George Mitchell holds up a megaphone to amplify his words to the crowd waiting for boxes of free food. “If you can’t use it, don’t take it,” Mr. Mitchell says. Donations are gratefully accepted, but “if you don’t want to pay, that’s OK.”
The lines for this twice-weekly event in Baltimore have grown significantly longer since the coronavirus shuttered major segments of the economy and sidelined millions of workers.
On this recent Friday, one of the people lined up outside the red-brick former school is Cassandra Branch, who lost her job as a security worker at M&T Bank Stadium. Another is Elizabeth Rice, an aspiring young educator whose school employment dried up. A retail opportunity also fell through, and she hasn’t been able to access unemployment benefits.
They ain't been woked yet, but it is coming.
But I digress. The point is that the expectation of getting a good job on the plantation is gone. The plantation is unstable, it was a bad idea then and a bad idea now. It is the job of small state governors to find new plantation directors who actually understand the problem in our government of the Swamp. I doubt it, there are too many uneducated voters in Arkansas and too many Tom Cottons.
For guv Hutchinson of Arkansas I have one possible learning step. Send Tom Cotton to get chicken farm subsidies. After he goes through the laborious earmark process, he might get tiny clue, but I doubt it.
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