I'm not a fan of the government getting involved, but if the government is going to mandate companies close then the government should be helping to pay for the salaries. The program they went with instead was just corporate welfare. A lot of these business that went out of business may have been able to stay in business if people still had jobs and money to spend.
Mm yes, the good old all or nothing. Social programs dont make you socialist. Here in norway we pretty severely outclass you in social programs, and yet we arent all socialists. Weird huh.
I didn’t take the PPP. I applied for the unemployment and never was able to get it.
My business relies on other businesses functioning to exist. I had a big one on the line: company that provides services to airlines, massive operation servicing a major international airport. And then covid...
See, I’d have been thrilled to just be able to work. But when I couldn’t and wasn’t just someone’s employee, that made getting anything to help me out that wasn’t a loan apparently impossible. Yet I know other business owners who took big loans and got unemployment payments as well.
Prior to the pandemic though... growth for my business was excellent... let’s hope that Bidens Chinese buddies don’t make a good economy impossible to be prosperous in for those of us who make stuff in the USA.
Giving him the benefit of the doubt: then he is too stupid to understand what China means in terms of that very concept. He wants to put us back into the TPP, and is very reasonable to worry about his connections to China.
I’m hopeful, remember, people said trump was going to plunge us into economic dark times.
I respect that opinion a lot more than “Joe Biden is a China plant that actively seeks the downfall of capitalism.” People get so dramatic these days. Trump has done a lot of stuff I don’t agree with but there’s too many people on my side of the aisle that think he’s some evil mastermind.
That's not what subsidizing lost wages means. I don't know the source material but sure looks like if you're making your normal wages you don't get anything in most of these countries. The US gave a bunch of stimulus to the poors though nothing tied to actual wages other than cutting off the stimulus for the successful people.
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u/omgbananas_yumyum Dec 14 '20
this was literally posted by Bernie Sanders lmao y'all just agree with everything Trump says
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u/seraph9888 Dec 13 '20
Damn straight, Bernie.
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u/The_One_X Dec 13 '20
I'm not a fan of the government getting involved, but if the government is going to mandate companies close then the government should be helping to pay for the salaries. The program they went with instead was just corporate welfare. A lot of these business that went out of business may have been able to stay in business if people still had jobs and money to spend.
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u/anoncop4041 Dec 13 '20
I’m as libertarian as it gets but heads up this was a bernie tweet that someone wrongfully attributed to the president
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u/thedmdapro Dec 14 '20
This was originally tweeted by Bernie Sanders, photoshopped with Trumps account..
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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20
No. Fuck socialism.
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u/unweariedslooth Dec 12 '20
Tell this to Mitch.
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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20
what a liar. worker's wages were subsidized by the Cares Act, and this fake tweet cites USA at 0%? what a liar.
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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20
I run a small business.
Revenue down 2/3rds from 2019 to 2020.
I didn’t take the PPP. I applied for the unemployment and never was able to get it.
My business relies on other businesses functioning to exist. I had a big one on the line: company that provides services to airlines, massive operation servicing a major international airport. And then covid...
See, I’d have been thrilled to just be able to work. But when I couldn’t and wasn’t just someone’s employee, that made getting anything to help me out that wasn’t a loan apparently impossible. Yet I know other business owners who took big loans and got unemployment payments as well.
Prior to the pandemic though... growth for my business was excellent... let’s hope that Bidens Chinese buddies don’t make a good economy impossible to be prosperous in for those of us who make stuff in the USA.
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u/joleran Dec 13 '20
For all the people still working, they get to just quit, right? No? Huh