The Covid-19 pandemic outbreak has exposed the cruel underbelly of American social services. For decades the republican party has been at war with anything that benefits the working middle poor class, especially programs that help us bridge events like what is happening today. If not having to prove we are legally allowed to vote we must show we are not trying to cheat the unemployment process that was designed to help us when work became difficult to find. Now states that have for decades been under republican control have effectively denied many of out of work citizens their right to the benefits they pay for out of their paychecks.
Forcing labor in general to keep working despite the danger to themselves for working is just another clue the republican party provides us when we see them saying no unemployment benefit is obtainable when they deem a business safe to operate. They are not the ones who must go back to work at the meat processing plants where literally nothing has changed since they stopped working weeks ago. There are still a lack of tests, there is no cure, and working in large groups like these workers do will only increase the risk of catching this fatal virus. But don't try to stay on unemployment because if you don't go back to work you will not be eligible for unemployment anymore.
The coercion that is on display by republican governors is unforgivable. Forcing people to make the decision to either protect themselves from an out of control danger or put themselves into such poverty as to lose everything they have, short of their lives. I know what I would do but I am not those who have to make the decision. I would not go back to work and instead I would go and protest as safely as possible aimed at the republicans who are making this cruel and brutish reality happen. There are times when being forced to make an obviously horrible choice must have a consequence and the blame falls directly on the republican party!
Forcing labor in general to keep working despite the danger to themselves for working is just another clue the republican party provides us when we see them saying no unemployment benefit is obtainable when they deem a business safe to operate. They are not the ones who must go back to work at the meat processing plants where literally nothing has changed since they stopped working weeks ago. There are still a lack of tests, there is no cure, and working in large groups like these workers do will only increase the risk of catching this fatal virus. But don't try to stay on unemployment because if you don't go back to work you will not be eligible for unemployment anymore.
The coercion that is on display by republican governors is unforgivable. Forcing people to make the decision to either protect themselves from an out of control danger or put themselves into such poverty as to lose everything they have, short of their lives. I know what I would do but I am not those who have to make the decision. I would not go back to work and instead I would go and protest as safely as possible aimed at the republicans who are making this cruel and brutish reality happen. There are times when being forced to make an obviously horrible choice must have a consequence and the blame falls directly on the republican party!
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