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Mitch McConnell - 'I have no fucking clue how much it costs to live.'

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Mitch McConnell currently thinks that the current labor shortage is caused by Americans being "flush" with stimulus money.
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"You've got a whole lot of people sitting on the sidelines because, frankly, they're flush for the moment," the Kentucky Republican said. "What we've got to hope is once they run out of money, they'll start concluding it's better to work than not to work."
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Which leads me to ask, was there a $50,000 stimulus payment I wasn't aware of and didn't receive?
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McConnell opposed President Joe Biden's stimulus law, which passed with only Democratic votes in March 2021 after two previous rescue packages approved by the Trump administration. Republicans have long blamed that $1,400 direct payment to Americans for worsening inflation and helping keep people out of the workforce.
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Oh... I guess I didn't miss a $50,000 stimulus payment. It looks like the Republicans think you can still go to the movies, get a popcorn and soda for the whole family for about a buck and a quarter.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
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Mitch McConnell currently thinks that the current labor shortage is caused by Americans being "flush" with stimulus money.
article said:
"You've got a whole lot of people sitting on the sidelines because, frankly, they're flush for the moment," the Kentucky Republican said. "What we've got to hope is once they run out of money, they'll start concluding it's better to work than not to work."
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Which leads me to ask, was there a $50,000 stimulus payment I wasn't aware of and didn't receive?
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McConnell opposed President Joe Biden's stimulus law, which passed with only Democratic votes in March 2021 after two previous rescue packages approved by the Trump administration. Republicans have long blamed that $1,400 direct payment to Americans for worsening inflation and helping keep people out of the workforce.
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Oh... I guess I didn't miss a $50,000 stimulus payment. It looks like the Republicans think you can still go to the movies, get a popcorn and soda for the whole family for about a buck and a quarter.
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Because to them, a c-note is little more than an idle fart.
 
www.fox28spokane.com

Fed report finds 75% of $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program didn't reach employees | FOX 28 Spokane

(The Center Square) – Taxpayers paid $4 for every $1 in wages and benefits received by workers in jobs saved by the federal government’s pandemic Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), according to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The Fed study also found PPP didn’t support jobs...
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75% of PPP "loans" didn't even get used for wages. The Fed study also found PPP didn’t support jobs at risk of disappearing, and money flowed disproportionately to wealthier households.
 
zorq said:
www.fox28spokane.com

Fed report finds 75% of $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program didn't reach employees | FOX 28 Spokane

(The Center Square) – Taxpayers paid $4 for every $1 in wages and benefits received by workers in jobs saved by the federal government’s pandemic Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), according to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The Fed study also found PPP didn’t support jobs...
www.fox28spokane.com www.fox28spokane.com

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75% of PPP "loans" didn't even get used for wages. The Fed study also found PPP didn’t support jobs at risk of disappearing, and money flowed disproportionately to wealthier households.
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That does explain why the wealthy thought everyone was misusing those funds: because they were. Every crook thinks everyone else is running a con, too.
 
McConnell is completely forgetting that the baby boomers are a huge demographic retiring en-mass right now. They may not be flipping burger type jobs but their vacancies affects the whole job market. Of course there is a shortage of labor right now, my surprise is that our politicians haven't considered any of this..
 
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That does explain why the wealthy thought everyone was misusing those funds: because they were. Every crook thinks everyone else is running a con, too.
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Not just the private sector but the states must have got a lot of federal money too. I say that because the state I live (Missouri) actually did not know what to do with all the money gifted to them.... and ended giving checks back to the people in Missouri. It was an unexpected surprise for us.
 
zorq said:
www.fox28spokane.com

Fed report finds 75% of $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program didn't reach employees | FOX 28 Spokane

(The Center Square) – Taxpayers paid $4 for every $1 in wages and benefits received by workers in jobs saved by the federal government’s pandemic Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), according to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The Fed study also found PPP didn’t support jobs...
www.fox28spokane.com www.fox28spokane.com

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75% of PPP "loans" didn't even get used for wages. The Fed study also found PPP didn’t support jobs at risk of disappearing, and money flowed disproportionately to wealthier households.
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No surprise. The system is too riddled with corruption.
 
Loren Pechtel said:
zorq said:
www.fox28spokane.com

Fed report finds 75% of $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program didn't reach employees | FOX 28 Spokane

(The Center Square) – Taxpayers paid $4 for every $1 in wages and benefits received by workers in jobs saved by the federal government’s pandemic Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), according to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The Fed study also found PPP didn’t support jobs...
www.fox28spokane.com www.fox28spokane.com

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75% of PPP "loans" didn't even get used for wages. The Fed study also found PPP didn’t support jobs at risk of disappearing, and money flowed disproportionately to wealthier households.
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No surprise. The system is too riddled with corruption.
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I'm nt so sure I'd call it corruption. Just too much haste to put in proper safeguards.
 
There's also a not-insignificant number of people who left the labor force for a long stay in a wooden box.
 
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There's also a not-insignificant number of people who left the labor force for a long stay in a wooden box.
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That's why there's such a labor shortage--not only the people that left in a wooden box but all the disability cases that we are being very slow to recognize.
 
Except most of those that died were well past retirement age.

One problem is that instead of the PPP money covering costs of employment during the pandemic, companies bought out the older workers. So they are gone. Others near retirement figured, might as well retire now. That was a lot of experience quitting that can't easily be replaced (or at all).
 
My generation is the end of the "baby boom". We are retiring in droves. The building and construction trades are really affected by this.

McConnell's statement is consistent with his ideological ignorance about the unemployment relief (that it has a significant effect of the search for employment).
 
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Except most of those that died were well past retirement age.

One problem is that instead of the PPP money covering costs of employment during the pandemic, companies bought out the older workers. So they are gone. Others near retirement figured, might as well retire now. That was a lot of experience quitting that can't easily be replaced (or at all).
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And there are people like the teacher I know--she retired a bit early because she wasn't willing to take the risk of in-person teaching to a bunch of disease vectors (aka, kids.)
 
Look, if we don't learn to lobby the lobbyist we'll never stop getting people like Mitch in government. Whoever is paying this guy or promising people like him Jobs in exchange for policies Americans should boycott the hell out of them. But this not only won't happen because not enough Americans are smart enough to see what needs to be done, but it's also nearly impossible when the organizations lobbyists work for are many. Many of which have consolidated their power by owning multiple lines of business (AKA income). We have no choice as we can't vote the money out when lobbyists can pay to keep money in.

Actually, there is another option. We can pay our own lobbyists and bribe our government into action but we'd hit another issue. People are in love with their political party because they think if they let up the "other side" will win. Working together is key which I don't see happening because who believes we're in the same boat? We're trained to look at Black Lives Matter rioters, Fascists, Antifa, defund the police, Citizens of the Confederate States of America, illegal immigrants, and so on as the "other side" when our problem is that America has become incorporated.
 
Gospel said:
We're trained to look at Black Lives Matter rioters, Fascists, Antifa, defund the police, Citizens of the Confederate States of America, illegal immigrants, and so on as the "other side" when our problem is that America has become incorporated.
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"Trained"?

Nobody "trained" me to understand police abolitionists as unhinged lunatics, every bit as crazy as their kindred spirit nutjobs the "sovereign citizen" or the libertarian anarchist. My functioning brain caused me to recognise the violence to common sense these "folx" inflict.
 
Metaphor said:
Gospel said:
We're trained to look at Black Lives Matter rioters, Fascists, Antifa, defund the police, Citizens of the Confederate States of America, illegal immigrants, and so on as the "other side" when our problem is that America has become incorporated.
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"Trained"?

Nobody "trained" me to understand police abolitionists as unhinged lunatics, every bit as crazy as their kindred spirit nutjobs the "sovereign citizen" or the libertarian anarchist. My functioning brain caused me to recognise the violence to common sense these "folx" inflict.
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Do you believe those people are the dominant group in your country?
 
Gospel said:
Metaphor said:
Gospel said:
We're trained to look at Black Lives Matter rioters, Fascists, Antifa, defund the police, Citizens of the Confederate States of America, illegal immigrants, and so on as the "other side" when our problem is that America has become incorporated.
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"Trained"?

Nobody "trained" me to understand police abolitionists as unhinged lunatics, every bit as crazy as their kindred spirit nutjobs the "sovereign citizen" or the libertarian anarchist. My functioning brain caused me to recognise the violence to common sense these "folx" inflict.
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Do you believe those people are the dominant group in your country?
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Fringe whackadoodles like police abolitionists are not 'dominant' in terms of raw numbers. Most people can see these ideas correctly as the dangerous and delusional and deadly indulgences of the narcissistic and cloistered chattering classes. But in terms of media lenience and indulgence, and certainly in terms of academia, they have outsized power given their actual public support.
 
Metaphor said:
Gospel said:
Metaphor said:
Gospel said:
We're trained to look at Black Lives Matter rioters, Fascists, Antifa, defund the police, Citizens of the Confederate States of America, illegal immigrants, and so on as the "other side" when our problem is that America has become incorporated.
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"Trained"?

Nobody "trained" me to understand police abolitionists as unhinged lunatics, every bit as crazy as their kindred spirit nutjobs the "sovereign citizen" or the libertarian anarchist. My functioning brain caused me to recognise the violence to common sense these "folx" inflict.
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Do you believe those people are the dominant group in your country?
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Fringe whackadoodles like police abolitionists are not 'dominant' in terms of raw numbers. Most people can see these narcissistic ideas for the dangerous and delusional and deadly indulgences of the chattering classes. But in terms of media lenience and indulgence, and certainly in terms of academia, they have outsized power given their actual public support.
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Sorry, I should have been more specific. Are they the most influential and powerful group in regard to the implementation of Australian policies?
 
Gospel said:
Metaphor said:
Gospel said:
Metaphor said:
Gospel said:
We're trained to look at Black Lives Matter rioters, Fascists, Antifa, defund the police, Citizens of the Confederate States of America, illegal immigrants, and so on as the "other side" when our problem is that America has become incorporated.
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"Trained"?

Nobody "trained" me to understand police abolitionists as unhinged lunatics, every bit as crazy as their kindred spirit nutjobs the "sovereign citizen" or the libertarian anarchist. My functioning brain caused me to recognise the violence to common sense these "folx" inflict.
Click to expand...

Do you believe those people are the dominant group in your country?
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Fringe whackadoodles like police abolitionists are not 'dominant' in terms of raw numbers. Most people can see these narcissistic ideas for the dangerous and delusional and deadly indulgences of the chattering classes. But in terms of media lenience and indulgence, and certainly in terms of academia, they have outsized power given their actual public support.
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Sorry, I should have been more specific. Are they the most influential and powerful group in regard to the implementation of Australian policies?
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The *most* influential and the *most* powerful? I would sure as hell hope not.
 
Metaphor said:
Gospel said:
We're trained to look at Black Lives Matter rioters, Fascists, Antifa, defund the police, Citizens of the Confederate States of America, illegal immigrants, and so on as the "other side" when our problem is that America has become incorporated.
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"Trained"?

Nobody "trained" me to understand police abolitionists as unhinged lunatics, every bit as crazy as their kindred spirit nutjobs the "sovereign citizen" or the libertarian anarchist. My functioning brain caused me to recognise the violence to common sense these "folx" inflict.
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If you call that functioning. A sovereign citizen is a paranoid person who sees problems in everything, most of which don't actually exist. A police abolitionist is a person who has come up with a bad solution to a legitimately existing problem.
 
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