Need I Say More?

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Tom and Marcella gave their three children each a bowl of rice and half an apple for supper last night.  They both work at minimum wage jobs and payday is a few days away yet, so they are rationing food carefully.  Audrey’s little girl … her name is Sarah, but they call her Muffin … is diabetic and almost out of insulin.  Audrey is out of work, has no insurance, and no money to pay for Muffin’s insulin.  Jeff’s wife died last month of Covid and he is struggling to raise their three children without her after losing his job because he missed so much time at work during her illness.  He holds in his hand an eviction notice because he doesn’t have money to pay the rent.  Robert, once a proud man with a job, a home, and a family now lives under a highway overpass, his few possessions in a cardboard box, since the company he worked for shut down their U.S. operations and in the pandemic era he was unable to find another job.

Meanwhile …

Billionaire Peter Thiel has so far poured over $25 million into the races of Blake Masters in Arizona and J.D. Vance in Ohio. Kenneth C. Griffin, the CEO of giant hedge fund Citadel, is bankrolling Republican super PACs to the tune of nearly $50 million. Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman of giant hedge fund Blackstone, has so far contributed a combined $20 million to the main House and Senate Republican super PAC.  And the list goes on.

How many children could have had a few healthy meals, or how many families could have paid their rent and utilities with the millions of dollars being given to already-wealthy political candidates?

Need I say more?

42 thoughts on “Need I Say More?”

    • Yep, we are both living in some Twilight Zone world right now, and as I see it, both our countries are likely to get worse before they get better. I’m not at all impressed with either of your PM candidates, but I’m especially unimpressed by Liz Truss! Who does she think she is??? Sigh. Then again, we’ve still got Trump hanging around, being the major news story no matter what else is happening in the nation. Sigh.

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  3. Jill, the fact we have a hunger problem in the United States is a shame. The fact we have food deserts in the US is also shameful. The fact we have not expanded Medicaid in the states with the worst rural health care access and results is shameful. We spend so much money on getting elected and selling people stuff they really don’t need more of is shameful.

    We have people voting against their economic interests to support the dream of having wealth. They screw themselves to vote for a party who baits them to support their goal to give more money to rich people and help them keep it.

    Keith

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    • I fully agree. I keep hearing it said that this is the richest country in the world … well, you sure couldn’t prove it by looking around my neighborhood, or ANY inner-city or rural areas in the nation. Why? Because all that wealth resides in the grubby hands of the greedy capitalists who don’t even pay taxes at the same rate we do, if they pay any at all! Why did the Republicans fight against allowing Medicare/Medicaid to negotiate drug prices? To take more money from us and put more in the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies. As an insulin-dependent diabetic with other health issues, I spend nearly every bit of my social security check just to stay alive! If it weren’t for my daughter, I’d be living on the streets, while the 700 or so uber-wealthy in this nation dine on steak and lobster! Sigh. Sorry, but it’s one of my pet peeves and I tend to get carried away. It should be criminal for any one person to have more than a million dollars, in my view.

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  4. You ciuld also add this: the millions of dollars thus donated DID NOT HURT THE DONATERS ONE IOTA while the DONATEES are being bought to always rule in favour of the DONATER in any legislation that affects the DONATERS.

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  5. And, this still just showed the contrasts in the lives of the rich and the poor in the States, how the gap is widened even more so, with the pandemic, those who already didn’t have enough to live off of are now, trying to survive on less, and the government still does SQUAT!

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    • The income disparity has magnified in recent years, and during the pandemic grew even more, as companies made record profits while the average family lost income. Did the wealthy corporations use those record profits to help people? No, they further enriched their own coffers, their CEOs, and their shareholders. Most didn’t even raise the wages of their own workers.

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    • Yes, there’s another who could care less about the rest of us. It doesn’t matter which politicians they are donating to, it’s still wrong in my view, as long as a single child is going to bed hungry ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET.

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  8. Yes, say more. Ask why these wealthy people are donating towards Politics with the intent of making themselves richer than ever by not having to pay taxes that everyone else pays., why they feel nothing for the people out on the streets or without an income to feed their family. What’s wrong with this picture? What has happened to being charitable towards one another?

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    • I don’t have to ask them why … I know why. If they donate to feed the hungry or provide shelter for the homeless, they get no ‘ROI’ … return on investment … in their view. But, if they donate to politicians, then they basically own those politicians who will ensure that no laws are passed that would cost them and that other laws are passed that will put even more wealth in their pockets. It is sickening and disgusting, but that’s basically their logic in a nutshell. They want to put their money where they will get the biggest bang for the buck … where it will multiply and filter back to their investment portfolio. There comes a point, I think, where they no longer even see or notice the rest of us, where if they walked past a starving child, they wouldn’t even notice. What’s wrong with this picture, you ask? Sigh. Everything. The people who give the most of themselves and what little they might have left at the end of the month are the ones who have the least. Those who have the most, could care less about any but themselves.
      Cwtch

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    • I think probably not only America, for humans are humans no matter where they live. But other countries don’t allow the level of greed that this nation does. Rather than donate to an organization helping people, the wealthy donate to politicians who will help them become even wealthier. This is what I call uber-capitalism and in my book, it stinks.

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  14. I call that wasted wealth. I believe the Bible is correct in that the love of money is the root of all evil. One can have lots of money and not be evil. When you simply love making money and corrupt systems to help you get even more money, then you step into that realm of evil.

    The money that could be invested in new jobs or better wages is spent to influence a system that already is rigged towards the wealthy to bend that system even more to their advantage. I wish we could switch to a public funded electoral system and make it illegal for any non-profit to spend money in politics without divulging the source of the money.

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    • I would, and have, suggest[ed] all political donations get put into a central fund, and be equally distributed to all candidates whose names are on the ballots. Anyone found to be spending more than the distributed amount gets taken off the ballot. (Unless it can be proved the money is not actually being spent by the candidate appearing to be doing the spending. Likewise, any donor giving money to a particular candidate, knowingly or unknowingly tp the candidate, gets fined the total amount of the donation, and the candidate being improperlty financed loses that amount of money from his or her campaign funds.)

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    • It seems that money or wealth is almost like an addiction. The more a person has, the more he craves and there comes a point where he will do almost anything to get more, more, more. Sure, one can have lots of money and not be evil, but … in my mind, if you have lots of money then you aren’t very kind, either, for if you were, you would have shared your money and kept only enough to meet your own needs. And, by ‘needs’ I mean food, clothing, shelter, etc., not a Mercedes Benz and a private jet. I guess this explains why I’ll never be wealthy, eh? And that’s fine with me. I have very little, but when there is some left, it gets donated to the local food banks, homeless shelters, animal welfare organizations, etc. And yet, a person with millions or billions is more likely to donate to a politician who will help him gain even more wealth. And to what end? If an EMP strikes and there is no electricity for months in this nation, their money won’t mean one damn thing! They will actually be less prepared than the rest of us. Oh dear … I’ve gone off on a tangent here, haven’t I? Sorry, Bro.

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