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crickets

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12. This is why there is no second COVID relief bill.

Reply to William Seger (Reply #9)

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 12:54 PM

Sep 2020

Mitch won't let the shield law provision go, Dems will never let it pass. The HEROES Act passed by the House has been sitting on Mitch's desk since MAY. He refuses to bring it up for a vote.

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4 workers at Smithfield plant died; feds fine company $13,494 [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP

That fine shows how much they value life. SamKnause Sep 2020 #1

Wow! A little over 13,000 dollars for for dead people rpannier Sep 2020 #2

Honey, a little math will show you that for those over 1,200 workers sickend and 4 dead, it comes .. NotHardly Sep 2020 #7

If that was the maximum fine allowed by law, Mr.Bill Sep 2020 #8

It's $3,398 per dead person. CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #11

A cost of doing business that will be passed on in prices to us consumers, like all other costs of progree Sep 2020 #3

The prices won't be passed on to me. pazzyanne Sep 2020 #10

That'll teach them. deurbano Sep 2020 #4

GOP Human Capital Stock keithbvadu2 Sep 2020 #5

April 28 - Trump orders meat processing plants to remain open Make7 Sep 2020 #6

Don't worry; Rs will save them from those horrendous fines William Seger Sep 2020 #9

This is why there is no second COVID relief bill. crickets Sep 2020 #12

Kick ck4829 Sep 2020 #13