So MSNBC reports that PPP money is expected to run out this week? Did I hear that right? lol pretty sure our application hasn’t even been viewed
Don’t worry odds they keep Powell busy at his station printing are nearly 100%.
In related news anyone want to speculate what running a 10T deficit does to things? If the answer is nothing then that kind of blows the “But how you gonna pay for it” bullshit away permanently. Yes I realize that won’t matter and they will probably still be beating that drum in November.
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Treasury keeps telling all the banks they’ll replenish the money when it runs out but so far Democrats are saying no unless they bail out hospitals at the same time they authorize the additional money.
Florida.
Gives Republicans an excuse to privatize USPS like they’ve been dreaming of for years, gut SS and Medicare, and drastically reduce SNAP and other benefit programs for the poor.
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Blame the dumb libs who are holding up additional funding because they think hospitals should get money too.
But more tax cuts!
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Does the GOP actually want to get rid of SS and Medicare? I always assumed it was just another talking point about entitlement programs to fire up the base. They don’t actually plan to do anything about it like how they didn’t do anything to Obamacare from 2017-2019.
The shift from the boehner GOP to the Ryan GOP was both stark and extensive. The old guys understood they couldn’t get rid of SS and Medicare because it would kill a lot of people, the new guys don’t give a fuck
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Don’t confuse the olds being against M4A with them being against Medicare. Trump’s base loves the entitlement programs that benefit them.
They absolutely want to, and will, gut SS and Medicare. They believe, correctly, that they can cheat enough to survive the political fallout.
They definitely want to privatize SS and hand an enormous windfall to stock brokers. The sky’s the limit for how far the Trump cult will be willing to slash their own benefits if Dear Leader tells them to.
IDK. From the LOLOlds I’ve talked to over the past few years, it seems SS and Medicare are untouchable. My BIL is a huge deplorable that loves Trump. He just retired last year. He would go absolutely ballistic if his SS/Medicare was cut. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, deplorables don’t care if Trump shits on others. But that changes if they are personally affected.
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I might buy a gun with my Trump bux. Not sure if ironically or not
Meh lots of farmers who lost their jobs/farms over the trade war admitted they lost their jobs/farm because of Trumps trade war and said they still supported him and felt Trump was doing the right thing.
FFS the people living in a Kushner slum went on a Kushner is a scumbag documentary and said they’re voting Trump again. “Gets things done.” It’s hopeless with these people.
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Trump will just cut our future SS/Medicare, allowing the olds to stick it to us yet again. Most he will do to the olds is some backdoor minor cut via change to inflation calculations.
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And needless to say, Trump won’t do anything to Medicare/SS until after the election. Then he will be down with whatever Mitch and Co want.
But how many have turned on him? I just don’t think Trump has the same rabid support he did 4 years ago. I haven’t seen a MAGA hat in over a year. I just can’t see millions of people that have been on SS/Medicare for years being OK with that being taken away from them.
He could have done that on January 20th, 2017.