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Omaha Steve

(99,632 posts) Mon May 4, 2020, 04:56 PM May 2020

Public Service Army

Fund the Front Lines
This isn’t about partisanship. It’s about clean water, road repairs, safe schools, first responders and well-staffed hospitals. And the bottom line is this: we can’t defeat the coronavirus and reopen the economy without strong, well-funded public services. We’re shouting this message from the rooftops — and now over the airwaves.

Contact Congress and tell them to fund the front lines by texting FUND to 237-263.

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Public Service Army (Original Post) Omaha Steve May 2020 OP

We also can't do it and support a billionaire class. Just the reality. rwsanders May 2020 #1

Very true. There is no moral reason for billionaires to exist in a civilized society. KSNY May 2020 #2

rwsanders

(2,603 posts)

1. We also can't do it and support a billionaire class. Just the reality.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon May 4, 2020, 05:01 PM

May 2020

They have parked about 20 trillion in overseas accounts. Think about that as people die and lose homes and jobs.
I read something that really puts a billionaire in perspective. If someone gave you $10,000 a day, it would take 100 days to be a millionaire, but 274 YEARS to be a billionaire!

KSNY

(315 posts)

2. Very true. There is no moral reason for billionaires to exist in a civilized society.

Reply to rwsanders (Reply #1)

Mon May 4, 2020, 06:24 PM

May 2020

Rising inequality (linked to inferior health care, schools, public services, underfunded government--except for military) is linked to the rising death tolls in the US.

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