Rev. Dr. William Barber – “White Poverty” & Poor People’s Campaign March | The Daily Show

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1. What Rev Barber is seeking is what most other developed nations have already achieved to a greater or lesser extent. America’s exceptionalism is its refusal to see what every other developed nation knows implicitly – that unless everyone is free from inequality, injustice and poverty, no one is.

   And the reverend is correct when he says its not the poor and disadvantaged that getting handouts – its the advantaged and wealthy who are. The further and faster the gap between rich and poor grows, the more attractive the Hitlers and Trumps of the world become to the disaffected.

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   1. Thank you. That is exactly correct.

      Rev. Barber has been working for years and years on the Poor People’s Campaign. He himself is exceptional, IMO.

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   2. Hi Barry, very very well said. The oil companies get billions from the US government while making record profits. Huge price gouging in the US was going on just after the Covid pandemix was over yet compaines kept flooding the news / press with how they were losing money. Bernie Sanders stressed in a recent interview that Biden would win easily if he would come out hard and forful for the people, the lower incomes getting a boost and help from the government to over come the current proffit for the wealthy at the cost of the working people. Best wishes. Scottie

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      1. Just one observation: many businesses here were eligible for subsidies and other grants during the height of the pandemic – mostly for employee wages. But the majority of the larger companies voluntarily paid those back once they returned to full production. I suspect this was a marketing ploy to improve their reputations in the eyes of the public, but some seem to have been because of a genuinely ethical stance.

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         1. Hello Barry. Here it was different. The PPP loans could and most did get forgiven, and did not need to be paid off. So many politicians took them, free money for them at the same time they fought the public from getting anything. But the big corporations get 70% of the public subsidies in the US while the public gets only 30% and at a time of record profits. I hate it. Yet there is no money to fix roads and bridges nor to pay for schools. So republican say that the government needs to cut that 30% way back. But when asked why they won’t cut the corporations subsides or raise taxes on the wealthy, they refuse to even talk about it. Best wishes. Scottie

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