Yeah not really fun work, but It is easy work with a stanley knife and a shovel
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Yeah not really fun work, but It is easy work with a stanley knife and a shovel
Spoken like a true socialist.
The government has deeper pockets than small shop owners
Now that I think of It, I used the shovel to remove linoleum which was glued to the floor.
That was the worst job I had to do in my house
No, that's actually a purely capitalist sentiment. If a company can't offer people enough to make it worth working for them, then they don't get the workers, and the company has to fold. Bankruptcy is an essential part of the capitalist model.
Of course not. It's a pandemic.
That is literally always the case, pandemic or not. Succeeding generations pay the bills of their predecessors.
That's a conservative myth that has no faith in people and is disconnected from reality. No one is going to be making a living wage off unemployment or one-time stimulus checks, and believe it or not, most people prefer to work if they can, and as long as it's safe, which it isn't right now.
While you're bumming about other people's money and businesses, maybe spare a moment to be bummed about the sick and dying people you always fail to mention too.
You're speaking like a socialist, just advocating for a different group to reap the benefits instead of working class and poor people. Small business owners deserve assistance to, but why does your compassion end there? Why are the workers and customers who they depend on unworthy of assistance in time of need?
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That sounds awful
Nope, it's purely free-market Capitalist. Make your product/company attractive enough, and people will flock to buy from / work for it. Believe it or not, during our biggest economic booms, that was a highly successful business model that attracted the best, most productive workers and greatly increased profits.
On the other hand, there once WAS a group with "socialist" in its name that was totally okay with the idea of sacrificing the elderly and sick for the sake of political and economic convenience. They're pretty obscure, and you probably wouldn't have heard of them.
Uh....that's not how that works. Unemployment benefits are based on past wages, and then the worker receives only a percentage (usually 40 to 47%) of what they used to normally earn and then those benefit payments are also federally taxable, so they also lose an additional 10%. So they generally end up with significantly less than what they'd have if they were still working.
Unemployment calculator.
Yes. Then everyone gets $600.00 per week on top of what they would normally get.
Was it Mao in Communist China?
Nooo... think of a people more ideologically in-line with the current crop of "open it all now" potatoes, who are happy to do the same thing.
It was terrible work I did together with my father, the whole floor in the living room, kitchen and hall.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
Who said its oppressive to go back to work.
Yes. Then everyone gets $600.00 per week on top of what they would normally get.
For those with lower to moderate incomes, the extra $600 a week could indeed make their unemployment benefits end up higher than their paychecks from work. CNBC did an article on this a few weeks ago: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/how...t-more-than-100percent-of-their-paycheck.html
But it's not like everyone can just coast along on unemployment forever. The extra $600 per week is only in place for four months, and the regular unemployment benefits run out after a while too, even if there may be provisions to extend them for the duration of the crisis for those who would normally be running out already.
There may be some novelty in not going to work and sitting around the couch all day watching TV, but that gets pretty stale after a while, too. Work gives people a sense of purpose and direction. So people are going to want to get back to their jobs or find new jobs.
But anyway, to get back on the actual topic of this thread since it seems to be going off the rails, what are some other ways we are keeping ourselves occupied and amused while staying at home?
Kor
I can only assume at this point that your incorrect "guesses" are deliberate baiting. For the record, I believe that DS is referring to a certain group that your country, along with mine and others, fought against in WWII. DS presumably doesn't want to name them directly, to avoid Godwinning this thread, and I appreciate their restraint.
You seem to be under an incorrect impression, so let me say: no one thinks the current situation is a good one. Most people, though, do not want to sacrifice peoples' lives for the sake of the economy. If countries start to reopen too early, people will die who wouldn't have otherwise. Your own Declaration of Independence lists some human rights that governments were created to protect: it is probably not a coincidence that life was listed first among those.
If you want to look at it from an economic perspective, try this: to quote Sam Bee from a clip I watched recently, "We're not facing a choice between saving lives or saving the economy; the simple fact is, the economy *is* people, and dead people don't buy stuff."
Now please stop trying to drive the thread off-topic. If you're just trying to poke at people because you're bored at home, please take it elsewhere.
Okay, how about this?
If I have to listen one more time to Joe Nameth tell me how I can get my medicaid cheaper or read all of the benefits available in my area, I'm going to thrown my TV through my front window.
On the flip side I really want to make a Flex Seal boat now!
Oh, and I want some of the Granite Cookwear! (You never know when somebody might melt some wrapped candy in the extremely hot frying pan after all)
Oh and maybe loose some weight with Lipozene.
And here's a question, in the Nutrisystem for men commercials, why do they have the men in the 'before' picture with their shirt off and on in the 'after' picture?
If I have to listen one more time to Joe Nameth tell me how I can get my medicaid cheaper or read all of the benefits available in my area, I'm going to thrown my TV through my front window.
On the flip side I really want to make a Flex Seal boat now!
Oh, and I want some of the Granite Cookwear! (You never know when somebody might melt some wrapped candy in the extremely hot frying pan after all)
Oh and maybe loose some weight with Lipozene.
And here's a question, in the Nutrisystem for men commercials, why do they have the men in the 'before' picture with their shirt off and on in the 'after' picture?
The games we currently have. We play about two hours in the morning after we have done the housework. The games we like the most are Sequence, The Mind, Qwixx and Coloretto. We play three different games per day - one choice each, and one we agree on. We do not play a game two days in a row. I am expecting the game ‘Exploding Kittens’ to arrive early next week.
As far as food goes we are mainly living on fried rice, stir fries, soups, pancakes, and pasta meals. I wish I could do more baking but my oven is crappy but we can’t get a replacement because it is not considered broken
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As far as food goes we are mainly living on fried rice, stir fries, soups, pancakes, and pasta meals. I wish I could do more baking but my oven is crappy but we can’t get a replacement because it is not considered broken
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Ah, then you must break it