Organized labor groups, from the United Mineworkers of America to the AFL-CIO have urged Manchin to give a second thought on his stance of no. But, the obvious reality which Progressives saw coming a mile away is this will a bill that has been hacked, demolished, scalpeled, chiseled and just plain old carved up into chunks be worth President Joe Biden’s signature if it ever reaches his desk? From the looks of things, maybe the bill can be salvaged. Some may think that the Build Back Better bill is not dead, even though Senator Joe Manchin has said he will vote no on it. Kentucky Representative John Yarmuth, Chairman of the House Budget Committee reference to the Congressional Budget Office’s consolidated estimate’s confirmation that the Build Back Better act is fully paid for and would not add to the national debt, proves Senator Manchin’s hemming and hawing about his opposition to the jewel of the President Biden’s legislative agenda is an absurdity.ĭemocrats will have to sacrifice so much to get Joe Manchin on board with any resemblance of President Biden’s Build Back Better Plan that it won’t be recognizable. Home Health Care for seniors and people with disabilities Earned Income Tax Credit for 17 millionĥ. Enhanced Child Tax Credit for 35 million plus familiesĤ. Universal pre-K for 3 and 4 year olds for 6 million childrenģ. With all the hullaballoo that’s been speculated about the contents that are within the Build Back Better plan, here are the top 13 program highlights:ġ. Pity for a multitude of his own constituents that his ‘devil may care’ persona of poo-pooing the BBB is going to bring them a whole lotta’ sorrow in the future months to come. Sounding like the character of Floyd the barber on “The Andy Griffith Show:, with that kind of whispering voice and sort of ‘I don’t know about this or that’ type of vagueness attitude, Joe Manchin just puts on that folksy, cornpone veil of an act. Speaking of which, this pretend to be common man isn’t paddling in a wooden canoe across the water, but gliding with the breeze along the Potomac River. Playing so damned coy, as if he’s a team player, when all along the only team he plays for are the ones who butter his bread and keep his boat afloat. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin acts like a wannabe “Queen For The Day” basking in the spotlight for all those reporters to race to just for a droplet of an answer from his royal lips. “I go to work in a hostile working environment every day.” – Senator Joe Manchin, D-WV Oh yeah, Manchin Antoinette sure as hell can, when he’s rolling in a Maserati Levante, that’s priced upwards of $75,000 especially when sixteen percent of his fellow West Virginian’s are impoverished and earning less than that slick ride’s worth. Senator Manchin can’t be out of touch with his own constituents, can he? Even some uninvited West Virginians have paid the aloof Senator a visit via kayak.īut, he’s just an ordinary Joe, working hard for the small guy and gal. Manchin’s yacht is a floating palace for him to hold court with some of his Senate colleagues and a few other eyebrow-raising notables. Speaking of which, is his yacht with the title, ‘Almost Heaven’. Is he Manchin of shoe-shined lobbyists in loafers and such glad-handing of lucrative luxury yachts? The latter is his haven of heaven. So, what kind of people is this Senator a man of? Well, okay, maybe he’s not that average Joe that can be reliable for the common man or woman. Oh yeah, that would be Joe, if Senator Manchin had not opposed increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour within the American Rescue Plan of 2021 and also had his fingerprints all over limiting an extension on unemployment benefits in that COVID Relief Bill. Is he Manchin of the average Joe or Jane type you know the one of the bag lunch who is just trying to make that livable wage and keep their head above water. Question is which people is he the man of?
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