Trump is not interested in watching a treading water contest by those who his failures have put into extreme desperation. He doesn’t care if they drown.
While the vast majority of Americans have lost income, lost freedom and many have been personally put at risk or have actually experienced severe illness or death, a few at the top, who have made sure to insulate and protect themselves (often in luxury conditions or on private island getaways) have made off like the bandits they are.
In the first four months of the pandemic:
• 29 Americans became new billionaires
• More than 16 million Americans lost their health insurance
• 46 million have filed for unemployment
• Billionaires increased their wealth by $584 billion (Jeff Bezos alone increased his by 43 billion of that, selling and shipping all that stuff everyone is buying while shopping from quarantine at home); total net worth of 643 billionaires increased from $2.9 trillion to $3.5 trillion
•U.S households overall lost $6.5 trillion in wealth.
(Figures are from late June, have only increased since then)
There is REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH going on, all right, but it is not the PROgressives who are taking from the rich and giving to the poor, it is the corporate oligarchs who are profiting off the work of those who create their wealth while putting their own lives and health at risk.
Class warfare?
In the words of Warren Buffett, the most successful investment capitalist of all time (but vilified by TrumpubliCONs for having the nerve to remember his modest origins and stand up for the middle class): “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
Trump is not interested in watching a treading water contest by those who his failures have put into extreme desperation. He doesn’t care if they drown.
While the vast majority of Americans have lost income, lost freedom and many have been personally put at risk or have actually experienced severe illness or death, a few at the top, who have made sure to insulate and protect themselves (often in luxury conditions or on private island getaways) have made off like the bandits they are.
In the first four months of the pandemic:
• 29 Americans became new billionaires
• More than 16 million Americans lost their health insurance
• 46 million have filed for unemployment
• Billionaires increased their wealth by $584 billion (Jeff Bezos alone increased his by 43 billion of that, selling and shipping all that stuff everyone is buying while shopping from quarantine at home); total net worth of 643 billionaires increased from $2.9 trillion to $3.5 trillion
•U.S households overall lost $6.5 trillion in wealth.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/06/22/us-billionaire-wealth-surged-since-the-start-of-the-pandemic-infographic/#1ee7c74a3f8b
(Figures are from late June, have only increased since then)
There is REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH going on, all right, but it is not the PROgressives who are taking from the rich and giving to the poor, it is the corporate oligarchs who are profiting off the work of those who create their wealth while putting their own lives and health at risk.
Class warfare?
In the words of Warren Buffett, the most successful investment capitalist of all time (but vilified by TrumpubliCONs for having the nerve to remember his modest origins and stand up for the middle class): “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26every.html