A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT GUYS
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Lol where’s the money asshole.
Meanwhile…
It’s not even a well-written letter
Status is now updated. Getting money April 30th.
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You got this status from the same site where you entered your DD info?
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Yea, just checked mine and it got updated this morning with an April 30th deposit date.
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I now get a sweet sweet “your information does not match our records.” This includes the info on my recent taxes. So I guess I will be entering USPS versions of prior addresses until something happens. If it’s delayed long enough, I guess I will be one of the few people hoping to receive a 2021 stimulus payment 
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No date yet for me. By the way, the US Treasury being like “I owe you $1,200. I’ll get you next week, don’t worry. I’m good for it!” is not all that reassuring a month or two into a 1.5-2 year crisis.
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Still on the same error message from the beginning here. Frustrating.
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Are you entering your SSN with or without dashes? I swear I once got a message telling me which way was right but now idfk
Without.
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I mean it seems like they’re pretty desperate for an excuse not to have to give us another dime (although multiple industry bailouts including the hospitals themselves are still on the table I’m sure).
I really think that’s a big part of the talk about even cracking the door open for reopening a few things. If a handful of states have a handful of things open, the answer to “How about that second round of payments there, Congress?” is gonna be “Last I checked real Muricans are working, if your state isn’t then ask your governor for a handout you filthy poor.”
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Same here.
I added my bank information like 2 weeks ago so there seems to be a three week turnaround time.
Does the heart good seeing people itt arguing for looting state pension systems. Screw those greedy pensioners!
But seriously, consider gargling bleach
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Yup, absolutely. It’s simultaneously Peak America and incomprehensibly infuriating.
But the part that pisses me off the most is that if we did this right starting even right now, let alone two months ago, we could safely reopen 70-80% of the economy and we’d only need to bail out chunks of the service industry - and imo not even hotels. It’d be like bars, restaurants and amusement parks. We could obviously float that bailout cost even for a year or two if it was isolated.
I feel confident that if you put like a council of 5-10 Unstuckers in charge we could limit unemployment to single digits within a few months, keep the Rt < 1, keep the IFR < 1% and keep the Dow > 20K all at the same time.
It’s hard, and it’s complex, but from a broad perspective it’s not complicated to figure out.
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So here’s the thing… cities and states have been paying their employees in ‘pensions’ for decades at this point. What they haven’t been doing is actually paying anything close to what those obligations would cost.
So what we have is an enormous amount of past service mostly performed by Silents, Boomers, and some Gen X’ers (who I consider to be largely blameless in this fwiw) in exchange for payment in the present now that their generation has managed to retire.
I don’t want to see these pensioners lose absolutely everything, but they generally got a massively good (a downright unfairly good imo) deal if we as a society makes them whole.
Let’s put it another way: do you want to see the Gen X’ers, millenials, and Gen Z pay absurd amounts of money to keep the olds promises to themselves which they never bothered to fund? Do you feel that sales taxes have room to run? Property taxes? Income taxes (which at the state level are in many places not progressive at all).
The people who are going to benefit were with public service unions (AKA politically powerful entities) who are wildly complicit in the situation they now find themselves in.
This actually goes for the entire Silent/Boomer cohort actually. The stock markets prices being super high represents promises they made to themselves about a gold plated retirement. The housing market also represents promises made, again to themselves, of a gold plated retirement. These people made TONS of promises to themselves while refusing to think further into the future than 24 months out, and their accumulated votes as a group are what got us here.
I think that if we’re going to loot absolutely anyone we start with the rich and the very next stop is with pensioners. They absolutely shouldn’t be made anything close to whole when this thing shakes out. They are going to be much poorer than they thought they were, and honestly I’m completely fine with that.
I want to help poor old people at the same time we help poor people generally with a UBI. UBI + Social Security is what this current crop of olds are going to need to figure out how to live on. It’ll probably be enough for an apartment, food, and utilities. I see absolutely no reason why they should be able to retire to a golf resort after a lifetime of political comic book villainy. They absolutely destroyed this country and their comfort level doesn’t even make my top 10 priority list. They should eat last in this next reorganization, after all they’ve been eating first their entire lives and leaving us with the scraps.
If we want to bail someone out lets forgive the student loans, make college affordable (largely by regulating admin costs back to where they were 30 years ago and capping tuition), and give every single citizen a monthly check. As for the pensions they can blow up and I’ll have the worlds smallest violin ready to play.
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Counter point: Fuck boomers.
Jk
Kinda
One thing to consider with pensions is that many people worked their entire career getting paid less to much less than they could have made in the private sector in exchange for the generous and guaranteed public pension. Seems like bullshit to fuck them over now.
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In what way is the failure of a state legislature to sufficiently plan for its pension obligations the fault of its employees?
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