Thread by @RickSmithShow

I got an email from a listener claiming to be "honestly asking" why I am against the @GOP #phase3 plan

1) McConnell’s $500,000,000,000.00 corporate slush fund for CEOs and the ultra rich

I say we must #BailOutThePeople not give the GOP a pot of gold to pass out to tgeir friends

2)McConnell and the @GOP scheme does little to stop corporate stock buybacks and limit excessive CEO pay by including language that can be waived by the Treasury Secretary

Haven't we learned from the last GOP led economic disasters (81,91,01,08) to stop doing the same dumb stuff

3)McConnell & @GOP language on worker retention is, not surprisingly, pathetically weak & provides no guarantee that workers will benefit

This is a moment when we as a working class must demand to be at the front of the line & not left to clean up the mess once the pigs finish

4) No money for state and local governments to address the massive loss of revenue and enormous costs of dealing with the #CoronavirusPandemic

Without federal funding to pay for federal mandates and state needs you know the GOP is going to want to slash future education budgets

5) No OSHA language to protect "essential" workers

Every crisis we use words to thank workers, even put them on the hero pedestal only to forget them once they need anything like healthcare (think 9-11)
We must protect workers before they get sick and not ignore them if they do

6)There doesn't appear to be any additional SNAP funding

We're mandating people stay home Millions have lost and will lose jobs
Studies show 40% of us can't weather a $500 emergency/ 60% $1000
People have to eat.
In the still richest country in the world no one should go hungry

7) There doesn't appear to be any funding for the millions of people who did not file a tax return in 2018 or 2019.

Like it or not millions of workers do low paying gig jobs and under the table work to survive
They are the people who are going to be hit hardest by this crisis.

8) There is NO money to help the uninsured

As a supporter of the #aca I should say screw these people who complained about the individual mandate and refused to sign up but they are my fellow citizens and I will not leave them behind.
Stupidity shouldn't be a death sentence.

9) There appears to be very little in the way of transparency. Y

I'd like to know who has their snout in the #MnuchinSlushFund
I think we should have a right to know which special interests we bailed out. Don't You?

10) last but certainly not least

I don't trust these fucking republicans with a bag of dog shit. They have proven time and time again to lie, cheat, and steal.
The ME governor actually bragged about stealing candy from children when he was younger. That is who these people are.