Ya Always Gotta Find The “Other” So That Ya Can Hide The Real Grifters
They’re calling it ‘unemployment insurance program integrity’ but the proposal is nothing more than “cutting unemployment insurance for infrastructure”. Nathan Tankus, research director of the Modern Money Network.
“Communities across the country have been ripped off by public-private schemes that enrich corporations and Wall Street investors and leave the rest of us to pick up the tab”. Mary Grant, Director, Public Water for All.
With a smile as big and bright as sunshine itself, President Joe Biden on Thursday stood in front of the White House surrounded by a party of well-healed white folk touting those infamous words, “We have a deal”! The declaration not to be mistaken, of course, with those other political-career-ending-words, “Read my lips. No New Taxes”!
A White House fact sheet on the new agreement lists “unemployment insurance program integrity” as one of the $579 billion plan’s pay-fors, alongside other funding sources that critics say amount to an infrastructure privatization scheme. The bipartisan group of senators that struck the deal with Biden reportedly believes $80 billion in revenue can be derived from a crackdown on unemployment fraud.
The real dollar amount of real unemployment fraud amounts to about 144 dollars, U.S. (OK, I made up that number, obviously; but it’s not that far off).
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When election results on 6 November 2024 showed Donald Trump had won the Presidency, for me it was like getting punched in the face, repeatedly. I mean – repeatedly!
