Why should I vote FOR Biden?

[Hammster]

Can you give me some good reasons to vote for Biden? Please stay away from reasons to vote against Trump. What I’m looking for is what Biden brings to the table.

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Can you give me some good reasons to vote for Biden? Please stay away from reasons to vote against Trump. What I’m looking for is what Biden brings to the table.

A decent human being.

 

[TLK Valentine]

I have two cousins who are retired postal employees, and I myself once worked for that fine institution. Biden will preserve it, as mandated in the United States Constitution.

 

[wing2000]

Character.

 

[Pommer]

After Caligula’s disastrous rule, his uncle Claudius (and famous cuckold), reigned. Claudius (like Biden) had a stammer, but his administration restored order throughout the Empire.

 

[mama2one]

1) he'll bring in Dr Jill Biden who will make a huge contribution as first lady
2) bring in a competent Vice President
3) he'll treat others with respect
4) he'll work at the job and take advice from others
5) good understanding of the job by being Vice-President & working so closely with Obama

 

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[wing2000]

Honesty

 

[essentialsaltes]

joebiden.com with my edits

Strengthen our agricultural sector by:

• Pursuing a trade policy that works for American farmers. More than 20% of all crops grown and products raised in the United States are exported, supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs and helping to stabilize farm income. But America’s farmers and rural communities have paid a heavy price for President Trump’s tariffs. While Trump is pursuing a damaging and erratic trade war without any real strategy

Tariffs have been a catastrophe on farming, and China has moved to Brazil to source a lot of things that we used to provide. The only reason more farmers aren't committing suicide is that taxpayer money is being used as welfare for farmers.

• President Biden will stand up to China by working with our allies to negotiate from the strongest possible position.

What a novel idea. Using diplomacy and allies to confront China.

• The Biden Administration will expand the Obama-Biden Administration’s microloan program for new and beginning farmers, doubling the maximum loan amount to $100,000. And, it will increase funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s farm ownership and operating loans that typically serve beginning farmers who grew up on a family farm but need low-cost capital to add to their family’s operation to support another household.

• Re-investing in land grant universities’ agricultural research so the public, not private companies, owns patents to agricultural advances. The Biden Administration will reinvest in agricultural research by bolstering funding for the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Our farmers need new technologies to compete in world markets while protecting our soil and water. These new technologies – and the next new seeds – should be developed and owned by the American people, not private companies who can use patents to expand profits.

• Partnering with farmers to make American agriculture first in the world to achieve net-zero emissions, giving farmers new sources of income in the process. ... the Biden Administration will ensure the program can participate in carbon markets. Corporations, individuals, and foundations interested in promoting greenhouse gas reductions could offset their emissions by contributing to Conservation Stewardship Program payments to farmers for those sequestering carbon — for example, through cover crops. This will not only help combat climate change... but also create additional revenue sources for farmers at a time when many are struggling to make ends meet.

• Strengthening antitrust enforcement. From the inputs they depend on – such as seeds – to the markets where they sell their products, American farmers and ranchers are being hurt by increasing market concentration.

• Invest $20 billion in rural broadband infrastructure, and triple funding to expand broadband access in rural areas. High-speed broadband is essential in the 21st Century economy. Yet far too many rural communities still don’t have access to it. Rural Americans are over 10 times more likely than urban residents to lack quality broadband access. At a time when so many jobs and businesses could be located anywhere, high-speed internet access should be a great economic equalizer for rural America, not another economic disadvantage. Investing $20 billion in rural broadband infrastructure has the potential to create more than a quarter million new jobs.
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• Expand access to credit for new and small businesses. Entrepreneurs in small towns and rural areas should have access to the capital they need to realize their dreams. The Biden Administration will dramatically expand funding for Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program to help rural entrepreneurs. Biden will expand the number of Rural Business Investment Companies to help rural companies obtain capital.

• Prioritize persistent poverty rural communities. Approximately 85% of roughly 350 persistent poverty counties in the United States fall outside of a metropolitan area. To tackle persistent poverty in all communities, but especially rural America, Vice President Biden supports applying Congressman James Clyburn’s 10-20-30 formula, which will allocate 10 percent of funding to areas “where 20 percent or more of the population has been living below the poverty line for the last 30 years,” to all federal programs.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Given where we are, it's hard not to mention the other guy when it comes to immigration. I'll let Joe's campaign do the talking. [my emphasis in places] Phrase not found: "open borders"

• Implement Effective Border Screening

Like every nation, the U.S. has a right and a duty to secure our borders and protect our people against threats. But we know that immigrants and immigrant communities are not a threat to our security, and the government should never use xenophobia or fear tactics to scare voters for political gain. It’s irresponsible and un-American. Building a wall from sea-to-shining-sea is not a serious policy solution–it’s a waste of money, and it diverts critical resources away from the real threats. Today, illicit drugs are most likely to be smuggled through one of the legal U.S. ports of entry. They are hidden among commercial cargo in semi-trucks or in a hidden compartment of a passenger vehicle. A wall is not a serious deterrent for sophisticated criminal organizations that employ border tunnels, semi-submersible vessels, and aerial technology to overcome physical barriers at the border–or even for individuals with a reciprocating saw. ... The border between Mexico and the U.S. shouldn’t be treated like a war zone; it should be a place where effective governance and cooperation between our two countries helps our communities thrive and grow together

As president, Biden will:

• Invest in better technology coupled with privacy protections at the border, both at and between ports of entry, including cameras, sensors, large-scale x-ray machines, and fixed towers. Biden will also invest heavily in improving the aging infrastructure at all of our ports of entry.

The Biden Commitment to a Fair and Humane Immigration System

Joe Biden understands the pain felt by every family across the U.S. that has had a loved one removed from the country, including under the Obama-Biden Administration, and he believes we must do better to uphold our laws humanely and preserve the dignity of immigrant families, refugees, and asylum-seekers.

As Vice President, Biden championed the creation and expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program; the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program

In a departure from their predecessors, the Obama-Biden administration took steps to prioritize enforcement resources on removing threats to national security and public safety, not families. It also issued guidance designed to end mass work-place raids and to prevent enforcement activities at sensitive locations such as schools, hospitals, and places of worship.

In the first 100 days, a Biden Administration will:

• Immediately reverse the Trump Administration’s cruel and senseless policies that separate parents from their children at our border
• End Trump’s detrimental asylum policies. The Statue of Liberty has long been a beacon to people “yearning to breathe free” around the world — including asylum-seekers and refugees. But the Trump Administration has worked against this tradition to drastically restrict access to asylum in the U.S.
• End the mismanagement of the asylum system, which fuels violence and chaos at the border. Trump’s disastrous policy of “metering” — limiting the number of asylum applications accepted each day — forces people seeking asylum to wait on the streets in often dangerous Mexican border towns for weeks before they are permitted to apply. It has created a horrifying ecosystem of violence and exploitation, with cartels kidnapping, violently assaulting, and extorting migrants.
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• End prolonged detention and reinvest in a case management program. The Trump Administration has sought to circumvent the Flores agreement and hold children in detention indefinitely.
• End the so-called National Emergency that siphons federal dollars from the Department of Defense to build a wall. Building a wall will do little to deter criminals and cartels seeking to exploit our borders. Instead of stealing resources from schools for military children and recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, Biden will direct federal resources to smart border enforcement efforts, like investments in improving screening infrastructure at our ports of entry, that will actually keep America safer.
• Protect Dreamers and their families.
• Rescind the un-American travel and refugee bans, also referred to as “Muslim bans.” The Trump Administration’s anti-Muslim bias hurts our economy, betrays our values, and can serve as a powerful terrorist recruiting tool.
• Restore sensible enforcement priorities. Targeting people who have never been convicted of a serious criminal offense and who have lived, worked, and contributed to our economy and our communities for decades is the definition of counterproductive.
• Protect and expand opportunities for people who risked their lives in military service. Biden will not target the men and women who served in uniform, or their families, for deportation.
• Restore and defend the naturalization process for green card holders.
• Convene a regional meeting of leaders, including from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Canada, to address the factors driving migration and to propose a regional resettlement solution. Migration out of the Northern Triangle has impacted more countries than just the U.S. Belize, Costa Rica, Mexico, and others have also seen growing numbers fleeing violence and a lack of opportunity. A regional problem requires a regional solution, so Biden will immediately convene regional partners to institute a comprehensive, multi-national plan to address the challenges.

Modernize America’s Immigration System

Immigrants are essential to the strength of our country and the U.S. economy. When immigrants choose to come to the U.S., they bring their unique traditions and contributions to the rich cultural tapestry of our country. They are also a key driver of economic growth. The Congressional Budget Office found that the 2013 comprehensive immigration package would have, over time, increased the size of the economy by more than 5 percent. Currently, we are not taking advantage of America’s ability to attract the best and brightest workers in the world.

• Reforms the visa program for temporary workers in select industries. A collection of industries depend on seasonal workers, or workers who only seek to be in the U.S. for a short time. The current system for accommodating these workers is cumbersome, bureaucratic, and inflexible—driving up incentives to circumvent the system by hiring undocumented laborers and allowing the employers who control the visa to pay artificially low wages.
• Provides a path to legalization for agricultural workers who have worked for years on U.S. farms and continue to work in agriculture.
• Rejects the false choice between employment-based and family-based immigration.
• Creates a new visa category to allow cities and counties to petition for higher levels of immigrants to support their growth. The disparity in economic growth between U.S. cities, and between rural communities and urban areas, is one of the great imbalances of today’s economy. Some cities and many rural communities struggle with shrinking populations, an erosion of economic opportunity, and local businesses that face unique challenges. Others simply struggle to attract a productive workforce and innovative entrepreneurs. As president, Biden will support a program to allow any county or municipal executive of a large or midsize county or city to petition for additional immigrant visas to support the region’s economic development strategy, provided employers in those regions certify there are available jobs, and that there are no workers to fill them. Holders of these visas would be required to work and reside in the city or county that petitioned for them, and would be subject to the same certification protections as other employment-based immigrants.
• Enforces the rules to protect American and foreign workers alike. The U.S. immigration system must guard against economy-wide wage cuts due to exploitation of foreign workers by unscrupulous employers who undercut the system by hiring immigrant workers below the market rate or go outside the immigration system to find workers. Biden will work with Congress to ensure that employers are not taking advantage of immigrant workers and that U.S. citizen workers are not being undercut by employers who don’t play by the rules.
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As president, Biden will:

• Push to repeal extreme, anti-immigrant state laws that have a chilling effect on the ability of immigrant domestic violence, sexual assault survivors, and other victims of crimes to seek safety and justice. Some state laws drive victims and witnesses into the shadows and threaten public safety. Reassert America’s Commitment to Asylum-Seekers and Refugees

• End for-profit detention centers. No business should profit from the suffering of desperate people fleeing violence. Biden will ensure that facilities that temporarily house migrants seeking asylum are held to the highest standards of care and prioritize the safety and dignity of families above all.

 

[JackRT]

Integrity, intelligence, compassion, experience in government and a VP with the same characteristics who will not be a cardboard cut out.

 

[stevil]

Can you give me some good reasons to vote for Biden? Please stay away from reasons to vote against Trump. What I’m looking for is what Biden brings to the table.

I think it is hard to not refer to how Biden differs from the current president and the current administration.

Personally I don't know much about Biden nor his policies but I assume the following:
Biden will take the Pandemic seriously and at least attempt to address it rather than minimise it, insist that it's all China's fault, insist that he has already done a great job and save millions of lives.
Biden will probably hold regular Pandemic briefings which will likely be focused on the pandemic and the people's concerns pertaining to the pandemic, as well as including a strategy on how the country will combat the disease.
Biden will probably take seriously threats or attempt from overseas to interfere in future elections
Biden will probably reinstate LGBT rights and probably support planned parenthood
Biden will probably reinstate USA into the Paris Agreement and will probably take global warming seriously
Biden will probably put someone as head of the EPA who is actually interested in protecting the environment
Biden will probably put someone as head of Education who is actually supportive of public education
Biden will hopefully install someone as AG who is interested in upholding the law and constitution and accepts a separation of the Justice Department from the personal interests of the president
Biden will almost certainly not give people degrading nicknames and will most likely support daily press briefings.
Biden will most likely address issues and focus on what (he believes) is best for the country rather than do everything for control, self promotion and self enrichment.
Biden will most likely try to be president of the whole country rather than president of his base, leader of the rebellion against government, leader of the group against lefties (or righties in this case).

But apart from a policy standpoint, I don't know what his policies are.

 

[camille70]

Reduce the number of abortions.

Access to birth control through ACA drives down abortion rate

U.S. abortions dropped to their lowest rate since 1973's Roe v. Wade. Thanks, ObamaCare?

 

[stevil]

Reduce the number of abortions.

Access to birth control through ACA drives down abortion rate

U.S. abortions dropped to their lowest rate since 1973's Roe v. Wade. Thanks, ObamaCare?

You would think the pro-lifers would love that.

 

[cow451]

You would think the pro-lifers would love that.

One would think...

 

[trunks2k]

You would think the pro-lifers would love that.

IMO, they aren't about end results. They are about "justice". They want people who get or perform abortions punished. Whether or not that actually prevents abortions or if there are other better ways to do so is irrelevant.

 

[stevil]

IMO, they aren't about end results. They are about "justice". They want people who get or perform abortions punished. Whether or not that actually prevents abortions or if there are other better ways to do so is irrelevant.

Maybe they are more anti-abortionists than pro-lifers?

It seems to me that the pro-choice group are more pro-lifers, given they actually would like the fact that having freely available and affordable contraceptives and sex education reduces the liklihood of teenage pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy and abortion rates. Also it seems that the pro-choice group are more likely to be happy making personal sacrifices to avoid spreading Covid-19 and hence saving lives.

PS It's also really ironic that the "pro-lifers" group who are adamantly against abortion, are also against gay people getting married, having sex etc, when gay sex never results in an abortion.

 

[JackRT]

Sometimes referred to as "The Pro-life Paradox," researchers and women's health advocates in recent years have drawn attention to the disparities between the mission statements of so-called "anti-abortion" groups and the effects of their policies. For example, the countries considered the most "pro-choice," where contraception is widely available and abortion is legal, and often free of charge, are those that also have the lowest abortion rates in the world. The countries with the highest rates of abortion are those that have adopted the policies of the so-called "anti-abortion" movement and have banned abortion and opposed efforts to make contraception more widely available.

Pro Choice is NOT about:
i) forcing women to abort
ii) pushing abortion over and above other choices
iii) violence to children, babies or women
iv) disrespecting life
vi) torturing the unborn
vii) de-humanising the unborn

It is about recognizing that no one is in a better position to understand her situation and decide whether a pregnancy should be carried to term than the pregnant woman herself.

 

[St. Helens]

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