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Quote:Dan Price
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Excuses, excuses.
Founder/CEO, Gravity Payments tweeted:
Minimum wage
Costco: $16
Walmart: $11
Average pay
Costco: $24
Walmart: $15
Employees on food stamps (subsidized by you)
Costco: Virtually none
Walmart: More than any other company
Founder net worth
Costco: not a billionaire
Walmart: over $220 billion; up $30 billion in pandemic
Costco and Walmart have the same low prices. So you when you hear "raising the minimum wage will just result in higher prices or layoffs," remember that's not basic business. It's corporations making a choice: pay more or give shareholders billions more.
11:55 AM · Feb 26, 2021·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/danpriceseattle/status/1365359972398301184
What is Dan Price famous for? A $70,000 minimum wage at his company.
www.cnbc.com/2016/04/15/70k-ceo-i-wasnt-ready-for-the-surge-of-attenti
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Originally posted by second:
Costco and Walmart have the same low prices. So you when you hear "raising the minimum wage will just result in higher prices or layoffs," remember that's not basic business. It's corporations making a choice: pay more or give shareholders billions more.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/22/covid-19-relie
f-bill-heres-what-we-know-when-you-can-expect-aid/6788221002/
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Quote:Do you understand that no Republican Congressmen voted for the covid-19 relief bill nor the increase in a minimum wage? They have excuses, but so what? Those are to avoid saying that this money comes from the rich and the rich don't want to pay. The rich don't want to either say it themselves or to be known as Scrooges. Therefore, get the GOP to give excuses so that the rich don't have to.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Costco and Walmart have the same low prices. So you when you hear "raising the minimum wage will just result in higher prices or layoffs," remember that's not basic business. It's corporations making a choice: pay more or give shareholders billions more.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/22/covid-19-relie
f-bill-heres-what-we-know-when-you-can-expect-aid/6788221002/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Do you understand that no Republican Congressmen voted for the covid-19 relief bill nor the increase in a minimum wage? They have excuses, but so what? Those are to avoid saying that this money comes from the rich and the rich don't want to pay. The rich don't want to either say it themselves or to be known as Scrooges. Therefore, get the GOP to give excuses so that the rich don't have to.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Costco and Walmart have the same low prices. So you when you hear "raising the minimum wage will just result in higher prices or layoffs," remember that's not basic business. It's corporations making a choice: pay more or give shareholders billions more.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/22/covid-19-relie
f-bill-heres-what-we-know-when-you-can-expect-aid/6788221002/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Bill Gates would NOT have a sign on his bus "For Vaccinated Only" but might have something morbid: "Those who are NOT Vaccinated have an increased likelihood of death from Covid-19." Gates would very likely never attach a number to the probability of death until he has 50 or more years of data, which is why he will never have a sign "For Vaccinated Only". He won't live long enough to be certain.
https://i.imgur.com/N3IAMO4.jpeg
CVS vaccine appointments are going unfilled deep in Trump countryThe Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Do you understand that no Republican Congressmen voted for the covid-19 relief bill nor the increase in a minimum wage? They have excuses, but so what? Those are to avoid saying that this money comes from the rich and the rich don't want to pay. The rich don't want to either say it themselves or to be known as Scrooges. Therefore, get the GOP to give excuses so that the rich don't have to.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Costco and Walmart have the same low prices. So you when you hear "raising the minimum wage will just result in higher prices or layoffs," remember that's not basic business. It's corporations making a choice: pay more or give shareholders billions more.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/22/covid-19-relie
f-bill-heres-what-we-know-when-you-can-expect-aid/6788221002/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
That's because there's hardly any Covid relief in the bill.
They really need to start voting all of these things separately.
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" 'You're like the Nazis' is the new 'I don't like you'. That disqualifies her from marching around planet Who-Gives-a-Shit in a helmet? ~Bill Maher
Collection of links to Second's, Nilbog's and Marcos' death threats: https://cutt.ly/tkCvEX6
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Bill Gates would NOT have a sign on his bus "For Vaccinated Only" but might have something morbid: "Those who are NOT Vaccinated have an increased likelihood of death from Covid-19." Gates would very likely never attach a number to the probability of death until he has 50 or more years of data, which is why he will never have a sign "For Vaccinated Only". He won't live long enough to be certain.
https://i.imgur.com/N3IAMO4.jpegCVS vaccine appointments are going unfilled deep in Trump country
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Try and make us take it.
See what happens.
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" 'You're like the Nazis' is the new 'I don't like you'. That disqualifies her from marching around planet Who-Gives-a-Shit in a helmet? ~Bill Maher
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Quote:Texas Democrats will not try to make Trumptards take a bath, wash their clothes or even wear clothes, which is totally a personal choice, especially because Texas is too far away to see, hear or smell you. 6ix, your life is your own; waste it if it pleases you. Many Texas Trumptards before you have wasted their lives and gone to early deaths. What is so special and unique about Indiana Trumptards that you would live longer?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Try and make us take it.
See what happens.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Ending the End of Welfare as We Knew It
The Democrats’ new child benefit is a very big deal.
The era of “the era of big government is over” is over.
The relief bill President Biden just signed is breathtaking in its scope. Yet conservative opposition was remarkably limp. While not a single Republican voted for the legislation, the rhetorical onslaught from right-wing politicians and media was notably low energy, perhaps because the Biden plan is incredibly popular. Even as Democrats moved to disburse $1.9 trillion in government aid, their opponents mainly seemed to be talking about Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head.
What makes this lack of energy especially striking is that the American Rescue Plan doesn’t just spend a lot of money. It also embodies some big changes in the philosophy of public policy, a turn away from the conservative ideology that has dominated U.S. politics for four decades.
In particular, there is a sense — a strictly limited sense, as I’ll explain, but real nonetheless — in which the legislation, in addition to reviving the notion of government as the solution, not the problem, also ends the “end of welfare as we know it.”
Once upon a time there was a program called Aid to Families With Dependent Children — the program people usually had in mind when they talked about “welfare.” It was originally intended to support white widows while they raised their children, and it was effectively denied to both Black and unwed mothers. Over time, however, these restrictions were eroded, and the program rapidly expanded from the early 1960s to the early 1970s.
The program also became hugely unpopular. In part, of course, this reflected the race of many beneficiaries. But many commentators also blamed A.F.D.C. for creating a culture of dependency that was in turn responsible for the growing social ills of inner cities, although later scholarship, notably the work of William Julius Wilson, suggested that the real cause of these ills was the disappearance of urban jobs. (The social problems that have followed economic decline in much of the American heartland seem to confirm Wilson’s thesis.)
In any case, in 1996 Bill Clinton enacted reforms that both drastically reduced aid to the poor and imposed draconian work requirements, even on single mothers. Welfare as we knew it really did end.
But the American Rescue Plan Act, closely following proposals from Senator Michael Bennet, reinstates significant aid for children. Moreover, unlike most of the act’s provisions, this change (like enhanced Obamacare subsidies) is intended to outlast the current crisis; Democrats hope and expect that substantial payments to families with children will become a permanent part of the American scene.
So is “welfare” back? Not really.
A.F.D.C. was intended to provide mothers with enough to get by — barely — while raising their children. In 1970 three-person families on A.F.D.C. received, on average, $194 a month. Adjusting for inflation, that’s the equivalent of around $15,000 a year today, compared with the $6,000 a family with two children over age 6 ($7,200 if they’re under 6) will receive under the new plan.
Alternatively, it may be more informative to compare “welfare” payments with the incomes of typical families. In 1970, an A.F.D.C. family of three received about 25 percent of median income for three-person families — hardly a generous allowance, but maybe, just, enough to live on. The new legislation will give a single parent of two children less than 7 percent of median income.
More at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/opinion/biden-covid-relief-welfare.
html
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The Congressional Freshman Class Is a Tribute to Our Nation’s Notorious Local Bozos
Every town, midsize city, or urban neighborhood has one, or, perhaps, a family of them: the nuisance litigants, the business owners who address zoning board hearings while visibly intoxicated, the parents who ruin PTA meetings by accusing The Polar Express of encouraging demonry. They are the ones who have been banned from multiple softball leagues for reasons that somehow involve child support. They are America's local ding-dongs and loose cannons.
The demands of politics have always made "popular” figures out of the kinds of people who the average voter would find off-putting in person, and Mr. Psycho Goes to Washington is not a wholly new story. Five-term Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar is apparently such a not-great guy to be around that six (!) of his siblings filmed campaign ads urging his constituents not to vote for him. (In February, Gosar was the featured speaker at a conference organized by a "white identity" fanatic who described the deadly Capitol riot as "awesome".)
It's not a purely Republican phenomenon, either: onetime Democratic Florida Rep. Alan Grayson was known for both his caustic partisan rhetoric and tendency to appear in headlines like "Grayson Loses $18 Million in Fraud Scheme" and "Grayson Accuses Wife of Bigamy." Going back further, there are figures like California Rep. John Schmitz, a 1970s Republican so extreme that he was removed from the John Birch Society's "national council" because the group had gotten tired of dealing with the bad publicity generated, in the words of a 1982 UPI article, by his "statements against homosexuals and Jews.” Schmitz had two children out of wedlock with a woman who'd taken his college political science class and, with his actual wife, fathered '90s tabloid character Mary Kay Letourneau, the teacher jailed for raping her 6th-grade student and having two of the student’s children.
Never before, though, have our nation’s area weirdos dominated one party’s media presence and priorities as they do now. With much of politics, and political fundraising, carried out through social media performance, the ability to get attention has become functionally identical to the ability to command influence, and a new herd of public figures has stampeded through the gap where the fence dividing fame from infamy used to stand. Many of them were personally inspired by Donald Trump, who got his own start as the notorious protagonist of bankruptcies and divorces in the New York City area. Area creeps are having their moment, and the Republican freshman congressional class is where they are having it. Here, a guide to its most prominently messy legislators.
Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert
Grim/colorful backstory: Boebert’s biggest moment in Congress thus far was appearing via Zoom for a committee hearing with several rifles piled haphazardly on a bookshelf behind her. (Seriously, one of them is just, like, lying on a row of books.) This makes sense given that her claim to fame as a candidate was Shooters Grill — a restaurant, which she operates with her husband, that employs waitresses who ostentatiously carry guns while working. The restaurant owed almost $20,000 in unpaid state taxes while Boebert was running for office; in 2017, a local health department determined that an unlicensed vending stand it set up at a rodeo caused as many as 80 cases of food poisoning.
Boebert’s mother left a number of comments on a YouTube video accusing a former WCW wrestler named Stan Lane of evading responsibility for being Boebert’s biological father. Boebert has been arrested numerous times.
More at https://web.archive.org/save/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/
03/republican-freshman-class-notorious-local-bozos.html
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