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fuflans's avatar

doesn't even cover my mortgage.

;(

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.

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.

cmd RadicalLIBRaphaelWarnock's avatar

I have read that Lindsey's opponent has pulled ahead of him in a poll. Don't know how reliable it is, but I would love to see Graham drawing unemployment next year.

acchomplished's avatar

Hopefully voters will remember how assholic they behaved.

cmd RadicalLIBRaphaelWarnock's avatar

and after all that shit, they voted for it after being complete assholes.

Amalga's avatar

My money is on Louie Gohmert.

acchomplished's avatar

Yay! I've been donating to him and Amy McGrath.

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.

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.

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.

acchomplished's avatar

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

acchomplished's avatar

Big headline: Bill Betrayal. Senate hands Trump Keys to the Country. "The emergency coronavirus legislation that the Senate agreed to on Tuesday can only be described as an outrage. It is not an economic rescue package, but a sentence of unprecedented economic inequality and corporate control over our politics that will resonate for a generation." What the fuck? What the hell? I feel like I've been sucker punched in the gut.

Grumpy Old Man's avatar

Hmmm, I retired last year - will I get $1,500? It almost sounds like it - too lazy to read the bill.

RawrIhavePi's avatar

So on the checks, how are they determining who receives them? It can't be based on those filing taxes since the people who most need it don't have taxes to file. D;