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Biden/Schumer/Pelosi Accountability Thread

 
Colonel Angus said:
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I thought the purpose of the unemployment and direct payments was to reduce the spread of the disease by helping people to stay home and not have to go out and work.
 
The jobs report was disappointing yet jobless claims are dropping dramatically and the unemployment rate barely budged despite more and more people looking for work.
 
People want to work, they just don’t want to do shitty work for shitty people. If there is a viable alternative to the latter, they’ll take it.

Basically our workforce doesn’t suck, the jobs they were doing suck.
 
Colonel Angus said:
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If the exploitation of low wage workers ends as a result of COVID that would be a very nice silver lining.
 
The average North Carolina state unemployment is like 200 dollars, the supplemental pushes that to 500. Wow a whole $12.50 an hour, I can’t believe people aren’t running to sign up for these awesome jobs everyone keeps complaining aren’t being filled they surely must be paying more than that and a living wage.
 
The average weekly UI benefit in March was $351.09 (up to $651.09 with the $300 FPUC bonus) which is roughly the same after-tax pay as a job that pays $17.90 an hour.

Of course it differs from state to state but where is the incentive to work a $22/hr job ($45k+ per year) when you can sit on your ass and collect the equivalent of $18/hr after taxes for doing nothing?

And this $45k per year job exceeds the federal poverty level for a family of 8.
 
Louis Gossett Jr said:
The average North Carolina state unemployment is like 200 dollars, the supplemental pushes that to 500. Wow a whole $12.50 an hour, I can’t believe people aren’t running to sign up for these awesome jobs everyone keeps complaining aren’t being filled they surely must be paying more than that and a living wage.
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Um, that's not how it's supposed to work though.

Also, not being considered enough is that the PPP FINALLY was made available to 1099 employees this spring, so many gig workers got a nice influx of cash they missed out on last year and they are now taking their sweet time coming back into the fold.
 
The concept of “defense” seems to justify violent offense.
 
I happened to be downtown during a big Palestinian march

very emotional -- lots of families and children
 
The Israeli army spokesperson’s office said the strikes targeted Hamas’s “underground military infrastructure”. As a result of the strike, “the underground facility collapsed, causing the civilian houses’ foundations above them to collapse as well, leading to unintended casualties”, it said.
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So they bombed the foundation of the residential area and were surprised it caused the residences to collapse? Could also be stated, we don't care how many civilians die, there are some bad guys there too.

Shameful our government is not only accepting but defending these actions, though not entirely surprising given our own efforts in the Middle East.
 
Very glad that the US is consulting with the President who just cancelled the first elections in 15 years because he was afraid he’d lose.
 
 
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