Americans need to know who sincerely cares about them.

The map to the left is from the New York Times' continuous coverage of the virus.

Risk for unvaccinated people based on cases and test positive. (click here) The color key is at the news article. Orange is a high risk, red is very high risk and purple is extremely high risk.

May 27, 2021

By Lance Lambert and Nicolas Rapp

...These 24 states (click here) all have Republican governors who argue that the federal enhanced benefit—which is paid on top of state benefits—is incentivizing jobless Americans to not go back to work. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce agrees. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp expressed that view recently on Fox News: "We’re not doing away with regular unemployment...We’re just taking away this federal subsidy that’s encouraging people not to get in the workforce."

The White House doesn't agree with the assessment. Instead, the Biden administration cites school and daycare closures and low wages for many jobs as bigger contributors to the increasingly tight labor market....

The $300 per week was to assist in the gap when SAFE employment wasn't available. No American should be choosing between being safe and being dead. We have seen incidents like that, with a meatpacking plant and other restaurant businesses where people have gone back to work out of necessity and subsequently became ill and died. The $300 subsidy allows Americans to be protected from a financial burden that accumulates due to UNSAFE WORKING CONDITIONS.

Life and death in the USA are all political. Guns, Covid, and now unemployment benefits. If Americans are  in a red state their longevity could be cut short because of their Governor. It is the lower population density of the Red States involved that allows Governors to shirt the issue without too much damage to their political careers. The southeast USA just doesn't vote for their own best interest and it shows.

Have a better Memorial Day. Until later, good night.

 

Beto O'Rourke is correct. The Republican voting bill in Texas changes the QUALITY of evidence.

It is an unconstitutional law. It is not only unconstitutional, it changes the basis of our democracy is proving a crime.

May 8, 2021
By David Montgomery

...“This is the single greatest attack on our democracy, (click here) not just in our lifetime, but perhaps in the lifetime of this very democracy,” said former Representative Beto O’Rourke, who was a Democratic presidential candidate in the 2020 presidential primary....

The Texas law is so dangerous it cannot be allowed to stand. The quality of evidence it calls for lowers the standard of "beyond a shadow of a doubt." Only a preponderance of the evidence is required. That is more than ridiculous because voting is about numbers. Voting is about the majority of voting being successful in turning out the vote. The basis of the USA democracy is based in "the majority" when it comes to winning elections. There would have to be a greater number of "preponderance votes" than the number the winning candidate drew to his election. But, the elections these days are often won by a small majority, even a few votes. So, the idea a preponderance will overturn an election is real. But, that isn't the worst aspect of this law. Introducing the word "preponderance" changes the quality of evidence needed for the conviction of a crime. The word "preponderance" hacks away at our Rule of Law.

The Texas legislature has a majority of crooks voting in laws in Texas. The entire paradigm of Texas' legislature is a threat to human life and not just a democracy. It is based in the superiority of protecting private concerns over that of the public. The utility laws that killed so many people this past year is clear proof of the leanings of the power structure in Texas. This new initiative is a real threat to a democracy whereby the Rule of Law demands proof of a crime beyond a shadow of a doubt and not simply the preponderance of the evidence. It puts too much power in the hands of a few officials and not enough power in the power of the people.

Anyone voting for this bill hates democracy and prefers dictatorial powers.

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:

...But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The morality of the government we elect lies in his words that every American shall cherish.

This legislature is an assault on our democracy seeking to change the quality of evidence upheld by the Rule of Law. We cannot allow it, nor tolerate those that create and defends it.