Latest Covid Relief Bill Inflicts Massive Harm On Working Class Americans

The latest version of COVID relief legislation should send shivers down the spines of Americans. It includes major corporate immunity coupled with a complete destruction of our civil liberties. This bill cannot be allowed to pass, and Farron Cousins explains why this thing is so dangerous.

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At this point, it looks like we are going to get a COVID relief package. That for some reason doesn't actually include any real relief for the American public. In fact, according to the latest version of the negotiated bill, which was leaked, um, and David Serota, Andrew Perez, uh, posted about it on Tuesday. What we're looking at is a piece of legislation that has retroactive immunity for corporations, actually guts part of the civil rights act. And of course does not include any direct payments for struggling Americans, bunch of corporate giveaways and some weird crap and nothing to actually address the fact, a fact that millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Millions of Americans are struggling to afford their bills. Millions are facing an eviction crisis. Oh, and of course we're in the middle of a recession. Now during a pandemic, here's the highlights of the bill as reported on the daily poster.

It would shield companies from all coronavirus related actions retroactively for at least one year or until the pandemic is over, except in cases of gross negligence. Uh, most coronavirus related lawsuits would be forced into federal courts, which are considered more friendly to business interests. That is true. These are the judges that are appointed and even the ones appointed by Democrats are all way, way, way too. Corporate. Number two, it would restrict the enforcement of lawn state, longstanding laws, such as the fair labor standard act of 1938, the occupational safety and health act of 1970 and the civil rights act of 1964. When companies say they're attempting to comply with government's coronavirus guidelines empower the United States attorney general to deem coronavirus related lawsuits from workers, customers, and attorneys meritless, and then file civil actions against them. As retribution in order to vindicate the public interest courts would be allowed to find respondents up to $50,000.

So if you are forced by your employer to go back to work and they put you in a situation that they know is going to increase your chances of getting this virus or cause you to get the virus and they know it is, and then you say, all right, well, I'm going to Sue you for doing this to me. This piece of legislation, that would be the next relief. Bill says, guess what? You've sued them. Now, the DOJ gets to prosecute you. First of all, your lawsuit is dismissed as meritless, and now we're suing you for $50,000.

That's not all

It would shield healthcare executives from lawsuits through language copied word for word from a statute passed in New York by democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo amid a spate of COVID deaths in that state's nursing homes. This, when I first saw this, if it hadn't been by Serota and Perez, I honestly would have assumed that this was parody because this is comically, uh, corporate. Like this is something you would see from the onion like, Oh yeah, if you Sue your employer, uh, it gets immediately dismissed and you have to pay $50,000. That's a joke. Ha ha it's it's not. Those are legitimately. Things are in the, that are in the current draft copy of the bill. No $1,200 checks, no extra unemployment benefits, no mortgage moratorium that we know of yet just corporate giveaway. After corporate giveaway, after corporate giveaway, your losing your rights in this bill, like this is supposed to help it's. I mean, it's a relief bill to give people relief, but the only people getting relief are the people who run major corporations.

This isn't,

This isn't, this isn't a country anymore. This isn't a country. I'm sorry, but that is the only logical conclusion that I can come to. This is a corporate ocracy. This is not a Republic. It's not a democracy. We're in a corporate ocracy. And we're the pawns are the expendable individuals, this country and CSSP as people, it sees us as pieces pieces that can be replaced. The corporations cannot, the corporations must be protected, but the individual pieces of it, sure. Those come and go, they fail, they break, we replace them. And that's what we are. The replaceable pieces. And this legislation proves that that's what the government thinks of us.