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Hazel's avatar

A cold hard fact in America today is the wealthy are heroes and the poor somehow how are greedy louts looking for a handout.

Bah! Humbug! to a nation where 20 million are unemployed, 20 million children are food insecure and the elderly choose medicine over food. And if the live in congregate settings death from Covid.

Minimum wage is not a living. Layoffs in the months of Covid-19 have brought even more service workers, laborers and professionals into the mix.

I have worked with people on the street for years and as early as two years ago, more families had no homes, living in shelters at night and on the street during the day. Staying on the street equals people dying and not from Covid-19, but from lack of housing, benefits and healthcare.(NPR just now)

The Pandemic just hastened the fall and emphasized the gap between the rich and the poor has widened significantly in America.

Every day Moscow Mitch McConnell fights relief bills that would help the American people including the landlord and tenant.

"Are there no prisons? No workhouses for these people?"... "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it and decrease the surplus population." -- Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol"

Make a donation to Warnock and Ossof at Act Blue today. Encourage your family and friends to do the same.

America must have a change in Senate leadership.

Our country and Democracy depends on it.

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Ian Mark Sirota's avatar

We live in a truly heartless country. I don't know what else to say.

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