Too little and for some way too late. You all should be ashamed. We bailed out banks, Wall Street and the car manufacturers. Not to mention the billions in subsidies to oil & coal. But, god forbid we help regular people who should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps or gotten a loan from their parents. This is a typical republican ’fuck you , I got mine’ mentality. The GOP would sell their own mothers if it meant they made them a nickel. Let’s face it, neither party is great, but the republicans are the new and improved Dixiecrats.

<< 29 days, 11 hours, 54 minutes >>. … … … The relief portion is minimal and will have to be augmented when Biden takes office. The trade stuff and international relations aspects are welcome and needed. Our country is much stronger and relevant as a world-partner with allies and with purpose. Trade relations can and should be win-win mutually beneficial enhancements to each partner. Issues of inequity can be best resolved diplomatically to find alternate win-win solutions. Thus works so much better than sledgehammer might-makes-right diplomacy. Currently we are spending huge funds to subsidize the farmers for markets lost to ineffective trade wars, markets that may never fully come back. … … … I spent much of my life building things and it is clear that any building that is strong and elegant is often viewed from the perspective of it’s surface, elegant roof lines, ornamentation, gold leafed domes and subtle color schemes. What any builder knows is that none of that stuff counts if the building does not have a strong and solid foundation, efficient adequate internal utilities for managing power, water, sewage and for moving people up and down. It has to have solid fire protection and for high rise buildings the ability to avoid swaying upper floors, withstand furious weather extremes and earthquakes. … … … Our country is a lot like this glorious building. The problem is that our trumpublicans are way too preoccupied with the gold leaf roof and the ornamentation that is our very visible wealthy elite - and they have dismissed the solid foundation and support utilities which are our workers, teachers and generally our everyday folk. Our experts understand the hazards that our building faces and must withstand, they develop the systems that efficiently integrate the piece-parts of our building to protect the building overall, just as our country’s climate, environmental, epidemiological, other scientists and other experts like economists do. Our beautiful building would also be fairly useless without essential services provided from outside it’s wall. To be economically viable, skilled negotiators have reach agreements with external service providers, just like our diplomats do for our country to represent our needs and arrive at equitable agreements with other counties. … … … Ok, that is a long analogy but the point is that our great building cannot function properly without a strong foundation, effective utilities, expert safety systems and outside connections - just like our country cannot function to its potential without a strong working class, solid support services, expert driven protections and strong relations with other countries. Right now, our trumpublicans are only focused on protecting the gold leaf and fancy visible ornamentation that our wealthy elite represent but they cannot persist without keeping the rest of the country strong, enabled and prepared- not providing the relief needed is like letting our beautiful building’s foundation and support service systems rot. … … … Relief is needed to protect the core elements of our country so the rest can be rebuilt and maintained - and even the wealthy can continue to shine, along with everyone else who may not be as visible.

For sure, and Canada too. Being friendly with our neighbors is good sense. Despite what some ignorant people think, the money flows both ways at the border. More trade is good!