Could we have some more, Sir?

| May 11, 2020

An extension of the CARES bill, which gave us the stimulus checks, or a new bill similar to it, is being proposed by several people, offering a continuing 6-month or more program of monthly $2,000 payments (plus $500 per child for up to 3 kids) until things start picking up again.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/you-could-get-a-2000-per-month-stimulus-check-under-proposed-bill/507-79d0ef57-932c-4d58-a4ab-5fd897f00b79

Bernie’s in on this one, too., although he isn’t mentioned in the first article.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/bernie-sanders-kamala-harris-propose-2000-monthly-payments-for-new-stimulus-plan/507-8b13996e-558d-4680-b0fd-43807275041a

WASHINGTON — With the coronavirus pandemic sending unemployment in the U.S. to its highest rate since the Great Depression, three Senate Democrats have introduced a plan for Americans to receive $2,000 per month until this crisis ends.

On Friday, Senators Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ed Markley (D-Mass) released their plan called the Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act. – article

This Forbes article tells you who is eligible:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2020/04/15/stimulus-bill-taxes-congress-refund/#313691911c65

I am completely in favor of this kind of thing, because it should come out of the generous pouches of cash these people already have at their disposal, especially Bernie. Isn’t that just darn sweet of him? And it really isn’t money: it’s credit, in the form of checks or ETFs directly to your bank account.  I know these political animals can find ways of not paying taxes, but that should be stopped, period.

I think they should just go right ahead and put this bill through and get people back to spending wildly, exercising their spendthrift genes. My cupboards are full, the pantry is stocked, the freezer’s full and the fridge is loaded for bear, so I’d have to make a spendthrift list to use. I even have a (barely) adequate supply of ice cream. I could get an extra freezer, if need be.  But generally speaking, if it’s Bernie’s beneficence behind this, I’m completely in favor of it as long as he’s coughing up the cash and taxes to support it.

There’s a reason for my support of this novel idea:  aside from those moments when the ruling Sirdars or Emperors or Caesars rode through the mobs and tossed coins to them to create good will, a couple of financial analysts have acknowledged this current recession – which was created out of whole cloth – but have also forecast that there will be another recession in 2021-2022, which means that starting this program ASAP to support people who are having a rough time will have “trickle down” benefits. One payment has barely helped out people who were in Dire Straits. If another cash boost will get them through the possibility of more rough times ahead, then those 28 millions* who are currently out of work might see a light in the tunnel, never mind at the end of it.    *Last week’s numbers; it will likely change soon.

Remember, the Great Depression started with a markets crash that was the result of speculative exuberance, and it took until after the end of World War II for the economy to truly recover and start to grow again.The government wasn’t broke. The general populace was indigent. Jobs disappeared. Banks closed, not because they were frightened by crowds, but because the Fed couldn’t get cash to them quickly enough. Roosevelt’s response was to create the work programs WPA, PWA and CCC. Those government work programs put cash back in people’s pockets, and part of it was sent home to their families. He’s also the Big Guy who started the Social Security program. (It was LBJ who started Medicare.)

There is nothing that says this can’t happen again – all of it – the difference between now and back then being that the recent CARES deposits from the IRS funding were credits rather than cash. You can withdraw cash or pay for things with your bank card. We now have a population of 28 millions out of work through no fault of their own, which numbers may possibly grow, in a forced recession. And people in the know are telling us it can and may happen again, without the forcing next time. When the economy does pick up, a great percentage of jobs in small businesses may be gone permanently because those businesses had to close.

So, go ahead: bring it, guys!!! Let us paysans have some cake to eat!!! Toss a few more coins our way. There is nothing quite as convincing that things are A-OK as having some cash in the cash drawer, or in Mason jars stuffed with coins and bills, buried somewhere in the back yard….

Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", "Your Tax Dollars At Work"

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5th/77th FA

There is never an adequate supply of ice cream. A separate freezer locker just for ice cream would be a good start. And a barrell for cookies, not just a jar. More money in your bank account (that is someone else’s money, to be added to the national debt) will not help if there is no food to buy because the people that process/package said food are not at work. Keep this up for the Free Sh^t Army and many will not want to be back at work. The whole welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamp, housing, Oblowme phone, ect ect ect, has proven to not work. A handup not a hand out is needed. This will just help create another generation of pigs at the trough of grubmint giveaways. Just enough to keep them on the plantation.

Open up the country and let people go back to work, or as the post says, many of the small independent business will not be around in a few months. Just another taste of socialism, courtesy of the demonrat party.

26Limabeans

A dollar earned feels especially good in our wallets.
Not easily spent on frivial goodies.
But a dollar found is spent without regard to it’s origin.
People need to work to have some self worth.

Friend

We’re still making fresh Ice Cream but upgraded from hand crank to electric and adding frozen or canned fruits we put up..

UpNorth

But, of course. Give more money to the dindu nuffin crowd. By that, I mean the never worked, never will crowd. Forget opening things. No one needs to work!! Just keep printing money, what could go wrong?

Wilted Willy

I WANT MY FREE CHEESE!!!!!!!!

Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman

“I like cheeeeeze”

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

speaking of cheese, a man orders lamb chops au gratin at the diner to go, so the waitress yells to the chef: Cheese it, the chops.

Wilted Willy

Did I need to put the sarc tag on?

FuzeVT

I believe it should have been “I wants”.

AW1Ed

Always in the market for bullets and bourbon.

Slow Joe

Nah.
Bourbon is too strong.

I’ll take Bud light and the bullets.

The Other Whitey

I’m thinking of utilizing any incoming “stimulus” money to purchase my daughter’s long-awaited M1 Carbine. Maybe I’ll post a picture of my little girl with her detachable-magazine-fed semiautomatic carbine and caption it with something like “THANKS KAMMY!”

Slow Joe

If Hitlary had won the 2016 elections, we would have had either a complete socialist take over of our nation or COVID-19 would have been completely ignored, as it happened with the H1N1.

The Other Whitey

She would have driven half or more of the country to cast the Final “No” Vote, if ya know what I mean. Thank God that bitch lost.

OWB

This is all so much fun, let’s do it again real soon.

Just think about it. We could have daily briefings on traffic deaths. Maybe some general hysteria about seasonal flu. I want to see twice daily updates on deaths from the common cold.

The headlines would be something like: Wyoming continues to lag behind Arizona and Missouri. Congress passes bill mandating North Dakota take in displaced NYC residents. Appalachia counties still unprepared, no respirators in hospitals, no ICUs.

Can you just imagine this insanity being applied to other medical and nonmedical situations? It’s horrifying to contemplate.

Anyone who ever wondered just what a lefty Utopia looked like – we are now living it. The less some of us cooperate, the more hysterical they become.

Comm Center Rat

I’m president of my local chapter of RAW (Retirees Against Work). I’m also director of my city’s ROMEO (Retired Old Men Eating Out) social club.

We Gray Panthers are proud members of the Free Shit Army and stand ready to be stimulated with federal funds yet again.

Show us the money! Make it rain!!

FuzeVT

Judging by the checkout line at Walmart right after the first round of checks hit, the Covid 19 lockdown meant that people were running low on 50+” TVs at their house.

roy goldammer

your walmart had tv’s

NHSparky

Yeah, cause one Venezuela in this world isn’t enough, dammit!