Senator Joe "Noah" Manchin

[Lazaran]

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A new report reveals Senator Joe "Noah" Manchin's home state of West Virginia is the most vulnerable in the U.S. to extreme flooding events exacerbated by climate change.

No wonder Senator Joe "Noah" Manchin lives on a houseboat(yacht) in D.C.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Yea, it's a regular Louisiana here.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

A new report! And just in time!

Wonders never cease, do they?

 

[pecksniff]

Extreme flooding? I didn't think there were any big rivers in WV.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Extreme flooding? I didn't think there were any big rivers in WV.

It's a report, goddamn it, a REPORT. It surely must be the finest of science behind it.

 

[Lazaran]

Extreme flooding? I didn't think there were any big rivers in WV.

West Virginia is particularly vulnerable to flooding damage due to multiple factors: mainly topography, location of key infrastructure, and coal mining's contribution to soil / vegetation depletion and sediment clogging streams.

Climate change induced extreme rain events in mountainous mining regions are exceptionally destructive.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

West Virginia is particularly vulnerable to flooding damage due to multiple factors: mainly topography, location of key infrastructure, and coal mining's contribution to soil / vegetation depletion and sediment clogging streams.

Climate change induced extreme rain events in mountainous mining regions are exceptionally destructive.

Oh! And look over here, a $3.5T behemoth bill chock full of far-left priorities that says it'll make all those nasty floods go away! I mean, what are the odds of THAT??

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Bernie's approach to West Virginia was much better

The United States, and states like West Virginia and Vermont in particular, are seeing their populations age. The result: more and more older Americans and people with disabilities need home health care. They would much prefer to be around their loved ones at home rather than be forced into expensive nursing homes. This bill greatly expands home health care and makes sure that these jobs are adequately paid.

The Build Back Better plan is not only vitally important for seniors, but it is enormously important for working families and their children. As a result of the $300 direct payments to working class parents which began in the American Rescue Plan, we have cut childhood poverty in our country by half. It would be unconscionable to see those payments end, which is exactly what will happen if we do not pass this bill.

This legislation also ends the dysfunction of our childcare system which forces millions of working families to spend 20% to 30% of their limited incomes on childcare and keeps over a million women out of the workforce. Under Build Back Better no family would pay more than 7% of their income for child care, and pre-K education for 3- and 4-year-olds would be universal and free. This is a huge step forward for working parents and their kids.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Thank God we have the federal government in place to prod us to take care of aging parents. We had to abandon mine in the forest for wolves when they got to be a bother, but that $300 would have made all the difference.

Naturally, none of us ever considered doing anything virtuous without a nic check from Uncle Sap to sweeten the bitterness of such an act.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Thank God we have the federal government in place to prod us to take care of aging parents. We had to abandon mine in the forest for wolves when they got to be a bother, but that $300 would have made all the difference.

Naturally, none of us ever considered doing anything virtuous without a nic check from Uncle Sap to sweeten the bitterness of such an act.

Spoken like someone that never made the choice between the heat and dinner. Or walked in on a parent too proud to ask for help when they were making that choice after a lifetime of wage work.

 

[JohnnySavage]

The government should just give everyone a million dollars. Then, we'd all be millionaires. Problem solved!

 

[phrodeau]

The government should just give everyone a million dollars. Then, we'd all be millionaires. Problem solved!

Except for the climate change part.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Manchin has cut the price tag of the looming pork bill by at least $1.5 trillion. I’d rather see it killed completely but $1.5 trillion is a good start. The most important thing he can do now is prevent new, irreversible entitlements (child care, college, Medicaid expansion) and/or an increase in capital gains taxes. The longer he can drag this out, the less destructive the reconciliation bill will be.

 

[KeithD]

The government should just give everyone a million dollars. Then, we'd all be millionaires. Problem solved!

Dead millionaires (you dummy). You could get yourself a gold-lined coffin. The problem would be closer to being solved if you found a brain somewhere--or just died and stopped being part of the "dummy nation" problem.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Spoken like someone that never made the choice between the heat and dinner. Or walked in on a parent too proud to ask for help when they were making that choice after a lifetime of wage work.

Have you ever been thrown face down, in the mud, and kicked in the head? By an iron boot?! No, no one has, it never happens...stupid question, forget it...

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Have you ever been thrown face down, in the mud, and kicked in the head? By an iron boot?! No, no one has, it never happens...stupid question, forget it...

So you have not had to make those choices.

 

[pecksniff]

Bernie's approach to West Virginia was much better

The United States, and states like West Virginia and Vermont in particular, are seeing their populations age. The result: more and more older Americans and people with disabilities need home health care. They would much prefer to be around their loved ones at home rather than be forced into expensive nursing homes. This bill greatly expands home health care and makes sure that these jobs are adequately paid.

The Build Back Better plan is not only vitally important for seniors, but it is enormously important for working families and their children. As a result of the $300 direct payments to working class parents which began in the American Rescue Plan, we have cut childhood poverty in our country by half. It would be unconscionable to see those payments end, which is exactly what will happen if we do not pass this bill.

This legislation also ends the dysfunction of our childcare system which forces millions of working families to spend 20% to 30% of their limited incomes on childcare and keeps over a million women out of the workforce. Under Build Back Better no family would pay more than 7% of their income for child care, and pre-K education for 3- and 4-year-olds would be universal and free. This is a huge step forward for working parents and their kids.

What would that do for the flooding?