The GOP Is About to Do to the American Economy What Thelma and Louise Did to the Car

[Nevilledog]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/600-dollar-unemployment-end-1031860/


In a normal country, we wouldn’t need a second round of expanded unemployment insurance benefits. The back-of-the-envelope math lawmakers did in late March would have been sufficient to see us through a temporary lockdown — the time it took to scale up testing, contact tracing, and the emergency production of masks, gowns, and ventilators. By now, we’d be savoring the few summer evenings left before students return to campuses and the rest of us resume our anxious tiptoe toward November.

Instead, four month of relentless carnage later, we have four million coronavirus cases and counting, states around the country are going back into lockdown and the president has just released a new campaign ad decrying “the left’s assault on Goya.” (The bean company.)

The pandemic is nowhere close to under control in America, but despite levels of unemployment not observed since the Great Depression, the economy hasn’t totally collapsed yet. And there is a good reason for that but, thanks to Republicans in Congress, it’s about to disappear.

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[Newest Reality]

1. K&R

[Hamlette]

2. even the republicans will fix this

after the 2008 crash, Congress passed many extensions and most unemployment offices were able to keep up with the changes. It might not be $600 but I believe it will be something.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Is this why they want us to eat beans?

Goya beans are really expensive though....stick with a cheaper brand. On "the GOP plan" I'll be lucky to able to afford any brand.