PART ONE:
“We're in the money, we're in the money;
We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!...
We never see a headline about breadlines today.
And when we see the landlord we can look that guy right in the eye
We're in the money, come on, my honey,
Let's lend it, spend it, send it rolling along!” (We’re In the Money/Al Dubin)
Dow and S&P 500 end 2020 at record highs/Between roughly mid-March and Dec. 22, the United States gained 56 new billionaires, according to the Institute for Policy Studies/More than half of those in Congress are millionaires, data from lawmakers’ most recent personal financial disclosures shows. The median net worth of members of Congress who filed disclosures last year is just over $1 million. Much of the wealth in Congress is concentrated at the top. The top 10 percent of wealthiest lawmakers have three times more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday snuffed any hope that the current Congress will deliver extra stimulus money In a speech on the Senate floor, McConnell repeatedly decried proposals to provide $2,000 to millions of Americans as "socialism for rich people." “Borrowing from our grandkids to do socialism for rich people is a terrible way to get help to families who actually need it,” said McConnell on the Senate floor, according to Politico. McConnell didn’t have money when he went to Washington— He’s now very rich— He worked hard to give himself opportunities— Kentuckians will get nothing while he gets richer. (Washington Post-Fact Checker) McConnell is now the seventh-richest senator according to the Center for Responsive Politics. So, even though Mitch is a public servant, and his entire salary/medical and housing is paid for by the GOVERNMENT, that bit of SOCIALISM is cool…even more, delightful via his career, Capitalism kicked in and this douchebag, reaped its benefits. Not certain which is the lesser of two evils here!
“We’re In the Money”, was originally written for the movie ‘Gold Diggers of 1933’/The song's lyrics reflect a positive financial turnaround and a fantasized end to the Great Depression which in the U.S. began to turn around in early 1933 but wouldn't actually end until the late 1930s. (WIKIPEDIA) Imagine an America NOW, if Senators like Moscow Mitch had been in power THEN…perhaps, no one would know because too many would have faded away from hunger/poverty/and lack of any empathy from the US Government! (PLEASE SEE MY PART TWO BLOG, ON THE LIVES OF THE AVERAGE CITIZEN, NOT FROM THE ROYAL CLASS OF THE SENATE)
