Oh, I am reading her ~bill~. Wish it was required reading for everyone. Talk about alot of jumping ship that would transpire. Oh my!
Here is another reason:Thats because its a corporate slush fund, rather than helping people in communities.She is one of the straighter shooters in Congress
the Democrats are playing politics and pushing agenda driven goodies when it is time to work together
they will be punished at the polls
Big League
Collins: "Can Not Believe" Democrats Won't Pass Coronavirus Relief Bill; "Is This What We've Come To?"
Sen. Susan Collins said Monday on the Senate floor that she "can not believe that the answer" to the coronavirus crisis from Senate Democrats "is delay, delay, delay. No sense of urgency." "Never have I seen Republicans and Democrats fail to come together when confronted with a crisis." "Is...www.realclearpolitics.com
Sen. Susan Collins said Monday on the Senate floor that she "can not believe that the answer" to the coronavirus crisis from Senate Democrats "is delay, delay, delay. No sense of urgency."
"Never have I seen Republicans and Democrats fail to come together when confronted with a crisis."
"Is that what weāve come to?" Collins said, criticizing Democrats over the delay.
"We donāt have another day. We donāt have another hour. We donāt have another minute to delay acting."
One only needs to look at their history of stock buy-backs to know what will be done with the money these corporations get.
Need to make sure taxpayer dollars actually go to those who need it.
Too bad for you that people who can actually read - and made the time to do so - aren't buying the talking points you were handed.
She is one of the straighter shooters in Congress
the Democrats are playing politics and pushing agenda driven goodies when it is time to work together
they will be punished at the polls
Big League
Collins: "Can Not Believe" Democrats Won't Pass Coronavirus Relief Bill; "Is This What We've Come To?"
Sen. Susan Collins said Monday on the Senate floor that she "can not believe that the answer" to the coronavirus crisis from Senate Democrats "is delay, delay, delay. No sense of urgency." "Never have I seen Republicans and Democrats fail to come together when confronted with a crisis." "Is...
Sen. Susan Collins said Monday on the Senate floor that she "can not believe that the answer" to the coronavirus crisis from Senate Democrats "is delay, delay, delay. No sense of urgency."
"Never have I seen Republicans and Democrats fail to come together when confronted with a crisis."
"Is that what weāve come to?" Collins said, criticizing Democrats over the delay.
"We donāt have another day. We donāt have another hour. We donāt have another minute to delay acting."
Repugs just want to give corporations money no strings attached so they can buy back stocks and give CEO's huge paydays. If there is a bailout, ordinary people should come first and there should be accountability for how this money is spent.
There are a lot of ordinary people that own businesses and employ other ordinary people.
Im good with that. I also raise you, not one member of congress or the Senate's gets paid till this is done. Deal?
She is one of the straighter shooters in Congress
the Democrats are playing politics and pushing agenda driven goodies when it is time to work together
they will be punished at the polls
Big League
Collins: "Can Not Believe" Democrats Won't Pass Coronavirus Relief Bill; "Is This What We've Come To?"
Sen. Susan Collins said Monday on the Senate floor that she "can not believe that the answer" to the coronavirus crisis from Senate Democrats "is delay, delay, delay. No sense of urgency." "Never have I seen Republicans and Democrats fail to come together when confronted with a crisis." "Is...
Sen. Susan Collins said Monday on the Senate floor that she "can not believe that the answer" to the coronavirus crisis from Senate Democrats "is delay, delay, delay. No sense of urgency."
"Never have I seen Republicans and Democrats fail to come together when confronted with a crisis."
"Is that what weāve come to?" Collins said, criticizing Democrats over the delay.
"We donāt have another day. We donāt have another hour. We donāt have another minute to delay acting."
These Demonicrats are the worst group of politicians in this country's history. There's really no debate.
You want to see a slush fund, go read Pelosiās version. That is a true slush fund.Here is another reason:Thats because its a corporate slush fund, rather than helping people in communities.She is one of the straighter shooters in Congress
the Democrats are playing politics and pushing agenda driven goodies when it is time to work together
they will be punished at the polls
Big League
Collins: "Can Not Believe" Democrats Won't Pass Coronavirus Relief Bill; "Is This What We've Come To?"
Sen. Susan Collins said Monday on the Senate floor that she "can not believe that the answer" to the coronavirus crisis from Senate Democrats "is delay, delay, delay. No sense of urgency." "Never have I seen Republicans and Democrats fail to come together when confronted with a crisis." "Is...
Sen. Susan Collins said Monday on the Senate floor that she "can not believe that the answer" to the coronavirus crisis from Senate Democrats "is delay, delay, delay. No sense of urgency."
"Never have I seen Republicans and Democrats fail to come together when confronted with a crisis."
"Is that what weāve come to?" Collins said, criticizing Democrats over the delay.
"We donāt have another day. We donāt have another hour. We donāt have another minute to delay acting."
One only needs to look at their history of stock buy-backs to know what will be done with the money these corporations get.
Need to make sure taxpayer dollars actually go to those who need it.
Too bad for you that people who can actually read - and made the time to do so - aren't buying the talking points you were handed.
The Republican bill would let small businesses borrow up to $10 million, and those loans would then be forgiven for any business that avoids cuts in jobs or wages. Thatās a fair deal. But Republicans are proposing different rules for big businesses. Recipients of government bailouts would be required to avoid job or wage cuts only āto the extent practicableā ā a loophole so large it amounts to a lack of any meaningful obligation.
And, a reminder of what a slush fund is:
A slush fund, also called a black fund, is a fund or account that is not properly accounted, such as money used for corrupt or illegal purposes, especially in the political sphere.[1] Such funds may be kept hidden and maintained separately from money that is used for legitimate purposes. Slush funds may be employed by government or corporate officials in efforts to pay influential people discreetly in return for preferential treatment, advance information (such as non-public information in financial transactions), and other services.[2] The funds themselves may not be kept secret but the source of the funds or how they were acquired or for what purposes they are used may be hidden. Use of slush funds to influence government activities may be viewed as subversive of the democratic process.
What should we start with first. ..
I have never read such bullshit in my life. Are you and they for real?Republicans Add Insult to Illness
Greed, germs and the art of no deal.
By Paul Krugman
Opinion Columnist
- March 23, 2020, 6:24 p.m. ET
Mitch McConnell speaking to reporters on Sunday after a motion in the Senate to proceed on the coronavirus financial stimulus bill failed.Credit...Erin Scott for The New York Times
If you want a quick summary of the state of play over fiscal stimulus legislation, here it is: Republicans insist that we should fight a plague with trickle-down economics and crony capitalism. Democrats, for some reason, donāt agree, and think we should focus on directly helping Americans in need.
And if legislation is stalled, as it appears to be as I write this (although things change fast when weāre on Covid time), itās because Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, is holding needy Americans hostage in an attempt to blackmail Democrats into giving Donald Trump a $500 billion slush fund.
First, letās talk about the nature of the economic crisis we face. At the worst point in the 2007-2009 recession, America was losing around 800,000 jobs per month. Right now, weāre probably losing several million jobs every week.
Whatās causing these job losses? So far itās not what usually happens in a recession, when businesses lay off workers because consumers arenāt spending enough. What weāre seeing instead are the effects of social distancing: restaurants, entertainment venues and many other establishments have been closed to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Now, while social distancing is currently driving employment destruction, there will eventually be a second, more conventional round of job losses as distressed families and businesses cut back on spending. So there is also a case for stimulus to sustain overall spending ā although helping Americans in need will provide much of that stimulus, by also helping them continue to spend.So whatās in the stimulus bill that McConnell is trying to ram through the Senate? It grudgingly provides some, but only some, of the aid Americans in distress will need. Funny, isnāt it, how helping ordinary Americans is always framed as a āDemocratic demandā? And even there the legislation includes poison pills, like a provision that would deny aid to many nonprofit institutions like nursing homes and group homes for the disabled.But it also includes a $500 billion slush fund for corporations that the Trump administration could allocate at its discretion, with essentially no oversight. This isnāt just terrible policy; itās an insult to our intelligence
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And we neither can nor should bring those jobs back until the pandemic has faded. What this tells us is that right now our highest priority isnāt job creation, itās disaster relief: giving families and small businesses that have lost their incomes enough money to afford necessities while the shutdown lasts. Oh, and providing generous aid to hospitals, clinics and other health care providers in this time of incredible stress.
After all, it would be hard to justify giving any administration that kind of power to reward its friends and punish those it considers enemies. Itās almost inconceivable that anyone would propose giving such authority to the Trump administration.
Remember, weāve had more than three years to watch this administration in action. Weāve seen Trump refuse to disclose anything about his financial interests, amid abundant evidence that he is profiting at the publicās expense. Trumpās trade war has been notable for the way in which favored companies somehow manage to get tariff exemptions while others are denied. And as you read this, Trump is refusing to use his authority to require production of essential medical gear.
So it would be totally out of character for this administration to allocate huge sums fairly and in the public interest.
Cronyism aside, thereās also the issue of competence. Why would you give vast discretionary power to a team that utterly botched the response to the coronavirus because Trump didnāt want to hear bad news? Why would you place economic recovery efforts in the hands of people who were assuring us just weeks ago that the virus was contained and the economy was āholding up nicelyā?
Finally, weāve just had a definitive test of the underlying premise of the McConnell slush fund ā that if you give corporations money without strings attached they will use it for the benefit of workers and the economy as a whole. In 2017 Republicans rammed through a huge corporate tax cut, which they assured us would lead to higher wages and surging business investment.
Neither of these things happened; instead, corporations basically used the money to buy back their own stock. Why would this time be any different?
As I write this, Republicans are ranting that Democrats are sabotaging the economy by refusing to pass McConnellās bill ā which is a bit rich for those who remember the G.O.P.ās scorched-earth opposition to everything Barack Obama proposed. But in any case, if McConnell really wants action, he could get it easily either by dropping his demand for a Trump-controlled slush fund or by passing the stimulus bill House Democrats are likely to offer very soon.
And maybe that will happen within a few days. As I said, weāre now living on Covid time. But right now Republicans seem dead set on exploiting a crisis their own president helped create by his refusal to take the pandemic seriously.
