it blows me away that people don't give a about open ripoffs like this
Even if citizens gave a , they're powerless to fix it.
Vote?
The corruption, the bribery of the political class by the oligarchy is complete and untouchable.
The judicial class isn't far behind, $10Ms were spent to get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh onto SCOTUS to obtain a non-squishy, solid 5 conservatives.
$600/week to nearly 30M unemployed is about $15B/week that is very probably spent immediately by recipients
$60B/month is what the Repugs want to take out of the economy.
Money to citizens is the best kind of Keynesian spending by govt when the private sector has cratered.
Stimulus to the oligarchy doesn't help, those $100Bs get hoarded by the oligarchy, not spent.
Good point.
For the unemployed, rising grocery prices strain budgets even more
Beef and veal prices rose 20.2 percent, and
eggs rose 10.4 percent since February
The cost of groceries has been rising at the fastest pace in decades since the coronavirus pandemic seized the U.S. economy,
Compared with this time last year, prices for beef and veal are up 25.1 percent. Eggs are up 12.1 percent, and pork is up 11.8 percent from a year earlier
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/04/grocery-prices-unemployed/
What California's unemployment numbers tell us about the Trump-Made COVID depression
California is the largest state and surely roughly representative of what is happening elsewhere.
We see that the United States is mired in a full-blown depression,
and unless President Trump and Senate Republicans do something,
it will get much worse.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/92971...vid-depression
Boutons, take a break, put on your mask and run down to Sams and get your mom another carton of Kools...you've been in the trailer too long.
TB, I don't disagree with you on this post, but wanted to ask you if you feel that democrats share in the "face of corruption" and if so how much?
plenty. but the dems passed a relief package in the house back in may which mcconnell has refused to bring to a vote... so there's that.
the entire political class and Repug recent Federal judges are corrupt.
History Is Waving A Big Red Flag As Negotiators Hit Stalemate Over State And Local Funding
(Dems)They’ve publicly refused to budge on the biggest planks of their plan,
reportedly eking out billions of dollars in concessions from the White House negotiators,
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
Those two are facing immense pressure from a fractured Republican caucus,
some of whom are desperate to take a deal home to their cons uents — and
some of whom refuse to spend a dime more in federal aid.
One of the key sticking points that has emerged in negotiations is direct funding to states and municipalities.
“A lesson of the Great Recession is even though we got a lot of great federal stimulus,
it was offset by state and local austerity efforts that hurt the recovery,”
Pelosi is touting the state and local employment piece as the one of the key reasons the funds are needed.
“Health care workers, first responders, teachers, sanitation and transportation workers are employed by state and local government,” she said Thursday on CNBC.
“If they don’t get the money, many of these people, millions of them, will be unemployed and go on unemployment insurance,
so what money is that saving?”
The Republican proposal ... omitted any direct state and local aid.
if they forget the lessons of the Great Recession
the country will pay in the long run.
“If Congress doesn’t do anything to support state and local governments,
that is actually going to be catastrophic,”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/state-local-funding-pelosi-schumer-meadows-mnuchin-covid-unemployment
red states TX and FL are in bad shape due to depending of sales taxes with sales far down.
The Democrats and Pelosi have totally gained the upper hand in this money game.
You are on the red team and your leader walked away from a virus he can’t play middle school games with, and now your State actually needs help badly.
sleep in that bed you made.
Or just call it a Chinese virus, that will do it.
The GOP thinks tuffness requires ting on people and states who need help through no fault of their own; wasn't it our government that asked us to shelter in place in March and April?
The GOP is still apparently bent on shafting states and the unemployed -- and COVID 19 relief -- if it isn't allowed to load the money cannon for Wall Street and specially targeted sectors, one more time.
basically
Trash prepares EO(s) to suspend payroll taxes, as the oligarchy wants to kill SS and force everybody into BigFinance's vampire squid tentacles.
That meme was about Mitch. If you have some politicians you know are blatantly corrupt, please share.
the biggest beneficiaries of payroll tax cuts are the wealthy, up to +$50K/year
Or, seeing the writing on the wall that they'll lose in November, the GOP is seeking to undermine economic recovery. It's of a piece with the ongoing GOP avoidance of developing a national strategy for COVID-19, qua public health emergency.
Trump Says He’ll Take Executive Action
‘If Democrats Continue to Hold This Critical Relief Hostage’
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-sa...elief-hostage/
Trash, Repugs blaming the Dems
Trash, Repug, ALL their supporters to . THEY are the problem, not the solution.
Pelosi and Schumer only interested in Bailout Money for poorly run Democrat cities and states.
Nothing to do with China Virus!
Want one trillion dollars. No interest.
We are going a different way!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2020
None of the Trash cult mob to be evicted, homeless, lose their homes, cars, utilities, phones?
Republican Senators not wanting you to get $600 per week while they make $3k per week, plus free flights, free health-care and a nice golden parachute when they retire
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