President Joe Biden has embraced a decidedly pro-consumer agenda at a time when many Americans aren’t feeling confident about the state of the economy — even though it may do little to assure voters whose primary economic concern is higher prices.
Through his executive authority, Biden has taken steps to combat “junk fees” — hidden fees that make everything from airline bookings to concert tickets more expensive than their sticker price, but also just feel like shady corporate attempts to get the better of consumers. He has also required companies to provide more transparency in their pricing.
His administration has also tackled monopolies like it’s the Roosevelt era, filing a flurry of sweeping […]
Biden does deserve credit for these efforts; however, he wasted the first two years of his administration. The Republicans will not make that error. The article is correct that Biden’s administration will be judged by the success of his policies. If the Democrats are serious about reversing 50 to 75 years of lax anti-trust enforcement it will require a concise and sustained philosophical approach transcending administrations, and they must campaign on it. This will be a problem as it risks alienating the millionaires who fund their campaigns. I believe this is why the Democrats exhibit so much ambivalence regarding policy change. Until this ambivalence is resolved in favor of the majority of workers we will continue to see the on going slide into neo-liberal economic policy.
A large part of the electoral process depends on good print and Tv media reporting what is going on honestly. What we have been seeing are huge omissions of what the Biden Administration has accomplished to inform people which candidate is best for the US. Instead, they often seem to focus on the doings of Trump because it makes news—-rape trial, hush money trial, his rallies and speeches and his bombast. Biden, on the other hand, is not given to bombast but to basic truth and concern about what he has done for Americans during his tenure. Maybe the press and TV find this boring, but it obscures who is really helping this country and regular Americans to better health, cleaner air, working with our allies with Ukraine and a huge variety of other efforts that only help this country. That is not what happens in a Trump administration and never will. He’s too involved with retribution, becoming a true dictator, and controlling everything he can in this country. It is the fault of the media, whose main purpose should be informing the public of what has gone on in this administration and what is happening now. Shame on them!
Damned Republicans own too many companies for those of us who do not agree with their political views and they take advantage of their owning so many news outlets. It is just not a Democracy any more. It is a Kleptopcracy!