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What do you know about the Trump administration’s “Eagle Plan”?

While we’re in the midst of the deadliest pandemic and worst domestic crisis in 100 years — COVID-19 — one would think our government’s number one priority would be to protect its citizens to the best of its ability. Not in Trumpland!

Instead of ramping up testing, getting protective equipment to workers, or sending resources to nursing homes where tens of thousands of seniors are dying of COVID-19, Donald Trump’s obsessed with cutting payroll taxes, Social Security’s dedicated revenue. Trump is insisting on a payroll tax cut for workers. Why some experts say it's a 'terrible' idea

Now, Trump’s economic advisers and his unqualified creepy android son-in-law Jared Kushner have another way to undermine Social Security: The so-called “Eagle Plan,” which would be more aptly named the Work ’Til You Die Plan. It would give people $10,000, but only if they agreed to sign away a portion of their future Social Security benefits. This plan asks desperate families, terrified of going without food or being thrown out of their homes, to sacrifice their retirement. Jeffrey Stein on Twitter

Plans like this one betray a willful refusal to understand the nature of Social Security, which is insurance, not a piggy bank. It replaces wages lost when a worker retires, becomes disabled, or dies leaving dependents. Workers earn these benefits with every paycheck.

Turning Social Security from guaranteed insurance into a private account is a longstanding goal of Wall Street billionaires. Right now, Wall Street gets no money from Social Security. But if it were converted into hundreds of millions of private accounts, Wall Street would reap huge profits.

George W. Bush infamously attempted to convert Social Security into a piggy bank for Wall Street, and was resoundingly rebuked by the American people in the 2006 midterm elections. Given this unpopularity, proponents of privatization are using sneaky backdoor tactics instead. Social Security at roots of shift

Back in 2018, Ivanka Trump released a parental leave plan with Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL). They referred to this proposal as “paid leave,” but it actually asked parents to fund their own leave by forgoing future Social Security benefits. The plan was developed by the Independent Women’s Forum, a Koch Brothers-funded think tank whose president eagerly anticipated that it would be a first step toward privatizing Social Security. Rubio’s ‘paid family leave’ plan is actually just cutting Social Security

The so-called “Eagle Plan” is strikingly similar to Ivanka’s fake paid leave plan, but even more cruel in the choice it would foist upon people in the middle of a pandemic. With over 32 million people newly unemployed, families across the country are in desperate need of income. Thanks to the Trump administration’s utter failure to manage the pandemic by implementing a widespread testing and tracing program, that desperation isn’t going away any time soon. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/22/what-would-robust-federal-testing-really-look-like-top-expert-explains/

Yet the United States remains the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Congress just gave corporations a $4.5 trillion bailout. We can easily afford to both send families the income they need and expand their future Social Security benefits. Congressional Democrats are proposing to do just that by sending everyone in America $2,000 every month for the duration of the corona virus crisis, while also expanding Social Security. Democratic senators propose $2,000 monthly payments to most Americans

As long as Democrats stand united against Kushner’s terrible plan, it is a political gift to them. Workers across the country are already facing a retirement income crisis, and the pandemic is only making it worse. Voters overwhelmingly want to expand, not cut, Social Security’s modest benefits. The Trump administration’s attempts to undermine Social Security, whether through payroll tax cuts or through the “Eagle Plan” scheme, will be punished in November, as they should be. Polling Memo: Americans' Views on Social Security

Fortunately, the Democratic Party is on record in support of expanding, not cutting and certainly not privatizing Social Security. During the Democratic primary, Joe Biden faced scrutiny for his past openness to cuts to Social Security. That said, as the presumptive Democratic nominee, he’s done the right thing by fighting to expand Social Security benefits to address the nation’s looming retirement income crisis. He’s also come out for an immediate across-the-board increase in response to the pandemic. Joe Biden's record on Social Security isn't perfect, but Donald Trump's is far worse

Seniors and people with disabilities are hit hardest by COVID-19. Democrats in both the House and the Senate have released plans to increase Social Security benefits in response to the crisis. Congress should ignore the monstrous “Eagle Plan” and pass those instead. Larson Introduces Coronavirus Relief Bill to Expand Social Security

And that’s Trump and his thugs in the Trump Crime Syndicate aka the administration for you. It’s all about insatiable avarice and fanatic cruelty.

Sources: everyone linked in the text and Inside Trump’s brazen plot to gut Social Security

Credit to: Roland Temmerman and his most excellent research

Extended Opinion

 

Who concerns you more as President of the United States, Joe Biden, or Donald Trump? Why specifically?

60 years ago I read William Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. What I found bewildering at the time was how the Germans (who are generally regarded as a ‘smart’ people) could have been duped into following Hitler. It made absolutely no sense to me because - I now realize - that I was living in a post-WWII America that had a progressive Republican party and a middle class.

That was then, and this is now, 60 years later in 2020. The middle class is all but gone, Republicans are a party that has sold out for tax cuts for the rich, wedge issues, ethnic fear mongering, militarized police, with wealth inequality and religious intolerance for all.

And today we have a Republican sponsored, authoritarian fascist leader in the flesh, dismantling the constitution, eliminating non-defense contractor agencies of the federal government, and mesmerizing ‘smart’ people with dog whistle phrases that hearken to their primal fears, intolerance and loyalist callings.

So, does the thought of Trump reigning over America beyond November 2020 concern me? Oh Hell yes, it concerns me big time. And it should concern everyone. This is America, not pre-war Germany and Italy and Japan. We should know better. We should learn lessons that the wrong side of history are out there trying to teach us if we would only read and listen to them.

Excerpt by: Bill Leidy

Learn about your Future

Review: Online Learning vs. Traditional Schooling

Normally this month would mark the end of the school year. But with Covid pandemic schools have remained closed since the beginning this has disrupted the normal routines for students around the world.

Mandatory school and campus closures have barred more than 1.6 billion students—close to 90% of all primary, secondary and college learners in the world—from attending school in person.

There's a better alternative to learning

Luckily for those wanting to learn more there are better alternatives to learning without the crowds, the long walks carrying a load of books or attending boring lectures and that’s online learning courses. The great thing of online learning is that you the student get to choose the subjects you think will benefit you the most.

The possibilities to online learning are endless and here is MasterClass, a San Francisco startup that offers online courses taught by an eclectic mix of over 85 instructors. Cinematic video classes engage and educate users by tapping top celebrities (film star Natalie Portman teaching acting), entrepreneurs (Vogue magazine editor-in-chief Anna Wintour teaching leadership) and brilliant minds (retired astronaut Chris Hadfield teaching what the future holds for humans in the final frontier) as master teachers.

The classroom is better in cyber-space and the potential to learn in exciting new ways are here.

Aptly titled “Today's the Day,” the video spot narrated by American film director Spike Lee sends a positive message to learners eager to expand their horizons while sheltering at home.

No longer will you have to learn subjects that you’ll never use or want to learn in the first place reducing the cost and time of getting the education for what you want to do in life, no more feeling oppressed with an overload of homework when you could be spending your free time doing something constructive that brings you joy and happiness.

You can continue with the traditional education parameters and studies and go for a college degree if that floats your boat, but you have to ask yourself with 90% of college degrees made useless do to no jobs, why would you want to waste your time and money?

The Importance of the RIGHT education

It only makes better sense of your time and money to get an education armed with the tools that will make you money today and continue far into your future than to be saddled with an education debt for the rest of your life that you can never pay back because your working in a job that has nothing to do with your degree.

An education is very a important part of growing and expanding ones opportunities opening doors that others can’t even see are there. The best education you could get would be one that teach’s a little and you do what you’ve learned the whole while making money while learning that makes sense right “get paid to learn” Yes!

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