Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has joined other members of his party, and certain Democrats, in refusing to expand the economic stimulus. First, he says, he wants to see how the existing stimulus package works to revitalize the economy. Clearly he doesn’t understand the gravity of the situation.
Political Leaders Worried about the Deficit Should Worry More about Revolution
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That’s why, Ted, they’re going so all-out on blaming the whole thing on those nefarious Chinese ; the prospect of those guillotines sharpens the mind….
Henri
Perhaps: “Maybe we should have given 99% of the stimulus to the 99% instead of, as usual, to the 0.001%???”
Did Sanders also get the chop job … first head on left of the platform?
I wonder. Back in eighteenth century France, the totals had to flee on foot. Now? They’ll just take their helicopters to the airport where the private jet is fueled up and ready. Their assets? Already wire-transferred to Swiss banks. We’ll need to physically hunt them down and bring them back without official approval from wherever they’re hiring in the open. Sort of like Eichmann. And just like with Hitler, nothing they did will have been against the law. The law they bought and paid for with our money.
The totals? I guess I’ve “totals”ly lost my ability to self-edit. The Royals.
And “hiring in the open”? Obviously “hiding in the open.”
Man oh man, I need to get my eyeglass prescription checked.
Organizations with a plan for a revolution will be infiltrated by law enforcement, based on what happed in 60’s and early 70’s. If a group is weak their acts of sabotage could be used to justify harsher laws and more funding for the police. If an organized revolutionary group is gaining traction they will be pulled down so they will be no vision of what new government would look like.
That will leave desperate mob action, in the next few weeks will a crowd form on the national mall, no. Fear of infection will limit the size of any angry crowd. If the vaccine comes out and people are finally hit with all their past due bills and wondering when the sheriff will show up with the eviction notice, a large crowd could form. If a mob advances on the capitol and keeps pushing forward pass fire hoses, gas and rubber bullets it will get ugly. Politicians will be evacuated, the police, national guard and the army would use massive fire power to cut them down and beat them back…unless the R’s are so committed to austerity the police and troops are so underpaid they are not very motivated to defend their penny pinching /pension slashing paymasters.
To avoid the large crowds and firepower many people will turn to crime to survive:
Early business openings…desperate owners daring states and cities to close them down
Secret home businesses
More I/D theft and fraud
More crime, robbery, dealing medical items with huge mark ups, fake medical items, selling drugs, legal or illegal
Robbing the food supply system
Not reporting granny’s death to keep her pension and social security checks flowing
Ect….
A better plan…
Give ever adult (the wealthy excluded) that suffered a loss of income an interest free forgivable loan (one every month until things recover) based on the cost of living in their zip code. Once recovery has taken hold, if a loan recipient has very good year have the IRS start a repayment plan. If a person has average year no payment will be collected. After 10 years or when a person reaches retirement age the unpaid balance of the loan is forgiven.
Todays billionaires should be taxed heavily for pandemic needs, medical supplies, state and local government needs, homeless shelters renting hotel rooms…ect.
Like I said elsewhere on the site. Everyone who has lost their job should look back to 2007 and the economic collapse that ensued. You aren’t getting your job back. You (and hey, I could be joining you any day now–I think it’s a miracle I still have a job, even a part-time one) are in a plane, descending from 30,000 feet (descending because that sounds less precipitous than plummeting), and the pilot’s dead. Karen Black is NOT the stewardess and there’s no possible way to lower in a replacement pilot.
There is a marginally thin chance of surviving impact in the six-odd minutes you’ve got left as the plane plunges to the ground.
I sincerely hope everyone is doing all they can to enhance their chances of being able to crawl out of the wreckage before the aluminum skin of the plane bursts into flames after crashing, burning those who weren’t fast enough to escape.
Don’t just sit there screaming. You’ve got six minutes metaphorically.