honestly the TP might be more valuable...just went out...Costco out, BJs out, WMT out...I gave up...Originally Posted by BCR
Not a fan either, but he’s a populist and $500 billion in funding made the market pause for 15 minutes and then start going down again. We are a banana republic anyway. Time to print it out and we can all grab a wheelbarrow full of $s down to trade for some toilet paper.
If you knew 70% of us were going to get this eventually, you’re better off getting it now, right? Beat the rush hour traffic at ER. As I walked into grab a coffee this morning, I actually thought about physically grabbing the door handle. Weird. That thought had never entered my mind in my whole life. I find this whole thing horrifying, but incredibly interesting.
faith in humanity slowly restored...
https://twitter.com/twt/status/1238150323866185729
I'm feeling good. Pretty sure my entire family already had it in January.
NYC Seminar Called "Doing Business Under Coronavirus" Has Been Cancelled Due To Coronavirus
oh hey the republicans are holding up an aid bill because they want hyde amendment language in it forbidding the use of federal funds for abortion.
#justthingsarightwingchristiancultdoes
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
why the fk are the dems trying to sneak provisions in, idiot. NEVER ABLE TO STOP TRYING TO SCORE POINTS WHAT A FKN CESSPOOL
Safe Port Act
I think it’s time to admit Tine has finally created his first successful manufactured disaster thread.
It’s going to be the death of all of us but you need to tip your cap when it’s earned.
they are never trying to stop scoring points that this has to be a planned scam, I stand by my CIA plant Chinese doctor purposeful release -200 line
Sometimes you eat the hippo, sometimes the hippo eats you.
Sometimes you eat the hippo, sometimes the hippo eats you.
Republicans came out Thursday against a COVID-19 relief package introduced by House Democrats .
The two major parties clashed this week on how best to help workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic (http:// http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cor...mic-2020-03-09), as GOP lawmakers opposed two Democrat measures aimed at securing paid sick leave for impacted employees (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-a- stronger-safety-net-would-save-lives-in-the-coronavirus-outbreak-2020-03-11).
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) came out Thursday (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/top-house- republican-says-he-wont-support-democrats-coronavirus-bill-2020-03-12) against multi-billion-dollar coronavirus legislation introduced late Wednesday by House Democrats , calling the bill "completely partisan" and "unworkable."
The Democrats' bill would provide paid emergency leave with 14 paid sick days and up to three months' paid family and medical leave, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) office said. It would also provide free coronavirus testing for those who need it (including uninsured patients), protections for workers on the frontlines of the pandemic, "enhanced unemployment insurance," and initiatives to bolster food security.
"We cannot slow the coronavirus outbreak when workers are stuck with the terrible choice between staying home to avoid spreading illness and the paycheck their family can't afford to lose," Pelosi said in a statement (https:// www.speaker.gov/newsroom/31120-2).
The White House and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have also registered disapproval of the bill (http:// http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tru...ill-2020-03-12), though Pelosi appeared determined to bring it to a vote Thursday. Pelosi spoke with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Thursday morning about "language recommendations" from the White House for the bill, her deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill , wrote on Twitter (TWTR) .
The Republican opposition came soon after President Trump delivered a sober Oval Office address about his administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which had sickened at least 1,323 people in the U.S. and killed 38 as of Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (https:// http://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashbo...23467b48e9ecf6).
Amid other announcements regarding restricting travel from Europe and clearing the path for coronavirus testing and treatment, Trump addressed relief for workers who were "ill, quarantined or caring for others due to coronavirus."
"To ensure that working Americans impacted by the virus can stay home without fear of financial hardship, I will soon be taking emergency action, which is unprecedented, to provide financial relief," he said (https://www.politico.com/ news/2020/03/11/trump-transcript-coronavirus-oval-office-126647). "I will be asking Congress to take legislative action to extend this relief."
Earlier Wednesday, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) blocked the quick passage of emergency paid sick-day legislation introduced by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington , a state hit particularly hard by the disease. The legislation would require employers (https://www.help.senate.gov/ranking/...introduce-new- emergency-paid-sick-days-legislation) to let employees accrue seven paid sick days immediately, as well as provide 14 paid sick days for use during a public-health emergency, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The idea of paid sick leave is a good idea -- but if Washington, D.C. , thinks it's a good idea, Washington, D.C. , should pay for it," Alexander said on the Senate floor (https://twitter.com/K_JeanPierre/status/1237870251028537344). " Employees are struggling; so are employers struggling."
Public-health officials have encouraged people to stay home if they feel sick, an unrealistic proposition for many low-wage and gig workers (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/its...s-spreads-the- cdc -urges-sick-workers-to-stay-home-but-what-if-you-dont-get-paid-sick-leave-2020-03-02). The federal government doesn't currently guarantee paid sick leave, though eligible employees working for companies covered by the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) can take up to 12 weeks (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fml...article_inline) of unpaid leave for certain medical situations.
About 73% of private-industry workers had access to paid sick leave in 2019, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf...article_inline), compared to 91% of state and local government employees. And just 30% of private-industry workers in the lowest 10% of wages have access to paid sick days, compared to 93% of workers in the highest 10% of wages.
Some 58% of workers in service occupations had access to paid sick leave in 2019, versus 90% of workers in management, professional and related occupations -- and full-time workers are far more likely than part-time workers (https:// http://www.kff.org/womens-health-pol...article_inline) to have access to paid sick-leave benefits than part-time workers
Companies including Walmart (WMT), McDonald's (https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...rus-paid-sick- leave-apple-olive-garden/5006181002/)(MCD), Apple (AAPL), Uber (UBER) and Olive Garden parent Darden Restaurants (DRI) have revised their sick-leave policies (https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...-olive-garden- are-among-major-employers-updating-sick-leave-policies-coronavirus-cases-spread/) in light of the new coronavirus.
A growing number of states, counties and cities have also implemented paid sick-leave laws in recent years. Eleven states and the District of Columbia now require that some employees receive paid sick leave, according to the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures (https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-...eave.aspx?mod= article_inline). San Francisco , Oakland , Chicago , New York City , Westchester County , Philadelphia , Dallas and Seattle also have such laws, according to the nonprofit National Partnership for Women & Families .
- Meera Jagannathan ; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com
cool cool.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
European sport is donkdown too. Almost everything cancelled.NBA basketball cancelled.
NFL hockey cancelled.
MLB season cancelled.
NCAA basketball tournament will go off in empty arenas for March Madness. Your final chance to bet on sports.
Then you should go into hiding for at least a year with the doomsday preppers because it's going to get bad.
can i point out that like nothing in terms of aid will work?
offering low (or even no) interest loans to struggling businesses might provide marginal help, at best, and do nothing, at worst.
most small businesses can't just afford to take on a huge new loan payment once business goes back to normal. it's not like a restaurant that has to close for two months will take on 3 times as many customers to make up for it once it reopens. that money is gone
a payroll tax holiday will hardly make a dent also
this isnt true.
being able to stay home, isolated, for one infection cycle is like inserting boron rods into a nuclear reactor.
disrupting the contamination cycle is how you stop a pandemic.
its not about eliminating infections, its about inhibiting infection rates so you can pivot to a rapid response model for new cluster outbreaks.
and we arent going to do it because the republicans dont want to accept it because democrats proposed it.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Lotteries and Horse Racing will soon be the only things you can gamble on.
if Bolsonaro's test comes back positive, a lot of posters here are going to be asking for home garden advice, real fuckin fast.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Over under on how many times Tine has touched his pee pee over this.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
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