Pelosi: Republicans have a 'disdain' for working Americans

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said late Wednesday that the Republican Party has a “disdain” toward working people as the lawmakers continue to clash during stalled negotiations over the next coronavirus stimulus package.

CNN host Anderson Cooper asked Pelosi if there was any progress made toward helping working-class people, with the added unemployment benefits included in the March coronavirus relief package set to formally expire on Friday.

Pelosi responded by saying her colleagues across the aisle do not trust how Americans without a job are using the additional $600-per-week federal benefit during the pandemic.

“While they have a disdain or sort of a condescension toward working people it seems because they don’t trust how they might use the $600. That kind of thing. ‘Oh, they have money to pay the rent. They are just not paying the rent,’” she said.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/509726-pelosi-republicans-seem-to-have-a-disdain-for-working-americans

[secondwind]

1. Even worse, imho. They are dispensable. They don't really matter.

[sandensea]

2. And moreover, something to be feared and quelled

The worst of it is how they managed to dupe millions of working folks themselves to buy into that.

"They just mean them damn minorities," a lot of them have been led to believe.

[gab13by13]

3. Exactly,

Trump put legislation in the Senate relief bill that allows corporations to kill workers until 2024 without the threat of being sued.

[Sherman A1]

4. Precisely

[beachbumbob]

5. generally speaking, GOP fears educated working people, they love their ignorant ones to death

(by COVID).