Maggots, Part 2

Steven Mnuchin and other Trump economic advisers...

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said today that, "It just wouldn't be fair to use taxpayer dollars to pay people more to sit home than they would working and get a job."

You know what else isn't fair?  The fact that Mnuchin's boss so magnificently fucked up America's coronavirus response that over fifty million people are out of work, many of them having lost jobs that will never be coming back.

Hell, if he wants to talk economic fairness, I have a host of unfair realities:

• How about republicans refusing to raise the minimum wage for 11 years despite the fact that the cost of living isn't getting any lower?
• Or what about wage stagnation, which has been engineered by Corporate America so that most Americans were lucky to see a 1 or 2% raise in their wages over the past three and a half years despite Trump's "boom"  bullshit economic voodoo?
• Or how about that Trump tax cut which gave millions to billionaires and pennies to the average American?
• Or what about those folks who lost their jobs the last time republicans fucked up the economy, the Great Recession, and had to take jobs that paid significantly less than the job they lost, and have never recovered that lost income (on a personal note, I figure I'm down about eighty grand at this point)?

The pennies they've thrown at us these past few months don't even put a dent in the money lost by American workers because of policies that are written by and for the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us.  As far as I'm concerned, Mnuchin can go fuck himself.

In the end, this also shows how clueless the Trump administration is about the pandemic we've now been facing for five months--the unemployment supplement was to keep people home so we could slow the virus and keep the economy churning.  Sending people back to work when COVID-19 is still raging out of control will do nothing to stop it, and therefore send our economy even further into the abyss that Mnuchin and Trump have created.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee