03-22-2020, 11:33 PM
I'm glad the Democrats are fighting to make sure the relief/recovery money winds up in the right hands.
History has already shown us that when huge (often donor) corporations and banks get the bulk of government bail-outs under the assumption that they'll curb their greed and pass the financial aid on to workers and consumers..............that 'trickle down' concept just doesn't fucking translate into reality.
Instead, the tax-payer funded corporate bail-outs are almost always used by corporations and banks to buy back their own stock and rebuild their own wealth at the cost of their workers and consumers. Fuck that.
Senate Majority Leader McConnell is famous for refraining from taking votes on the floor unless he's sure he has enough votes to pass the measures he supports.
He made an exception today, a strategic and calculated one, and took this vote knowing, in my opinion, that it would fall short and knowing that rubes would claim, "the Dems are holding up aid to the people during a national emergency!" Pure political posturing.
The Democrats and Independents are fighting to make sure that adequate financial aid goes directly to the people, health care professionals, and small businesses for whom it's intended, without reliance on untrustworthy corporate/donor middlemen.
That doesn't mean that huge corporations (which employ a lot of people and offer critical services) should be excluded from governmental aid or that there aren't inter-dependencies.
It just means that major corporations and banks shouldn't be the main conduit or alternative for distributing governmental aid directly to the individuals and small businesses who need it most.
History has already shown us that when huge (often donor) corporations and banks get the bulk of government bail-outs under the assumption that they'll curb their greed and pass the financial aid on to workers and consumers..............that 'trickle down' concept just doesn't fucking translate into reality.
Instead, the tax-payer funded corporate bail-outs are almost always used by corporations and banks to buy back their own stock and rebuild their own wealth at the cost of their workers and consumers. Fuck that.
Senate Majority Leader McConnell is famous for refraining from taking votes on the floor unless he's sure he has enough votes to pass the measures he supports.
He made an exception today, a strategic and calculated one, and took this vote knowing, in my opinion, that it would fall short and knowing that rubes would claim, "the Dems are holding up aid to the people during a national emergency!" Pure political posturing.
The Democrats and Independents are fighting to make sure that adequate financial aid goes directly to the people, health care professionals, and small businesses for whom it's intended, without reliance on untrustworthy corporate/donor middlemen.
That doesn't mean that huge corporations (which employ a lot of people and offer critical services) should be excluded from governmental aid or that there aren't inter-dependencies.
It just means that major corporations and banks shouldn't be the main conduit or alternative for distributing governmental aid directly to the individuals and small businesses who need it most.