Tico, you continue to miss my point either willfully or ignorantly. I doubt the latter of you so I'll assume the first. My point has been and continues to be that both sides are at fault, both sides make mistakes, both sides are out for their own self interest, both sides are corrupt. I readily admit that. Why can't you?
Speaking of bullshit, please explain how Pelosi trying to insert any of the following into the bill is not pork:
1. Restructuring Corporate Boards - Aid Recipients Must Allow Labor to Appoint One-Third of Corporate Board Members
In other words, if companies accept aid from the federal government at a moment when, because of a completely unforeseeable global catastrophe, demand has cratered in response to a lethal pandemic, the House bill would force them to completely upend their boards of directors to no conceivable end other than the fulfillment of a longstanding progressive wish
2.Requiring States to Allow Same-Day Voter Registration
Amending the Help America Vote Act to Require States to Accommodate Same-Day Registrants
Requiring states to allow same day voter registration helps stave off the pandemic how?
3. Deinstitutionalization
Reauthorization of Money Follows the Person
This is controversial measure that has to do with forcing some in long term care into group home settings. Whether you like this or not it has nothing to do with the pandemic and should be debated on its own merits.
4. Environmental Regulations
Grant Program for “Sustainable Aviation Fuel”
The Transportation secretary would be given the power to disburse grant monies based upon the “potential greenhouse gases emitted from” an applicant’s project and the “potential the project has in reducing United States greenhouse gas emissions associated with air travel.” Two hundred million dollars would be appropriated annually to the grant program. And this will help alleviate the effects of the pandemic how?
5. Mandatory Carbon Offsets for Airlines
Every airline receiving federal aid would be required to “fully offset [its] annual carbon emissions [from] domestic flights beginning in 2025.”
6. 25 Million to the Kennedy Arts Center
I could go on, that isn't the entire list. Can you defend any of those provisions in a Corona Virus relief bill? Do you not acknowledge the cynicism, the opportunism, the immorality of such an act at such a time? If not I don't know what to say to you. Perhaps it's Trump's fault?
I am against corporate bailouts, I am against running up large deficits so the government can be everything to everyone in order for politicians to win votes. Both sides do this. Both sides are reprehensible and without principal collectively. There are individuals who buck that trend but they are swallowed up by the swamp. Why is this such an affront to you Tico? This is indeed a failing shared by all. The mayor of New Orleans blamed Trump for not shutting down Mardi Gras. Really? The NY city health commissioner was out telling New Yorkers to go out and go to restaurants, that everything was fine and under control, that the city was prepared for this less than a month ago. Trump's fault?
Finally, I have to chuckle at being told to be an adult when nearly every comment you make in this thread involves a tantrum. Perhaps some introspection is in order. I very seldom devolve into name calling here, I try to keep my arguments dispassionate and reasoned. Sometimes I fail, admittedly, but nearly every post you make with someone who disagrees with you devolves into heated emotional rhetoric demanding capitulation or the offender is deemed childish, an obfuscator and a projection of Trump, to use your own words from your last post.
How about you take a deep breath, understand at least half the country disagrees with you, no matter the demographics of this board, and try to understand their legitimate reasons for doing so. I believe I can see where liberals are coming from. i do not question their motives, their religion, their character or their maturity, I simply disagree with their philosophy of government. Is that still okay in this country?