Fire Mark Meadows
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has announced that the White House and Senate Republicans have come to agreement on the next stimulus package. In the announcement Meadows stated that enhanced unemployment benefits of $600 per week are being eliminated. Instead, Senate Republicans are advocating for states to cap enhanced benefits at 70% of an employees former wages. This is mind numbingly dumb to say the least. First, the state unemployment benefits system are inadequate to handle something as uniform as universal $600 per week benefits, as evidenced by how long it took for most of us to get our benefits the first time around. Now adding a layer of confusion when state systems are vastly understaffed and underfunded, is so stupid, I’m not even able to comprehend how backwards this is. Second, the reason for ending one of the most beneficial aspects of the stimulus package, is because according to all these plutocrats, is that the enhanced benefits have created lazy Americans who don’t want to work and want to sit around and collect free money. Did they say it in those words? No, but that is why they are ending it. They have talked to constituents who state they can’t get their former employees back to work because the extra money is more than what they were making when they were employed. This is a lie and dumb, the reality is that the economy has collapsed, the White House is in denial about the Corona Virus and they are blaming Americans who don’t feel safe for ending the benefits. When you collect unemployment they contact your former employee to verify whether or not you have been offered your job back and if so they cut off the benefits. So this idea all these people are being offered their jobs back and no one is taking them is a lie. They simply ignore the reality that people are not out and about shopping and spending money, so owners of businesses are not employing as many people as they were before because business demand has dropped, due to inefficient Covid 19 response by these inept Trump officials. This offer is a joke and for those who thought Trump was a populist who was going to help the American people, this is your reality. He is a billionaire who inherited his wealth and is too busy playing golf to solve the Corona Virus pandemic and has instead putted the responsibility to the old Tea Party morons who believe in trickle down economics. They didn’t care when the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, back stopped corporate America by agreeing to spend $9 trillion on the credit market, but now they care about the deficit when regular Americans are hurting. This proposal is stupid and will hand Joe Biden an easy victory. Thank You Mark Meadows, you should be fired, but Trump is too busy playing the victim about his alleged persecution to realize that his voters are overwhelmingly relying on these benefits and are going to be harmed by them.