Their choice being: keep spending on relief, or not? We just hit levels of unemployment not seen since the Great Depression. Many businesses are on life support, with no end in sight. And yet ...
As Job Losses Mount, Lawmakers Face a Make-or-Break Moment nytimes.com/2020/05/09/bus…
As Job Losses Mount, Lawmakers Face a Make-or-Break Moment nytimes.com/2020/05/09/bus…
2/ "Mr. Trump and many Republicans in Congress have grown weary of federal spending to support workers and businesses."
WEARY? Sorry, no. (Lest you think this is just the writer's wording, there's also talk about “real bailout fatigue among Senate Republicans.”)
WEARY? Sorry, no. (Lest you think this is just the writer's wording, there's also talk about “real bailout fatigue among Senate Republicans.”)
3/ We are spending money in order to keep people from starving, and businesses from declaring bankruptcy, until we can get the virus under control. Those of us who have been staying indoors have done so, in part, to buy the federal government time to do that.
4/ The federal government has chosen to squander that time. One effect of that is that we cannot safely reopen things, as governments are starting to do in other countries. Because we have chosen not to do what we need to do, people are going to need support for a lot longer.
5/ Trump CHOSE not to act (insofar as he is capable of making choices as opposed to acting on pure impulse, which I guess is open to question.) The Senate Republicans have CHOSEN to support him in this.
6/ They also CHOSE not to impeach him earlier, despite his manifest unfitness for office.
They do not now get to just "get tired" of helping out the people their choices have victimized.
They do not now get to just "get tired" of helping out the people their choices have victimized.
7/ Imho, Democrats should press for a bailout that continues automatically until the conditions set out in the President's now-ignored guidelines are met. Are caseloads going down consistently? Well then, we can stop sending people checks. Are they not? Automatic checks.
8/ That would give Republicans in Congress, and the administration, an incentive to get this right, since the suffering and death of tens of thousands of their fellow citizens does not seem to move them.
But no, they do not get to just "get tired." 😡😡😡😡😡😡
But no, they do not get to just "get tired." 😡😡😡😡😡😡
9/ PS: Check this out: "Activist groups that have led marches on state capitals pushing for economic restrictions to be lifted are poised to refocus on calling for an end to government spending, said Stephen Moore (...)
10/ “All government can do right now is make things worse, not better,” Mr. Moore said."
I wonder how that's going to go over.
I wonder how that's going to go over.
