Years ago one of the very 1st shows i did when i came to Artie America you said something that was a mouthful you said in 50 years we will not be able to feed ourselves and lately im thinking about that mythical Doomsday Clock that shows us how many minutes and seconds we are away from Nuclear Annihilation has the countdown clock to starvation ed fanciest even during this pandemic. Well you make it dramatic because youre so good at that but you have also a great memory as they did to you and ive been saying that to my Radio Audience and both on the American Family farmer and the j. V. Program for a long time my background having grown up around town has been on the farm all my life ive seen things that all of us have sort of taken for granted whether we lived on the farm oh ever we were benefiting from the products that came from the farm we knew the farm we knew the farmer we knew what we wanted to go by we could watch it grow as we drove by that stuff is all over the past 25 maybe 30
A recent Virtual Senate Committee Meeting kansas republican pat roberts said people are finally realizing that food doesnt come from a store and if you have masked up and browse the one way street aisles at the supermarket lately it is a creepy experience and you have seen some bare shelves is this the new normal lets ask the host of the American Family farmer radio show himself a working farmer doug stephan welcome back. And prevent a mass crime just for you and i took it off. Whatever you know thank you it was nearly 3 years ago one of the very 1st shows i did when i came to r. T. America you said something that was a mouthful you said in 50 years we will not be able to feed ourselves and lately im thinking about that mythical Doomsday Clock that shows us how many minutes and seconds we are away from Nuclear Annihilation has the countdown clock to starvation ad fantz even during this pandemic. Well you make it dramatic because youre so good at that but you have also a great memory as
Loans provided through the c. A. R. E. S. Act during the coronavirus pandemic. The House Small Business Committee held this hearing. I want to thank everyone for joining us this afternoon for our committees First Official remote hearing. I want to make sure to note some important requirements. House regulations require members to be visible through a video connection throughout the proceedings. So please keep your cameras on. Also, if you have to participate in another proceeding, please exit this one and log on later. You are recognized to minimize background noise. Over the last few months, the outbreak of covid19 has led to an unpresented Public Health crisis and dire economic crisis. We have lost over 10,000 people to the disease and 30 million remain unemployed. Back in february as the pandemic was getting worse, we knew we needed to take action to help our Small Businesses survive the economic downturn. We started working with the sba and governors around the country to leverage
Institute for policy studies released a study thursday showing that in the 8 weeks between march 18th and may 14th the country superwealthy have added a further 368800000000. 00 to their already a normal fortunes and besides this ridiculous state of inequality the rich are also not paying their fair share in taxes they got a giant tax cut for donald trump and the super rich hold 32. 00 trillion dollars in offshore tax havens meanwhile for average americans its. Not good to. A record 36000000. 00 americans have filed for Unemployment Insurance with millions more losing their employer based Health Care Plans and around a 3rd of the country not paying its rent so how does our society not collapsing how is it i wonder why why is the stock market not so low we can see up my skirt well one of the reasons is that we now have a plutonic me citi Group Analysts have used the term plutonic me to describe an economy in which the rich are the driving forces and main beneficiaries of Economic Growth
Country superwealthy have added a further 368800000000. 00 to their already a norm its fortunes and besides this ridiculous state of inequality the rich are also not paying their fair share in taxes they got a giant tax cut for donald trump and the super rich hold 32. 00 trillion dollars in offshore tax havens meanwhile for average americans its. Not as good. A record 36000000. 00 americans have filed for Unemployment Insurance with millions more losing their employer based Health Care Plans and around a 3rd of the country not paying its rent so how does our society not collapsing how is it i wonder why why is the stock market not so low we can see up my skirt well one of the reasons is that we now have a plutonic me citi Group Analysts have used the term plutonic me to describe an economy in which the rich are the driving forces and main beneficiaries of Economic Growth basically it only matters what the rich do what they buy what they invest in you and i dont matter we matter as much