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Rats set $1.9 TRILLION vote on Covid payouts to donors at 2am tonight

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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,188

    SFGbob said:

    a Covid relief bill where reportedly only 9% goes to relief

    There’s a bunch of money going to things like childcare, rent assistance, re opening schools, unemployment insurance that’s not being counted as “relief”. Most dems are still liberals who bow to their corporate masters but the bill is not bad.


    Yeah if you're completely irresponsible fiscally the bill is great. Why shouldn't taxpayers bailout public employee union pensions funds?
    Struggling taxpayers who get ZERO out of this bill if they made more than $75,000 in 2019 yet they get to pay for public pensions of government workers who haven’t missed on fucking paycheck in a year. It’s a joke and the Leftists here defending it are so economically illiterate it’s actually concerning.

    The lie that still gets repeated by Rats is that public employees make less money than private sector employees so they need a pension system as opposed to a 401K. While that may have been true 30 years ago it's no longer true and there are plenty of government jobs that pay more than the equivalent private sector job.
  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    edited February 2021
    SFGbob said:

    SFGbob said:

    a Covid relief bill where reportedly only 9% goes to relief

    There’s a bunch of money going to things like childcare, rent assistance, re opening schools, unemployment insurance that’s not being counted as “relief”. Most dems are still liberals who bow to their corporate masters but the bill is not bad.


    Yeah if you're completely irresponsible fiscally the bill is great. Why shouldn't taxpayers bailout public employee union pensions funds?
    Struggling taxpayers who get ZERO out of this bill if they made more than $75,000 in 2019 yet they get to pay for public pensions of government workers who haven’t missed on fucking paycheck in a year. It’s a joke and the Leftists here defending it are so economically illiterate it’s actually concerning.

    The lie that still gets repeated by Rats is that public employees make less money than private sector employees so they need a pension system as opposed to a 401K. While that may have been true 30 years ago it's no longer true and there are plenty of government jobs that pay more than the equivalent private sector job.
    There are veteran kindergarten teachers in Portland Public Schools who make over $100,000 a year, and they get teaching aides to help. Tell me why they can’t fund their own retirements? The average salary in PPS is $65,000 plus full benefits. Why do I have to pay for their retirement? Further, why do I have to pay for bankrupt pensions in New York and California? This is outright theft by the Democrats and their media gaslights some aspects and outright ignores other parts of the criminal enterprise in DC right now.

  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,566
    edited February 2021

    a Covid relief bill where reportedly only 9% goes to relief

    You seem surprised. I’m proud of Biden to even make it close to double digits. When his dumb ass tried to pass a minimum wage law into a relief bill, I knew this thing was full of crap.

    Hey Kobe, explain how a minimum wage law applied to Covid relief.
    I can’t think of how a wage increase, to essential front line workers, applies to Covid relief.

    Totally stumped.
    So a permanent minimum wage increase is relief? Good try though
  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,113 Standard Supporter

    I'm still for the 15 and hour. Should be 20. But they throw the fucking pork in and it pisses me off

    It should be $18 an hour in shitholes like SF, Seattle, and NY.

    It should be $11 in most flyover places like hell Paso and SEC territory
    Why stop at $18 an hour? If $18/hour is good $50/hour would be great, no? C'mon man, "Build Back Better".
    It costs $2,500 or something outrageous for a 450 square foot apartment in San Fransicko. Should the minimum wage be $7.25 there?
  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972

    I'm still for the 15 and hour. Should be 20. But they throw the fucking pork in and it pisses me off

    It should be $18 an hour in shitholes like SF, Seattle, and NY.

    It should be $11 in most flyover places like hell Paso and SEC territory
    Why stop at $18 an hour? If $18/hour is good $50/hour would be great, no? C'mon man, "Build Back Better".
    It costs $2,500 or something outrageous for a 450 square foot apartment in San Fransicko. Should the minimum wage be $7.25 there?
    San Francisco can implement their own minimum wage. Oh wait, they did!

    Now let’s see how a federally mandated $15 an hour works in Two Dot, Montana.

    https://sfgov.org/olse/minimum-wage-ordinance-mwo

    Employees that perform work in San Francisco, including part-time and temporary employees, must be paid no less than the San Francisco minimum wage, currently $16.07 per hour.
  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,566

    I'm still for the 15 and hour. Should be 20. But they throw the fucking pork in and it pisses me off

    It should be $18 an hour in shitholes like SF, Seattle, and NY.

    It should be $11 in most flyover places like hell Paso and SEC territory
    Why stop at $18 an hour? If $18/hour is good $50/hour would be great, no? C'mon man, "Build Back Better".
    It costs $2,500 or something outrageous for a 450 square foot apartment in San Fransicko. Should the minimum wage be $7.25 there?
    That’s why there’s low income.

    California can continue to set a higher standard like some 40 other states already do. The federal government should have nothing to do with it. $15 minimum wage is a state issue not a federal issue.
  • Southerndawg
    Southerndawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,354 Founders Club

    I'm still for the 15 and hour. Should be 20. But they throw the fucking pork in and it pisses me off

    It should be $18 an hour in shitholes like SF, Seattle, and NY.

    It should be $11 in most flyover places like hell Paso and SEC territory
    Why stop at $18 an hour? If $18/hour is good $50/hour would be great, no? C'mon man, "Build Back Better".
    It costs $2,500 or something outrageous for a 450 square foot apartment in San Fransicko. Should the minimum wage be $7.25 there?
    The minimum wage should be zero. Labor supply and demand sets the real wage.
  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972

    I'm still for the 15 and hour. Should be 20. But they throw the fucking pork in and it pisses me off

    It should be $18 an hour in shitholes like SF, Seattle, and NY.

    It should be $11 in most flyover places like hell Paso and SEC territory
    Why stop at $18 an hour? If $18/hour is good $50/hour would be great, no? C'mon man, "Build Back Better".
    It costs $2,500 or something outrageous for a 450 square foot apartment in San Fransicko. Should the minimum wage be $7.25 there?
    The minimum wage should be zero. Labor supply and demand sets the real wage.
    I don’t agree with that but it should be a local and state issue and not a federal issue to decide on it.
  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    By the way, my local 7-11 has a sign up asking for workers starting at $16/hr plus benefits after a month. Again, it’s a market thing, and not federally mandated.