did achieve its objective and isn't needed anymore.
Personally, I see this as a way to stimulate the economy
That was their claim, but it didn't work. We have been in a recession most of the year and worse is coming, according to economists. Generally speaking, people don't consider recession to be the mark of an economy that's been "stimulated."
All Americans over age 18, I believe, are entitled to vote and have access to the same ballots as anyone else, which has options for both democrats and republicans. They shouldn't have to ask for a ballot just because they live in a care facility or college dorm, so imo, the democrats were right to ensure that everyone who was entitled to vote, received a ballot.
All Americans who are unable to vote on election day may be entitled to some extra help, I agree; but you do not seem very familiar with what is going on here. It's called "ballot harvesting."
First, the Democratic Secretary of State in the states where this goes on sends out absentee ballot applications to everyone on the voter rolls, regardless of whether they are unable to go to the polling station on Election Day or not. That includes thousands of people who are now dead, changed addresses, moved out of state, or simply cannot be accounted for. This procedure is justified by the vague campaign claims of the Democrats who argue that they are against "vote suppression" as though limiting voting to legal voters according to law is some kind of
suppression.
What this means is that thousands of ballots get sent to people who returned the applications using whatever name is on envelope. Also, there are people who receive their ballot application, fill it out and return it, but then don't care to actually vote, for one reason or another. They can easily let their son or friend use it, and vote twice. For those people, doing this may seem just like giving away the store coupon that you don't have time to cash in.
Then there's the matter of nursing homes and prisons, etc. Vote "harvesters" go to such places, say they're there to help and then wind up taking big numbers of those people's ballots back to the precinct "for them."
There is no limit on the number, just like the now-famous "drop boxes" that people have been seen pushing stacks of ballots into, unsupervised. All of this results in literally thousands of votes being cast by unknown people. It's not uncommon anymore for a legal voter to show up at the polling station intending to cast his ballot in person, only to be told that he's already voted! Can you guess why that is?
You may not care about this
and other such ballot stuffing ruses, but there are people who do. Unfortunately for the country, it doesn't seem as though anything is going to be done about it. Certainly not after the party that benefitted from it in two successive elections held onto pow3r in at least one house of Congress.
