Letter to Editor
By James Hankins
WAS THE $1,200 STIMULUS ENOUGH TO PAY FOR YOUR RENT, UTILITIES, FOOD, TRANSPORTATION, AND PHONE BILL? If no, please just say plain no; do not cuss (LOL). TRUMP and his three wives, Mitch McConnell and his two wives, Linsey Graham, Thom Tillis, David Rozier, and all other elected members of congress are paid over $200,000 a year. How many of them do you think gave their $1,200 to a poor person or family? Again, please just answer. No descriptive adjectives for our public servants (LOL).
Our flag-waving USA billionaires, like Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones, who claim to be patriotic ,got a large pepperoni pizza. We poor and middle class essential under minimum wage workers/ sacrificial lambs got one ridiculously small slice with three razor- thin pepperonis on it. Despite the record number of workers at meat plants such as Tyson, Smithfield and others testing positive for COVID-19, TRUMP issued an executive order that indemnified/exempted them from lawsuits. What protection did TRUMP order for the workers?
As a retired vocational education (shop) teacher, I ask “where is OSHA”? My niece a nurse practitioner, on the front line, asks where is the CDC? Our government collects enough of our tax dollars every April 15th to pay for anything our leaders want to spend it on like wars and tax cuts for the rich. We should press our elected officers to give each adult $2,000 a month until three months after we have a vaccine that will slow or cure COVID-19.
The rich will invest their $2,000 in stocks while the prices are incredibly low. We poor and middle class will pay on some of our bills and buy food. We will spend about 97% of our $2,000, it will be taxed about ten times, then back in our US Treasury in 7 to 10 days. My family and I are going to contact our two U.S. Senators and one U.S. Representative and demand the government give us back our fair share of our rainy-day savings during this pandemic. I remember something I learned in my 10th grade government class that always made me feel independent.
“Whenever any form of government became destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and institute a new government”. If our 116th congress vote NO on a fair and balanced stimulus bill to save us from bankruptcy, we will exercise our rights and vote NO on their election or reelection on November 3rd. Will you and your family join my family???
