The Republican-only bill McConnell is trying to cram down our throats right now is the first domino
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in a line that stretches round the corner and out of sight. The bill itself provides for ZERO money to Social Security for the balance of the year. This, from the people who have argued to kill Social Security for decades. Trump has already publicly indicated he'd like to continue "zero funding" the program beyond the end of the year.
If it became law, the bill would provide $500,000,000,000 in "stimulus" to corporations selected entirely by Trumpuppet Mnuchin. "Friendly" companies would get billions, "unfriendly" companies would get zilch and, somehow, millions would find their way into the "Trump 2020" campaign coffers.
By design or simply by one of those "coincidences" that always seem to benefit Republicans or harm their opponents, most of those who get "the short end of the stick" with the Republican plan would consist of the most vulnerable among us---those more likely to vote for Democrats.
Next year, when most of our dead have been buried and the battered and numb survivors are beginning to restart their lives, we will hear Republicans screaming about how "our debt simply MUST be reduced". Thus will begin the fulfillment of the long-cherished wingnut wet dream: dismantling Social Security and Medicare and on down the list of social programs that benefit the less fortunate.
Of course, none of the above is carved in stone. If Democrats can overcome the crooks and the klansmen and the Russian trolls that now rule the GOP, we may retake our government and rededicate our democracy to the welfare of "We, the People".
"Do not go gentle---"
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