Good morning. 
Monday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 57. Sunrise is 6:16 AM and sunset 5:53 PM, for 11h 37m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 24.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1775, an anonymous writer, thought by many to be Thomas Paine, publishes “African Slavery in America,” the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
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Jim Tankersley reports To Juice the Economy, Biden Bets on the Poor (‘Mr. Biden’s bottom-up $1.9 trillion aid package is a sharp reversal from the tax cut bill that was President Donald J. Trump’s first big legislative victory’):
To jump-start the ailing economy, President Biden is turning to the lowest-paid workers in America, and to the people who are currently unable to work at all.
Mr. Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic relief package, which cleared the Senate on Saturday and could be headed for the president’s signature in a matter of days, would overwhelmingly help low earners and the middle class, with little direct aid for the high earners who have largely kept their jobs and padded their savings over the past year.
For the president, the plan is more than just a stimulus proposal. It is a declaration of his economic policy — one that captures the principle Democrats and liberal economists have espoused over the past decade: that the best way to stoke faster economic growth is from the bottom up.
Mr. Biden’s approach in his first major economic legislation is in stark contrast to President Donald J. Trump’s, whose initial effort in Congress was a tax-cut package in 2017 that largely benefited corporations and wealthier Americans.
(Quick observations: (1) the case against spending is obviously stronger in good conditions, (2) we are admittedly not yet in good conditions, (3) by contrast Trump’s tax-cut package came needlessly in relatively good national conditions, (4) Trump inherited a long expansion that brought those relatively good national conditions, (5) the Trump plan was a redistribution scheme on behalf of Trump’s well-placed, special-interest constituencies, (6) Trump’s deservedly bad reputation on economics – trade wars, favoritism for the fortunate, etc. – has wrecked the case against spending for those of us who are neither ignorant nor corrupt, (7) Biden might and should have spent less, but the child-centric portions of the package are rightly focused and welcome, and (8) Whitewater notably and distressingly has struggled for years as a low-wage community with high child poverty.)
Among a litany of public statements against Dominion, the complaint alleges that Lindell knowingly lied on air about having “raw data analytics” that would demonstrate “a cyber footprint from inside [Dominion’s] machines” that was “going to show that Donald Trump won.” Worse, Lindell complained that he was being attacked by the left for speaking the truth, a lie-upon-a-lie that duped Trump supporters into buying pillows as an act of compassion, retaliation, and/or patriotism.
We all know why this is bad stuff. Even Mitch McConnell has acknowledged that the Big Lie harmed American democracy. But Dominion’s lawsuit makes clear that the Big Lie is also a cash cow for scam artists—after all, in the eight short weeks following the November 3 election, it moved $255.4 million from the bank accounts of Trump supporters into the coffers of the Trump campaign and the Republican party. For this lurid reason, the Big Lie is not going away anytime soon.