Stop, before it’s too late; ‘there is something happening here, everybody look what’s going down.’
Joe Biden’s Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA). was perhaps the most anti–middle class piece of legislation in the past century. The American Prospect
Biden needs to share why he championed this bill for years and fought future appeals and amendments to change it.
BAPCPA’s passage was one of Biden’s long-sought goals as a senator. Not only did Biden vote for the legislation four times between 1998 and 2005, but he was so singularly committed to its success that he inserted it into a foreign-relations bill in 2000, and later was the sole Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote for the bill.
Biden also consistently voted against efforts to soften BAPCPA’s blow on vulnerable populations. He voted against three amendments to ease bankruptcy requirements for consumers whose financial troubles stem from medical expenses. He voted against an amendment that would have helped seniors keep their homes. He voted against exempting servicemembers and widows of servicemembers killed in action from the law’s eligibility restrictions. He voted against an amendment to exempt women whose financial troubles stemmed from deadbeat husbands’ failure to pay child support or alimony. And Biden even voted against an amendment that would have ensured that children of debtors could still be given birthday and Christmas presents. Biden also voted against allowing debtors to pay their union dues during bankruptcy, potentially imperiling their employment and ability to achieve financial rehabilitation. prospect.org/...
Senator Warren’s been leading the charge to change Biden’s bill:
The 20-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained
Warren opposed the bill so vehemently that its passage inspired her transition from a Harvard bankruptcy law professor, who studied middle-class economics, to a senator and now a presidential hopeful.
“I got in that fight because [families] just didn’t have anyone and Joe Biden was on the side of the credit card companies,” Warren said after an April rally in Iowa. “It’s all a matter of public record.”
The bill made it harder for individuals to file for bankruptcy and get out of debt, a legal change that credit card companies and many major retailers had championed for years. The bill passed Congress with large majorities, but most Democratic senators, including Barack Obama, voted no. Biden voted yes and was widely seen at the time as one of the bill’s major Democratic champions. www.vox.com/...
America’s beautiful young people have their fingers on the pulse more than most do; they have future’s to look forward to. Question this political tsunami of false MSM claims. Please dig a little deeper; beware, ‘look what’s going down.’
Yong people speaking their minds
On trial
Coming with wind from over mountain cold blows and coal damns children
Needing a room without idiots, intoxication and hypocrites, does Medicaid pay?
Playgrounds behind gates, grate, make bad laws and, then, break them, never seeing bars to wake them
On trial
Beings loaned by universe to this?
To death by spiral cuts--cosmo playing funny down by the river?
Hang us high saying "told you so," wasteful ends running to fear with so much dear, blossoming round the hanging tree
Faulkner lies dying, few are crying
All on trial, breathing power four-times-a-day