I am a servant of civil humanity. I work from dawn to dusk as an essayist, maintenance man and street-cleaning trash collector.
As a domesticate in nature, I know firsthand the impact that COVID has had on the health and wellbeing of the people in my community. I’ve also seen how the pandemic has made clear that the wealthy and corporations keep getting richer while everyday Americans continue to struggle.
My friends, neighbors and community have had to make impossible decisions over the last few years. Often, they’ve had to choose between paying for their medications or putting food on the table, between child care and paying rent or sustain employment and stay out of poverty. My community faces so many critical challenges right now, but we have the opportunity to reconcile some of the more headier issues — primarily, those most consequent the over-arching climate disruption. Conditions of our ecosphere presage discord within.
Right now, we have an historic opportunity to pass the Build Back Better Act. Doing so would help unrig the economy so it can work for everyone and in so doing, mollify the climate extremes we’re experiencing — If for no other reason than for the lives of our children. The BBB Act would help my friends and neighbors afford their health care coverage and lower the costs of their prescription drugs, while at the same time create good-paying jobs and make childcare more affordable. All this can be achieved by making the rich and corporations pay their fair share.
It’s time our elected in the U.S. Senate choose their constituents over the grotesque wealth of Bezos, Amazon, Zuckerberg, Facebook (or “Meta”), et, al. The time is now. Let us not let this opportunity slip away by refusing to seize this epochal moment.
John Sonin,
Douglas
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