'BradCast' 4/29/2021 (Biden's Reaganesque declaration of the end of the Reagan Era)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 On Wednesday night, during his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden officially introduced his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan proposal - perhaps the nation's largest-ever investment in human infrastructure, including free access to pre-school, two years of community college, subsidies for child care, paid family leave, expanded health care subsidies, child tax credits and more.\xa0 The new initiative comes just a month after Biden signed his wildly popular American Rescue Plan, with emergency COVID relief and stimulus for the poor and middle class, and arrives on the heels of his proposal for a $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan to create millions of jobs rebuilding the nation's physical infrastructure and transitioning to clean energy. With Reaganesque optimism on his 99th night in office, President Biden pounded what could become a final nail in the Reagan Era coffin when he declared in no uncertain terms: 'Trickle-down economics has never worked, and it's time to grow the economy from the bottom and the middle out.'\xa0 For analysis of Biden's stunningly-well received remarks on Wednesday night, and his pitch for an extraordinarily bold and long-overdue expansive agenda for the American people, we are joined by HEATHER 'DIGBY' PARTON of Salon and Hullabaloo and 'DRIFTGLASS' of the 'Professional Left Podcast'.\xa0 To old-school progressive bloggers like us -- none of whom supported Biden in the 2020 presidential primaries \u2013 the President's remarkably ambitious plans are a pleasant surprise.\xa0 We discuss, dissect and debate the proposals, how they should or shouldn't be 'paid for', and whether/how any of it can be adopted into law with Democrats' razor-thin majorities in Congress, on today's special coverage edition of 'The BradCast'...