the 7-11 shopkeeper in a food desert? Surely, any grown-up who earns a living to feed themselves and their family is engaged in the most basis and indisputable of “essential” activities. I, for one, am fed up with the childish cries of “choose lives over the economy!” Without work, without the generation of wealth and income, how can there be life? How can our political “betters,” on the Left and Right, justify sending $700 million of our money to Sudan when America loses 140,000 jobs in December? Without work, without the generation of wealth and income, how can there be life? How can our political “betters,” on the Left and Right, justify sending $700 million of our money to Sudan when America loses 140,000 jobs in December? Just 10% of the money sent to Sudan could have been turned into $500 cash in hand for everyone who lost their job at Christmas... just from one asinine pork-laden line- item that helps no Americans – Democrat, Republican, or apolitical. But this abomination of a bill is more than a slap in the face to all Americans suffering at this time. It is the ultimate signal of what ails our nation: the rise of the “uniparty.”
$700 million to Sudan $453 million to Ukraine (Any for Hunter, I wonder?)
$135 million to Burma $130 million to Nepal $86 million to Cambodia
Now, I live in the swamp, so perhaps I am inured, in part, to the persistent depravity of both sides of the aisle. Yet even I am incensed. It makes me wonder how people living in real America feel about the above. Those who can’t sit comfortably at home, pulling down a full wage, as they log on to another Zoom call? How can politicians on Capitol Hill, who can retire on a full taxpayer-funded pension after serving just one term, relate to those folks? Are they even capable of it anymore? Or has tone-deafness been calcified into Marie Antoinette levels of complete detachment and monolithic disdain? I am lucky. The federal government deemed my work “essential” since I work in broadcast media. After the outbreak, the Department of Homeland Security even issued me and every member of my production team with an official document saying so, should we be challenged in our movements in and around the ghost town that is today’s D.C. But I think of the millions across America who weren’t so anointed by the powers that be: all the restaurant owners, cooks, bar owners, busboys, or cinema ushers. What makes me “essential,” but not them? What makes the shelf stacker at Walmart essential, but not the bodega owner in Manhattan or
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