Hospitals across the country are struggling to cope with burnout among doctors, nurses and other workers, already buffeted by a crush of patients from the ongoing surge of the COVID-19 delta variant and now bracing for the fallout of another highly transmissible mutation.
Ohio became the latest state to summon the National Guard to help overwhelmed medical facilities. Experts in Nebraska warned that its hospitals soon may need to ration care. Medical officials in Kansas and Missouri are delaying surgeries, turning away transfers and desperately trying to hire traveling nurses, as cases double and triple in an eerie reminder of last year’s holiday season.
“There is no medical school class that can prepare you for this level of death,” said Dr. Jacqueline Pflaum-Carlson, an emergency medicine specialist at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. “The hits just keep coming.”
The national seven-day average of COVID-19 hospital admissions was 60,000 by Wednesday, far off last winter’s peak but 50% higher than in early November, the government reported. The situation is more acute in cold-weather regions, where people are increasingly gathering inside and new infections are piling up.
New York state reported Friday that slightly more than 21,000 people had tested positive for COVID-19, a new high since tests became widely available. The consequences were swift in New York City: The Rockettes Christmas show was scratched for the season, and some Broadway shows canceled performances because of outbreaks among cast members.
“We are in a situation where we are now facing a very important delta surge and we are looking over our shoulder at an oncoming omicron surge,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, said of the two COVID-19 variants.
At AdventHealth Shawnee Mission, a hospital near Kansas City, Missouri, chief medical officer Dr. Lisa Hays said the emergency department is experiencing backups sometimes lasting for days.
“The beds are not the issue. It’s the nurses to staff the beds. … And it’s all created by rising COVID numbers and burnout,” Hays said. “Our nurses are burnt out.”
Experts attribute most of the rise in cases and hospitalizations to infections among people who have not been inoculated against the coronavirus. The government says 61% of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated.
Dr. Steve Stites, chief medical officer at University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City, Kansas, said the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” continues to swamp the hospital and its workers.
“There’s no place to go. Our staff are tired. We’re going to run out of travelers,” Stites said, referring to visiting health care workers, “and omicron is at our doorstep. This is a tornado warning to our community.”
Ohio’s National Guard deployment is one of the largest seen during the pandemic, with more than 1,000 members sent to beleaguered hospitals especially in the Akron, Canton and Cleveland areas.
As of Friday, 4,723 people in the state were hospitalized with the coronavirus, a number last seen about a year ago, Gov. Mike DeWine said. Some staffers were taking only short breaks before punching in for second shifts, he added.
Health systems elsewhere that are doing somewhat better are nervously eying the arrival of the omicron variant and girding themselves for the impact.
Nebraska officials said hospitals might have to put some care on hold to make room for COVID-19 patients. While case numbers are down from the state’s pandemic peak, they could rebound rapidly, and bed availability remains tight because of patients with non-virus ailments.
“It may be likely that omicron will cause a giant surge, and honestly we can’t handle that right now,” said Dr. Angela Hewlett of Nebraska Medicine in Omaha.
At Los Angeles’ Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, just 17 coronavirus patients were being treated there Friday, a small fraction of the hospital’s worst stretch. Nurse manager Edgar Ramirez said his co-workers are weary but better prepared if a wave hits.
“The human factor of having that fear is always going to be there,” Ramirez said. “I tell our crew, ‘We have to talk through this. We have to express ourselves.’ Otherwise it’s going to tough.”
Twin sisters Linda Calderon and Natalie Balli, 71, had planned to get vaccinated but delayed it until it was too late. Now they’re on oxygen in the same room at Providence Holy Cross, their beds separated by just a few feet.
“We kept saying, ‘we’ll do it tomorrow.’ But tomorrow never came,” Calderon said as she watched her sister struggle to breathe. “We really regret not getting the shots, because if we did, we wouldn’t be like this right now.”
Pflaum-Carlson, the doctor at Detroit’s Henry Ford Health, made a public plea for people to get the shots both for their benefit and for those toiling on the frontlines of care. Eighty percent of the roughly 500 COVID-19 patients at the system’s five hospitals were unvaccinated,
“Have a little grace and consideration in how devastating things are right now,” she said.
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Uniquely US problems other advanced nations do not have. Are we really #1
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No one is aborting fully born toddlers, but I bet some parents think of it. That is called murder and against the law. Nice heart string pulling cartoon even if totally wrong about the subject. The real issue is about the woman and her rights to her life and her body. She is already born, she is a human life, she has human potential. These are all discounted and ignored by the forced birth crowd. Abortion is used before there is a viable life that can live with out the mother, or in case the mothers life is in danger because her life is important also. The forced birth crowd are not interested in human potential of the unborn fetus because after a baby is born they with draw all support. But every one wants to focus on the word life, well the woman has life. But what they really mean is human and a zygote / fetus is not human, but the woman is. Hugs
Plus these are the same damn people most virulent about not getting vaccines, wearing masks, and denying all the facts of the many deaths from the Coronavirus. Hugs
So misleading, dishonest, and maybe designed to discourage people from demanding government action on climate change. Obama is a private citizen, and while he is important and has some wealth, he is not a corporation spewing pollution in to the environment. It doesn’t matter if he has a beach front estate, again he is not a coal burning power plant or belching smog out his smoke stack. He is surely not dumping his trash into the ocean. Hugs
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Who Do Trump Supporters Blame For January 6th?
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: I am a progressive but I believe in things liberals do to help the people.
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People have too much on their minds these days trying to survive to follow what elected politicians are doing. That has allowed corporations to buy those politicians to insure the wealthy get more and more of the countries wealth and to make sure the government never serves the public.
We need to stop punching down. We need to see that capitalism is failing society. Capitalists should be kept away from government policy.
Congress must never do anything to help the American people. That would be Communism.
Working for his donors against the people who voted for him Manchin killed the BBB bill. Killed it. Now wants to play president some more even though we elected Biden because of what he promised to try to do when he ran, Manchin wants the child credit extended ten years taking all the money he will allow for the bill so that is the only thing in it. Why? Because Manchin pushed a child tax refund when he was governor of West Virginia. Now the Senate has given up on it and decided to try to pass voting rights bill needed if the Democrats hope to stop the Republican rigging of the next election in 2022, yes next year. But that wont happen either as Sinema has already said she wont change the filibuster under any circumstances, which means the bill is dead. Nothing will pass ever with Sinema and Manchin in the pockets of the wealthy donor class. Democracy is already dead.
Never vote for moderate or centrist Democrats. They are malware. Vote for progressives!
Republicans know they are traitors.
https://twitter.com/roderickgraham/status/1471615647834689546?s=20
Kim Potter is a murderer trying to create a situation where her horrible decisions and non-use of training give her power. It’s called white supremacy.
What is Bill 21 Quebec?
Bill 21, also commonly referred to as Quebec’s secularism law, bans some public servants deemed to be in positions of authority — such as teachers, judges and police officers — from wearing religious symbols on the job. Hugs
https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1471155338502184960?s=20
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Silly. Comparing apples and bicycles. PS: Also safe for gender discrimination, and you can even decide based on finger length, quality of the smile, who he/she hangs out with, smooth or crunchy… or how they squeeze the toothpaste.
Kate McKinnon won’t hook up with me because I’m male. Gender discrimination!
Billie Eilish won’t date me because I’m older than her grandfather. Age discrimination!
The hot blonde I met in church won’t see me because I’m married. Marital status discrimination.
None of the Kardashians will date me because I can’t come up with enough cash. Economic discrimination.
Lauren Boebert won’t hook up with me because I don’t have a tattoo on my . . . . You know, that’s OK with me. Dating is a rather personal choice. I doubt it would be pleasant for either party if we match a racist white person with a black person. Ted himself would not want to spend an evening with a racist homophobic MAGA cap-wearing hedge fund manager.
At no other time has the jobs been separated by is it a job that existed before or is it something never seen before? We have never asked if a newly hired cook or server was at a place that is new? Weird way to try to attack Biden. Just be happy the jobs are coming back as businesses start opening due to the vaccines / boosters. Think how great the economy would be if everyone would get vaccinated, wear masks when appropriate, and try to slow / stop the spread of the virus.
I have no trouble with this. I have been social distancing and removing my self from personal contact with people since childhood. But especially since about 2014. I am at a point in my life where I am very comfortable with online contact vs in person contact. If I want more there is Skype, text, face time, and I have the computer set up with cameras. If I was a student today I would choose remote learning, I think a lot of kids serious about learning would. A lot of nursing students did their early years of learning online when I was still working back before 2014. So while not everyone can get the social interaction they need online, Ron for example cannot he still likes person to person contact, I and many others find socializing online to be enough.
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: For many their wallets run dry long before the needs do
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The roundup is short and late today because my blood sugar went uncontrolled and I was in bed in bad shape most of the day. Ron started talking at 2:30 PM of either calling my doctor or taking me to the E.R. I nixed both options for having something to eat. Story below.
I have been having trouble with my blood sugar coming down in the morning when I get up. It has been around 190 to 225 when I get up this last week. No idea why, my diet has not changed. It has been climbing for a month from my normal morning reading of 120 to 130 to the 160’s and 180’s. This morning it was 244. All week I would take my medications and every hour check my blood sugar again. Until this morning with in two hours it would be back to normal. This morning it did not come down but instead went up.
One hour after getting up it was 258. The next hour it started to come down. It went to 181 and then at 8 AM it hit 133. I figured everything was fine and back to normal. I was wrong. I had breakfast while Ron was shopping at Walmart because I don’t go there. He was going to come home and I was going out with him to the local two grocery stores. Only when he got home I was in trouble. I was diaphoretic, dizzy, confused, tired. Ron did a blood sugar and I was near 300. He gave me some medications, as much water as I would take and I went to bed. He kept checking me. I woke up around noon, checked the blood sugar and it was still in the low 200’s. It was coming down but too slowly. I went back to bed.
At 2:30 it was back to about 150. Ron still wanted to call my doctor but I said let me eat first and then I will. He fixed me a salad and steak, no carbs to speak of, and none of the ones I wanted. After I ate I again got diaphoretic, shaking, dizzy, nausea. We checked my blood sugar and I was down to 80. I was crashing, my blood sugar was going down too fast too far. Ron was looking for the glucose tablets when I grabbed a MT Dew in the fridge and downed it. Then I followed it up with a few cookies. Not smart. Yes it brought my sugar back up and I started to feel great, then my sugar went to high and I got real tired. So I went back to bed. I just got up at 5:30 PM and I am still tried. I wanted to post what I had gotten done on the roundup, then I am going back to bed I think.
Don’t worry Ron will be perched over my shoulder for the next three days watching everything I put in my mouth. He will want blood sugars if I even look slightly wrong. He has already read me the riot act and told me repeatedly everything I did wrong, repeatedly. And then did it again to make one of us feel better. So that was my day, how was yours? Hugs
Where at least three people are known / charged with voting multiple times for tRump. Hugs
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Oh dear me, the cartoonist giggling so hard at Biden’s approval numbers, claiming they are so bad fail to remember their cult leaders approval numbers on the same day in his presidency were worse than Biden’s. The approval numbers for tRump were 36.4 and for Biden were 43.8 on day 330 of their terms. In case you can not count, that means Biden is more popular than tRump was. So if it is bad for Biden then it was worse for tRump. Hugs https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/
When is some other country going to come over here and solve our problems? I didn’t see anyone stepping in to stop trump or the republican terrorist attacks. Where is the UN? Where has the idea of the US as the world police gotten us? A huge bloated military budget and our own problems at home not addressed. It is time to realize the rest of the world are entitled to make their own choices and they don’t have to do what we tell them nor follow our doctrines. The US is the busybody of the world. Time for us to stop and mind our own business. Hugs
The Build Back Better bill was paid for and the original CBO score based on the bill showed that. No debt. Manchin had said he wouldn’t vote for it if it added to the debt. The Republicans couldn’t use this real score to sink the bill as it was showing the bill paid for. So they demanded the CBO do another score, one that they set the parameters, the rules for. For the new score they added a bunch of things not in the bill to what they wanted scored. That added a bunch of debt. So dishonest. It is like you going to the store with a budget and staying to the budget but at the check out I add a bunch more stuff in your cart you did not plan to buy and then I use that to claim you were over budget. I busted your budget and then use that to claim you shouldn’t get any of the stuff you planned for in the first place. Hugs
A trillion dollar millstone around the necks of young adults. Civilized nations make it possible for everyone to access affordable higher education, because it is considered a right and beneficial to society as a whole, not an opportunity to make big bucks on the backs of struggling students. Hugs
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Why does the US turn a blind eye to Israel’s expansion of Squatter-Settlements on Palestinian Land?
https://www.juancole.com/2021/12/expansion-settlements-palestinian.html
Israeli media have been pointing out that the Biden administration in Washington is not too bothered about the occupation state’s illegal settlement expansion. There is little reason to doubt the veracity of the claim. So far, US President Joe Biden has managed to maintain a fine balance between his agenda in favour of the two-state compromise, and his predecessor’s legacy which promotes Israel’s annexation of more Palestinian land.
As long as Biden adheres to the international consensus about the two-state compromise, all he has to do is issue periodic condemnations and look the other way, turning the proverbial blind eye to Israeli settlement expansion. After all, that is what the UN has been doing ever since it recognised Israel’s colonial existence.
“We strongly oppose the expansion of settlements, which is completely inconsistent with efforts to lower tensions and to ensure calm, and damages the prospects for a two-state solution,” said US State Department spokesman Ned Price in October.
This perpetual “concern” can be seen from this statement as saving and perpetuating the rhetoric of two-state diplomacy. Settlements are not opposed because of the dispossession of the Palestinians from their land; that consequence has already been cloistered within the humanitarian agenda. The international community bases its relevance to the issue upon two-state politics, as does the US. Hence the tactic of opposing just one fragment of the entire series of repercussions as a result of settlement expansion and de-facto annexation. Whenever the two-state compromise is mentioned, the Palestinian people rarely feature. It is safe, therefore, to state that the paradigm does not exist to grant Palestinians their rights, but to maintain international interference so that the Palestinians are forever unable to claim their legitimate rights to their land.
Last week, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz reiterated the Biden administration’s rigmarole. Speaking to reporters in Washington, Gantz said that US officials do not criticise settlement expansion with the same fervour that they speak about the two-state compromise. The US, Gantz said, is concerned mostly with “maintaining a political horizon between us and the Palestinians open, and about not creating a reality that blocks such a horizon from developing.”
Even more telling was Gantz’s statement that that there are “lots of differences between what the US and Israel view as a two-state solution.” Taking into account that the two-state compromise has been declared obsolete and remains relevant only within international diplomacy, any purported differences about which Gantz speaks are purely hypothetical.
If the US does not care about settlement expansion, why would it be concerned about how the two-state paradigm is applied, considering that it is no longer viable and Israel is well on its path to de-facto annexation in any case? If the US and Israel are on the same page when it comes to preserving the Palestinian Authority and its compromised politics (and “sacred” security coordination with the occupation state), there is little difference in terms of the ultimate aim that Israel is aiming for, which is complete control over all Palestinian territory. The US certainly doesn’t seek an alternative reality, not when it is so heavily invested in Israel. It is only that Biden has publicly aligned himself with international consensus, while Israel has been publicly rejecting any political negotiation for a solution, which gives Gantz any reason to claim political divergence with Washington.
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor or Informed Comment.
Thanks to Homeless on the High Desert at https://homelessonthehighdesert.com/2021/12/15/tilting-windmills/ for the link. There are other good links in the post at the link. Hugs
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: It is not free stuff, it is using government to serve the people, help the public. The people today have a lower standard of living since the New Deal.
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https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1470882713888788480?s=20
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/670587423673237504
But, but, but …it was antifa. The entire operation was Trump, the Republican Party, and FOX. They all knew. They all lied afterwards.
Republicans want a Civil War, based on lies and conspiracies, based on promises they will never deliver, just to retain power and destroy elections/democracy. Their violence is premeditated. Their base is incapable of independent thought. The losers have united. Instead of owning their growing defeats, they invent excuses. They blame others.
They knew they were guilty. Then they invented an enemy to blame it on. Republican/FOX fascism, writ large.
They knew. They lied. The Right want their ‘lone wolves’ to attack progressives using FOX propaganda.
Hannity, Ingraham, and Kilmeade think their viewers are worthless. They lie to their faces.
https://twitter.com/GBBranstetter/status/1470377979175968768?s=20
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The funny thing about the right attack Biden on crime is that the left attacks Biden for being to strict on crime and punishment. Have all the right forgotten the 1994 crime bill sponsored by Biden that led to a jump in mass incarceration. Biden is historically pro-police, pro-prison, pro-hammer down law and order. However turning the US into a police state wont solve the crime problem. Crime may be rising now but is still less than it has been even in the last decade. Crime has been falling steadily. But there are some who stand to gain by turning the US into a police state. Resist their fear mongering. We can do better, again look at other countries, they solve crime problems with out locking up large segments of the population in prisons designed to be punitive and in inhumane. Hugs
The right likes to call any coverage of the Coronavirus hysterical because they work for the profit of big money. A virus that has killed over 800,000 people in less than 2 years and 1% of people over 65 in the country. Think of that. Why would anyone want to ignore that, because it cuts into profit. If you have take precautions it costs profits. So the right wing makes it seem the virus is no problem at all and any one who wants to fight the virus is wrong. Hugs
Maybe if police were not busy oppressing minorities with the Republicans endless war on drugs they would have time to focus on petty theft. Crime rates in GOP cities are the same as those in Democrat led cities. Crime rates in cities that increased police funding showed increases in crime. By pushing this false Fox News inspired narrative, you ignore the true roots and causes of crime. Typical GOP-posturing. Hugs
I’m not sure of the point. Kentucky officials and citizens have been highly complimentary about the federal response to the disaster. And the Biden admin has been begging people to get booster shots. What is Mr. Lester’s beef? Sen. McConnell went as far to praise the speed and effort the President has made in response to the disaster. No mention was made or Covid-19 vaccinations. Hugs
Again the right wing projects. Blame Biden they shout for taking away something Biden worked hard to give you and the Republicans fought every attempt to keep you having. It is extended in the build back better plan that Manchin, Sinema, and the Republicans are fighting to keep from ever becoming law. This is misdirection in hopes of making the people angry at someone trying to help them by the person trying to hurt them. Hugs
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No Zuckerberg is the ET. This reminds me of the twilight zone episode where everyone on a bus stopped at a diner in a snow storm. They were scared a escaped prisoner was mixed in with them. After they all got back on the bus and the bus crashed killing everyone one guy returned to the diner where he announced he was from Mars and they were going to invade, but the cook in the diner laughed and told him too late as he was from Venus and they were already to invade. Hugs
Is Jim Jordan Planning To Kill Us All?
Ron DeSantis continues to threaten to send undocumented immigrants to Delaware
Ron DeSantis continues to threaten to send undocumented immigrants to Delaware
The Governor shied away from questions about 2024 in this segment.Gov. Ron DeSantis continued Monday to float ideas about where he might send undocumented immigrants if the federal government sent them to Florida.
The Governor made his threats on the “Ingraham Angle,” again asserting the state’s position that they should be sent to other places.
DeSantis is putting his money where his mouth is: his proposed budget includes an $8 million allocation for relocating the undocumented.
“Our view is that if they’re going to be dumping, we want to be able to facilitate transfer to places like Delaware. And so we have $8 million in my new budget to be able to do that,” DeSantis said.
This line about Delaware, the home state of President Joe Biden, has been used before.
“If you sent (them) to Delaware or Martha’s Vineyard, that border would be secured the next day,” DeSantis said last week in Jacksonville when unveiling a series of proposals designed to address undocumented immigrants being transferred to Florida.
During the interview, DeSantis sounded as if the flights were still going on, even though he had said weeks back that the migrant flights had ceased.
“Well, actually the Biden administration puts people on planes and flies them into Florida in the wee hours of the morning,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis denounced contractors who may have been part of the flights last spring and summer, saying that Biden’s border policies were “effectively a human smuggling operation.”
Among the proposals DeSantis is advancing is a prohibition of state business with those contractors, as well as potential restitution for money made shipping these people.
DeSantis avoided taking some of Ingraham’s bait.
He sidestepped a question framing his policy push as motivated by 2024 concerns, and also redirected a question about a Washington Post op-ed accusing him of “paving his path to the White House on the backs of vulnerable immigrant children.”
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: To corporations workers are simply commodities to use and throw away. Only they and their fellow wealthy ilk are worthy of a decent life in their opinion.
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Worker solidarity will change this. Unite!
Both parties are not the same.
DOJ needs to drop the hammer.
The Chief of Staff of a twice impeached lifelong criminal is a traitor and cheater.
This is the design. Not the flaw.
Real loving god there buddy. I always wonder at people who buy expensive vehicles and then write or plaster them with stickers. I doubt the sanity of people like this. Hugs
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Rivers is another right wing media cartoonist. I wonder why the right thinks the common decency of wearing a mask and social distancing to protect others around them is hell. Why vaccines paid for and approved by their tax dollars, used with very minuscule side effects world wide is too much to ask for saving lives. The lives they save could be theirs. After all this time and data, the objections now come down to stubborn I don’t want to because my tribe has said it is bad. They would rather believe a talk show host who is a high school drop out or whose bosses said in court no one should believe him rather than a certified immunologist with over 30 years in the practice of saving peoples lives. Hugs
The real economy is how money flows effecting peoples lives. It is not the stock market which is how much money the wealthy are gaining from the system. In the economy today there is a huge divide between the wealthy and the public. That divide is making it hard for the public to meet their daily needs. The Democrats are trying to fix and narrow that divide. But because the wealthy are so entrenched and own so much of the media along with a majority of the elected office holders it is a fight to get anything for the people, anything helps the public. The wealthy only care, their only interest is more for themselves. More than they can spend, more than the other wealthy for bragging rights. The public needs to know who is fighting for them, and who is fighting against them. As corporate owned media is not going to tell them, and bribed politicians are going to lie about the attempts to pass bills to help the public, it is up to us to share the true of what is happening with the people. Spread the news, to everyone, on every blog, at every meeting with others. Get the word out before it is too late. Hugs
At least Biden is actually trying to something to help the majority of Americans unlike the last administration who only wanted to help the wealthy 0.1%. Yet another phrase that the GQP has stolen from the language. Used to be “free stuff” was the crap that you got for signing up for a savings account or a web service. Now they intend it to mean “Democrats invested in infrastructure or the people”. Damn them to Hell. Hugs
And once again, the pathetically uneducated dropout Lisa Benson confirms how little she understands of any serious economic issue. New Deal Keynesian liberal market economics is NOT about expecting “FREE STUFF” any more than law enforcement, emergency first responders or “free” public schools — or even the military that costs far more than anything proposed — is “free stuff.” We all contribute and we all benefit. We want PUBLIC POLICY to address legitimate PUBLIC NEEDS, but has very specific proposals for how ALL OF US contribute, in a way that is fair for everyone. We all expect to pay our fair shares.
We also expect the billionaires and corporate special interests who have been getting a free ride to pay their fair share. But for our money we don’t want to just blow up other countries to enrich “defense contractors” of the “military-industrial complex” that (Republican) Eisenhower warned us about; we want to get for our money the things that benefit all of us and INVEST in the resources and opportunities that generate economic returns that enrich us all. Not free stuff. The only reason the Republicans want our infrastructure to fail is so they can sell it to the highest bidder. Which will cost the working majority that commutes to work the most, as we would have to pay tolls and taxes everywhere we go. Hugs
Only AG would believe atheist’s have meltdowns over the origin of words. If you really want to drive “them” crazy, just wish them a Happy Festivus and watch their heads explode!!! Even if Holiday originated from Holy Day, that’s not its modern meaning. And besides, even if you intend it as Holy Day, that’s still more inclusive because every religion has some concept of Holiness. No one is telling you that you can’t say Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays is simply meant to show respect for those of us who DON’T celebrate Christmas. I have never understood the made up war on Christmas and anger on the right if people don’t use their exact phrasing. Isn’t this the freedom people? No vaccines and do what they want party? But forcing everyone to pay homage to a holiday that has borrowed every aspect of it from other faiths and pagan rites seems weird to me. Hugs
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Then tell the companies to stop inflating their prices. Greed is a choice. We should be doing something about Inflation, then, instead of mindlessly blaming President Biden or the Fed like the Right-Wing Death-Cultists are trying to do. The way to stop this is to restore full and necessary regulation to businesses, including Price Regulations. This inflation is entirely due to the choices that the Private Market Made. It is neither necessary, nor justified. Summers must be happy that the upper 1% have greatly increased THEIR wealth! Summers hates any wage earners being paid more. And he fights like hell to keep billionaires from paying taxes.