Lawmakers, business leaders begin to raise alarms about dwindling federal aid, as omicron cases rise across U.S.

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2 thoughts on “Lawmakers, business leaders begin to raise alarms about dwindling federal aid, as omicron cases rise across U.S.

    1. We taxpayers are the ones who get the benefits. We tried to rebound from the recession of 2007-2008 on the cheap and it took a long time for the economy to come back … and for some people, it never did.

      Last time I checked the approach of cutting taxes, cutting education, and sending jobs overseas has left a lot of people unable to make a decent living and provide for their own. We’ve gone from a country in which we could have a married couple, one parent could stay at home and raise the kids … to a country in which both parents must work and it’s hard to keep your head another water, much less raise the kids. And that’s leaving out that we’ve lost manufacturing jobs and replaced them with distribution jobs… which themselves will be automated away soon enough.

      Little wonder a lot of people are pretty much over the American experiment with democracy, ready for either more government intervention or ready to throw in with a “leader” who reassures them that, no, it’s not their fault, it’s someone else’s fault because they’re not “real” Americans. Not that he’s got any solutions either, but it sure makes people feel better to have someone else to blame.

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