I realize that most of the people who cosigned this post would literally support anything the Republican Party put forward, even if it entailed immediate suffering for them and loved ones, because suffering physically is still easier than admitting one is an immature rube.
However, for the few others who aren't so pathetic (
@MMAisGod and...err,
@Gunny maybe?), please see the following:
The disastrous Senate GOP bill:
— Creates a $500,000,000,000 slush fund for corporations that *only* Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has control over
— Doesn’t require reporting of recipients for six months, i.e. until after the election
— Provides no guarantee that Trump’s own businesses won’t benefit
— Has no worker protections and only one weak restriction on executive bonuses
— Provides only a one-time $1200 check and just $600 for those who need it most
Don’t listen to the pundits trying to spin this as a “partisan battle”. Senate Democrats were absolutely right to hold the line and reject this corporate bailout.
Instead of a $500 billion blank check to corporations, here’s what should be in the Senate bill:
— $2000 every two weeks to every adult for at least two months
— Universal unemployment insurance, with checks sent to *everyone* as early as next week
— Subsidize the states so they can get the unemployment checks out immediately
— Expanded Medicaid so that anybody who needs to go to the hospital is covered
— Money to help hospitals buy masks, ICUs, and ventilators
Don’t believe anybody who says this is complicated. Bail out people, not corporations.
The fact is that the GOP is exploiting a fucking national disaster to further loot the economy, because they know that Democrats will be coerced by reactionary public outcry to get
something done. It's insanely slimy. This will just result in, yet again, just like everyone said the tax cuts bill would, in executive cashouts and stock buybacks.
