Corona Virus, How Has It Affected Your Area So Far?

I heard Frod funded his Nirvana with government subsidies !

*** lol if you think food stamps, unemployment and things like ubi are abused.

I bet you hate it when the dirty poors buy anything more than ramen and grade D chicken gizzards with their wic card.

Dude, i went to my local public school and my county community college. Neither of which are funded by the freemarket.

Betsy devos and her freemarket ideas of voucher systems for public/private schools have basically gutted already underfunded public school systems while allowing *** to grift like mad.

How do you propose tracking all these people that don't file taxes to get them their stimulus, while preventing situations where folk invent relatives or similar to cheat the government?

It's not that simple. If you had a bad luck streak in 2019 (made no money at all) but were looking. or just finished a degree, or hospitalized etc then you didn't file, but you still need help now. Because then was then and now is now. (and now is not September)

Then let's go one further. Random guy goes around cutting grass for money, not enough to get by but it helps. He obviously doesn't claim taxes on that. But now everyone is home cutting their own grass... is he just supposed to go *** himself? I guess he should get a real job instead, oh right, everything is closed.

It's not always black and white all the time. It would've been better to err on the side of everyone.

Remember Frod is the guy that logs on to yell stupid ***.

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if he was killed by the virus.

They don't pay me to solve that problem. It's their problem they created with their own rules. They shouldn't get to just say *** you, thanks for playing.

(Maybe the census? that's more or less literally why it exists, and it happens to be the census year and month right now!)

It sucks, but that's just how things go.

You know what? It doesn't have have to "be the way it is, because that's the way it's always been."

TALLAHASSEE — The staggering unemployment exploding on President Donald Trump’s watch would worry any incumbent running for reelection, but troubles in Florida are injecting an added dose of fear into a jittery GOP.

Already anxious about Trump’s chances in the nation’s biggest swing state, Republicans now are dealing with thousands of unemployed workers unable to navigate the Florida system to apply for help. And the blowback is directed straight at Trump’s top allies in the state, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Rick Scott.

Privately, Republicans admit that the $77.9 million system that is now failing Florida workers is doing exactly what Scott designed it to do — lower the state’s reported number of jobless claims after the great recession.

“It’s a sh-- sandwich, and it was designed that way by Scott,” said one DeSantis advisor. “It wasn’t about saving money. It was about making it harder for people to get benefits or keep benefits so that the unemployment numbers were low to give the governor something to brag about.”

Republican Party of Florida chairman Joe Gruters was more succinct: “$77 million? Someone should go to jail over that.”

With hundreds of thousands of Floridians out of work, the state’s overwhelmed system is making it nearly impossible for many people to even get in line for benefits.

After a record number of claims were reported Thursday, DeSantis said the state would resort to paper applications, build a mobile app to handle the flood of traffic and deploy hundreds, even thousands, of state workers to provide stopgap help.
Congress last week delivered relief in the form of a $2 trillion stimulus package that directs cash to the unemployed. But to get that money into the pockets of Floridians, the state will have to duct-tape the rickety web-based unemployment system to deliver it.

It’s a monumental task. The system has had problems from its very start in 2013, and was one reason state senators refused in 2015 to confirm Scott’s pick to run the agency that manages unemployment benefits.

The new online system was part of a series of changes designed to limit benefits. The ultimate goal — which it delivered on — was to lower unemployment taxes paid by Florida businesses. A 2011 analysis done by the Florida Legislature estimated that the changes pushed by Scott would save businesses more than $2.3 billion between 2011 and 2020.

Now, as thousands of people try to get help, the system crashes or denies them access. Nearly 400,000 people have managed to file claims in the last two and half weeks. It’s not known how many have tried and failed.

Most of those who do submit applications won’t qualify for aid, and the benefits that are paid out are among the most meager in the country — a maximum of $275 a week.

“This is horrible for people. I don’t want to minimize that,” one DeSantis adviser told POLITICO. “But if we have to look past the crisis, it’s bad for the president and it’s bad for the governor.”

“Everyone we talk to in that office when we ask them what happened tells us, ‘the system was designed to fail,’” the adviser said. “That’s not a problem when unemployment is 2.8 percent, but it’s a problem now. And no system we have can handle 25,000 people a day.”

As opposed to you logging into FFXIAH and shitposting just to shitpost? Pretty hypocritical.


Dude are you TRYING to get banned on your sock too?
Trolling to high hell, talking crap on the mods and now hopes of others death.... classy.

You know what? It doesn't have have to "be the way it is, because that's the way it's always been."

I would like to hear reasoning why a person who mows the grass should earn the same as a lawyer or accountant does.

Right now, you can just buy the tax software for a few dollars, plug in some numbers and be done with it. You can't decide you dont feel like doing something then get pissed when it comes back to bite you.

Taxpayers funded your public school, while you (partially, I'm assuming) funded your community college. Both you and the taxpayers in your local area benefited from a free-market system that allows products and services to be created/traded based on demand of such products/services. I can't believe I have to explain to you the basic economic principles that you should have learned in middle school.

So, either you learned nothing, or your schools had drastically failed you as much as Boston University has failed their economic majors, going by the most famous economics major they have.

Proof please. Blanket incoherent statements does not make it true.

Right now, you can just buy the tax software for a few dollars, plug in some numbers and be done with it.

Lmao nope, neither i nor my adoptive parents paid into my partial college education.

No computer or no internet? get *** again I guess. Can't even say do it at the library or DHS cause they're closed too! Can't go to someone elses house either social distance!

I didn't pick the number either. Just if you say "all Americans" well it's disingenuous to not include the ones that actually need it. Then you add fine print that says you had to do something you previously weren't required to do, and say to bad should've done it anyway!

Getting money promised in april doesn't help people when it's delivered in september.

No computer or no internet? get *** again I guess. Can't even say do it at the library cause they're closed too! Can't go to someone elses house either social distance!

I didn't pick the number either. Just if you say "all Americans" well it's disingenuous to not include the ones that actually need it. Then you add fine print that says you had to do something you previously weren't required to do, and say to bad should've done it anyway!


No computer or no internet? get *** again I guess. Can't even say do it at the library cause they're closed too! Can't go to someone elses house either social distance!