Georgians Are Starving — And Their Millionaire Senators Refuse to Force a Vote on Aid
Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue could actually force a Senate vote on $2,000 checks for almost two thirds of Georgia households. After all, their state is in the middle of a calamity. Instead, they are issuing belated, meek platitudes.
Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue wave to the crowd at a campaign event on December 21, 2020 in Milton, Georgia. (Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Images)
It’s an almost too-on-the-nose reflection of America’s oligarchy that the fate of $2,000 survival checks for starving people will be decided on by a Wall Street magnate and a corporate executive who ran a retail chain that preys on low-income communities — and it will all play out in a state facing rising joblessness, poverty, and starvation.
But here we are, with Georgia and its senate races likely to decide it all.
If you were writing a Hollywood screenplay about this, you would almost certainly set it in the Peach State and its special election.
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