"This is really the endgame. Wall Street has subsumed the US Treasury and turned it into a massively leveraged hedge fund that is controlled by an unscrupulous charlatan who made his bones evicting families from their homes during the worse economic slump since the Great Depression.
"We’re truly fu**ed."
Source - https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-senates-coronavirus-relief-package-must-be-stopped/
This 'stimulus/relief' bill is starting to look a lot like the so-called Patriot Act - a compendium of hugely damaging measures rammed through Congress without meaningful debate in the wake of what appears to be a tragedy of our own making.
When will we ever learn? My guess is NEVER, since we really don't have the tools we need to understand what is happening or the means to cope with it.
Yes, we are truly f-cked.
Update 3/28/2020:
Not only was there no debate, there wasn't even a recorded vote in the House:
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/congressman-massie-denied-2t-coronavirus-stimulus-without-recorded-vote
THIS is how democracy dies. It happened after 9/11, and now it's 'the new normal'.
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