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It's not really a Stimulus Bill
« on: Sat, 06 March 2021, 20:56:18 »
It's more like an Anti-Zombies bill.

Hungry Human Beings = FAST ZOMBIES..  The most dangerous kind.

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Re: It's not really a Stimulus Bill
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 06 March 2021, 22:10:46 »
Grocery stores are paying $20 an hr starting around here now, that's pretty damn good!
Bout to get me a 2nd job...
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Re: It's not really a Stimulus Bill
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 07 March 2021, 07:16:46 »
This one is more of a relief bill.

A stimulus bill will come later, presumably focused in infrastructure. (I was astonished to hear that ASCE upgraded the nation's bridges to C- from the previous D+)

The trick will be actually turning it into concrete and steel and not letting it get vacuumed up by giant corporations that would give it to their executives and stockholders.
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"Starting in 2011, the deficits again started to shrink. During Obama’s term  the deficit was reduced by $900 Billion  before finally in 2015 the GOP managed to wrangle a “reconciliation” bill out of Obama where he again cut corporate taxes, as well as made permanent some of George W. Bush’s original tax cuts. This is the year everything reversed. Before this, under Clinton, Bush and Obama the deficit in almost every year was gradually decreasing. The balance we had of taxes and the economy was bringing the deficit down, the money coming in was slowly catching up with the money going out until 2015. Trump’s subsequent tax cut has continued the new trend even after the rest of Bush’s cuts have since expired. Obama had an average GDP of 2.3%, with 11.6 million jobs created and unemployment peaking at 10% in 2009, then falling to 4.3% in 2016. If we had continued on that downward deficit track, we would have again reached balance and another surplus in 2017-2018.
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Re: It's not really a Stimulus Bill
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 07 March 2021, 07:18:26 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Sun, 07 March 2021, 07:16:46
The trick will be actually turning it into concrete and steel and not letting it get vacuumed up by giant corporations that would give it to their executives and stockholders.

Not if Capitalism has anything to say about it.
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Re: It's not really a Stimulus Bill
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 11 March 2021, 03:01:48 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Sun, 07 March 2021, 07:16:46
The trick will be actually turning it into concrete and steel and not letting it get vacuumed up by giant corporations that would give it to their executives and stockholders.
i thought it was what governments were best at, taking peoples money and injecting it into the pocket of large corporation shareholders? not what they are meant to be doing?
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Re: It's not really a Stimulus Bill
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 11 March 2021, 08:01:08 »
Over the past couple of decades, I have stopped respecting people who habitually substitute smart-ass wisecracks and cynical hyperbole for realistic dialogue.

I have wasted too much time interacting with them and gaining little or nothing from it.

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"Starting in 2011, the deficits again started to shrink. During Obama’s term  the deficit was reduced by $900 Billion  before finally in 2015 the GOP managed to wrangle a “reconciliation” bill out of Obama where he again cut corporate taxes, as well as made permanent some of George W. Bush’s original tax cuts. This is the year everything reversed. Before this, under Clinton, Bush and Obama the deficit in almost every year was gradually decreasing. The balance we had of taxes and the economy was bringing the deficit down, the money coming in was slowly catching up with the money going out until 2015. Trump’s subsequent tax cut has continued the new trend even after the rest of Bush’s cuts have since expired. Obama had an average GDP of 2.3%, with 11.6 million jobs created and unemployment peaking at 10% in 2009, then falling to 4.3% in 2016. If we had continued on that downward deficit track, we would have again reached balance and another surplus in 2017-2018.
– Frank V Walton 2025-07-01

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Re: It's not really a Stimulus Bill
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 12 March 2021, 20:00:09 »
Biden bucks
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Re: It's not really a Stimulus Bill
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 17 March 2021, 00:54:40 »
I just realized the stimulus checks are basically an apology for handling the virus so poorly. It's not that people need it because of the pandemic, but because of the USA's response to it.
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Re: It's not really a Stimulus Bill
« Reply #8 on: Wed, 17 March 2021, 06:57:03 »
This stimulus package, is that his pacemaker? :p
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