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PatrickforO

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15. And yet, they wanted to give Mnuchin $500 billion for corporate welfare

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2020, 11:36 PM

Mar 2020

without any oversight.

But if someone laid off from a minimum wage job gets a lousy $600 a week extra for 26 weeks, the sky will fall because we'd be giving money away to wage earners instead of corporations and billionaires. This is my call to my US Senators tomorrow.

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Sasse, 3 GOP colleagues slow down $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill over jobless benefits [View all] Omaha Steve Mar 2020 OP

Somebody beat the shit out of these guys BlueIdaho Mar 2020 #1

Then WHY do ordinary Americans vote for them? What do WE need to do? slumcamper Mar 2020 #4

Ordinary Americans? BlueIdaho Mar 2020 #5

But those assholes toe the line for corporate & billionaire tax breaks. slumcamper Mar 2020 #2

Collecting unemployment plus $1200? bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 #3

From what I understand, Turin_C3PO Mar 2020 #6

If I am understanding it correctly yes you can get the money even while collecting unemployment. cstanleytech Mar 2020 #8

Republicans have lost this round bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 #17

No, this has nothing to do with a legit concern but rather it has everything to do with them being cstanleytech Mar 2020 #7

Exactly DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #9

Yup. nt SunSeeker Mar 2020 #13

Time for UBI. roamer65 Mar 2020 #10

Bizarro World--the day began with "White House and Senate reach agreement" Ponietz Mar 2020 #11

What? Griping about unemployment benefits when they are giving $500 billion to corporate interests? lees1975 Mar 2020 #12

They have no shame, nor sense of irony. nt SunSeeker Mar 2020 #14

And yet, they wanted to give Mnuchin $500 billion for corporate welfare PatrickforO Mar 2020 #15

This is a legitimate concern ... that's $2500 a month EXTRA for unemployment ... mr_lebowski Mar 2020 #16

Is this a short-term payout, or continuous? NickB79 Mar 2020 #18

Hmm, wonder why when Retrumplicans do this they are "slowing down" maxrandb Mar 2020 #19