Schumer says it all in a Tweet

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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[dalton99a]

1. The best time to loot is when there is chaos

Every low-life thief knows this

[MyOwnPeace]

3. And Don-the-Con is the

master of them all!

[dalton99a]

6. Yep. Zero intellect, but plenty of criminal cunning

[Under The Radar]

4. Correct when the public is distracted on to something else.

2001 airlines bailout after 9-11 $15 billion
2008 Tarp from Bush $1trillion
2009 tarp from Obama (loan) $1tillion
2009 Auto manufacturing loan $15billion
2017 farmers tariff assistance $28billion

What is the term for corporate welfare?

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Corporate Welfare equals Socialism For The Rich

is your answer.

[czarjak]

13. Cotton Farmer 'round these parts!

[yellowdogintexas]

21. well at least the Auto loan was paid back in full with interest

and on time

[spanone]

2. ⭐️⭐️⭐️K&R⭐️⭐️⭐️

[lapfog_1]

7. I got a little bit of news for Mr. Schumer

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you could drop 10B on "health care" tomorrow and it wouldn't do much if anything to solve or slow this down.

This is a novel virus. People have no immunity. There is no treatment to the virus, only to the resulting havoc it causes.

If we do nothing, the virus will run rampant throughout the US... we will look like northern Italy in the next week or two. Yup, that fast.

Could we use more hospital beds and ventilators and blood oxygen machines... yes... but all the money it the world won't make them appear in time.

So... what do we do now... containment is a week in the rear view mirror. Here is what we can do... we need to slow it down... so that the really sick will not overwhelm our hospitals.

How do we do that. Everyone, young and old, need to go home and stay home... for at least 4 weeks... everyone except for absolutely essential people (fire, some police, sanitation, water and power). Close everything... schools, malls, stores, church, everything... for weeks. Like we all took a vacation (or rather a staycation).

Companies should just pause... contracts paused... payments delayed, collections delayed. One giant PAUSE button.

Don't collect the rent, don't default the mortgages, etc. Send every adult in the US a check for $1000 (cost around $200B)... or maybe more, to take the vacation.

Oh, yeah, almost forgot, drop in a few Billion more for test kits... millions and millions of test kits... and test everyone... sick or not.

Like China did. China's rate of new cases is less than OUR rate of new cases (almost).

But there is little (other than testing) that we can do by handing out billions to health care... it's too late for that.

[Karadeniz]

9. I agree!

[misanthrope]

14. What do you do about those of us in the lower socio-economic classes

who don't have the facilities to store that amount of food and goods? You going to deliver to us as needed?

[Moostache]

20. THIS ... what is the plan to FEED people during this period?

How will medicines and food and milk/water be delivered?
What about physical therapy or home health care?
For those who barely eke out an existence with help from services like Meals on Wheels, or volunteers...how are they to survive being cut-off from society?

Its one thing to suggest a massive quarantine action in the USA, but with this current federal government in charge, I guarantee you that we would have more dead from trying to slap this action together than if we had taken this seriously since November or December. We are literally stuck in the middle of a no-win scenario, and there is no chance of Captain Kirk rewriting the Kobayashi Maru simulation to rescue the ship AND save the stranded...

Trump was once a joke, then a criminal and now he is directly responsible for deaths and suffering of Americans with the potential to become the greatest mass murderer of human history if he does not stop the current shtick and get truly serious about protecting people instead of polls. How much more is the country supposed to take from this asshat?

We are utterly unprepared for a disaster on this scale and magnitude...it is as if every state is getting hit with a Katrina-level event all at once AND it is causing private sector damage as well that could fundamentally change the nation in its wake...

I have never felt so helpless for my country as I do right now...

[ooky]

16. This makes too much sense. nt

[Demobrat]

19. How do we get needed medications?

My insurance company will not allow me to receive more than 30 days worth at a time. I cannot pick up medications early. What do I do if the pharmacy is closed?

[lapfog_1]

25. 30 day pause...

like these 30 days don't really exist.

Your insurance company "won't allow"... so we declare a national emergency and direct the insurance and drug companies to deliver your meds to you for this "out of time" 30 day period. No charge. This one time. Insurance companies and drug companies will need to be reimbursed... so they save the invoice and submit it in 30 days to your insurance or Medicare or MEdicaid... or if no insurance, to a payment bureau the Feds set up.

How do you get your medicine or canned food? From those essential workers I mentioned, delivered to your doorstep. What about those workers... train them to be virus safe and test them frequently... like whatever cadence we need (daily? weekly?)

yeah, we sort of end up like this. OTOH, its for 30 days. Better than having 100s of thousands die... or millions... mostly older people

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Trump is playing sleight-of-hand

Substituting one for the other

[calimary]

10. You noticed, Chuck. GOOD!

[doc03]

11. A tax cut is the solution for everything with Republicons. nt

[Poiuyt]

12. A tax cut will benefit trump's finances directly

Working on a health care solution to the coronavirus will only help America and the world.

See the difference?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Actually get it done Chuck!

[yaesu]

17. They claim they want to do the same tax cut that Obama did but there is a big difference

that money will never be paid back to social security which is just another way for the fascists to kill off SS.

[Wounded Bear]

22. When your only tool is a hammer, all your problems start to look like nails...

Repubs only know tax cuts.

[Prosper]

24. Another word for tax cuts is austerity. Nothing is solved by not paying for it.

Remember when Gordon Gekko popularized greed with “Greed is Good”. The right wing is expert in propaganda. Tax cuts are the right’s way to impose poverty and control.

[Raven123]

26. Privatized health care systems prioritize profits over preparedness. The bill is coming due

The concept of “just in time” does not apply to health care. For years hospitals have staffed, supplied and planned along slim margins to avoid having “excess” capacity to handle problems beyond the expected annual surges in caring for flu patients. No surprise we have to play catch-up.

[riversedge]

27. Good but Schuler daily needs to remind the general public what a bust Trumps last tax cut was

for the average worker!!

[Dukkha]

28. As it has been repeated ad nausea

Nobody did better to warn us about Trump than Trump himself

It was inevitable that a real crisis that would come along that he would be woefully incompetent to handle

[redstatebluegirl]

29. Bribing people is how he has functioned for years in business.