BLOG POST IT’S NOT THAT HARD--KEEP IT SIMPLE, SWEETIE

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IT’S NOT THAT HARD--KEEP IT SIMPLE, SWEETIE

When you have a problem to solve, keep it simple.

 So, the problem to be solved here is to get immediate urgent literally lifesaving, business-saving, job-saving MONEY to MICRO SIZED BUISINESSES, so that those MICRO businesses can keep their employees with a job--even though the employees will be staying home to physically distance; and so they can keep their business going--even though the business owners will also be staying home to physically distance.

It is ESSENTIAL  to the common welfare for the United States Federal Government to provide MICRO BUSINESS owners and their employees with money to pay for essential personal BASIC NEEDS: FOOD, UTILITIES, GAS FOR VEHICLES, SHELTER, TOILET PAPER, CLOTHES,HANDSANITIZER, LYSOL liquid spray and  WIPES;  INTERNET ACCESS,  and MULTIPLE LAPTOPS that all of us need during  the CORONAVIRUS PAUSE.

The EASY  way to solve this problem is to go to the top floors of skyscrapers across the country, open the windows, and throw out hundred-dollar bills.

Or,

 For the U.S. Treasury to purchase $2000.00 GIFT CARDS and throw those out the windows.

For smaller cities with no skyscrapers, go to the top of the highest local building, open the windows, and throw out hundred-dollar bills.

For towns and villages, go to the churches, court houses, post offices  and have folks line up six feet or more apart and allow the people of and in America to walk up to a table, so they can pick up $2000 gift cards, one,  for each adult in the household.

This will solve the problem of getting money to people who desperately need it RIGHT NOW.

TODAY. THIS COULD BE DONE TODAY.

People are hungry, worried, anxious, and they do not know where to turn. The United States of America is OUR country and that means that the Federal Government is OUR SERVANT, our PUBLIC SERVANTS who are there, whose job it is to do for us what we can not do for ourselves.

It is the Federal Government’s job to TAKE CARE OF US DURING THIS CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC. If it is  not the Federal Government’s job,  then, I ask you, whose job is it?

Is it a governor’s job? A mayor’s job? Your neighbor’s job,

Is it your churches job? Is it YOUR job?

WE THE PEOPLE…established this government. IT IS US. IT IS OURS.

We established OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to provide for the common defense. We are under attack from COVID 19.

So here is my question? Where is Grover Norquist?

He wanted to “shrink the federal government till it was small enough that he could drown it in a bathtub.”  He coerced Republican office holders to sign a no tax pledge… but then,  Trump became President.

With the SURPLUS that President Obama left in our government coffers, Trump moved to make his millionaire friends richer…with the budge- busting tax cut, that made millionaires and billionaires richer and the rest of us got either a couple of bucks or …not one red cent.

What happened to all that Deficit is dangerous, too high, we cannot spend any money for anything needed by:

POOR PEOPLE, MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE, THOSE WHO WANT TO WORK THEMSELVES INTO THE MIDDLE CLASS, THE UNHOMED AND THE MENTALLY ILL, UNEMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYABLE, ALCOHOL ADDICTED, DRUG ADDICTED, HUNGRY, CHALLENGED IN A HUNDRED WAYs: that is, WE THE PEOPLE.

ANYTHING THAT WE THE PEOPLE NEEDED, THERE WAS NO MONEY FOR THAT. Any tax cut and means of enriching themselves and their donors and cronies, THAT we could afford.

Take what just happened with the PPP. The money disappeared before the MICRO business owners could get in line. It was gone!

BIG BANKS gave it to their friends. The BIG BANKS put their corporate customers at the head of the line, and before any MICRO business owners--you know, your barber, your local  pizza restaurant,  bar and grill, your nail salon, your local florist, or bowling alley, BEFORE ACTUAL MICRO BUSINESS OWNERS OULD EVEN GET IN LINE…THE MONEY WAS ALL GONE!

Where did it go? To Ruth’s Chris, to professional sports teams, to mega sized corporations, with connections to the BIG BANKS. They did not NEED the money!

They have assets for many months. They have assets they could sell or use as collateral. They could coast for months even years on the money they have in the bank. IF they NEEDED a loan, they could pick up the phone as they did to get to the head of the line, call their BIG BANK friends and get a loan over the phone without even a handshake being necessary! THAT is how they got their hands on ALL of the PPP money before the MICRO business owners had any chance at all.

 I know it was legal: but was it just? Was it right?

Was its kind? Or was it greedy, selfish, me-me-me and to hell with anyone else?

So many hurdles were written into the law by the lobbyists who support Republicans and who because of their donor status with those Republican office holders CALL THE SHOTS. There was NEVER a level playing field!

Micro businesses do not bank with the BIG BANKS. They are either UNBANKED or they use small banks, credit unions and the like.

THOSE smaller institutions did not have a chance, either. BIG BANKS NEVER HAD TO  BE INVOLVED IN THE FIRST PLACE!

When people are hungry and not working, when they are staying home to keep all of us safer from a deadly viral pandemic, WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU HAVE THEM APPLY FOR A LOAN?

They do not need LOANS : they NEED cash money right now and no loan is necessary. It was not the banks’ money by the way: it was guaranteed by the U.S. government. They Banks were making “bank” on money that was not theirs that they could loan to their friends and get paid on both ends. Some gig if you can get it.

The U.S. Treasury is going to pay the money. Just like the IRS can send you your tax refund, they can send you MONEY. NOT A LOAN.

The money in the U.S. Treasury, by the way, is OUR money! It does not belong to Trump, though he held up your check till he could have his name --his signature – printed in the COMMENT LINE on the checks.

So why involve the BANKS? Why do we need middlemen?

 Because they are TRUMP’S MIDDLEMEN! They are Trump’s friends, supporters, donors, backers, cronies, and fellow millionaires.

If there is a way for his friends to make money, he is all for it. No matter what it means for American  citizens and American workers and workers in America, no matter what their ethnic origin.

The money in the U.S. Treasury is OUR money. Why do you need a loan to get a hand on YOUR OWN MONEY?

No, the plan was not to get you money right away. In this age of digital technology, that  could be done INSTANTLY.

Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, Gift Card are just a few of the dozens of ways to put cash in the hands of the hungry, who are staying home to stay alive.