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Would anyone ever want to work again?

That would disincentive the working class (i.e., restaurant workers, retail workers, etc.) making an effort to return to work.

By the way, Yahoo News reports Georgia, Alabama and Florida as the 3 worst states as far as unemployment. That may be reason why Governor Kemp of Georgia was very eager to reopen the state.

" Comparing each state’s average weekly jobless claims totals over the past six weeks to the week before shutdowns started occurring, reveals Georgia, Florida, and Alabama to be the three states showing the largest percentage spike in people applying for unemployment benefits. Georgia in particular saw jobless claims average a nearly 5,000% spike versus the week ending March 14. Florida and Alabama saw slightly less dramatic peaks, with claims surging about 4,000%. "

Fucking idiots.

$2,000 a month to everyone so that they can sit on their ass is going to inflate everything as well as create life cripples

Never gonna pass. Fucking leftoid idiotic bullshit - again they will have some arbitrary number where they cap it off, so like the idiotic plan it was compared to in the article that would give it to people making under $120K per year but nothing to those making 121K per year and over. What's wrong with the leftoids? Anybody with common sense can see this arbitrary cut-off makes no sense.

Never gonna pass.

Doesn't have to pass. It puts forth the idea among those with an "adolescent attitude" that if they vote Dem, they increase the chances of not having to work.

Let's build dormitories and soup kitchens for those that don't want to work. Free showers and places to poop would be a definite help to the hopeless. Cash, not so much.

This is nothing but a race to the bottom while the elites laugh while most of us are enslaved. Take away a humans purpose and they are nothing.

And it even includes money for those for which the mail-in-ballot system was designed, if you catch my drift:

would deliver the cash regardless of whether people have a Social Security number or filed taxes last year.

How about a medical marijuana allowance, too?

They’re missing the entire point of a capitalist economy. You have to incentivize people to work or they won’t. That’s the entire point of money. It enables people to compel other people to provide them goods and services without having to enslave them first.

Onvacation says

Let's build dormitories and soup kitchens for those that don't want to work. Free showers and places to poop would be a definite help to the hopeless. Cash, not so much.

Won’t work because they all do drugs. As recently as 2011 City of Los Angeles had more beds than homeless people that would accept them.

The only way to get rid of the homeless is to trash their crap and arrest them and hassle them enough that it’s no longer worth it for them to stay here so they go to some other accommodateing crap hole instead like San Francisco or Seattle. If the leftist morons in those cities ever came to their senses and did the same thing, the homeless wouldnt have anywhere to go and would either get their crap together or overdose and die.

Ceffer says

How about a medical marijuana allowance, too?

Might as well toss in a gaming subscription and a hour a week with a hooker too. That’s what Bernie promised his followers, isn’t it?

Onvacation says

Let's build dormitories and soup kitchens for those that don't want to work. Free showers and places to poop would be a definite help to the hopeless.

SF alredy did that. With free drugs/cigs/booze delivery.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

. If the leftist morons in those cities ever came to their senses and did the same thing, the homeless would have anywhere to go and would either get their crap together or overdose and die.

Then they can take a shower, move into the dorm, and wait for their next bowl of soup.

Obviously our problems are much bigger than all the entitled people

Shaman says

without having to enslave them first.

Genius thought. Maybe the elites are trying to destroy capitalism because slavery has become easier these days.

I'm a hard NO on any more stimulus checks. Didn't like the first one. The still employed should be having their bank accounts growing right now with nothing to do. They don't need more. The unemployed are likely making more for the vast majority of people laid off collecting UE plus the federal benefit. I'd guess most unemployed are $50k/yr or less. There's no reason to give out free money at this point.

We do this a 2nd time, a 3rd+ time is going to be expected. Send the money to the god damn places where these people are dying. Nursing homes. Lock them down and give them all the equipment they need. 19 year old Johnny gang banger on the South Side of Chicago doesn't need $2k to buy drugs with. Or a nurse making $80k a year, who likely was financially stupid and could use the $2k, but doesn't "need" it.

Employed people and government workers shouldn't be getting a dime of the first round or any of the 2nd round. If you're on Section 8 and working you get nothing. Social security recipients should get nothing. ANY D or R that supports any $$$ for a 2nd round should be removed from office and lynched. The solution is people working, not this bull shit.

ignoreme says

Shaman says

without having to enslave them first.

Genius thought. Maybe the elites are trying to destroy capitalism because slavery has become easier these days.

Debt is Slavery!
I read it on a bumper sticker.

WookieMan says

Employed people and government workers shouldn't be getting a dime of the first round or any of the 2nd round. If you're on Section 8 and working you get nothing. Social security recipients should get nothing. ANY D or R that supports any $$$ for a 2nd round should be removed from office and lynched. The solution is people working, not this bull shit.

I agree. They should have just gave the money to the unemployed and non retired. They could have issued it through the unemployment system. Why give it to a retiree who makes $35,000 a year and already has their mortgage paid off ?

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I agree. They should have just gave the money to the unemployed and non retired. They could have issued it through the unemployment system. Why give it to a retiree who makes $35,000 a year and already has their mortgage paid off ?

The other issue is for the younger crowd. They're going to realize how wasteful they were on what they were doing and purchasing. What's usually maybe $500 in the checking account for a 24 year old, they've got $2-3k all a sudden. It doesn't bode well for reopening the economy. Not only will there be an incentive not to work, we've shown people what it's like to have some money in their damn checking accounts.

Most will burn through it either way. But if 5-10% of people wake up to their waste in their own spending, that could have big ramifications on GDP. We don't pinch pennies in my household, but even a responsible family like mine is like, fuck, we spend a lot of money on stupid shit. We may cut back moving forward on a long term basis. Non mortgage expenses for my family easily hits the median single persons income. We cut that 10-20% that's a big deal and if other people do the same.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch says

What did I do wrong?

You occasionally make a lot of sense, esp when talking about banking...this HAS to change

ignoreme says

Genius thought. Maybe the elites are trying to destroy capitalism because slavery has become easier these days.

That may be it.

Once someone is dependent on your handouts, then you have power over that person, by withholding the handouts.

Learned this from the book "What makes Sammie run?"