Old Man Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 25 minutes ago, Hermit said: Sadly, they're doing the best to nip that in the bud. Some states are ending unemployment benefits early to stop the 'freeloading' and 'save the economy'... by which I think they mean they'd like to keep the serfs on the fast food fields And what do those unemployment benefits add up to, that fast food megacorps can’t compete with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 I can see why people would want to get $15 an hour for unemployment instead of $7 an hour returning to their jobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 Just now, Old Man said: And what do those unemployment benefits add up to, that fast food megacorps can’t compete with? Oh I'm on the side of the Zoomers and Millennials who are giving a big middle finger to jobs where they are underpaid, abused by employers and some customers alike, and expected to quietly drown in medical, college, or housing debt without upsetting anyone. But I fear a lot of forces arrayed against them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 Well remember that the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, and fast food by and large pays minimum. So even if you can get 40 hours, that's still less than $300 a week. You'll still probably get *some* withheld for income tax, even tho you almost certainly won't owe any, or very little, if this is your only income, and definitely Social Security. So...knock off, say, 20%. Take home? About $220 a week, or call it $900 a month. With no benefits whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 Well, it's another long-term Trump critic, but the more voices the better. Besides, "circular firing squad" is worth spreading. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/politics/larry-hogan-gop-firing-squad/index.html Another CNN story, about restaurant workers: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/economy/labor-shortages-pay-gaps/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted May 11, 2021 Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 The local restaurants here are adverting for help between the minimum and what Walmart pays for a starter. CES Matt the Bruins and Hermit 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted May 11, 2021 Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 Opinion: Cheney was more loyal to Trump’s agenda than Stefanik was. But Trump only cares about loyalty to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 11, 2021 Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 Service Workers Aren’t Lazy — They Just Don’t Want to Risk Dying for Minimum Wage Hermit and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 11, 2021 Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 tkdguy, aylwin13 and DShomshak 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 11, 2021 Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 2 hours ago, Cygnia said: Service Workers Aren’t Lazy — They Just Don’t Want to Risk Dying for Minimum Wage Despite industry's probably unplanned movement to turn service work in the 21st Century what coal mining was in the late 19th/early 20th Centuries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 11, 2021 Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 aylwin13, DShomshak, Cygnia and 6 others 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted May 12, 2021 Report Share Posted May 12, 2021 Arnold has many flaws, but when he believes in something he acts. BarretWallace 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted May 12, 2021 Report Share Posted May 12, 2021 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/liz-cheney-ousted-voted-out.amp.html So, Liz Cheney is out for her refusal to bend the knee to Trump. And her statements of fact about the election and January 6 insurrection. I do not like her family or politics, but that’s not a good sign for future election cycles if you enjoy things like Democratic process and smooth transitions of power... TrickstaPriest and Matt the Bruins 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted May 12, 2021 Report Share Posted May 12, 2021 More than 120 retired generals and admirals wrote to Biden suggesting he wasn't legitimately elected and questioning his mental health Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted May 12, 2021 Report Share Posted May 12, 2021 That letter suggests there's something to age impairing mental function after all. Ironically, it was fair for one of the signatories to claim, "We are facing threats greater than at any other time since our country was founded." He just doesn't recognize that the threat includes himself. pinecone, Matt the Bruins and Lee 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted May 12, 2021 Report Share Posted May 12, 2021 2 hours ago, Starlord said: More than 120 retired generals and admirals wrote to Biden suggesting he wasn't legitimately elected and questioning his mental health To quote the letter: The mental and physical condition of the Commander in Chief cannot be ignored. Where were they during the prior administration? Pariah, Matt the Bruins, Lord Liaden and 3 others 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 12, 2021 Report Share Posted May 12, 2021 13 minutes ago, BoloOfEarth said: To quote the letter: The mental and physical condition of the Commander in Chief cannot be ignored. Where were they during the prior administration? This. This right [REDACTED] here. 3 hours ago, Iuz the Evil said: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/liz-cheney-ousted-voted-out.amp.html So, Liz Cheney is out for her refusal to bend the knee to Trump. And her statements of fact about the election and January 6 insurrection. I do not like her family or politics, but that’s not a good sign for future election cycles if you enjoy things like Democratic process and smooth transitions of power... What a ridiculous decision on the part of GOP House 'leadership'. The Republican Party has become narrow-minded, fragile, and petty. Just like their idol, Donald Trump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 12, 2021 Report Share Posted May 12, 2021 2 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: Ironically, it was fair for one of the signatories to claim, "We are facing threats greater than at any other time since our country was founded." He just doesn't recognize that that includes himself. That isn't the threat. The threat is the culture of lying and manipulation presented as facts, which led to this. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted May 12, 2021 Report Share Posted May 12, 2021 17 hours ago, Starlord said: More than 120 retired generals and admirals wrote to Biden suggesting he wasn't legitimately elected and questioning his mental health Listening to analysis of this on MSNBC, they pointed out there was only one four star and only 3-4 three star generals signing the letter. So it was mostly lower tier people rather than those who would have had regular contact with a senator or president. They also pointed out that most of them hadn't actually served in more than a decade. So they didn't have recent experience with what the military has been going through with the never-ending deployment and little to no experience dealing with Trump as commander-in-chief. Anyway... There's not a firm number of retired generals and admirals available to the general public so as to make it easy to see if 124 of them is a significant number. Back from 2006, I found this article which estimated that at the time there was around 4700 retired generals. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/04/how-many-retired-generals-are-there.html (There were multiple reports of a wave of retirements from generals who didn't want to take orders from the Amateur-in-Chief who claimed he was smarter than all the generals but let's ignore that for the purposes of making an informed guess.) The retired admirals are listed on the navy website mixed in with active duty admirals here: https://www.navy.mil/Leadership/Biographies/ An intrepid reporter went through the entire list and claims he counted more than 250 retired admirals but doesn't say exactly how many. https://www.reference.com/world-view/can-list-retired-united-states-navy-admirals-found-b229c1dfeecdf113 So adding the retired admirals and retired generals together, there's maybe 5000 of them total. That'd make it 2.48% of all retired admirals and generals signed the letter. unclevlad and Lawnmower Boy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 Could it be...? More than 100 Republicans, including former governors and lawmakers, are threatening to form a third party if the GOP doesn't split from Trump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarretWallace Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 20 minutes ago, Pariah said: Could it be...? More than 100 Republicans, including former governors and lawmakers, are threatening to form a third party if the GOP doesn't split from Trump We can only hope. A pity I can't read the whole article though, as it's behind a pay wall and I'm too cheap thrifty to subscribe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 Summoning and control of Pay Walls should be in the Champions Powers book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 If they do form a third party, I doubt it will draw many of the existing Republican base which polling suggests is now predominantly Trumpist. But any splitting of the vote on the Right will benefit Democrats, and even "lesser of two evils" believers should welcome that in the present circumstances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickstaPriest Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 On 5/12/2021 at 8:02 AM, Iuz the Evil said: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/liz-cheney-ousted-voted-out.amp.html So, Liz Cheney is out for her refusal to bend the knee to Trump. And her statements of fact about the election and January 6 insurrection. I do not like her family or politics, but that’s not a good sign for future election cycles if you enjoy things like Democratic process and smooth transitions of power... This is pretty much the end of the democratic process in our country. 😕 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 4 hours ago, Pariah said: Could it be...? More than 100 Republicans, including former governors and lawmakers, are threatening to form a third party if the GOP doesn't split from Trump I've seen those kinds of stories from time to time over the years so I'm more than a little cynical (during Reagan, W. Bush, pre-Trump, and mid-Trump). But this is the first time I've seen it after the Republicans kicked a prominent Republican out of a leadership post because she refused to give silent consent, or vocal support, to an insurrectionist. So maybe they're highly motivated into actual action rather than only motivated to voice an idle threat. Their letter is supposed to come out later today. If it gives the Republican party a definite deadline (such as August 1st or June 30th) and a list of specific requirements it must meet in order to keep them in the party, then I'll take their threat as being serious (rather than being hot air). I'll keep my fingers crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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