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Some people were hoodwinked that if they voted for Trump their lives would be better. Thank goodness the 1%rs got their big tax break. Sure helped those poor rural people and former factory workers that voted him into office. LOL He didnt even throw them a roll of paper towels.
Yes. And many of those poor rural people will vote for him again in 2020. Ain’t that America?
Some people were hoodwinked that if they voted for Trump their lives would be better. Thank goodness the 1%rs got their big tax break. Sure helped those poor rural people and former factory workers that voted him into office. LOL He didnt even throw them a roll of paper towels.
And for every dollar in the hands of the much-vilified "one per cent", there are who-knows-how-many in the hands of the institutional and philanthropic sector0. (HINT: Harvard University alone commands some $50 b[llion). And the principles of sound financial management mandate that much of this be restricted to low-risk (and low return) securities.
That leaves the market for high-risk. high-return investments to the swashbucklers -- Bezos, Page, Bryn, gates, etc. Speculative interest has fueled (and broken) a lot of dreams. But it's a necessary component of a process that benefits many of us -- (admittedly, more so for this who understand it than for the chronic losers and complainers over in Left Field).
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Here's what I follow. WorldOMeter. You can follow daily new deaths.
Texas is dropping. The US is dropping. The better barometer would be daily new hospitalizations, which isn't available anywhere on the internet, from what I can tell.
Here in Taiwan the coronavirus pandemic is over. We never had a lockdown. Schools, restaurants and other businesses have been open and operating normally the whole time. The last new case was over a month ago. 7 people out of a population of 24 million died from Covid-19.
All it took was for the government to go on a crash program to manufacture surgical masks for everyone at 15 cents U.S. a piece and for 95% of the population to voluntarily wear them from Day 1.
That Great Wall of surgical face masks withstood everything the coronavirus threw at it, making quarantining and contact tracing easy jobs.
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