As small businesses and individuals struggle to obtain federal aid, the wealthiest are poised to reap tens of billions of dollars in tax savings.Does it surprise you? Of course not, it is the proverbial "business as usual" in the United States of America. No matter how outraged I get, I just can't get outraged enough! Every. Single. Day.
How does this end? A dystopian world of the very. very wealthy few and the very, very poor many? Oh, that's right, we already live there! It's called America.
Trump is not, contrary to popular belief on the left, the problem. Trump is the symptom, the messenger, the open, running, oozing sore that we were always too repulsed to look at but that we now have become oblivious to. Trump is the buffoon, puppet string-pulled by the super rich and the big corporations that don't really give a rat's crap about anyone who isn't them. Did you know that the wealthiest neighborhoods in Manhattan are ghost towns because all the rich folk have moved to their country homes, or yachts, or French Riviera villas, or...anywhere but where there are sick and dying people in the lower classes?
Yeah, I know, there are some very wealthy folks who are trying to do good things - they are the ones we know, not the ones we don't know.
And so here we are, in the midst of a pandemic that has killed 196,000 people and counting in the world, including 51,192 dead in the USA - as of today. Congress is scrambling to keep pace with this disaster by passing relief bills as fast as they can. Notice I said "keep pace," they are actually running behind the pandemic curve, but not catching up to it. Piecemeal relief, instead of a comprehensive package that looks forward as well as at the present/past.
And the very wealthy and their corporations? Special provisions in these relief bills to shovel even more of our money to them! Shameful is a very mild word. Criminal is getting better. Reprehensible - maybe there isn't a word strong enough to describe these bloated blood-sucking leeches.
America - wake the eff up, stop scrolling through Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, and get pissed. And do something. Number 1, do not re-elect Donald Effing Trump. Number 2, tell Joe Biden and every Democratic politician you can that enough is enough. It stops here; it stops now. Change it. We demand it.
I'm finished.
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