Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Bunker today. You know, I want to take a moment
Speaker 1: to talk about Labor Day and the fact that we
Speaker 1: as a nation just celebrated or honored recognized this holiday
Speaker 1: and the fact that it's supposed to What have us
Speaker 1: put eyes on and give respect to workers? Right? All
Speaker 1: of us are workers. If you are employed, you are
Speaker 1: a worker that helps this country and this economy move.
Speaker 1: And I think that what is oftentimes lost on all
Speaker 1: of us, and what is shifting right now in a
Speaker 1: lot of industries and in a lot of spaces is
Speaker 1: the power that workers have. Now. When this country was
Speaker 1: moving through its industrial age, we needed to create unions
Speaker 1: and hr and different types of protections for workers. Because
Speaker 1: without these protections, without government intervention, without agencies that would
Speaker 1: look after the safety and the well being for workers,
Speaker 1: you have what is pretty much going on with Amazon
Speaker 1: around the country. You have people unable to take bathroom breaks.
Speaker 1: There is right now a piece of legislation that is
Speaker 1: going through the California legislature to ensure that production numbers
Speaker 1: remain reasonable at the behemoths like Amazon, so that workers
Speaker 1: who are on the line putting together your packages, our
Speaker 1: packages that we so desperately need, can take a bathroom break.
Speaker 1: It's crazy to me to think that in the twenty
Speaker 1: first century, after we have gone through so many different
Speaker 1: points of work, revolution and expansion in this country, that
Speaker 1: in so many ways we are going back to the beginning,
Speaker 1: whether it is with fucking abortion, whether it's with voter suppression.
Speaker 1: But it seems like America's civil rights and liberties, and
Speaker 1: workers rights and liberties and women's rights and liberties are
Speaker 1: somehow boomeranging back to pre industrial times right where we
Speaker 1: are needing to make explicitly clear the protections that workers
Speaker 1: are guaranteed, the protections that women are guaranteed. And we
Speaker 1: have a very tepid government right now that is being
Speaker 1: run by Democrats who we gave power to, but not
Speaker 1: in large enough numbers that they're able to maneuver on
Speaker 1: their own. Now, I say this though, that this problem,
Speaker 1: this juggernaut that we have right now that is happening
Speaker 1: in our government is not the people's problem. It is
Speaker 1: our politicians problem. It is Republicans problem, and the reality
Speaker 1: that Democrats do not show to the public that Republicans
Speaker 1: want to do nothing for Americans, right, that Republicans see
Speaker 1: Americans as the problem, and they see corporations as the
Speaker 1: savior to America. That government is not supposed to intervene.
Speaker 1: Government is not supposed to make sure that you have
Speaker 1: bathroom breaks at work, that you are given healthcare, that
Speaker 1: you are have childcare, That that's not government's problem. That
Speaker 1: if you cannot afford those things on your own, well,
Speaker 1: then too bad, right, And that if you need to
Speaker 1: be worked above, well above forty hours a week, if
Speaker 1: you need to have multiple jobs so that you can
Speaker 1: put food on the table and take care of your kids, again,
Speaker 1: that is your problem. And what we are seeing with
Speaker 1: another move being made by this administration. And again, you know,
Speaker 1: a part of me does not know whether or not
Speaker 1: the moves that are being made in terms of these
Speaker 1: behemoth pieces of legislation. Because here's the thing. What we
Speaker 1: also need to recognize is that we are living in
Speaker 1: a time not unlike when the New Deal was rolled out, right,
Speaker 1: which was after wartime. Recognizing that we need to provide
Speaker 1: American families, American people, American workers right with the ability
Speaker 1: to fend for themselves, but that because there has been
Speaker 1: so much economic devastation due to COVID, due to mass layoffs,
Speaker 1: because there has been so much economic devastation due to
Speaker 1: the fact that people had to be working from home,
Speaker 1: that two million women left the workforce, and probably at
Speaker 1: this time more than that, right, two million women left
Speaker 1: the workforce because we know that, even though we want
Speaker 1: to believe that we are living in modern times, that
Speaker 1: childcare will majority of the time fall on women. So
Speaker 1: this administration has now created another behemoth of a piece
Speaker 1: of legislation, and according to Politico, they're like, we don't
Speaker 1: really know what the fuck to call it. They're like,
Speaker 1: is it a job's package, a human infrastructure bill, a
Speaker 1: climate bill, a social welfare legislation? We don't know. But
Speaker 1: essentially what it is looking at and what it is
Speaker 1: being referred to by Jonathan Weissman of The New York
Speaker 1: Times is that the breath of this legislation is basically
Speaker 1: has cradle to grave qualities, and it would affect how people,
Speaker 1: how we all see ourselves in relation to the federal
Speaker 1: government and the federal government's responsibility to help us in
Speaker 1: some of the most desperate times. Now, the New Deal,
Speaker 1: if you remember was a sweeping piece of legislation that
Speaker 1: was part infrastructure, a part building infrastructure, part human infrastructure,
Speaker 1: housing jobs, all of these things. Right, But we also
Speaker 1: know that there were carved outs in order to get
Speaker 1: the Southerners on board to make sure that people of
Speaker 1: color and women were not included, right, Because that's always
Speaker 1: the mainstay that government is great to work for the
Speaker 1: people is so long as those people are white, and
Speaker 1: so long as those people are male. But if they are,
Speaker 1: as anybody else that government is going to be working for,
Speaker 1: then you know, then it's about welfare. Like that's essentially
Speaker 1: always where we go here. So in this legislation, this
Speaker 1: is what is being said. Consider a life from conception
Speaker 1: to death. This is according to Jonathan Weisman of The
Speaker 1: New York Times and his review. Democrats intend to fund
Speaker 1: paid family and medical leave to allow a parent to
Speaker 1: take some time off during pregnancy and after a child's birth.
Speaker 1: When that parent is ready to return to work, Expended
Speaker 1: funding for childcare would kick in to help cover their
Speaker 1: daycare costs when that child turns three. Another part of
Speaker 1: the bill, universal kindergarten. Pre kindergarten, would ensure public education
Speaker 1: can begin at an earlier age, regardless of where that
Speaker 1: child lives. Then we move on. Most families with children
Speaker 1: would continue to receive federal income supplements each month in
Speaker 1: the form of an expanded child tax credit, and at
Speaker 1: high school graduation, most students would be guaranteed two years
Speaker 1: of higher education through expanded federal financial aid geared toward
Speaker 1: community colleges. Even after that, income supplements and generous workforce
Speaker 1: training programs, including specific efforts to train home health and
Speaker 1: elder care workers, would keep the government present in many
Speaker 1: adult lives. In old age, people would be helped by
Speaker 1: tax credits to offset the cost of elder care and
Speaker 1: buy an expansion of Medicare to cover dental, hearing, and
Speaker 1: vision services. Even this description doesn't capture the bill's ambitions
Speaker 1: when it comes to policies on taxes, climate, and immigration,
Speaker 1: emphasizing the government part. So they're what they're saying too,
Speaker 1: is this is that for the longest time, right, what
Speaker 1: is the biggest and most negative moniker that Republicans have
Speaker 1: with regard to democrats agendas to help Americans where they
Speaker 1: know that help is desperately needed. They call them socialists.
Speaker 1: They say that you are a socialist that where this
Speaker 1: is a communist agenda, and that this is not what
Speaker 1: government should be doing. Government should not be a part
Speaker 1: of every aspect of your life, and that people need
Speaker 1: to have personal responsibility and I'm not going to be
Speaker 1: dictated to and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
Speaker 1: Because here's the thing what Democrats don't do as a
Speaker 1: rebuttal and don't say as a rebuttal about Republican pushback
Speaker 1: against any kind of government aid to those that are
Speaker 1: in need, which is at this point pretty much a
Speaker 1: majority of Americans, is that Republicans don't want government to
Speaker 1: help you because they want to privatize everything. Right. They
Speaker 1: want to make sure that every part of your life
Speaker 1: is being hit by and controlled by capitalism, and in
Speaker 1: doing so, right, then people are making a buck off
Speaker 1: of their ability to quote unquote help you. And then
Speaker 1: there are no regulations around how right, how these companies
Speaker 1: are dictating your life. And so we'll privatize everything, and
Speaker 1: government isn't responsible for a thing, and nothing is going
Speaker 1: to come to you for free, right. And so instead
Speaker 1: of us having this consistent conversation with regard to what
Speaker 1: Republicans are trying to do. It's always Republicans coming back
Speaker 1: with their feeling that Americans are undeserving. It's very easy, right,
Speaker 1: and I don't understand every time time why it's so
Speaker 1: fucking difficult to just say that Republicans believe that Americans
Speaker 1: are undeserving. They don't believe that you should be supported,
Speaker 1: they don't believe that your family should be cared for.
Speaker 1: So while they want to ensure that a woman has
Speaker 1: no control over her body, that essentially women are just
Speaker 1: baby making factories, right that have to that are forced
Speaker 1: to stay at home because they have no support in
Speaker 1: the home, and they have no support in terms of
Speaker 1: childcare because they can't afford it outside of the home.
Speaker 1: So once again, men, white men in particular, are the
Speaker 1: ones that are the heads of the households, the ones
Speaker 1: that are sitting in the business chairs, in the conference rooms,
Speaker 1: in the c suites because the little woman is stuck
Speaker 1: at home as a baby making factory, because there is
Speaker 1: nowhere and no ability to fucking plan because we've taken
Speaker 1: an option, a healthcare option, off of the table. And
Speaker 1: we started this in Texas, but you have seen since
Speaker 1: last week how all of these things are becoming a
Speaker 1: domino effect across some of the most disgusting red states
Speaker 1: in this country. So again here's the messaging. Republicans don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck about your family. They don't give a
Speaker 1: fuck about your children. They care about fetuses, but once
Speaker 1: that fetus turns into a baby and comes out of
Speaker 1: your fucking womb, they want to do nothing to ensure
Speaker 1: that that child is educated, that that child is healthy,
Speaker 1: that that child is set up to be a productive
Speaker 1: citizen in this country. They sure as fuck don't want
Speaker 1: you to have a quality public education that learns anything
Speaker 1: right that is outside of the scope of oh, white
Speaker 1: America is excellent. They sure as fuck don't want to
Speaker 1: give you the tools to be able to go through
Speaker 1: higher education, which you need to get any type of
Speaker 1: job that is going to turn into some type of
Speaker 1: possible career. But they don't want to alleviate the debt
Speaker 1: of doing something that now has become a necessity, which
Speaker 1: is a college education. So when I say, when we
Speaker 1: look at the things that Democrats are rolling out and
Speaker 1: we're saying, well, this is historic, well this is big.
Speaker 1: So are our fucking problems. But I would argue that
Speaker 1: our biggest problem are the Republicans are the domestic terrorists
Speaker 1: that we continue to try and collaborate with to get
Speaker 1: anything done for the American people that frankly, they want
Speaker 1: to ensure have no power because they sure as fuck
Speaker 1: don't trust your ability to vote, and we know that
Speaker 1: they don't trust women, and we know that they don't
Speaker 1: like black, Indigenous people of color of BIPOC folks. So
Speaker 1: why not just say that so that the American people
Speaker 1: can have a very clear picture of where they are
Speaker 1: right now. So if you are jobless, and you're joblessness
Speaker 1: benefits are expiring, right, we already had have an issue
Speaker 1: that at the end of October, right, the evictions are
Speaker 1: going to begin again, the moratorium will have expired. Right, So,
Speaker 1: in no way, shape or form do Republicans set Americans
Speaker 1: up to live a full and complete life. In no
Speaker 1: uncertain terms, do Republicans care about your ability to pursue
Speaker 1: the American dream, about your ability to pursue a decent
Speaker 1: quality of life. They don't even want to give you
Speaker 1: a basic living wage. So instead of us right constantly
Speaker 1: rolling out all of these big projects, which again are important,
Speaker 1: but rolling them out in a way where we are
Speaker 1: not drawing a deep line in the sand between the
Speaker 1: difference between what Republicans want to deny Americans versus what
Speaker 1: it is that Democrats want to provide for Americans. Because
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, Republicans want to get
Speaker 1: on these soap boxes and talk about all the ways
Speaker 1: in which Democrats want to take things away from you.
Speaker 1: And funny enough, I have seen not one piece of
Speaker 1: legislation ever be rolled out under a Democrat that is
Speaker 1: about taking away your stupid fucking guns or taking away
Speaker 1: your ability to pray. Right, But that's always the go
Speaker 1: to for Republicans. They're going to knock door to door
Speaker 1: and take everything away from you. When has there ever
Speaker 1: been a piece of legislation to do that? Tell me?
Speaker 1: But everything that Republicans put out is actually, in reality
Speaker 1: taking something away. But according to the messaging that comes
Speaker 1: out of any Democrats' mouth, you don't fucking hear that.
Speaker 1: There is not a piece of legislation that Republicans have
Speaker 1: rolled out over the past fucking year at the state
Speaker 1: and local level that is not about denying an American something,
Speaker 1: whether it is denying a woman's right to choose, whether
Speaker 1: it is denying your access to the ballot, whether it
Speaker 1: is denying healthcare, whether it is denying school boards ability
Speaker 1: to keep your children safe in schools. Think about all
Speaker 1: of the things that Republicans have rolled out to deny you,
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