Seventy percent or more of the economy is totally dependent on how much spendable cash the poor and middle classes have in their checking accounts and/or on how much debt they are willing and able to incur. If Trump and company don't sign huge bailouts for this biggest cash cow of all -- and massively resupply hospitals and clinics all across America! -- they will have directly caused the next major recession/depression all by themselves, and thus they will have assured their own re-election defeat. (Thank you, Jesus.)

But billionaire greed simply cannot stop itself. So do it! Go ahead and bail out your buddies at the top instead of the workers who pay the bills. Prove to the whole world why unregulated capitalism will always destroy its host economy and will always require the worst form of socialism (fascism) for the scam to be re-capitalized by, you guessed it, the poor and middle classes ...until the little people have nothing left to give, ergo a deep recession. 2008, how soon we forget.

To wingers, socialism is a learned scare word to shout down. (Hey, watch the spit, buddy!) But of course, socialism is a big word that takes many forms in actual practice, good and bad. In the broadest sense, the very concept of governing in the first place from the stone age onward is, in essence, a shared endeavor with common goals -- in other words, socialism to one degree or another. Socialism is what civilization is. There's no getting around that fundamental reality.

Hopefully, we practice both healthy socialism and healthy capitalism. Our forefathers built from scratch an entire nation with a government based on the People's power in politics, not the power of the few over the many; yet, it's equally important to make a nation function financially that they also struck a delicate balance for the economy (never perfect) through trial and error and deep insight between free enterprise and the commons.

Leave it to present-day Republicans, the party of the ungodly rich living life high in the stratosphere and enjoying most of the fruits of our labor, to continually upset that delicate balance in their favor, while the unwashed masses fight their goddamn resource wars of choice and suffer their gross incompetence and wicked, self-serving schemes.

So yeah, f*ck Trump and the Republican Party! And the Wall Street billionaires and the fossil fuel industry and the defense industry and the insurance industry and the over-priced airline and hotel industries and all the fat-cat bankers financing all of the above, all hugely subsidized by taxpayers' sweat and blood. It's light and easy socialism for them and hard cold capitalism for us.

These traitors to our first principles are not who America is, and they are not who we are.

We are three years in to a booming economy. These corporations have had plenty of time to ready their company for a "bump in the road", instead of engaging in price wars and irresponsible cost cutting. Capitalism dictates that they must disband and make room for smaller more responsible entities to move in. But, if we are going to behave like Socialists towards these companies, well then, forget I said anything.

We the Taxpayers bailed out Wall Street and no bankers or brokers went to jail for their crimes. Wall Street should be made to bail out the airlines. pass it on!

All of you socialists-lefties Trump haters, who say Trump isn't your President. I guess you won't accept the checks President Trump mails to you....You wouldn't want to be a hypocrite would you. :))

#3 Why not call in when Pocan is on the air and ask your question. He is not like
Republicans on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh that has all questions screened.

Bernie was killed by the 1% owned and operated mainstream media.

Republicans sure jumped on the Socialism wagon quick in a crisis.

#4 You are 11 years into a booming economy that is the Obama Miracle.

#8 Only people on Welfare, Medicare, Food Stamps or Unemployment should get the money. Warren Buffet and I are just fine.

#9 Although i am sure that there is good news your lack of posting a reference for your statements leaves me wondering why. Trumpsters tend to post lies and ignore the truth. Just like their leader. The fact is this country was one of the few that had several months of warning about this virus and did virtually nothing. Suddenly everything is a crisis and every previous country hit was showing us the way to fight it. https://crooksandliars.com/2020/03/trump-reverses-himself-completely-covid19

Think about it: Why is someone a "hateful, pompous, skumbag" [sic] simply for pointing out verifiable facts? You honestly are not aware of just how far you have fallen down the Trump rabbit hole, are you?

Deepspace:

I'm sorry, Legend stated "Trumpsters tend to post lies and ignore the truth. Just like their leader". I didn't realize that was a verifiable fact. :)

You seem to repeat it constantly and I doubt that Thom reads this. Call and ask.

LOL. If you criticize Trump he does not hesitate to cut off federal aid. Look at Puerto Rico in a crisis. Checks in the mail. He is a narcissist that needs his ego filled constantly. Foreign leaders Putin and Kim Jung Un were first to figure this out.