So I don't take that lightly. However, I'll have more serving to do than I can ever imagine when the economy opens back up. My gifts and talents will be needed in the future....so will everybody's.
Ahead of the economy, I value life.
Before this came on, everyone was deriding concepts of relief for the poorest of the poor, using the most disgusting terms toward those at the bottom of the economic ladder....using terms such as welfare rats...and even speaking with an obvious racist tone mimicking 'ebonics'.
Now that the shoe has dropped, it's time to deride anyone who would stand in the way of the check.
So now that things really have changed, maybe overall, looking at the big picture.... from a factual lens....not from the lens of Trumps Sphincter....or from Pelosi's ivory tower (can't stand her either.)
Looking it it objectively --- our society was not prepared for this.... Our only recourse is to throw trillions that we don't have into the problem - and to send away for emergency supplies that we don't have.
We could spend the rest of our lives throwing blame at each party - or defending the indefensible, for God knows what reason. But it doesn't solve anything.
Maybe in hindsight, it's good not to fire a pandemic response team. Maybe restructuring our economy and trying to balance budgets will shield us from the affects of deep recessions.
Maybe basic income will insure the well-being of all citizens....as money at the bottom quickly re-enters the economy. It's the money at the top that's retained and never goes anywhere, except to be invested to make more money.
What if these were all neutral concepts and did not have the emotional and dramatic weight to them?
These things will never fly.... but then when society is sick, truly sick and the economy goes with it -- then the working class become the poor....and the poor, they're just damn lucky if they don't up and die.
But if LIFE were the greatest thing we valued, how would our decision making be different?
When you ban books before you ban guns, you've admitted that you're more afraid of children learning than you are of children dying.
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