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(ThyBlackMan.com) President-elect, Joe Biden is poised to launch a Covid-19 economic relief plan worth trillions of dollars. Here are some meaningful observations for all of us to consider in the run-up to Mr. Biden’s planned announcement of the details of his Covid-19 economic spending plan on Thursday. It is questionable, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Democrats now have single-party control of the federal government. President Joe Biden styled himself as the most moderate candidate his party had to offer. And still, during the campaign he promised to put Beto O’Rourke – the man who blurted out “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15s” ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made headline news again with the announcement that he donated $10 billion, the biggest private donation in 2020, to a slew of organizations fighting climate change. One of the world’s top richest men, Tesla CEO Elon Musk barely edged him for the number one world’s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The Republican party has become the party of victims. It is led by the biggest “victim” of all, Donald Trump.  Victimhood is an effective political ideology because it allows its holders to shunt off blame for their own culpability in having devastated the country, whether through presidential incompetence and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) So, we spent a whole election on my side of the fence talking about, ‘We got to fight socialism.’ And now you’re going to throw a half-trillion dollars” with “absolutely no targeting” for earners hurt economically by the coronavirus? That’s Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., talking about President Donald Trump‘s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Injuries always come unannounced. You can’t do much about them except for getting yourself treated. It’s not easy but what’s more challenging is when a party is involved in your personal injury. It is a relief that you have insurance, but it’s no use when there is a case. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) What do Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Richard Branson and Apple CEO Tim Cook have in common? They are some of the wealthiest people on earth. But if we keep this fact aside, there’s a lot common among the richest people – their habits. We are what we repeatedly do. We ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “I wish they would put themselves — the White House and Congress and everybody else making these decisions — in the shoes of us, the normal working people, who need help due to no fault of our own. I’m asking to be able to keep my apartment. To be ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump took much deserved heat for deliberately and vindictively gumming up the works in not immediately signing the 900-billion-dollar second stimulus bill. The list of those hurt by the delay runs off the chart; renters, the unemployed, small to medium sized businesses, and the millions of the neediest ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) With the advent of a New Year, several people will have resolutions in mind, like to lose weight and to quit smoking or eating chocolate. While some have the determination to succeed, most stumble at the first or second hurdle. However, what if you need to reassess your life ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It is important, how President Biden and his economic team define stimulus. It is a misnomer to call the entire economic relief package, such as the Cares Act, “stimulus legislation only,” because part of the funding within it was clearly used for relief, such as unemployment benefits, and aid for ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Some current thoughts on my comments from last year about things that would shape the narrative of 2020.  It has truly been a year unlike any other. The numerical expression “20/20” is widely recognized as synonymous with perfect vision.  And given what we have witnessed in 2019, we definitely ...