Agree with the last sentence. The American ethos is just not accustomed to pandemics like some Asian and European nations who experience them more than they would like and mask wearing is second nature.
The fact the President of the United States would use the USPS as a bargaining chip concerning stimulus checks that should have automatically been given to every American every month the pandemic raged on throughout the United States is deplorable and should anger all Americans.
Trump signed an executive order last week allowing payroll taxes for employed Americans to be deferred until 2021. He later said, if reelected, he plans on making those payroll tax cuts permanent. Payroll taxes help the federal government fund Social Security and Medicare. Here’s a quote from Trump about his plan from the Wall Street Journal: “On Saturday, when announcing the deferment, he said, “I plan to forgive these taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax. So I’m going to make them all permanent.”
That’s exactly what he is doing. To compound trump’s total lack of empathy for the suffering he’s inflicted upon the American people with his gross incompetence, by deliberately attacking the United States Postal Service in his corrupt attempt to “help” his reelection, trump is preventing the timely delivery of medications through the mail that millions of Americans depend on, and not just the elderly and disabled. In rural America, millions depend on the US Mail for their Social Security checks. Not everyone has “direct deposit.” Do you care? Evidently not. You are an ignorant fellow. You truly are, and in so many ways. It would be astonishing, but for the fact that you no longer surprise anyone with your ignorance, caught up as you are with your love for the worst “president” in modern American history. I say that with all the respect you are due.
This is what happens when a person ignores anything that disagrees with his viewpoint, calling it “fake news.”
Also from WSJ:- https://politicalwire.com/2020/08/11/employers-cast-wary-eye-on-trump-payroll-tax-deferral/
This paints a different picture. President Donald Trump suggested Friday that he would be open to approving additional funding for the U.S. Postal Service if Congressional Democrats agree to his legislative agenda on combating the coronavirus pandemic and its accompanying economic crisis. Notice the word "additional".
I think it goes beyond that. He is willfully ignoring the facts. He knows he is attacking the truth, and he simply doesn’t care. He is so caught up in trump’s cult of personality that he will gladly spit on the truth if, in his mind, he is somehow helping trump. It is well and truly pathetic. He is also an excellent example of those who take love of trump so far that they willingly aid and abet trump’s assault on our republic, our standards of decency, and our standing beyond our borders. Jack Kennedy is mentioned in the title of this thread. I’m very familiar with President Kennedy. I was one of the 40,000 people at Rice Stadium when he gave one of the most famous speeches in American history. My sister performed with so many others on the football field for the president and the many luminaries on the stage with him. While there is a video recording of the speech, it doesn’t capture his charisma, the electricity in the air. It was a warm day, but listening to him, I had chills. I’ll never forget it. Thirteen months later, he was murdered in Dallas. I saw him the day before, riding in the motorcade down Broadway from the airport on its way to the Gulf Freeway. I could have hit the passengers in his open limousine with a rock. It was that close.
You’re right, it goes beyond just blocking out information that he doesn’t agree with. He’s doing so in the name of protecting and defending Trump at all costs. Also, thank you for sharing your story about attending the JFK speech in 1962 at Rice Stadium. Because of your post, I just watched 16 minutes of the speech. I could tell JFK was a very charismatic leader just by watching the speech on my phone, but I’m sure it was even more apparent in person. Here are a couple of quotes that I wish all Americans would heed during the current pandemic: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” “Space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per person per week to more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman and child in the United States, for we have given this program a high national priority--even though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us.”
Well said. I’ll add something I stumbled across today. These are Einstein’s last written words, ending in mid sentence. Reading them, I realized how well they describe what we are experiencing today. “Political passions, once they have been fanned into flame, exact their victims…“
"In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics." John F. Kennedy
Yes, hypothetically speaking, if Trump gets his legislative agenda, millions of people will become destitute.
It is incredible the extremes contortions you will go to in an effort to defend Donald Trump... to the point that it is comical except for the fact you are serious.
So that 7 trillion in debt that Trump added. Where did it all go? Is that what sock puppet JFK wants the tax payers to do...to pay for all that grift?
