Enidigm
1711
So what’s going on here? I’d like to see bipartisan support but this seems to be failing from the Democratic side, or at least those are the summaries I’ve read.
The dynamic on Capitol Hill partly results from lingering resentments among Senate Republicans over the last coronavirus relief bill, a $100-billion plus package enacted last week negotiated between Pelosi and Mnuchin. Many Senate Republicans were unhappy with paid sick leave provisions in that bill but voted for it anyway, and to a degree they are now turning the tables on Democrats.
Republicans wrote a bill that gives the President half a trillion dollars to dole out however he wants, without oversight, without even having to tell what he did with it for 6 months after giving some away. It’s absurd, of course the Dems want to kill it.
Plus no money for hospitals / treatment, no guarantees for employees, negligible strings on companies that get the money, etc.
Enidigm
1713
So the Republicans wrote a slush fund bill for large companies (ie Trump hotels) basically.
Yeah, if Trump gets to throw around a half trillion dollars, a chunk of that ends up in his pockets via his business and in the pockets of friends who will donate to his campaign. It’s a horrible idea.
ShivaX
1715
Isn’t that the plan that fucks over the poor, barely helps the middle class and lines corporate pockets?
Like the last I heard there was a plan that ignored 22 million people. Because 22 million people with nothing to lose is no big deal.
Scuzz
1717
I am not sure why that should be so “stunning” when several states have literally declared business as usual is a no go. Many employers are laying people off so that they can get unemployment, rather than just reduce their hours.
Yeah, it’s actually less than a lot of mainstream forecasts.
It’s only data from 17 states as opposed to the 2008 full 50, right?
Fair point, I guess it depends on the states how it compares to forecasts. Hopefully whoever created the chart limited it to the same states, otherwise it’s a bit of a chartcrime, albeit still striking.
Nesrie
1722
I don’t know. I saw Q3+8. Maybe he’s looking at the wrong playbook.
/s
Okay, then, good luck to you mister Boeing CEO.
CraigM
1724
Translation: we’re not that bad because I only want money if its free.
Seriously, if he rejects aid and then cries poor and lays off a bunch of people, I hope they give him the National Lampoon Christmas vacation treatment.
Preferably delivery to someone who can’t make rent that month and has a sick family member.
Self sorting problem solving.
Thrag
1727
It’s a 409k now. 401k is oldspeak.
I missed the 409k covfefe, so I had to look it up. In an article at the time:
As for the real 401(k)s, those have, indeed, been doing really well. Not quite as well as they did under Obama and Clinton, as you can see, but still:
My brain is chock full of useless stuff, and suddenly I recall a Tom Clancy plot line involving an attack on the US using aerosolized Ebola combined with a hack attack on the stock market which destroys the economy, then Jack Ryan saves the day by ordering the markets ‘rewound’ to their values on the close date before the attack. How long before some Rhodes Scholar suggests that remedy?
