Blackrock: Being on both ends of a scam
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 11:38pmThe Federal Reserve on Tuesday hired BlackRock Inc. to steer tens of billions of dollars in bond purchases. Again.
Heroes in a 1st world country that looks more like a 3rd world one
Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 10:47pmHeroes.
.@nytimes has video from a hospital in Elmhurst, Queens. It is horrifying.
“We had to get a refrigerated truck to store the bodies of patients who are dying.”
“Five ventilators...there’s a mythical 100 ventilators out there that we haven’t seen.” https://t.co/zARPofu6pS pic.twitter.com/JxKl46H5RC
— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) March 26, 2020
After watching a Youtube Video
Submitted by doh1304 on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 9:36pmActually after watching the first two minutes of a youtube video. I won't give you a link because the video is not really the point and I don't want to enable an idiot, but the gist is that the Democratic response to the "stimulus bill" is so bad that the person is voting for Trump.
She's deluded, but right.
The Evening Blues - 3-26-20
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 3:43pm
Suffering in the US due to COVID-19 is brought to you in part by the Democratic Party, their supporters, and their Republican allies
Submitted by BayAreaLefty on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 2:35pmMake no mistake about it: we are in this mess now as a direct result of the policies supported by both parties that own the government. I mean "own" literally: the two parties having members occupying approximately 100% of elected offices in the country are, officially, corporations. Their control over our government is ownership in the most fundamental sense.
It is a corporate coup
Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 11:36amLast Night I had ...
Submitted by PriceRip on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 10:31am the strangest dream
I ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world …
I awoke at 7:00 to the sound of rain this morning. I haven't done that for quite some time. There was this farm house ‽ and all was calm ‽ …
Mask to protect against viruses
Submitted by ScienceTeacher on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 6:54amI was shocked to realize that the assorted health agencies had not made serious provisions for testing to find out who might be infected with the corona virus and was even more shocked to learn that they have not made much effort to have appropriate supplies available for hospitals dealing with large numbers of infectious patients. This shocking neglect to adequately supply hospitals means that there is almost no protective equipment available for the rest of us.
Hot Air
Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 5:00am
How is it that so many people missed the boat on the COVID-19 crisis? Because it’s not rocket science. It’s not trivial, but it is definitely not rocket science.
The response of the Federal Government was insidiously purposeful and caught everyone off guard. We, the people, lost time. Precious time and it cost lives. And will cost more lives.
We live in a bureaucracy (not capitalism, not democracy)
Submitted by disrael on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 4:58amI'm new here and very grateful for the step up in intelligence this site has over DKos. However on economics and politics I'm puzzled by the number of very well written and researched essays that take our living in a capitalist or democratic country as a starting point.
Some points on that:
