In the next piece of legislation by the Congress.
Sooner or later, people are going to have to return to work. Too many people cannot survive without working.
However, when they do return, their protection against the coronavirus should be 100% guaranteed. All safety precautions should be taken and each and every employer should guarantee total health coverage to any employee, and his family, that might come down with the virus. That should be a right to every American employee.
The next piece of legislation should assist small businesses, with less than 100 employees, in their cost of acquiring insurance for these employees. This should have already been the law. It is unfortunate that it has taken a crisis of this magnitude to come to this realization.
One of the primary reasons for the creation of the Constitution, which is written into the Preamble to the Constitution, was to promote the general welfare. This pandemic brings these words into sharp focus.
We now see that in a capitalist system, business cannot survive without its laborers, and labor cannot survive without their jobs. That is the system we have created.
Workers need to return to work as soon as it is deemed safe to do so. Then, only with the guarantees that they will be protected from this deadly virus.
It has been like a nationwide strike, albeit involuntary, by the workers of this country. Until they do return, the new legislation should provide basic requirements for food and shelter, perhaps in the form of a monthly guaranteed income?
This will be something the Congress needs to address as soon as they return to Washington. Hopefully that will be very soon. The workers cannot hold on for much longer.
It is something the people need and it is something our Constitution guarantees.
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