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Cathy Learoyd (Texas)'s avatar

Around 1978, when I had started my career in engineering, I remember hearing men talking that the solution to not having enough workers was to get women into the labor force. Today, we see that two salaries are required to survive and be able to feed one's children. We still hear men talking about poor people being lazy and not going back to work because of the $300 per week unemployment, that there are plenty of jobs. But these aren't jobs that pay well and certainly do not cover the costs of child care. Without affordable child care a low paying job brings home next to nothing. I'm feeling very scared that if the For the People Act isn't passed we're on our way to having a rebellion. I will join the resistance if that happens. Hearing that in 1986 they were using the words "ballot integrity" for voter suppression sounds so much like today's "voter integrity" it is truly frightening. Hearing that Republicans are actually saying the United States is "not a democracy" .. and that they don't want democracy anyway is doubly frightening. The Heritage Foundation and ALEC writing all these horrible bills. I think we no longer have a democracy -- it's an oligarchic kleptocracy -- but I differ from the Republicans in that I want democracy back! The majority of the People do too and will show it if they are allowed to vote. This time I what We the People to mean All of Us This Time!

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Lynell(VA by way of MD&DC)'s avatar

Morning, all!! Morning, Dr. R!! It makes me cringe every time Dr. R reiterates the sentiment that having a government that regulates business, maintains a social safety net and solid infrastructure is "a redistribution of wealth from hardworking white men to African Americans who want a handout." IMHO this idea is...POPPYCOCK!!!

The way I see it is if you take the year 1619 as the beginnings of slave (free) labor for the "hardworking white men" and multiply that number (4 million give or take?) by 246 years (give or take) what you've got is a HUGE debt owed to the former slaves AND their descendants for wages never paid. I leave factoring in the Jim Crow era to others.

So my point is the next time we hear a Republican (in this era) railing about socialism, maybe we should point out that it was the "hardworking white man" who wanted and received a handout.

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