Nothing like the cowardly opinion laundering of the NYT editorial board. If any of these ghouls claim to even half believe this bullshit, they should have to put their names, cell phone #s and home addresses in the byline.
This Is Sufficient
Actually here are some of the ways it's insufficient. But shut up and be grateful, piggies, you're harshing our buzz."I mean it's just rent, poors, what could it cost? Six hundred dollars?"
$600 was literally a compromise between nothing and the bare minimum, and it's a minor miracle we even got the $600. No way in hell we aren't seeing more riots next year at this rate, the ruling class can barely even do the bread part of bread and circuses correctly.
There are far too many people at risk of becoming homeless for nothing to happen. Even if the pandemic is solved and everyone got a 100% reliable vaccine within the next couple months, unless back-rent is forgiven, written off, or paid for by the government, we are almost certainly going to see angry underemployed people out on the streets when the weather gets warmer again, with the likeliest casus belli/"final straw" being more racist police violence. Debt relief and free housing for the homeless and rent-burdened are the only way to guarantee the pot doesn't boil over again next year like it briefly did last June, and even that might not be enough without something closely approaching M4A.
the narrative will be set that the american people do not want a handout
That only works for so long. The reason that corporate mass media is so effective in the US historically is that most of the population has been relatively stable and comfortable and thus willing to buy whatever the talking heads tell them ("Hell yeah capitalism works, I've got a house, 2 cars, and a boat!"). When mass evictions start hitting and millions of people find themselves living on the streets, they're not going to accept the line that America doesn't want a handout, because they need a handout or they're going to starve.
As an example, Syria was widely considered a pretty stable country right up until it got hit with a major famine, then a month later the country was divided among two dozen groups and warlords. Look at how many militias, evangelist cults, and people angry about minorities getting murdered by cops there are; do you think they're going to play nice when society at large fails to provide them basic shelter and food?
No one should want to read anything by an opinion board besides a suicide note
Thank you for your opinion, New York Times Editorial Board. You can kindly go fuck yourselves, now.
These are the same people who said Morales “bribed” Bolivians by increasing the economy and improved their material conditions
Taxes are theft and government services are bribes. All hail the infinite justice of anarcho-capitalist entropy.
