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So far, the total relief money allocated by the federal government in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis is $2,000,000,000,000. That’s a 2 with 12 zeroes. And there’s more to come.
All across America, many corporations — especially those staffed with well-paid lawyers — have seen an opportunity not to pay suppliers, not to honor contracts or, simply, to invoke a delay of indeterminate length to the performance of contractual responsibilities. How?
The truth will always come out. Or so we always thought. Human beings, raised on a diet of disparate cultures, different ethics and moral evaluation (often from unique religions), always need time to adjust to one another. We all need time to talk.
The word liberal means open-minded, open-handed, generous. But in today’s America it is either a compliment meaning you feel for a more common purpose rather than the self or it can be used as a derogatory statement meaning you are artsy, or against the state, the flag and a host of other neo-conservative values.
‘The best way to get beaten up professionally is to claim you have a pre-Clovis site,” said Michael Collins, U. of Texas.
In my copy of Churchill’s “The Second Word War,” there’s a quote that I feel applies to our situation, in fact to all countries’ situation in this pandemic: “There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away… people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent
We’re in the middle of another cataclysmic event for America and the world — but America always learns precipitously and leaps to solutions — sometimes good, sometimes bad. The last cataclysmic event was 9/11.
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