No, the problem is not solved (at least, not in it’s entirety). Yes, voting in all elections would help some but one of the fallout of the previews years is that confidence in the Federal government is at an all time low. That tends to lead to people having less faith in the Feds and more faith in the State. Some States (not all) have proven they can step up to the plate. We are sending money (OUR money) to an entity that doesn’t feel we have the right to see anything from it. (see Kushner, Jared).
Yes, this attitude will stop once POTUS Biden takes office but I think there will be so much damage done from the past four years, we’re going to have to rely on ourselves much more than in the past. Voting is part of the answer but there’s also the reality of the States are on their own. If some States have proven they can and will do better than even a Democratic Federal government can do, why not?
Yep - the ones whose workers make up that 26 million unemployment claims.
I liked that one of the stimulus packages allowed the payment to businesses who didn’t lay anyone off and kept their folks working, but I’m guessing that’s not being monitored.
I specifically remember in a very recent presser Trump touting his wonderful, incredible new death window of 50k>60K, adding for emphasis he thought we’d settle at the low end of that, “very close to 50” as he put it.
When it was originally posted, it was just barely the headline. There wasn’t much story beneath it, and certainly not to the detail that is now available.
It’s a cinch to trend much higher once the second wave strikes in the fall. Hell, we might have multiple waves before a vaccine or therapeutic drug is discovered. A post-mitigation/re-open businesses wave. A seasonal Fall wave. Another wave that follows the lifting of the second stay at home mitigation phase, which was created to tamp down the havoc created by the first lifting of the first stay at home phase. It’s going to be a big wavy-wavy lifting-lifting, “Oh my God, WTF do we do now!!??!!” phase upon phase upon phase.
Thanks that schedule makes sense,my “impact payment” response has been stuck with the same message for over a week now I see why.The site the Government set up “Where’s my Payment”.
Not really talking secession so much as a realignment of power. Look, we are now at a time when governors are banding together to form their own coalitions. I’ll grant that this is a time of crisis that warrants it but I don’t think this mindset is going away and could potentially be expanded regarding social/economic programs such as the WPA/CCC on a Statewide basis.
ETA: All I’m doing now is asking the question: what are we sending our money to DC for if there are things we can do here ourselves and better? For all intents and purposes, the Federal gov’t. doesn’t really exist right now. Pres. Biden will certainly make one of his priorities recreating the gov’t. but how long will that take? How much money will it take?
Well you have to understand McConnell. It seems more and more likely that Biden will win in November. You don’t want to leave him a functioning economy, do you?
Total job losses in the U.S. amid the COVID-19 pandemic have now reached more than 26 million over the past five weeks.
And every one of those 26 million jobs was taken by one of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country. See if it isn’t so. Trump will say it is before the week is out.
The GAO - the nonpartisan Government Accounting Office - is monitoring the $2.2 trillion stimulus, and they are relatively immune to political interference by the administration, unlike inspectors general who can be fired or reassigned with out cause.
So it’s possible that at some point we will know where the money went.
The head of the GAO serves a 15-year term to provide insulation from political pressure.
The Democrats abandoned the working class during the Clinton Administration. President Clinton took up a lot of the Republican economic points (one of the many reasons he infuriated them at the time). We bet our political future on the professional class. See: NAFTA.
