Mitch is all in an uproar because workers are being CODDLED. He’s not having it.
Mitch McConnell promised House Republicans Wednesday that the beefed up unemployment benefits enacted earlier this spring “will not be in the next bill.”
The Senate majority leader told the House GOP minority in an afternoon phone call that he is comfortable waiting to see how the nearly $3 trillion in coronavirus spending previously approved plays out before moving forward on the next relief legislation. And he told them that the ultimate end-product won’t look anything like House Democrats’ $3 trillion package passed last week, according to a person briefed on the call.
Well of course he’s comfortable. He’s been milking his job for $$$ for years. Nice to be Mitch but not everyone gets that kind of comfort.
McConnell warned against trial lawyer “vultures” ready to file lawsuits and said Republicans are “going to have to clean up the Democrats’ crazy policy that is paying people more to remain unemployed than they would earn if they went back to work,” McConnell said.
Starve the peasants!
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Yeah they’ve got more money; they’re spending it and keeping the economy afloat instead of hoarding it where it does nothing useful at all. We *need* that or your stock portfolios are gonna go pffft… Can’t see the goddamn forest for the trees.
BKiSA, that’s like the farmers around here who are down on food stamps, even though the food stamps mean they sell more product. Our farmers used to understand that; what happened? (I’m guessing Fox News.)
Nah, in farm country, it’s Rush and Hannity and Breitbart–they get the undiluted Kool-Aid.
You can’t do capitalism where suffering is the end goal rather than the byproduct… It doesn’t work.
Freemage, in the farm country where I live, it’s Rush, Hannity, Breitbart, and Fox News. Go to a motel here – Fox News. Go to a restaurant – Fox News. For a while, they were playing Fox News on a giant TV in our student services building; maybe someone complained about the bias, because they switched to CNN for a while. The TV is never on now.
So, yeah, all of the above.
So he wants to wait and see how the current relief funds play out before considering what to include in the next phase, but has already considered the next phase and decided on what it will and will not contain.
No internal contradictons there, I’m glad to see.