Without access to health care or higher education and burdened by heavy college loans, people are practically caged within a system where the actualization of their potential becomes harder and harder to achieve. 1/1

Apr 17, 2020 · 2:09 PM UTC

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Chronic economic anxiety thus becomes a constant companion., as it was even before the pandemic for tens of millions of Americans.There, in the constriction of their opportunities, lies the constriction of the American economy. 1/2
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To speak of the economy as a separate entity that bestows its abundance on people rather than as the creativity of people sharing their abundance with the world, is the upside down thinking that makes our system so skewed and inevitably cruel.1/3
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Even now masters of the universe speak of re-opening the economy with almost bloodless lack of consideration for how many millions of people will be too financially devastated by then to participate. Bubonic plague led to end of serfdom; COVID-19 threatens to re-introduce it.1/4
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If our govt doesn’t stop underestimating the intelligence of the American people, recognizing the barrenness of our system has been revealed for all its heartlessness, they will be caught off guard by a wave of chaos that will come crashing over all of us when the pandemic ends.
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Profound thoughts from #tinkerbell
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President Trump paused Federal Loans for a minimum of six months
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One must add housing as a necessity of a civil society
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Very well said, Marianne.
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Yeah, I agree the system is like Spider Web or I feel like a Hamster on a Wheel....
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If this makes you angry- call your #CongressionalLeaders & make sure you #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
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Our Congress is showing their incapacity & unwillingness to help ordinary people by helping only the wealthy and powerful.
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Ummm, doesn't being "burdened by heavy college loans" mean you had access to higher education?
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I can do so many things!! I have worn so many hats in my life just trying to pay ever increasing costs of living. I’m only 51, & my current laundry lady job has been lost to this virus. I am vulnerable for death with asthma AND poverty. No paycheck assistance.
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Higher education doesn’t make one smart just like Church doesn’t make one good
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