Brunswick Beacon, 10.10.24
In March 2020, Trump shut down the economy due to COVID, triggering America’s worst economic contraction. Unemployment hit 14.8%. Gross Domestic Product, (GDP), the amount of goods and services the economy produces, plummeted 32.9%, the worst drop ever. Biden and Harris took office with Americans hurting.
They immediately brought relief, delivering 300 million vaccine shots in their first 150 days. They added more jobs and more GDP growth during their administration’s first year than in the first year of any other administration in 50 years, thanks to the American Rescue Plan, an economic relief package enacted just seven weeks after they took office. Unemployment fell to 3.9%!
ARP brought NC over $8 billion, benefitting 1.3 million families with 2.1 million children. David Rouzer, and every Republican representative and senator voted “NO.”
I thought of that in September when I read that our commissioners accepted the latest installment of relief that ARP brought Brunswick County: $1.42 million to expand broadband to 319 unserved rural families, even though 62% of Brunswick County voted ‘Trump’ in 2020.
After the recent storms, Biden and Harris are again bringing relief, with 500 FEMA staff and 1,000 soldiers helping deliver food, water and medicine to NC’s ravaged rural areas.
Trump falsely accused them of “going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.” In fact, Georgia’s Republican governor praised their responsiveness, saying “FEMA has been embedded with us since before the storm hit.”
Trump is a liar who projects his own faults onto others. Former Trump aides Mark Harvey and Olivia Troye said Trump was flagrantly partisan, stalling urgent federal disaster aid for Democratic-voting regions like California and Puerto Rico.
Trump rewarded supporters in Florida with aid but withheld it from non-supporters. Rouzer refused to help his own supporters to keep Democrats from succeeding. Biden and Harris are rushing relief because they believe a president should help all Americans.
Rich Cooper
Leland
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