Romney, other lawmakers call for sending $1,000 checks to Americans

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  1. Ddyad

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    The cash should go to the productive working class.
     
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    1990's Clinton is the one who increased law enforcement to get rid of inner city crime, and he increased border enforcement to help control the border. After how far left the democrats have gone, 90's Clinton would be considered a Republican because the Republicans haven't shifted. Clinton was still smart enough in those days to realize that the Confederate flag wasn't racist or offensive.

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    Better than flushing more money down into the bureaucracy.
    Better still:
    1. Take the money from administrative state.
    2. Send Big Green Checks to the productive working class.
     
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    LMAO, the Trump idolatry has their own history of life :)
     
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    I thought liberals wanted money poured into the bureaucracy? I guess that means my money can be taxed and given to people who don't feel like earning a living. And if you are going to use the term "working class" maybe you should define it. The term has a sort of communist ring to it and how many people today are exploited by performing industrial work at low wages? Can't your workers just learn to code as liberal Joe Biden told West VA Coal Miners to do?
     
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    I know that.
    Welcome to 21st century - open your banking app, sign check in the back, take picture from both sides and the money is in your account.
    This isn’t something new.
     
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    People change, y'all said so yourselves over the racist dem Governor in VA. Trump is doing what he can to help. If that means stopping mortgage payments for a couple of months or sending a check to working Americans once or twice to help us get through the crisis this apparently has become, or a payroll tax cut until Dec 31 then that's fine. Sometimes the situation arises when you have to put your ideas aside to take care of your people. I highly doubt he'd tax us more to give us a check, that wouldn't make sense because it wouldn't stimulate anything but anger.
     
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    With the exception of his judicial appointments.
     
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    That's the only way I see it. Andrew Wang was on Twitter claiming that Trump is using his [Wang's] plan that he ran on which is completely untrue. Wang wanted to give checks to all Americans every year for several years. IF this goes through and people get a check, it shouldn't go to anyone who was unemployed before March. We'll see what happens in the end though.
     
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    Yes, money helps workers,
    Government programs just enrich and empower our corrupt political class.
     
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    Nearly everyone will contract this virus, a few thousand will die. The virus will subside and America will go on business as usual.

    I am much more concerned about idiot food horders.
     
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    A "few thousand"?:roflol:

    Does Over 100,000 fit under your definition of "a few"?

    Anyway, I love the idea of the $1,000 checks.
     
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    The Federal Reserve System central bank combine will do anything imaginable to kill the attraction of any of the 'precious metals', like gold and silver. The ability of these central banks to completely smother, stifle, and manipulate the economies of nations requires airtight control of all precious metals -- especially gold and silver. Thus, you'll never see the government 'handing-out' gold coins, or doing anything like advocating a return to the Gold Standard.

    Remember: it was the great Democrat demi-god, Frankie Roosevelt who made it ILLEGAL in beginning in 1933 for Americans to possess gold. And it wasn't until 1974 that President Gerald Ford made it legal for American citizens to possess gold again.

    Behind the scenes: In 1913, Democrat Woodrow Wilson and his "progressive" Democrat faction in Congress gave life to a central bank -- the Federal Reserve System (an action which Wilson later said he bitterly regretted). Then, twenty years later, the 'Fed' began flexing its muscle, and the confiscation of gold was the first major step....
     
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    It's up to 75 deaths so far. How do you know it will get to over 100,000? None of your predictions have yet to come true so I guess your "over 100,000" prediction is a good sign that such a number won't be reached.
     
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    It will help. Presumably, it will be graduated so that someone who doesn't make much might gets $1,500 or $2k. And we might have to do another round of this. A thousand dollars may be the difference between selling a home or not. People have built up a lot of equity over the years. The last thing we need is a bunch of houses going on the market with everyone hoarding cash. But I think that's what's going to happen.
     
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    115 dead.

    But this is how epidemics/pandemics go: slow at first, and then exponential growth. Hopefully, we can cut the growth rate down by what we're doing. Had we not done these lockdowns, out healthcare system would collapse. It still might, but we have a chance now.
     
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    Tucker Carlson apparently had a had in Trump's change. That's the second time Tucker has saved our bacon. The first was talking Trump out of war with Iran.
    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/202...-he-brought-coronavirus-message-to-mar-a-lago
     
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    How quickly conservatives can be sold on socialism. Maybe Bernie is right after all.
     
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    75 deaths and it’s a national emergency and were adopting socialism?
     
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  21. Thirty6BelowZero

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    I was listening to the update while I ate lunch and they said that the Millennials in France and Italy are starting to get it now. From old to young.
     
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    Share and share alike.
     
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    You must not understand the difference between helping people through a crisis and holding their hand throughout life while you steal the hard earned money from those who don't need you to hold their hand.

    It's all good. Wallow in that shitpile while you point your finger and laugh.
     
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    thedimon. Most people have their IRS refund checks or their Social Security checks DIRECT DEPOSIT into their bank account.
     
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    Only when they need it, everyone else needs to pull themselves up by the bootstraps.
    Self-centered imbecile’s would probably have more integrity and less hypocrisy than many claiming to be “conservatives”.
     
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