Read on Twitter
- It's clear: the Dems and GOP both agree on relief for airlines, PPP, direct stimulus payments, etc. Why are we dancing around unemployment stimulus? It's needed, the numbers demand it. To continue to delay it, is a disservice to the American people. It is a slap in the face.
- My thing, is THIS: Dems want $600 for unemployment stimulus. GOP has offered $400. Why don't they just meet in the middle, at $500? At this point, SOMETHING, is better than NOTHING at all.
- What is it going to take? Hoards of people knocking on the fence line of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, before something is passed? That's where this is headed, as many hard working Americans face being homeless and unable to afford their bills.
- To that end, it is the middle and lower class of Americans that are really suffering the hardest and the most. These, are the people, who need the relief. They are the ones who don't know what to expect next from our leaders in power.
- President Trump (who I did not vote for in the first place), has himself, halted talks about passing stimulus relief. He said so. Then, all of a sudden, he back peddles and now wants Congress to pass relief for airlines, PPP and other things.
- Trump himself, even directed a tweet to Nancy Pelosi, that if a stand alone bill for $1200 stimulus checks come across his desk, he would sign it right away. While this is all fine and dandy, it skirts around the real issue: unemployment stimulus relief.
- I may sound biased, and you know what? I am. Like so many other there, I myself am on unemployment. I lost my job back in April due to COVID-19. I did not have it but my company scaled back and eliminated my position. I have been drawing benefits since then.
- While the CARES Act did allow me to pay my bills with the extra stimulus, I got to put a little money aside. However, once it ended, I ran through it fast. With what I am getting weekly in benefits, it does not even cover everything. The extra helped, HONESTLY.
- Then, when it ended, I was worried how I was going to make it. Sure, I ate through the little savings I put away from the CARES stimulus. That helped a little bit. However, once President Trump enacted his executive orders, the promised $400, was only $300 really.
- That little bit, only lasted 6 weeks. FEMA then shut down the pipeline as it was exhausted. It barely helped me cover bills and put some money away. But now, even all that is gone. And, just as the rest of the nation on unemployment, we look to our leaders, for help.
- For the Dems and GOP not to have a deal already, is ridiculous. Their back and forth has American citizens in jeopardy every single minute that passes. Is this fair to them? Is it fair to hold their lives in the balance while nothing is happening to help them?
- The Dems and GOP not having this ironed out and passed yet, is a crime, against the American people. If it is not, it should be. So many American citizens are holding their breath, trying to wait it out, to see what happens to aid them.
- This, is also, why Election Day is important. Are these the people we want to have in power? Politicians that don't stand up to their words? Politicians who, sit around, and do nothing when they know, the people look up to them?
- I know, I am ranting and going on about this subject. I do so, because it is THAT, SERIOUS. If we want the results we needed as American people, we need to put those who can go into office and get the job done.
- What we DO NOT need, is leaders and politicians, who are going to hold the nation and its people hostage. What we DO NOT need, is leaders and politicians, who would rather put things on hold, than do right by the people who put them into the offices they are in.
- I invite @realDonaldTrump, @POTUS, @SpeakerPelosi, @stevenmnuchin1, @SecGeneScalia, @VP and @MarkMeadows, to read this thread, and take it as fact, from an American, who like many others, is in this position. Do what is right. Pass the unemployment stimulus. We NEED it, NOW.
