It was a radical idea in 1776 & it’s a radical idea today: that govts are instituted to secure “the right of all people to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Someone economically locked down in a survival mode from which they can’t escape is not free to pursue happiness
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Tens of millions of people work at jobs they hate just to get health benefits or pay off college loans, while govt continues to subsidize tiny portion of citizens in obscenely grandiose style. So it was already clear we had a problem. Coronavirus bailout just confirms the abuse.

Mar 30, 2020 · 9:46 AM UTC

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Older people don’t so much remember better days as we remember a time when people knew enough to guffaw at the idea that average Americans would be so routinely economically screwed as they are now. We knew things were supposed to be better & that it was govt’s job to make it so.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @kingkroba
Why are you so normal now, when you were bonkers 6 months ago??? This is who we want.
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People are free in this country to change their job and any subsidizing baby the Dems are in the front of the line with pork holding up a bill originally conceived to help all of us. But the Dems got their raise even though they are millionaires. That's obscene.
Replying to @marwilliamson
FYI, the Obama stimulus confirmed the abuse. '10 million foreclosures and no Wall Street felons/black-owned banks were a 10th as likely to get bailout money as other banks. Antitrust officials allowed mergers in telecoms/ pharmaceuticals/airlines/tech bostonreview.net/forum/findi…
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And then get laid off in a pandemic and lose that insurance. We lose my husband health McRae coverage on the 30th, we has just finished our first round of unsuccessful ivf. We were hoping to start again right as this hit. Who knows if we will be able to try again 😔
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Old "nobility" could do as they liked, within reason, without fear of laws. Everyone knew they gave orders to the people who wrote and enforced them. Their wealth was generally inherited, with only a lucky few ascending. What's the diff between a duke and most billionaires? 👑🎩
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yep