I laugh whenever I hear a Republican say they are afraid that people will not go back to work if they receive the extra $600/month. Unemployment benefits don't last forever. And if people are evicted and left homeless, they will be applying for other programs trying to get help. And theses programs have experienced cuts federally or…
I laugh whenever I hear a Republican say they are afraid that people will not go back to work if they receive the extra $600/month. Unemployment benefits don't last forever. And if people are evicted and left homeless, they will be applying for other programs trying to get help. And theses programs have experienced cuts federally or if they are at the state level, face cuts due to decreased budgets due to the pandemic. The landlords are in a bind as they still have their expenses to pay which may result in foreclosures for them. Another loss of income. And more hits to the economy. I know that these are extraordinary times, but times of revolution and change take place in extraordinary times. I am not an economist, but it does not appear that the Republican economic theories are holding up really well.
As a Kentuckian, I have been trying to make McConnell unemployed for years. He has been in Kentucky more the last few weeks campaigning. Normally we don't see him milling with the masses. However, given the track record of people voting against their own self-interest, I will not hold out hope of getting him out of office. My absolutely favorite vision for the future is to wake up the day after the election and find 45, McConnell, and the others gone.
I don't understand why McConnell has maintained the power when the state is poorly ranked on education, health, level of poverty. What scraps do the citizens get when he gets re-elected? Clearly enough to keep him in office. I live in the northeast, but have a sticker on my fridge...."Ditch Mitch!". And his wife, too.
I appreciate your reply . McConnell is the consummate politician. His ads are rarely on what he has done for Kentucky but rather attacking his opponent as socialist, pro-abortion, different from Kentuckians. The last is very effective given the history of the Appalachian region of the state and the exploitation of the coal industry in that area, not only of the land but of how the citizens of that area were portrayed and in many ways still being portrayed today. There is a general mistrust of "strangers" in Eastern Kentucky and in some part, the rest of Kentucky, although I have seen a slight change in this attitude. I appreciate your support to Ditch Mitch. I certainly want to see him go.
My daughter lives in KY. I’m schooling her on how state politics affect her family. After Brashear (D) was elected, following a (nationally) unpopular Repub Who wanted teachers to give back pension contributions (after the state already had helped itself to pension funds to fund infrastructure they’d spent THAT money on) AND wanted to curtail Medicare expansion done by his predecessor, people lamented that Brashear wasn’t a Republican! Medicare expansion helped thousands who had been w/o healthcare forever; the next governor (Repub) wanted to curtail it; the current (Dem) governor protected it—and people complained he wasn’t Repub. can we totally agree how unfathomable it is that people vote by label, against their self-interest?
People who are severely impoverished have no incentive to vote because they believe no politician is going to "do right by them" so what's the point in voting?
I laugh whenever I hear a Republican say they are afraid that people will not go back to work if they receive the extra $600/month. Unemployment benefits don't last forever. And if people are evicted and left homeless, they will be applying for other programs trying to get help. And theses programs have experienced cuts federally or if they are at the state level, face cuts due to decreased budgets due to the pandemic. The landlords are in a bind as they still have their expenses to pay which may result in foreclosures for them. Another loss of income. And more hits to the economy. I know that these are extraordinary times, but times of revolution and change take place in extraordinary times. I am not an economist, but it does not appear that the Republican economic theories are holding up really well.
As a Kentuckian, I have been trying to make McConnell unemployed for years. He has been in Kentucky more the last few weeks campaigning. Normally we don't see him milling with the masses. However, given the track record of people voting against their own self-interest, I will not hold out hope of getting him out of office. My absolutely favorite vision for the future is to wake up the day after the election and find 45, McConnell, and the others gone.
I don't understand why McConnell has maintained the power when the state is poorly ranked on education, health, level of poverty. What scraps do the citizens get when he gets re-elected? Clearly enough to keep him in office. I live in the northeast, but have a sticker on my fridge...."Ditch Mitch!". And his wife, too.
Keeping people poorly educated is the backbone of the GOP as it exists today.
I appreciate your reply . McConnell is the consummate politician. His ads are rarely on what he has done for Kentucky but rather attacking his opponent as socialist, pro-abortion, different from Kentuckians. The last is very effective given the history of the Appalachian region of the state and the exploitation of the coal industry in that area, not only of the land but of how the citizens of that area were portrayed and in many ways still being portrayed today. There is a general mistrust of "strangers" in Eastern Kentucky and in some part, the rest of Kentucky, although I have seen a slight change in this attitude. I appreciate your support to Ditch Mitch. I certainly want to see him go.
McConnell’s political attacks as described by Heather when she discusses the tactics of the Movement Conservatives othering language.
My daughter lives in KY. I’m schooling her on how state politics affect her family. After Brashear (D) was elected, following a (nationally) unpopular Repub Who wanted teachers to give back pension contributions (after the state already had helped itself to pension funds to fund infrastructure they’d spent THAT money on) AND wanted to curtail Medicare expansion done by his predecessor, people lamented that Brashear wasn’t a Republican! Medicare expansion helped thousands who had been w/o healthcare forever; the next governor (Repub) wanted to curtail it; the current (Dem) governor protected it—and people complained he wasn’t Repub. can we totally agree how unfathomable it is that people vote by label, against their self-interest?
And again, keeping people poorly educated works wonders for the GOP.
People who are severely impoverished have no incentive to vote because they believe no politician is going to "do right by them" so what's the point in voting?
Praying for that happy ending too....