30 Apr 20
@earl-of-trumps saidMarauder was joking with me about blowing his stimulus check he did not really need.
Are you out of your mind, No1???? Jeezus, do you really need links to see the food lines to people with no means have grown huge in size.
25.4 million Americans have been unemployed since CV arrived. And that is just the people that sign up for benefits. It does not include people that work under the table or people that can't get thru to process a form at unemploy ...[text shortened]... h and dry, eh? Guaranteed income and a nice vacation.
I am quite stunned you posed the question.
I think he is just a part of the out of touch elites that have no problem not working for years on end cuz of all the wealth they have as they preach to the rest of us about the need not to work.
30 Apr 20
@whodey saidSweden is relying on the common sense of its populace, how can that work in country where Donald Trump, a man who thinks injecting disinfectant might sort the problem in a minute, gets elected to the Whitehouse.
I see, so just because Sweden does something, like nationalize health care, it's not always going to work everywhere else?
Interesting.
I’m sorry mate but Sweden you ain’t, now get back indoors and stop barking at the cars.
30 Apr 20
@whodey saidIf only there was a way to make sure people don't immediately get into financial trouble if they lose their job... what a shame the "out-of-touch elites" are preventing this while the people you vote for fight tooth and nail to make it happen.
Marauder was joking with me about blowing his stimulus check he did not really need.
I think he is just a part of the out of touch elites that have no problem not working for years on end cuz of all the wealth they have as they preach to the rest of us about the need not to work.
30 Apr 20
@kazetnagorra saidWhat a shame ignorant plebes don't understand that no amount of safety nets, waving magic wands and using funny money makes up for loss of production.
If only there was a way to make sure people don't immediately get into financial trouble if they lose their job... what a shame the "out-of-touch elites" are preventing this while the people you vote for fight tooth and nail to make it happen.
What shame that ignorant plebes don't understand that the safety nets come tumbling down when overstressed and in times of government budgets being reduced, due to lack of production to tax upon and due to foreclosures.
30 Apr 20
@earl-of-trumps saidInteresting theory... I wonder how it faces up to the reality where the places with the most generous social safety nets all have high productivity and healthy public finances.
What a shame ignorant plebes don't understand that no amount of safety nets, waving magic wands and using funny money makes up for loss of production.
What shame that ignorant plebes don't understand that the safety nets come tumbling down when overstressed and in times of government budgets being reduced, due to lack of production to tax upon and due to foreclosures.
Not so well, it turns out.
@kazetnagorra saidWait until a tsunami hits them - such as, unemployment so high that the unemployment fund gets quickly depleted and the feds are taking in less revenue due to a major drop in income tax.
Interesting theory... I wonder how it faces up to the reality where the places with the most generous social safety nets all have high productivity and healthy public finances.
Not so well, it turns out.
Then you'll see how impregnable those safety nets really are. "Fail safe" is an illusion.
PS: Unemployment figures are at 30 million, based only on forms processed.
@earl-of-trumps saidWow, that would be a really pressing concern if those safety nets haven't already been around for almost a century... which they have. Oh well.
Wait until a tsunami hits them - such as, unemployment so high that the unemployment fund gets quickly depleted and the feds are taking in less revenue due to a major drop in income tax.
Then you'll see how impregnable those safety nets really are. "Fail safe" is an illusion.
PS: Unemployment figures are at 30 million, based only on forms processed.
PS: unemployment figures here are projected to hit 8.6% by the end of the year as the administration isn't stacked with morons running around like headless chickens and the response to Covid-19 has for the most part been reasonable. If only there was something you could have done to reduce the number of rampantly corrupt shysters and/or drooling retards in government...
01 May 20
@KazetNagorra - " If only there was something you could have done to reduce the number of rampantly corrupt shysters and/or drooling retards in government..."
Ya, like vote for Hilary Clinton? LOL!!!! the biggest shyster in Washington.
They're all the same-old same-old. They all SUCK to one degree or another. Too bad you don't have a way to see that
@earl-of-trumps saidWhat if... someone highly educated and well-informed is a better judge of that than someone who is clueless and uneducated?
@KazetNagorra - " If only there was something you could have done to reduce the number of rampantly corrupt shysters and/or drooling retards in government..."
Ya, like vote for Hilary Clinton? LOL!!!! the biggest shyster in Washington.
They're all the same-old same-old. They all SUCK to one degree or another. Too bad you don't have a way to see that
01 May 20
@kazetnagorra saidI agree. You should submit.
What if... someone highly educated and well-informed is a better judge of that than someone who is clueless and uneducated?