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So let me get this straight: Extending additional unemployment benefits to out-of-work Americans during a pandemic will make them lazy and lead to socialism, but trillions in bailouts to Wall St. bankers and corporate execs is good for the economy?

— Robert Reich

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Please, for the love of god, do not rush an unsafe vaccine for political purposes.

Racism is used by those with wealth and power to divide those with neither, so they won’t see where all the wealth and power have gone.

Every company in America should require all workers to be vaccinated, period.

A minimal guarantee with regards to income seems to me as almost inevitable.

Those who argue for "less government" are really arguing for a different government—often one that favors them or their patrons.

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Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

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George Orwell

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