Wall Street, Big Insurance, Big Pharma and Oil pay huge campaign donations into the people that tell you they know how to save the economy, but who had to be saved in 2008? Business and Republicans preached the invisible hand needed to be left unhampered and a policy of hands-off management of the economy (laissez-fair for those economists and political scientists in the readership). They held up corporate taxes and taxes on the wealthy (advertising that taxes will cause you to lose your job) as the biggest evil affecting the US internally. This is a load of horse_ _ _ _.
13 years ago, many of these businesses lost the market on bad speculation and backed their trucks up to the treasury and George Bush started the program to bail them out – and big business grabbed huge chunks of money from the American taxpayer.
Obama was elected into office and reset programs and managed the recovery, started programs for smaller business and healthcare for folks who needed it.
Here we are in 2020 and we have 200k+ dead and laissez-fair mismanagement has put us there. In addition to failing to manage public health, they’ve failed to manage economic stability and recovery in the face of a need to minimize contact among people for a period. Countries that have managed this better have seen death rates 1/5 of ours.
But I’m being generous by using the term mismanagement. That implies culpability but not premeditated decision making or even promoting, with an understanding of the impact to people and proceeding down the path of greed anyway. Which is what, in many cases, has happened in this administration, Senate and local and state Republican governments.
In 2020 again the Republican solution was again a money grab (already following huge tax credits pushed to the businesses and wealthy) to throw huge amounts of money at large business and the 1% and force small business to take loans and individuals to increase their risk in order to continue to live, resulting in huge economic loss and increased poverty, huge death and illness rates that continue to pound away at our population, coupled with ignorance and impatience that will continue resulting thousands more deaths until a medical solution is widely distributed.
All while Republicans are trying to hide the results of the policies by trying to control CDC communications and recommendations, through propaganda tweets twisting the life saving work that many Democratic state and local governments are organizing, Republicans continuing to make political decisions on opening states rather than trying to help small business and people. And yet they preach lower taxes and continued face-to face employment as the solution. It’s a hoax.
The only world where chronic disease and death, starvation and homelessness aren’t more important than taxes and productivity is one where chronic disease and death, starvation and homelessness don’t exist – in the world where these are ignored because the population of voters don’t have this as part of their reality or, they have received assistance that has kept them from that.
And that is the Trump Republican demographic; Whites wealthy enough to ignore this, Whites poor but on aid that prevents their poverty. Farmers in conservative rural areas given aid while working against those impoverished in the cities. Smatterings of other ethnicities and race in the party, but a general understanding that the Republican party is promoting racism by labeling racial protests as terrorism, by supporting white nationalist candidates and collaborators, by representing a restructuring in the funding of local government social aid as the abandonment of safety.
Just watch the ads lying about the nature of racial justice protests, the amount of money Republicans are spending on repressing the vote and disqualifying ballots on technicalities, like not using the correct envelope and restricting where ballots can be dropped off to one box per county in PA (but similar lawsuits brought by Republicans all over the country) and working to restrict voting places only in areas where the Demographic doesn’t favor them. They cannot win on their platform.
We cannot continue down the current Republican path. It’s suicide. The economy needs to be smartly managed. We need to use our tax income to help everyone not just the wealthy or big business. We need to make our healthcare affordable and available to everyone, especially with pandemic. Now.
Economic recovery is not the recovery of businesses without the population. Economies work from the bottom up not trickle down. Businesses only create jobs when there is demand. Demand starts with each consumer and if that consumer has money and spends it or invests it, businesses prosper. Not the other way around.
So the first step is making sure people can live – eat, breath and stay warm. The Republicans have no plan for that – they've made up of propaganda falsely relating protest to crime to scare people into voting, but they have no plan on how to keep people safe from the real threats. They don’t need a plan for the crime they’re talking about because it exists only in very limited situations. They made Portland sound like the overthrow of the state and the issues were contained within 2 city blocks.
Republicans have no plan to help people and small business. They have no good covid plan (push billions to Pharma companies with no fiduciary oversight using military money they already have control over. All the while, investing in these company’s stock getting ready to make a killing on inside information.
They preach small government, but that only translates into no investment in the country. Cut NASA. Cut assistance. Cut Social Security. Cut Medicare. Cut Veterans benefits. Cut diplomacy, treaties with allies and real trade negotiation. Cut education. Cut climate and fuel and medical research (overall). Cut FEMA. Cut equal opportunity. Pack the courts with people that will keep bad legislation from reaching the public,
Read Bidens site. He has good plans for fiscal recovery and public health. For investment in the country and in education. For the rebuilding of our trade capability and working towards renewable energy. It takes mindful management to do these things. You have to plan, manage and adjust. You need scientists and data, economists and diplomats. You need oversight and checks and balances, so that what we get is a good balance of priorities for all of us, regardless of race, sex, sexual preference or gender identity, age or religion.
We cannot get there with the current people in power. They have already shown they won’t do what is needed to help Americans, have plans to do worse and have lied to try to scare you into voting for them.
Please vote regardless of your decision, but please make that an educated decision. We cannot afford or survive the status quo.
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