The economy is in a free fall. Many lives are being harmed and it’s getting worse by the day. Phase in the reopening as makes sense in any given region. It can’t wait until summer or later as has been espoused by some. The fear of a virus has set us up for a recession that could be a depression if we don’t get the economy going again.
When testing is available and accurate, treatments available, and precautions remain in place if relaxed to a degree, a phased re-opening does make sense. So far, any plan coming out of Bonespurs’ team of economic experts, is just a way to boost profits for mortuary businesses.
We don’t even have a practical model plan for how to vote this November. The South Koreans already solved that problem. This is the time to buy gift cards and stamps to help out restaurants and the post office. We need to find ways to allow the lowest-paid works a way to return to work safely before we can reboot the economy. If we are not able to adapt, while lethal viruses CAN adapt, we will never again have a functional economy. We need a more resilient economy than we have been propping up from crisis to crisis … it time to stop blaming/complaining and start collaborating with each other. None of us is as good as all of us.
The 2009 stimulus should have been larger and should not have had so many tax cuts in it. There should have been much more investment in infrastructure including maintenance as well as new development including renewable energy. The economy took a while to recover and all the Repubs did was complain about deficits. Repubs still try to push the lie that tax cuts pay for themselves when it has been shown for decades that this isn’t true.
The 2020 stimulus should have contained plans for supporting small businesses rather than large corporations. There is food rotting in Florida because it was planned for restaurants and school lunches; this food should have been picked up and sent to a processing plant for future use and some of it should have gone directly to food pantries. There is a tax credit that increases the already too big tax credit for LLCs, especially real estate, which will benefit people like Trump. The checks should have focused on people who are not working. Retired people on pensions and / or Social Security didn’t have their income affected so I don’t understand the need for a check (I’m in this group and so is my mother). Companies that are getting loans or being bailed out should have had to provide guarantees that they wouldn’t cut their employees, but several have already cut jobs and their re-opening plans don’t include bringing everyone back.
Gig workers have been gigged since pretty much when the idea took hold. What’s happening to them now is just one more way they’re harmed by being marginalized.
What they need (imo) is the National Brotherhood of Gig Workers, and the willingness to go on strike against all gig-“employers” to force them to provide tolerable working conditions for those who are employees in every sense but “legally”.
guyjen2004 Premium Member about 4 years ago
The economy is in a free fall. Many lives are being harmed and it’s getting worse by the day. Phase in the reopening as makes sense in any given region. It can’t wait until summer or later as has been espoused by some. The fear of a virus has set us up for a recession that could be a depression if we don’t get the economy going again.
Dtroutma about 4 years ago
When testing is available and accurate, treatments available, and precautions remain in place if relaxed to a degree, a phased re-opening does make sense. So far, any plan coming out of Bonespurs’ team of economic experts, is just a way to boost profits for mortuary businesses.
superposition about 4 years ago
We don’t even have a practical model plan for how to vote this November. The South Koreans already solved that problem. This is the time to buy gift cards and stamps to help out restaurants and the post office. We need to find ways to allow the lowest-paid works a way to return to work safely before we can reboot the economy. If we are not able to adapt, while lethal viruses CAN adapt, we will never again have a functional economy. We need a more resilient economy than we have been propping up from crisis to crisis … it time to stop blaming/complaining and start collaborating with each other. None of us is as good as all of us.
Nantucket Premium Member about 4 years ago
The 2009 stimulus should have been larger and should not have had so many tax cuts in it. There should have been much more investment in infrastructure including maintenance as well as new development including renewable energy. The economy took a while to recover and all the Repubs did was complain about deficits. Repubs still try to push the lie that tax cuts pay for themselves when it has been shown for decades that this isn’t true.
The 2020 stimulus should have contained plans for supporting small businesses rather than large corporations. There is food rotting in Florida because it was planned for restaurants and school lunches; this food should have been picked up and sent to a processing plant for future use and some of it should have gone directly to food pantries. There is a tax credit that increases the already too big tax credit for LLCs, especially real estate, which will benefit people like Trump. The checks should have focused on people who are not working. Retired people on pensions and / or Social Security didn’t have their income affected so I don’t understand the need for a check (I’m in this group and so is my mother). Companies that are getting loans or being bailed out should have had to provide guarantees that they wouldn’t cut their employees, but several have already cut jobs and their re-opening plans don’t include bringing everyone back.
Concretionist about 4 years ago
Gig workers have been gigged since pretty much when the idea took hold. What’s happening to them now is just one more way they’re harmed by being marginalized.
What they need (imo) is the National Brotherhood of Gig Workers, and the willingness to go on strike against all gig-“employers” to force them to provide tolerable working conditions for those who are employees in every sense but “legally”.
Zykoic about 4 years ago
Pithed economy
snookdog69 about 4 years ago
Yes heaven forbid if my stocks go farther down. They mean more 2 me then people’s lives.