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Rhiannon12866

(204,460 posts)
Sun May 24, 2020, 03:09 AM May 2020

GOP Sen Who Voted To Give Trillions To The Wealthy Says "Not Enough" Money To Help Everyone Else





Republican Senator Who Voted To Give Trillions To The Wealthy And Wall Street Said “There’s Not Enough” Money To Help Everyone Else

Senate Republicans had no problem finding money for Wall Street and the wealthy, but Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said that there’s not enough money to help everyone else who is even more negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

The pandemic has cratered the economy as the unemployment rate has hit over 14 percent and could skyrocket to over 20 percent in the coming months. Tens of millions of Americans are out of work and small businesses are struggling to survive along with the people they employ.

House Democrats have passed a package to rescue Americans financially with another round of stimulus that would include monthly payments for as long as the crisis lasts.

But Alexander, who voted for Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and the trillions of dollars that have already been doled out to Wall Street in the first stimulus package, told Meet The Press that there’s “not enough money” to help everyone else.


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GOP Sen Who Voted To Give Trillions To The Wealthy Says "Not Enough" Money To Help Everyone Else (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 May 2020 OP
There's a reason he was never nominated for president. TexasTowelie May 2020 #1
Even Chuck Todd was able to put him in his place Rhiannon12866 May 2020 #2
You said it: dumb as shit! Duppers May 2020 #4
Isn't the GOP... Newest Reality May 2020 #3

TexasTowelie

(111,829 posts)
1. There's a reason he was never nominated for president.
Sun May 24, 2020, 03:28 AM
May 2020

Lamar Alexander is stupid as shit. Even Republicans figured that out.

Duppers

(28,117 posts)
4. You said it: dumb as shit!
Sun May 24, 2020, 09:41 AM
May 2020

"100 million vaccines by September"? He's delusional. Or he thinks we're stupid? Chucky should've call him on that.

I repeatedly called this a-hole's office asking that he vote to remove tRump. What did he have to lose? Not running for re-election. Not wanting to "lose face" with his repub business friends down in Tennessee?

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
3. Isn't the GOP...
Sun May 24, 2020, 07:34 AM
May 2020

Isn't the GOP now just making it clear what the program is?

The people who matter to them in this country get rewarded because they are considered worthy and insiders. The nepotism and cronyism are their agenda. That's also known as corruption. Their legit is our idea of illegitimate.

The people who clearly do not matter are the workers and servants that comprise a majority of the population now and that will only increase dramatically in the future thanks to their policies and the ending of upward mobility and opportunity. Fleshbots are cheap, expendable and replaceable. It may not be that the GOP is against abortion for moral reasons, but for the sake of breeding their stock and assuring a good and steady supply of wage slaves.

It appears that a major part of the "no money" shtick is to incentivize their Serfs. It is cracking the whip and forcing the expendables out to sacrifice their lives for those that matter and to serve the best interests of the owners of this country now. The negative results and implications of that socially are merely collateral damage in Disaster Capitalism and, since the owners are sequestered and safe in their upper strata, the risk, loss and potential upheavals are worth the risk.

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