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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 08:47 PM Apr 2020

Republicans Are Mad Unemployment Benefits Are Actually Benefiting The Unemployed

Some Republicans are complaining that the special unemployment insurance Congress created to confront the coronavirus pandemic makes it too easy for workers to do what public health officials say they’re supposed to do: stay home.

Republicans say the new benefit is doing exactly what they warned about last month ― making it difficult for some businesses to keep their workers.

“The Senators were attacked in the media, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called them ‘cruel.’ But they turned out to be right,” wrote the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal, a line that was later tweeted by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

“I want to make people whole who lost their job through no fault of their own,” Graham said in another tweet. “But I don’t want to pay people more NOT to work than to actually go to work.”

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/pandemic-coronavirus-unemployment-benefits-174356788.html

Lindsey dear you need to get out more. Talk to anyone on unemployment. One does not get paid that much money.

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Republicans Are Mad Unemployment Benefits Are Actually Benefiting The Unemployed (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
"Hard to keep workers" is a lie LakeArenal Apr 2020 #1
But what if the drones and organ donors like getting more money? gratuitous Apr 2020 #2
They are going to need a whole new socio-economic world-view to figure this out. OAITW r.2.0 Apr 2020 #3
South Carolina needs dweller Apr 2020 #4

LakeArenal

(28,713 posts)
1. "Hard to keep workers" is a lie
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 08:49 PM
Apr 2020

If employees don’t return to work when called they will lose their benefits.

Republicans are such effin liars.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. But what if the drones and organ donors like getting more money?
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 08:56 PM
Apr 2020

Gentlemen, this is serious! If we're gonna keep our phoney-baloney jobs, we gotta do something! If the low-level workers find out how essential they really are (and how non-essential the bosses sucking up all wealth are), they might start thinking about upward mobility, and we have to control that very carefully. See, we just need one person every 7-10 years who "makes it" to show the proles. Then we can tell them it's their own fault if they're not as rich as, say, LeBron James.

But they start getting a living wage and being able to put some aside, why, some of the wealthy might see their net worth drop by a billonth or even a millionth of a percent. And that would be the real tragedy!

OAITW r.2.0

(23,810 posts)
3. They are going to need a whole new socio-economic world-view to figure this out.
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 08:57 PM
Apr 2020

We are in uncharted territory and their 30 year messaging bullshit will not help them figure this out.

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