Part One:
Chuck Collins, director of the Institute for Policy Studies’ Program on Inequality and co-author of the report “Billionaire Bonanza 2020.”
https://ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza-2020/
BILLIONAIRE WEALTH GREW BY $845 BILLION, or 29%, AS AMERICA STRUGGLED THROUGH FIRST SIX MONTHS OF PANDEMIC While Millions Lost Jobs, Businesses, Health & Lives, Nation’s 643 Richest Saw Their Collective Fortune Leap Nearly 30%
We discuss this situation with Chuck, and the implications for us all. We discuss the wealth tax proposed by Bernie Sanders, and how this will benefit not only the people on the lower end of the income curve, but, ultimately how it will benefit society and the wealthy themselves. We talk about how this can be accomplished, particularly how wealthy personal foundations should change. It will require a change in the attitude of wealthy individuals that believe that they “did it on their own”.
Part Two: Robert Hennelly
We have a conversation with Robert Hennelly, writer with Salon.com, and insidenj.com, and can be found @stucknation.com.
Nations who have recovered fastest quarantined the fastest. The ruling elites won’t allow that here Both parties are to blame for the economic rot precipitated by corporations and the super-rich
https://www.salon.com/2020/09/21/nations-who-have-recovered-fasted-quarantined-the-fastest-the-ruling-elites-wont-allow-that-here/
EVERY CAMPAIGN PITCH IS AT ITS ROOT A NARRATIVE, A STORY LINE ABOUT THE EBB AND FLOW OF OUR HISTORY THAT ACTS AS THE ORIENTATION FOR THE VOTE THAT IS UPON US. THE CANDIDATE WHOSE STORY LINE CAPTURES THE MOST PEOPLE IS THE ONE THAT PREVAILS IN NOVEMBER.
For Trump’s base, the Make America Great Again cult, our nation achieved its zenith in the post–World War II era, when a white family could be supported by a single breadwinner. In that narrative,Donald Trump was just on the verge of a restoration of those halcyon days when the Chinese unleashed the coronavirus and wrecked what he called the “greatest economy in history.”And now, as the pandemic body count passes 200,000, many MAGA voters continue to believe the virus is “a hoax” and public health measures that aim to stop its spread are part of a deep state conspiracy to deprive Americans of their fundamental civil liberties while kneecapping Donald Trump, who was in the process of delivering that so-called greatest economy.
So deeply held is this conviction that these folks believe that letting their fellow Americans succumb to the virus is a reasonable trade off, because the more people that die and the faster the virus spreads, the quicker herd immunity will be conferred on a grateful nation who can resume in basking in Trump’s restoration of white male greatness.
