Laguna Madre Blues: January 2019

Lara Trump, talking about the lives of working people, something she obviously knows nothing about.“It’s not fair to you and we all get that, but this is so much bigger than any one person. It is a little bit of pain, but it’s going to be for the future of our country, and their children and their grandchildren and generations after them will thank them for their sacrifice. Right now, I know it’s hard. I know people have families, they have bills to pay, they have mortgages, they have rents that are due.”

Wilbur Ross said he didn’t “quite understand why” furloughed and non-paid federal workers are seeking assistance from homeless shelters and food banks. Instead, Ross said they should seek loans from financial institutions. ”The obligations that they would undertake, say borrowing from a bank or a credit union, are in effect federally guaranteed, so the 30 days of pay that some people will be out is no real reason why they shouldn’t be able to get a loan against it.”