Yesterday on Thursday, Donald Trump signed an executive order that will essentially turn
our children and grandchildren and do sacrificial lambs for the United States economy. Now,
for the last few weeks months, maybe we have heard Republicans talking about the need to
maybe go ahead and sacrifice our grandparents. You know, the elderly of society for the sake
of restarting the economy, but for Donald Trump, that wasn't good enough. It's not good
enough to just sacrifice the elderly. We may have to sacrifice the children and grandchildren
too. And that is exactly what this new executive order does because this executive order, which
is aimed at restarting, the economy undoes the requirements for environmental reviews.
Essentially this is allowing corporations and the federal government itself to go ahead
and start building projects. You know, uh, whether it's new highways, whether it's a
border wall or maybe it's mining companies that want to blast open new mines, you know,
fossil fuel extraction and pipelines running through the country.
You no longer have to analyze environmental data to see how your project is going to impact
the environment, which is just a fancy, complicated way of saying you can screw over the future
generations by destroying the environment for them, for the sake of allegedly kick-starting
the United States economy. But here is the FDIC things. Folks, these are new projects.
Why is the economy in so much trouble right now? Well, first and foremost, because it's
an economy built in straw built out of straw, excuse me, uh, having a little trouble speaking
today, apparently, but it's an economy built out of straw and the three little pigs analogy
that I like to tell so much. We have concentrated all of the wealth up at the top and the bottom.
The foundation is made out of straw because the workers are getting screwed and no way
shape or form.
Do any of these projects that Trump is trying to fast track either his border wall, new
highway construction, new minds, none of that is going to change the power structure. None
of that is going to put more permanent dollars into the pockets of American workers. These
are all temporary jobs. They're temporary jobs that are not going to pay very well,
so that doesn't solve anything. But another reason the economy is doing so bad right now,
obviously is because of the pandemic. Many businesses have had to shut down. Most of
them temporarily. So their workers aren't getting paid people. Aren't able to buy things
as a result. So the economy contracts. So once the pandemic is over and all of these
businesses can reopen again, they have to re hire people again, and the economy will
expand. Then it should do it. If we can get through this pandemic quickly by adhering
to social distancing, it would have done it rather quickly. And everything would have
gone back, you know, relatively normal, still a fragile economy because we built it incorrectly.
But nonetheless people would have jobs. Nowhere in the U S has the economy tanking because
the federal government's not letting oil companies build a new oil pipeline or a coal company
build a new coal mine, or because the endangered species act is holding up parts of the border
wall. But Trump is doing away with those environmental impact studies anyway, because he says, that's
what the problem is.
Bullshit, bull shit. It's not true.
What he is doing is he is using the pandemic as an excuse to Greenlight these corporate
projects from multibillion dollar corporations and the federal government to do away with
environmental reviews. So they don't have to follow the rules. They don't have to do
what they should do. They don't have to worry about protecting the environment for future
generations. So, as I mentioned, this is selling out our children for the sake of restarting
the economy. And it's not even
you gonna have that effect. This is actually just fulfilling a corporate wishlist that
has existed for decades.