Ali Velshi: "even if it means lending them more money, we'll want that to happen on our terms"

[Dennis Donovan]

Ali Velshi ✔@AliVelshi

11 years after the great recession, the world has changed and there's a new sheriff in town, and it's you. While some of us would like major industries that employ millions of Americans to survive, even if it means lending them more money, we'll want that to happen on our terms

1/4 You want our money? We - or at least your employees - get a piece of the action, so that once you are, inevitably profitable again, we all win.

2/4 You want our money? Get your executive compensation in line with what you pay your workers. CEO's make upward of 220 times what workers make in America. I'm not sure what the American word for that is, but in Canada we call that B.S.

3/4 You want our money? You CANNOT spend it on buying your own stock back, until you have made sure ALL of your workers are paid for time off while you cut service because of COVID-19, make sure they’re ALL rehired, and that they have a role in any profits tied to public money

4/4 You want our money? The climate. Do you part to fix it. End of story.

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[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Highly recommended!

[gordianot]

3. Supply and demand.

Demand for food is coming. This is not going away in mid April.

[magicarpet]

9. The second wave/season of the "Spanish Flu" was much more deadly because it mutated into a....

.... more deadly strain.

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Reported cases of Spanish flu dropped off over the summer of 1918, and there was hope at the beginning of August that the virus had run its course. In retrospect, it was only the calm before the storm. Somewhere in Europe, a mutated strain of the Spanish flu virus had emerged that had the power to kill a perfectly healthy young man or woman within 24 hours of showing the first signs of infection.

In late August 1918, military ships departed the English port city of Plymouth carrying troops unknowingly infected with this new, far deadlier strain of Spanish flu. As these ships arrived in cities like Brest in France, Boston in the United States and Freetown in west Africa, the second wave of the global pandemic began.

https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-resurgence

[2naSalit]

4. K&R

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. Why I LOVE Ali Velshi and Stephen Rhule.....

They are the money whizzes.

[magicarpet]

6. Ali Velshi for president !

Run on the - Common Sense Party.

[NewJeffCT]

8. would be a huge step up from anybody in the GOP

but, he was born in Kenya and then moved to Canada when he was 2, so I'm pretty sure he's not eligible

[oasis]

7. Count me in.

[ancianita]

10. THIS. It's OUR money.

For us, the trillions we've already made and paid.

For you? Austerity.

Pull on your big boy pants.

[Wounded Bear]

11. Damn Canadian Socialist...

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. If it weren't for the employees who would be hurt,

I'd tell 'em to go pound sand. They need money? Go sell some of the stock they bought back with their last welfare check.

[bluescribbler]

15. Problem is...

Their stock is now worthless.

[crickets]

13. Hearty K&R!

[FakeNoose]

14. Yes!!!

This needs to be part of the Dem Party platform! But probably urgent bailout decisions will need to be made before the summer Presidential Campaign season.

We need to make this message clear to ALL Dem leaders in the House and Senate.

[paleotn]

16. We do have them over a barrel

but then again, they have their employees over a barrel too. I do think major change in the employer / employee relationship is warranted. I also think any bailouts for airlines etc., come in the form of loans and / or equity stakes, like President Obama's deal with the big 3 automakers. The government, thus we the people, made a tidy profit on that deal and the automakers came back better than ever.

[pazzyanne]

17. K&R nt

[ffr]

18. Robert Reich is saying the exact same thing. These corporations only know greed.

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[Maraya1969]

19. This is a perfect opportunity to put these things into law. While their asses are in a sling

And damn let one republithug dare to oppose it in the senate. OR that rat bastard in the white house.