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Because millions of people are sliding into poverty through no fault of their own, and the effects of this pandemic will continue to reverberate for them for decades to come even though the vast majority of people who visit this website will have suffered few or no effects.

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Yes. In other crisis you could argue that people over extended themselves or for greedy. Here a lot of small business are going to get wiped off through no fault of their own. Politicians have not helped

Don’t bothsides this. Only one person decided that millions of Americans should have their unemployment insurance expire today.

Agreed, and yet looking at the Biden transition team the wealth transfer is going into hyperdrive. I can’t see the Dems winning progressives again with the “other guy is real bad” argument, so let’s hope the next Trump isn’t even worse.

>Agreed, and yet looking at the Biden transition team the wealth transfer is going into hyperdrive.

elaborate?

As long as we're engaged in extremely reductive reads of the political situation, Trump and the Senate GOP were ready to agree to $1,200 checks and UI extension before the election, but Nancy Pelosi used the pretext of being opposed to employer immunity from Covid lawsuits (which they have since caved on) to block the legislation.

This is a really cynical read.

If you want you can replace the word "pretext" with "reasoning," the rest of it is a matter of fact and public record. Although I'm not sure how one justifies any kind of read other than a "cynical" one after this year.

You sound like you missed the part where Trump/GOP waited until before the election to be ok with literally buying votes

While that might be it's irrelevant to the point that politicians have, in general, not helped.

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