Biden Campaign Living Room Chats

This is a request and a suggestion that V. P. Biden begin a series of informal chats broadcast on national television with the purpose of reassuring the American population. The country has a vacuum of leadership at a time of national peril: we need a reassuring voice now.

These chats may or may not help in the election, but times are so critical that Americans need the chats. The overarching theme might be this: 'We are not Blue or Red, we are family. We are the American family and we are all in this together.'

Perhaps schedule 3 to 5 hour long chats per week, on television as soon as possible. 

Envision a camera on Joe and Jill seated in their real living room with grandkids and pets free to roam during the show. 

Joe speaks: 'Good evening my Fellow Americans. These are troubled times for all our American family. I am asking for your support and your efforts to help me fix many of the issues we face. We can fix them if we face them together as a family.

It is harder to fix problems when we are divided. I will tell you this: I don't usually agree with Republican ideas, but if they have a good idea that will help our whole family, I will support it. I will work with all the people in our private sectors and governments at the local, state and national level to find real solutions no matter where they come from. 

One of the best things about our family is that we care for all of us - we don't leave people behind to suffer. So I am asking you all to join me and help all our family in the coming years. 

There is nothing - nothing at all - that a united America can’t fix. 

So, Jill, what do you think is an important issue to talk about today?'

Jill speaks: ‘Well Joe, we could talk about the pandemic and how to fix the hospital system, but for today why don’t we talk for a little bit about the conditions of our essential working people and their families - the people who care for us in hospitals, deliver our groceries and drive our buses and trains. A lot of our essential workers are having a hard time now and I'm sure they’d like to hear what you want to do for them'

Joe: 'Thanks Jill, that's a good idea.

Well I have a long history of helping working people get a better life and my heart has always been with them and their families. 

In fact I have a specific plan to help working people, And the man who helped me write that plan, Austin Schimmerflots, is here to explain it to everybody. In addition, not only that, we have tonight Mary and Bob Smith and their two kids to give us all a view of how life is for them today. They're on a remote camera in their home
and I'll ask them to listen to Austin's presentation and ask him questions later.

So Mary, can you and Bob tell us a little about your lives right now?' 

Mary: ' Thanks Joe. Well, I’m an ER nurse in Queens and I work 10 to 12 hour days taking care of people with advance Covid 19. The hardest part of my job is holding the hand of a patient who is dying while he makes the transition. As you know, families cannot be with the severely ill and they die alone except for me. Sometimes I just cry.'

Bob: 'I see how all this affects Mary. It's really hard. She doesn't have enough PPE and I think she may have the virus, but the hospital doesn’t have enough tests to give so we're not sure. I lost my job a few weeks ago and there isn’t any work. Mary's check isn’t enough to cover our costs and I think we can't pay the rent next week.'

Joe; 'Wow, that's hard for you right now. I am hoping we can put some real money into your hands soon to ease the pressures. I will work really hard to make that happen. 

For the long term, we have a very specific action plan to improve the lives of all the workers in our American family. Austin, can you tell us the main points our plan is designed to do and then maybe answer Mary and Bob's questions about it?'

Austin then describes the plan in general with zero visual aids, just him talking to Mary and Bob....

end.

A Plan for Joe Biden

Congratulations on your election.

The good news is that you are guaranteed to be a better POTUS than 45. That's true even if you do nothing. Nothing at all.

You know the bad news.

Now we need a Nationally coordinated Covid 19 response, for all of us. We also need a National Food Bank. And, somehow unbreakable legislation to curtail Presidential powers to bypass Constitutional restraints and Balance of Powers. 

Below's a plan to address some of the immediate issues. The assumption is that you have both Houses of Congress for at least 2 years. You have to move quickly and do all this in 24 months since you may see a backlash.

1. No pardon for trump. Evict him in handcuffs if needs be. Let the Legal process proceed.

2. Fire every trump appointee, Every. Single. One. Offer interested Obama appointees re-instatement.

3. Reverse all executive actions. Every. Single. One.

4. Nationalize the PPE, ventilator and vaccine efforts. Make sure that the public sees all decisions.

5. Re-install a real Glass-Steagal and separate depositary banks from investment banks. Depositary institutions cannot make investments and investment banks cannot take deposits.

6. Declare a 12 month holiday from all loan payments with the payments added to the back.

7. Forgive all student loans.

8. Jail a few criminal bankers - no fines.

9. Request the FED to let the insolvent banks fail. The system is too badly off to even notice. Guarantee all deposits if FDIC isn't enough.

10. Create a health insurance program that covers ALL residents - we all are as sick as the poorest. Take for-profit-providers and insurance companies out of business. Re-organize as non-profit or nationalize them.

11. Pay for the costs with tax increases to Pre-Reagan era and T Bills.

12. Install confiscatory estate tax - oligarchic families are one of our biggest problems and that means Gates and Bezos among others.

13. Repair and re-coordinate defense plans with NATO and other alliances. Present a unified front to Russia and China.

14. Enforce sanctions on thug Russians.

15. Create office of national Planning: object to ensure future jobs and prevent hostile takeover son US businesses.

16. Create humane and law-abiding immigration after releasing all caged people.

17. Manage the coming Hunger Pandemic with world governments and the UN.

18. And, make all oil, electricity, internet providers, cell phone and other utility like businesses subject to Public Utility regulation of rates and profits.  

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Hunger Pandemic Coming, Soon

London (CNN)

The world is facing multiple famines of "biblical proportions" in just a matter of months, the UN has said, warning that the coronavirus pandemic will push an additional 130 million people to the brink of starvation.

Famines could take hold in "about three dozen countries" in a worst-case scenario, the executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a stark address on Tuesday. Ten of those countries already have more than 1 million people on the verge of starvation, he said.

He cited conflict, an economic recession, a decline in aid and a collapse in oil prices as factors likely to lead to vast food shortages, and urged swift action to avert disaster.

"While dealing with a Covid-19 pandemic, we are also on the brink of a hunger pandemic," David Beasley told the UN's security council. "There is also a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of Covid-19 than from the virus itself."

The WFP had already warned that 2020 would be a devastating year for numerous countries ravaged by poverty or war, with 135 million people facing crisis levels of hunger or worse. Their updated projections nearly double that number.

The coronavirus pandemic could threaten global food supply, UN warns

When added to the 821 million people already chronically hungry, that scenario would push more than 1 billion people into dire situations.

The agency identified 55 countries most at risk of being plunged into famine in its annual report on food crises, released this week, warning that their fragile healthcare systems will be unable to cope with the impact of the virus.

"These countries may face an excruciating trade-off between saving lives or livelihoods or, in a worst-case scenario, saving people from the coronavirus to have them die from hunger," the report said.

Ten countries were singled out as particularly at-risk, after housing the worst food crises last year; Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Nigeria and Haiti.

Most of those countries have so far been spared the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, with the epicenter moving from China to Europe to North America, but the state of their healthcare institutions means even relatively small outbreaks could be devastating. To date, more than 2.5 million cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed globally.

'We do not have time on our side'

Even before the outbreak of the coronavirus, food supplies in some of the most vulnerable regions in the world were being directly affected by impacts such as crop failures and locust swarms.

Exceptional drought followed by extremely heavy rainfall markedly decreased the seasonal crop yield in the Horn of Africa during 2019. These irregular weather and climate patterns also contributed to the worst desert locust invasion in 25 years, which further threatened the crop supply in the region.

Meanwhile, the combination of conflict, climate-related shocks and crop pests had resulted in the world's worst food crisis in Yemen, according to the agency.

A large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey.

The new, coronavirus-related factors affecting each region were myriad. "Lockdowns and economic recession are expected to lead to a major loss of income among the working poor," Beasley said. Overseas remittances will also drop sharply, affecting countries such as Haiti, Nepal, and Somalia, for example.

"The loss of tourism receipts will damage countries such as Ethiopia (and) the collapsing oil prices in lower-income countries like South Sudan will have an impact significantly," he added.

He appealed to UN member states to act now, telling them: "There are no famines yet. But I must warn you that if we don't prepare and act now -- to secure access, avoid funding shortfalls and disruptions to trade -- we could be facing multiple famines of biblical proportions within a short few months.

"The truth is, we do not have time on our side, so let's act wisely -- and let's act fast," he added. "I do believe that with our expertise and partnerships, we can bring together the teams and the programs necessary to make certain the Covid-19 pandemic does not become a humanitarian and food crisis catastrophe."