None of the Above

Let’s talk numbers for a sec. There are 329 million Americans. Of those, about 180 million are “working age” (between 16-65). That’s about 55% of the population. 32 million have filed for unemployment in the last 90 days. Which makes an official number of about 18% of the work force in 90 days losing their jobs. Combined with the 3.5% who already were part of that number, official unemployment should be about 21.5%. But, consider this. Florida denied 95% of its pandemic-related unemployment claims, so they’re not counted. And I really doubt Florida is the only state doing this. Take that, and the fact that even in states where that hasn’t happened it’s extremely difficult to get a claim filed due to site outages and phone wait times upwards of 7 HOURS, I’d venture that the real unemployment rate is probably closer to 28-30%. This is equivalent to the worst years of the Great Depression.

“I take no responsibility” vs “Nothing will fundamentally change” is unacceptable. The establishments of both parties have catastrophically failed. Boycott them both. Vote all of them out.

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