GOP Sen Voted To Give Trillions To Wealthy & Wall Street Said "There's Not Enough to Help Everyone..

[Rhiannon12866]

Republican Senator Who Voted To Give Trillions To The Wealthy And Wall Street Said “There’s Not Enough” Money To Help Everyone Else

Senate Republicans had no problem finding money for Wall Street and the wealthy, but Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said that there’s not enough money to help everyone else who is even more negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

The pandemic has cratered the economy as the unemployment rate has hit over 14 percent and could skyrocket to over 20 percent in the coming months. Tens of millions of Americans are out of work and small businesses are struggling to survive along with the people they employ.

House Democrats have passed a package to rescue Americans financially with another round of stimulus that would include monthly payments for as long as the crisis lasts.

But Alexander, who voted for Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and the trillions of dollars that have already been doled out to Wall Street in the first stimulus package, told Meet The Press that there’s “not enough money” to help everyone else.

“There’s not enough money to help everybody hurt when you shut down the government,” Alexander said. “We have to reopen the economy, we have to do it carefully, we have to let people go back to work and earn a living. And I don’t see us being able to appropriate much more money to help provide a counter to that.”

When pressed on helping small businesses, Alexander avoided any mention of financial aid and focused on testing and vaccines.

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[beachbumbob]

1. consider the additional TRILLIONS the Federal Reserve has given to the investor class that HAD NO

vote by the people or congress or any congressional Review.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Not to mention that the Republicans chose to elect a "leader" who went bankrupt numerous times

He has no idea how to handle the biggest budget in the world - and he chooses to appoint those who are as irresponsible as he is...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Surely this is enough to wake some people up.

Republicans want you desperate, destitute, and controllable by the parasite class.

Republicans are hazardous to your health.

[uponit7771]

4. This is disgusting

[DUar17]

5. we have to let people go back to work and earn a living.Really?

With all the tax breaks/handouts they (1%) have gotten lately, they don't know how to earn a living.

[lastlib]

9. All they know how to do is leech....

When people get welfare assistance/food stamps/Medicaid, these people call THEM "leeches." Classic case of projection, and it's killing people.

I'm coming to the conclusion that we need REAL class warfare......I propose we revise Shakespeare: "First thing we do, let's kill all the rich people."

[Kaiserguy]

6. Someplace I saw the figure 6.5 Trillion ( wish I could remember where)

has been given to wall street over the last 16 or so years and the rest of us got 1 Trillion. Seem to me it should be the other way around. What does it say about the state of Americas business when big business couldn't survive for even a couple of weeks without a bail out. We on the other hand get next to nothing and for good measure we also get to pay most of the tax burden.

[not fooled]

12. 6.5T Thinly disguised

handouts to the rich.

[tecelote]

7. It's time for Wall Street to give back!

It's their patriotic duty.

[Scarsdale]

8. Translation in a nutshell

"I got mine, to hell with you" These millionaires in the gop need a wake up call, FAST. Their guy is a total, absolute failure. He is responsible for the state of this country, by not even reading the daily briefings. Thousands of lives could have been saved if there had been a REAL leader in the WH, not a TV wannabe "star" who loves to see himself on TV. The entire gop is to blame for their mistake.

[AllaN01Bear]

10. and dont forget tarp in 2009 when the businesses and instury and wall street screamed

were broke . and all the endless subsidies. remember when they kept screaming that as a nation " we are broke "

[airplaneman]

13. and that that 800 billion was going to cause hyperinflation n/t.

[SWBTATTReg]

11. This is worse than the bailouts of the banking industry etc. back in 2008-09 time frame. Moscow ...

Mitch has already derided the 4th CV-related aid bill as too much or unconstitutional even (the primary one that would help the majority of Americans more, and their small businesses from what I understand). This senator seems to think we're all too stupid and dumb to see past his hypocrisy and realize that yet again, the billionaires and millionaires got all of the 'stuff' again, I guess they didn't have enough yet, being that they only have (5%ers roughly 50% of all assets in the US).

[Nature Man]

14. wealth transfer to the already wealthy

what else is new?