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Debate Recap: Dems want Free Child Care

16 Jan 2020 · 2 min

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In this debate excerpt, Speaker B questions Vice President Biden about the high cost of infant care—asserting it exceeds in‑state public college tuition in many states—and asks whether he supports free universal infant care. Speakers A and C repeatedly affirm that free universal infant care should be provided. The conversation then shifts to broader cultural and economic critiques: Speaker A muses on historical American family structures, suggesting that in poorer times families relied on a single primary earner and a parent at home, and likens the modern two‑earner model to a taboo akin to saying the N‑word on a college campus. The speaker also references massive fossil‑fuel subsidies (hundreds of billions of dollars) and claims U.S. energy self‑sufficiency, critiques tax breaks for billionaires, and argues that left‑wing focus on inequality stems from Marxist roots. Overall, the clip blends a policy push for free universal infant care with cultural commentary on language taboos, historical family economics, and critiques of fiscal policy favoring the wealthy.

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I'm curious, in the past when Americans were much poorer, how did they, how did they take care of their children? Maybe part of Make America Great Again is actually that people will figure out how to take care of their children. But I know you need two wage earners. Why do you need two wage earners? Maybe, maybe when you have children It works out better in many cases to have one primary wage earner and one parent primarily taking care of the home. But to say that is almost like saying the N-word on a college campus. By the way, the N-word, do you realize that it's the only word that one cannot say? There is no other English word that cannot be said. No matter what the context. I— this hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, does anybody know what he's referring to? I gotta get— I gotta look that up. Hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies. All I know is the fossil fuel industry has made the United States for the first time in half a century, or maybe since almost the beginning of oil, Self-sufficient. The discovery of oil. Self-sufficient. That's why with all this instability in the Middle East, you're not feeling it at the gas pump. Tax breaks for billionaires. He hates that. What if it's good for the economy, therefore more people are employed if there's tax breaks for millionaires? It doesn't matter. Because they don't ask what helps people, they ask what hurts the rich. That's important to them. Inequality is, is animating on the left, always has been since Marx. All right, uh, 39.
Vice President Biden, infant care is more expensive than in-state public college tuition in more than half the country. Do you support free universal infant care?
Go ahead. His answer is listed.
There should be free universal infant care, but here's the deal.
Okay, that's it. No, no, that's it. There should be free universal infant care. That's it. Free universal infant care.