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I guess people who were planning on retiring but got laid off just weeks prior to retiring and now will claim unemployment benefits for many many months and will happily collect the money from the Government while complaining about anyone else receiving entitlements benefit pretty nicely.
Here's my list in order of greatest to least degree of benefit.
1. Paper goods manufacturers
2. Funeral homes/funeral services
3. Amazon
4. Grocery stores
5. Anyone with a job in medical or something else essential
6. People who do not own any stocks
7. Employed people (just because looking for a job now is bad)
8. Anyone who has not gotten Coronavirus (same logic as #7, getting Coronavirus is bad)
I say the biggest beneficiary is families. I see families at sport events all the time, but I have seen far more in the past two weeks than normal. I just hope it continues on. Might fix some social panics and undisciplined children...
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Originally Posted by Julian658
Trump's approval rating is at an all time high. This is sad because the Dems thought Corona was going to be more effective than Russia in bringing Trump down.
Trump has seen a rise but it isn't that high of one. Bush United America after 9/11, Trump continues to divide anytime he talks. I said in another post that his MO is to make comments that can intentionally be taken the wrong way just to make it fake news. He has done this countless times in his Covid-19 daily news briefings.
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Originally Posted by Mongobongo
The Media. Even though everyone knows these talking heads are liars and have an agenda, people are frightened and are grasping at every bit of information in order understand what is happening and how to best deal with it.
Any crisis news channels get that way. I rarely watch CNN during crisises (I have of late since daytime TV sucks in options) because it is all they talk about. A plane crash, they talk about it for weeks, despite days of other important news.
Then you have the batty contributers like most Fox News reporters and anchors and you have their misinformation. The mainstream media is take it or leave it, but this time they are keeping up fine. I watch ABC, NBC and CBS as well as CNN in the day during lags and all are doing good.
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Governor ratings are also up, in a number of cases quite significantly. 72% of the public are saying their governor is doing a good job.
Yes though a number like Ducey and DeSantis are not doing enough. Even DiBlassio has sucked at it. That said governors have more of direct impact than a president in a state crisis. This is a state crisis happening nationwide.
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To whoever gave me the anonymous "rep" about people on Unemployment NOT getting more with the stimulus:
I had said for FOUR MONTHS, which is possible, and why many of the Republican senators were against it. If you can't do simple math, if someone was netting $500 a week and will be getting $200 a week in Unemployment, then an extra $600 would be getting a total of $800 a week for FOUR MONTHS, which is $300 more than what s/he was making prior to being unemployed.
Understand that now?
P.S. And, no, I have very thankfully never been on Unemployment, although my husband has.
Yeah and I'm not sure what that means for school workers in summer. I'm guaranteed a paycheck until when school closed in May, the week before Memorial Day. Usually I work a summer camp through my school district and that is up in the air.
While I am "working" I actually make less than the unemployment bonus from the federal givernment. Yet I am not furloughed so I cannot get it. Go figure out how that is fair. I'm doing more work as I'm going through guidelines have a few meetings and helping with lesson plans (if needed.)
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I guess people who were planning on retiring but got laid off just weeks prior to retiring and now will claim unemployment benefits for many many months and will happily collect the money from the Government while complaining about anyone else receiving entitlements benefit pretty nicely.
Not many months, just as long as the government gravy train lasts. I don't blame them, I want to too. I mean it is double my current pay in the government check alone.
Those selling toilet paper on Ebay are doing very well.
I believe ebay shut most of those sellers down.
I haven't tried to shop for TP, but I WAS trying to shop for disinfectant wipes. Every seller I clicked on, it was shut down. I think the same thing is happening with the TP.
Not many months, just as long as the government gravy train lasts. I don't blame them, I want to too. I mean it is double my current pay in the government check alone.
Then best not be complaining about anyone else taking advantage of the "government gravy train" or "the swamp" or calling out anyone calling for any sort of government benefits socialists or communists.
If one needs it - that's one thing. If one is weeks away from a comfortable retirement and then plans to file for unemployment just to grab theirs from the government they are no better than so-called welfare queens or slimy politicians adding pork to bills or participating in insider trading.
Then best not be complaining about anyone else taking advantage of the "government gravy train" or "the swamp" or calling out anyone calling for any sort of government benefits socialists or communists.
If one needs it - that's one thing. If one is weeks away from a comfortable retirement and then plans to file for unemployment just to grab theirs from the government they are no better than so-called welfare queens or slimy politicians adding pork to bills or participating in insider trading.
And I'm not. Our bills don't go away with this. They simply are in hold if anything.
And I'm not. Our bills don't go away with this. They simply are in hold if anything.
It doesn't sound like I'm addressing you. I'm not averse to people getting extended unemployment benefits when it's actually a real thing. I'm only addressing those who... are set to retire comfortably within weeks, and then got laid off. They were presumably already planning on living without that paycheck. To file for unemployment to pad their savings account is wrong.
I haven't tried to shop for TP, but I WAS trying to shop for disinfectant wipes. Every seller I clicked on, it was shut down. I think the same thing is happening with the TP.
Still for sale on Ebay.
Walmart has an abundance of tp in stock now.
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