Starvin Larry

I have been shopping a number of times this week at the local Winn Dixie

The registers are staffed almost exclusively by fresh  faced kids, hard at work at their low paying part time jobs without benefits

Some of them wear masks and some don’t, but they are all still polite and professional behind the newly installed sneeze shields

And they all have one thing in common; They all risk danger to keep the local grocery running

Even if not to themselves because they are young

But their parents, grandparents, aunts and Uncles and any others not filled with the vigor of youth

Sure, they are not heroes; They are still out making a living

But they are teenagers and most certainly could opt out (For the most part) if they chose to

So where is our congress, during one of the most perilous times our country has persevered?

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Let’s hope that people are pissed enough about losing their jobs and liberty due to the coronavirus response that they at least start asking some hard questions. From Julie Kelly at amgreatness.com:

We should be getting rid of the original Patriot Act, no propagating a new version for healthcare. From Ron Paul at ronpaulinstitute.com:

According to a story in Politico, the White House Coronavirus Task Force is considering creating a national surveillance system to track Americans’ health information. Supporters of this initiative claim it would enable the federal government to quickly identify areas in need of additional medical supplies and other assistance because the areas are coronavirus “hot spots.”

Of course, it is unlikely that this system would be limited to only tracking coronavirus patients. The government may eventually keep track of every hospital admission — or even all visits to doctors’ offices — in the United States. This system could, and likely would, be used to violate privacy and harass and intimidate those challenging existing government policies. Anyone who doubts this should ask themselves what J. Edgar Hoover or Lois Lerner…