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Polybius

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29. No, it's not an opinion it's a fact
Wed Dec 16, 2020, 11:39 PM
Dec 2020

Molded bread is useless to nearly everyone. $600 is completely different. It's not useless at all, it helps, even if not enough.

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$600 is a rather pathetic number put forth by a pathetic creature. Autumn Dec 2020 #1
Yup.Congress giving "chump change" to all us little poor chumps out here...disguesting face slap NotHardly Dec 2020 #2
The Dems would do better to do nothing. A small amount will piss off a lot of hurting people. Autumn Dec 2020 #3
Oh wow. My Pet Orangutan Dec 2020 #5
I wasn't. nt Autumn Dec 2020 #8
Ridiculous. NurseJackie Dec 2020 #6
Not true. Turin_C3PO Dec 2020 #9
A $600 and only 300 more on UI for 16 weeks when people are hurting is ridiculous. nt Autumn Dec 2020 #12
A half a loaf of bread is better than none Polybius Dec 2020 #19
Sure it is. If you don't mind eating moldy bread while the people giving you that moldy bread Autumn Dec 2020 #20
Flawed analogy Polybius Dec 2020 #23
Flawed is your opinion. Like the saying goes, nothing is free. A week is nothing to people who are Autumn Dec 2020 #27
No, it's not an opinion it's a fact Polybius Dec 2020 #29
I's your fact. You brought up half a loaf. I brought up moldy bread. Both are useless in Autumn Dec 2020 #33
It's your fact too, and everyone else's Polybius Dec 2020 #34
And half a loaf of bread to a family is useless in feeding that family. nt Autumn Dec 2020 #35
One person in the family could benefit Polybius Dec 2020 #36
Here's the thing. It doesn't have to fucking be that way. Our government can easily afford to Autumn Dec 2020 #37
It is barely a very thin slice riversedge Dec 2020 #24
In other words if there aren't enough lifeboats let's not use any of them. George II Dec 2020 #14
No. In other words if we can't help the people who need help for $900 billion trim the fat Autumn Dec 2020 #15
Yes its a hot garbage but pass it anyway, and make Perdue and Loeffler take the blame liskddksil Dec 2020 #25
Yes, it's terrible optics. Billions for the wealthy and big business, billions for churches and Autumn Dec 2020 #28
Reject the package unless it's 1,800 per person. My Pet Orangutan Dec 2020 #4
I see that YOU are being sarcastic, but there are some making the same statement... NurseJackie Dec 2020 #7
Think of republicans that refuse to believe President-elect Biden actually did win William769 Dec 2020 #22
Compared to the $7 trillion stimulus check wall street banksters got its a boot n the ass & a slap yaesu Dec 2020 #16
It's bad optics. I'm leery about what else is in the bill and who else it might benefit. Autumn Dec 2020 #18
Not good, but pass it and then filet Perdue and Loeffler like a fish that they couldn't deliver liskddksil Dec 2020 #10
The corporate immunity has been stripped, so any stimulus is better than nothing. Nt Fiendish Thingy Dec 2020 #11
Let's think about this......Bullshit, we are in a pandemic and austerity is being used .... turbinetree Dec 2020 #13
They are calling it "survival checks" now. nt yaesu Dec 2020 #17
$600? That's not going to help much. 634-5789 Dec 2020 #21
Yes but just last night it was $0 Polybius Dec 2020 #30
Can't argue that. 634-5789 Dec 2020 #32
They wanted us INFECTED... Fed policy to kill us off... now they offer PALTRY CHICKEN FEED NotHardly Dec 2020 #26
$600 is an insult blue-wave Dec 2020 #31
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