I foresee a bleak future for the middle and working classes in America. The government relief efforts I've already proven inadequate. Opportunists will swoop down to buy up foreclosed on real estate, and other assets people will be losing in 2020. Even the upper-middle-class will be affected.
I predict increased power in the hands of the already powerful. There are influential billionaires who will continue to increase their wealth.
There may be unrest, as various factions feel the pinch. I don't think we've even seen a small part of what could be possible in the near future.
Our infrastructure is definitely starting to unravel a bit. Here in Washington State, the largest potato producer in the nation, there have been huge free giveaways of potatoes by farmers who cannot get their product to market. This is because the food distribution has been disrupted with this crisis. I had trouble finding potatoes in the store. There are problems in the warehouses that are distributing our food and other necessities. The shortages we are seeing in the stores are not because people are hoarding.
Unless the authorities start releasing the economy, I don't think things are going to be well by the end of the year. The deaths from the coronavirus might pale in comparison.
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19 hours ago, HiddencatBSN said:
Eh, not sure I agree with that. I don’t think someone’s vote should count more because they live in a less populous state. Adding in the imbalance of senator representation to state population, 2/3 of the government which chooses the other 1/3 is weighted towards the politics and interests of a minority of voters.
Living in a less-populated state doesn't make your vote count more, it makes it count, period. Growing up in western Canada, I remember federal election results being announced while polls in the west were still open. Talk about being disenfranchised!
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2 hours ago, TriciaJ said:
Living in a less-populated state doesn't make your vote count more, it makes it count, period. Growing up in western Canada, I remember federal election results being announced while polls in the west were still open. Talk about being disenfranchised!
I'm in Alaska...my vote doesn't matter in national votes.
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On 5/14/2020 at 10:32 AM, HiddencatBSN said:
The Electoral College increased the slave—holding states’ weight in the election significantly because the roughly equal-population north and south had different suffrage rates because about a third of the south’s population were slaves. This was discussed explicitly in the Philadelphia Convention and was considered an important compromise in favor of the south.
In 1852, the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Association invited abolitionist, activist and statesman Frederick Douglass to spoke at their July Fourth Independence Day Celebration in Rochester, N.Y. before an audience composed of Washington politicians, white abolitionists, and President Millard Fillmore. Here is the speech if you are interested:
“What to the Slave is 4th of July?” Frederick Douglass July 5th 1852
The cash and power exchange is very profound. Even the small business loans went to the wealthy in large numbers while many small businesses barely received any. Many put "0" or left blank the question that asked how many jobs would be saved. They didn't save jobs, they fattened their pockets.
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Possibly. But some marriages are a lot more sustainable if one partner is prevented from spending both of them into the poorhouse.