But as always, there's a very simple explanation for why the GOP is manically calling for a mass kill off of US Citizens. Many of us have already received, or in the process of receiving, a one time government stimulus check. The check's base about is $1200, with either you receiving more for a family with kids, or less as your income bracket creeps higher. And not everyone in the US is going to get a check. For the ones who do get one, this one time check will not sustain most of us for more than a month, but the GOP has ZERO intent of sending another check to middle and lower class Americans.
It's not like Republicans don't like sending out welfare. THEY LOVE IT! They send tax payer checks worth billions to profitable corporations who pay nothing in taxes. Republicans have multiple times borrowed money from other countries, with interest, just to give that money to wealthy Americans, solely because they're wealthy! CRAZY!
As Republicans resisted sending every day Americans a pittance (because they believe workers getting government checks makes them lazy), they've been sending out trillions to corporations and the wealthy. They just gave over 40,000 millionaires a one time 1.7 million dollar windfall, EACH! This was intentional! The Republicans want the middle and lower class back to work because they've already promised all the tax payer money to the wealthiest Americans and largest corporations. And, if they can convince Americans to go back to work freely, they don't have to tell 90% of Americans "you're on your own!"
To continue to give corporations and the wealthy welfare, Republicans have adopted a pseudo threat as their validation; "they're the job creators!" The implication: 'Sure we're giving massive money drops to these wealthy entities, but in turn, they're creating jobs.' The problem is the Republicans never require this money to be used specifically for job creation. They give away this money and HOPE the wealthy create jobs. In reality, they know most of the money ends up in some wealthy executive's trust fund so their great, great, great, great grandson can drink champaign on a tropical beach, AND Republicans don't care. They've delivered the goods! As long as some of that welfare ends up in their campaign coffers, or as long as there's a cush lobbying gig waiting for them when their political career is over, they'll keep the welfare checks for the wealthy rolling.
The job creators line also implies 'if we stop giving them this money, they'll stop making jobs.' Does some of this money create jobs? Sure, but most of it does no such thing! Some millionaires have even gone on record saying if the welfare checks stop, then they will lay people off. This isn't capitalism; it's an old fashion mafia shakedown. 'You'd better pay your protection money, or else!'
Two things we've learned from the world when it comes to CoronaVirus. First, countries who have done the best at mitigating this disease are the ones who made the hard decision to shut down their country's economy, in order to save as many of their citizens as they possibly can. Any country who's placed their economy over their people (like the Republicans want to) have seen skyrocketing cases and deaths. This is a terrifying prospect for a country (USA) who already has the highest case count and the highest death count on Earth.
We've also learned that human life is FAR more respected across the globe than it is in the US. Some countries (particularly Denmark, South Korea, The Netherlands and the UK) are ensuring their people are getting at least 70% of their salary during this lockdown. Australia is giving their people $1000 a month. Canada $2000. But here in the wealthiest country on the planet we've gotten one check for $1200, and the Republicans seem determined on that being it. And remember not everyone in the US is even getting ONE check. For a group of people who claim to be Christian, they've forgotten the teachings they insist they embody.
Let's review: realizing they might have to help the middle and lower class by subsidizing their finances during the pandemic for more than one check, the people pulling the strings in the GOP and the party's biggest Ayn Rand zealots scream 'Hell no!' They order the GOP politicians and talking heads to start implying 'Stay at Home' orders are not about safety, but rather are restricting freedoms. The Right starts demanding the working class get back to their jobs. Not only will this derail the safest path in dealing with CoronaVirus (which is stay at home as much as possible and have the government send you further stimulus checks to offset your lost wages), it also creates the ability for Republicans to wash their hands (!) of any pain the working class experiences ('it's not our fault you were evicted or are starving! Since you can go get a job during the pandemic, anything bad that happens is on you!').
Next Republicans get the most loyal anti-Government and anti-Democrat selfish dupes to go make signs and attend some astro-turf, petri dish of a manufactured political rally. The idiots act as if not bowling, not getting grass seed or not getting their nails done is some grand injustice (If I want to die on the floor of a Dave and Busters, so be it!). Then the Right sends their bought and paid for media out to cover the fiasco as some sort of new civil rights movement. They just have to hope this stunt doesn't kill off too many of their most loyal followers
All of this to hide the truth. The Republican Party DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE MIDDLE AND LOWER CLASS, AT ALL! They have evaluated your lives and determined they are worth less than $2000. They will not send non-millionaires and billionaires another check, so the middle and lower class had better get back to work, during a deadly pandemic. It's the only shot 90% of us have got in their heartless world.
At least until November...
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