Latest Coronavirus - Yikes

[Purple Tiger]

How about 10,000 for everyone? No, 11,000, even better!

You know the original consumer aid package was $6000. Sen. Chiny McChins from KY siphoned off most of that for businesses.

Why not something? DC keeps finding plenty of money available to prop up businesses, including large corporations. We are probably going to have to bail out domestic oil companies, too. Nothing wrong with helping people for another month.

 

[allvol123]

Why not something? DC keeps finding plenty of money available to prop up businesses, including large corporations. Nothing wrong with helping people for another month.

Actually there is plenty wrong with it. Pointing to bad examples and saying we should be following these bad examples on an individual basis as well, is stupid.

 

[Electric Orange]

 

[RavinDave]

Time for a little humor.

Thanks 37, I needed that!

 

[headhunter15]

Trump says he's instructed Navy to 'destroy' any Iranian gunboats harassing US ships

Looks like it’s about to get dangerous in the Persian Gulf.

 

[McDad]

Why not something? DC keeps finding plenty of money available to prop up businesses, including large corporations. We are probably going to have to bail out domestic oil companies, too. Nothing wrong with helping people for another month.

I am curious about how you consider our fiscal policy.

Is US spending and the safe debt amount infinite?

 

[Purple Tiger]

Actually there is plenty wrong with it. Pointing to bad examples and saying we should be following these bad examples on an individual basis as well, is stupid.

After reading your posts for the last month, anything you think is stupid is likely the right thing to do.

 

[volbeast33]

I think it is wrong to look for consensus with FB, protestors, or businesses on the timing of reopening. A business could be making the call to delay simply based on bad PR, lawsuits, etc if they open and if the staff or customers contract c19.
We should reopen. The government needs to remove the restrictions. Then, let all us individuals decide what is the right approach for our own family and/or business.

100%

 

[Purple Tiger]

I am curious about how you consider our fiscal policy.

Is US spending and the safe debt amount infinite?

Take allocated money from our budget and reassign it to aid.

 

[GAVol]

I am not sure, but I think it is only a small contingency of people gung ho on reopening states. I don't know why this contingency is so vocal about doing this. There are stories of businesses in Georgia pushing back against Kemp. The businesses don't want to open, because they are saying it is too soon. You know if Waffle House is like, "Hold on a sec..." something is amiss. These FB groups organizing may be cover for something else.....the people that claim to not be sheep, may be sheep after all.

The narrative on this has gotten a little crazy. The businesses don’t have to open to the public. Kemp was very clear yesterday that he was allowing them to open so they can at least perform basic administrative processes that they haven’t been able to. Personally, I think he should’ve waited until May 1 just for the sake of not confusing people, but he’s just following the phase 1 process which begins after 14 days of declining cases.

 

[utvolpj]

After reading your posts for the last month, anything you think is stupid is likely the right thing to do.

Curling up into the fetal position and destroying the world economy is not the right thing to do. That will likely kill more than this virus

 

[McDad]

Take allocated money from our budget and reassign it to aid.

Is that what is happening now? Is that the policy we are enacting?

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

How about 10,000 for everyone? No, 11,000, even better!

Stop being a tightwad. $20,000 per person should be a good start. Send a board and some play pieces with that monopoly money too.

 

[utvolpj]

The money should have been tied to unemployment so that there were at least some basic regulations in place. Instead it's a bunch of people screaming

 

[GAVol]

The money should have been tied to unemployment so that there were at least some basic regulations in place. Instead it's a bunch of people screaming

It’s going to slow the recovery. There’s too much money currently in doing nothing.

 

[allvol123]

After reading your posts for the last month, anything you think is stupid is likely the right thing to do.

Ah. I'll take that as you failed to come up with a rational reply, because you couldnt.

But you keep up the 10 year old economic philosophies.

 

[Purple Tiger]

The money should have been tied to unemployment so that there were at least some basic regulations in place. Instead it's a bunch of people screaming

I have yet to hear anyone say they are rich from getting $1200 from the government. What I have heard are warnings about the corporate aid package:

The $500 Billion In Corporate Aid Will Be A Corrupt Cash Grab If We Don’t Ask The Right Questions

 

[volbeast33]

Both do the same thing to your teeth.

Both are bad for your teeth but not even close to the same effect.

 

[GAVol]

The numbers game being played down here is absolutely crazy after the re-open announcement.

 

[allvol123]

Stop being a tightwad. $20,000 per person should be a good start. Send a board and some play pieces with that monopoly money too.

Indeed.

If we could just give every adult in the US tomorrow a brand new red Mercedes. Can anyone then guess the value of a red Mercedes the following day.

 

[LouderVol]

IHME has US projected at 66k deaths now.

We are at 45k now.

So this is where I dont understand how this works. So they think 21k more and then this thing just essentially dwindles down to almost nothing?

They are playing the same game the rest are. They will adjust down because they were wrong. Until the point they have to adjust back up to say "hey look we weren't as wrong as we thought".

 

[Purple Tiger]

Indeed.

If we could just give every adult in the US tomorrow a brand new red Mercedes. Can anyone then guess the value of a red Mercedes the following day.

Of the $2 trillion coronavirus aid package, only $560 billion went to individuals.
What's Inside The Senate's $2 Trillion Coronavirus Aid Package

 

[allvol123]

Of the $2 trillion coronavirus aid package, only $560 billion went to individuals.
What's Inside The Senate's $2 Trillion Coronavirus Aid Package

At 210 million citizens over 18, that is $2600 a person.

And again, what is your point? That govt manages money poorly? Agreed, so stop asking them to spend so much of it.

 

[allvol123]

They are playing the same game the rest are. They will adjust down because they were wrong. Until the point they have to adjust back up to say "hey look we weren't as wrong as we thought".

I'm just curious if they have some belief that this is dying down in 4 weeks.

 

[GAVol]

Of the $2 trillion coronavirus aid package, only $560 billion went to individuals.
What's Inside The Senate's $2 Trillion Coronavirus Aid Package

A little misleading since a lot of that corporate money will keep people employed.