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3. If they really want to help small businesses hire, then why don't these repugs roll up their sleeves
Tue May 4, 2021, 02:02 PM
May 2021

and go to work? Or better yet, install a livable wage finally? Can you imagine the likes of Moscow Mitch or Gaetz flipping hamburgers and such? I doubt it since Gaetz's daddy is a millionaire and moscow mitch has an estimated estate of $30 mil or so.

Quit listening to billionaires and millionaires too, since these people have already such a large chunk of the American economy, and it's about damn time that the American worker get their fair slice of the pie too. It's been since the early 1980s since the American worker really had any substantial measurable, increase in pay.

Look at some of the evidence...the numbers of people living on razor thin margins is certainly more than it was during the 30s w/ the Great Depression. Housing in some areas is getting ridiculously high (especially in coastal areas, large metro areas), and consequently property taxes are too. Utilities have done nothing but continue to skyrocket, and health insurance premiums continue to spiral upwards out of control.

These republican idiots moaning about a one time payment need to flat out shut up. Four months is nothing before the benefits run out and I guarantee you that these benefits probably wasn't enough for a lot of people and they still could have used more. For god's sake, this nation has been rocked by a major epidemic. And you are bitching about the pay for the small time workers?

When you actually look at the evidence of who is really hurting, it's certainly not those in the stock markets or own stocks like the Waltons or other wealthy 1%ers. If anything, their wealth is even more. The markets continue to jump upwards (probably because they are all buying their own shares back or such). Biden is also infusing the markets w/ energy too, after the dismal performance of djt.

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