RUBIO’S BEHAVIOR ‘‘
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Sen. Marco Rubio is doing it again, like he did when he swallowed all the belittlement and digs that Donald Trump heaped on him.
Rubio seems to have grown callous in his noself-respect, sycophantic role: like voting to acquit Trump during the impeachment trial.
Now he is trying to act like Trump, as illustrated by his recent attack on Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The garb of being a right-wing demagogue didn’t wear well on Trump and it doesn’t wear well on Rubio, either. Rubio seems to have a notion of becoming the next Donald Trump.
Is that really what he aspires to be?
Perhaps Rubio believes that elevating his spineless actions is his ticket to political gain.
America does not need this behavior from any of its senators or from its president.
– Gerald Lance Johannsen,
Carlsbad, CA
BASIC INCOME
The COVID-19 pandemic has acted as a catalyst for social and economic trends that have been going on for years, only to be accelerated within the past year.
One of those questions is the role that government should play in providing people with supplemented income when no other sources of income are available.
When the job market is strong, the idea of universal income loses popularity, but when unemployment claims are going up by hundreds of thousands a week, universal basic income starts to make more sense.
Many opponents argue that citizens whose jobs were lost to outsourcing or automation can learn other skills such as computer coding. One of the best ways to combat job loss in, indeed, to retrain workers, but not everyone can learn skills that cannot eventually be automated.
The pandemic has taught us that.
At this point, the need for a universal basic income is inevitable.
– Josh Tyler Young,
Roanoke, VA