This is the Tom Hartman program.

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Tom Harbin here with you.

The latest Republican scammed or screw working class people and help out their billionaire buddies, that is the

billionaire buddies of the Republicans, has to do with the so-called open the

state orders and Trump's executive order about meat packing plants.

The simple fact is that when governors and employers both say that the workplace is or can be open,

workers no longer qualify for unemployment or other benefits if they're afraid to go to work.

And unemployment benefits are ultimately paid by the employer, the company, through the unemployment fund in the states so when a lot of people

claim the employer's rates go up and those employers give a lot of money to

politicians.

Because of Trump's incompetence, you know, because it's left the nation without adequate testing,

workers are now forced to choose between possibly killing themselves by exposing themselves to a virus, a deadly

virus or killing vulnerable members of their family on the one hand or losing all

our benefits, going hungry and possibly ending up homeless on the other hand.

I mean, the final middle finger that Republicans are giving workers in American consumers is a legislative

attempt to outlaw the right to sue employers or businesses for putting them in a situation

where they might get sick or die. Seriously, Republicans want workers to have all the

responsibility, all the liability for deciding whether to go to work

or to starve without any good information from testing.

At the same time, the Republican Party wants to make sure that their fat-cat billionaire

buddies and big corporations will never be held accountable and will be able to make even bigger

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