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richardgrabman's avatar

The devil in the details. Presumably those of us whose income is social security, and don't earn enough to file returns will also receive a stimulus check... or else a lot of us poors are screwed. Again.

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richardgrabman's avatar

Weirder yet... Brittany Spears called for income redistribution and a general strike.

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carovee's avatar

Hahaha, that was a fun 6 hours when we thought we were getting a relief package. But no, McConnell has decided the poors might get too comfortable if we keep them from starving and living on the streets so he's screwing things up over the extra unemployment benefits.

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carovee's avatar

I'm pretty sure its actually the part that says, Trump Company and all subsidiaries keep out this means you.

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Stulexington's avatar

So which House Republican Asshole is going to cock everything up just to get his name in the papers?

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sarafina's avatar

I think that's a multiple choice question.

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sarafina's avatar

I don't think unemployment of $995 a week will last for a year.

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sarafina's avatar

THAT's how AOC could blow this up.

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fuflans's avatar

doesn't even cover my mortgage.

;(

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EdR's avatar

A $2 trillion package is on the table to today with rumors of a $6 trillion package.

A trillion is a HUGE number!

For perspective:'

A trillion is such a big number that it loses all meaning.

Here's some context, one trillion seconds is 31,709 years.

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cmd RadicalLIBRaphaelWarnock's avatar

Lindsey went on a stupid ramp about how this encourages nurses to quit so they could make $24 NOT to work. Completely ignoring that you don't get unemployment IF YOU QUIT.

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Aileen's avatar

I was reading earlier that the loans to small businesses would be forgivable (eg, free cash money!) if the small business maintains their number of employees and spends the money on payroll, rent and a few other specified expenses. And that it can only be spent on payroll for employees making less than $100k/yr. Is that no longer the case? Low interest loans are far less appealing than free.

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Charles Wolf's avatar

Ho Hum, The Incredible Folding Senator Schumer gets Turtle played like a sheet of Origami paper.,, again...as usual.Maybe Nancy can fix this POS Bill.

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acchomplished's avatar

Here you go: Source: The Hill Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who joined the other three senators at a press conference on the issue Wednesday, added in a tweet that "we shouldn’t have policies in place that disincentivize people from returning to the workforce." Fucking Voldemort. Like people will start to love living on half their salary for four months and then want to just stay unemployed.

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acchomplished's avatar

For four months = $15,920. Not exactly rolling in it.

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