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Thom's blog
What do you do when the government won't help you?
 Don't expect this administration or the Republican party to do anything at all to help you, your family, or your friends during this pandemic and Trump Depression. Ever since 1980, the Republican Party has used each Republican presidency to shovel another few trillion dollars to their friends and owners, America's billionaires. Most recently, between Trump's 2017 millionaire tax cuts and the coronavirus stimulus programs, they've shoveled another 2 or 3 trillion to the billionaires, and the Fed has put a $6 trillion icing on that cake. And now, Republicans are telling us, the money is all gone and there's nothing left for average working Americans. To add insult to injury, they're also proposing cuts to long-term Social Security in exchange for small cash payments out of the Social Security fund today. At the same time, because of five months of lies and bungling incompetence from Trump and Kushner, over 40 million Americans have lost or are on the brink of losing their health insurance. The Republican response to this is similar: "We've got ours and screw you." Red state governors are even still refusing to expand Medicaid, while state unemployment systems, like the one that former Florida Governor Rick Scott intentionally rigged to make hard to use or get benefits from, continue to fight making payments to working people. While Northern European countries that put working people ahead of billionaires have kept their unemployment rates below 6% and kept their middle-class prosperous even in the face of a pandemic, average Americans are getting wiped out at the same time that America's billionaires dramatically increase their wealth. Only a political revolution in this country to bring us into line with the rest of the developed world and solve this crisis. -Thom |
Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Issues of the Day- Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) 
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). " The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States... To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
Hour Two: What Do You Do When the Government Won't Help You?
Quote: " If you disagree with Fauci, if you disagree with Birx, if you disagree with any of the so-called experts advising us to do what — you are are going to be tagged a racist" - Rush Limbaugh. Quote: " As awful as this epidemic has been and will be, at least so far, it hasn't been the disaster that we feared" - Tucker Carlson. Quote: " the disease turned out not to be quite as dangerous as we thought" - Brit Hume.
Hour Three: A Coronavirus Cover-up Is Already Starting...- David Sirota Journalist / Served as senior adviser & speech writer for Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign for president
Tweet: " Let's see if authorities enforce the social-distancing orders for mosques during Ramadan (April 23-May 23) like they did churches during Easter" by Paul Sperry. Tweet: " The Governor of Michigan should give a little, and put out the fire. These are very good people, but they are angry. They want their lives back again, safely! See them, talk to them, make a deal" (Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, armed protesters) by Donald J. Trump.
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