You'd assume right. $700,000 gift to every business, good grief.
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You'd assume right. $700,000 gift to every business, good grief.
Vermin. I'll repeat. Here's a list of all the **** the Dems are trying to shove down our throats in a time of National Emergency.
What’s in Democrats’ coronavirus bill? Arts funding, union help and more
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wh...navirus-bill-arts-funding-union-help-and-more
As Senate Republicans were reeling late Monday following two unsuccessful procedural votes on their version of a coronavirus response bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., released her chamber's version of legislation to fight the disease and its economic effects -- and it includes a raft of provisions with questionable relevance to the pandemic that has killed more than 17,000 worldwide and sickened more than 390,000.
The $2.5 trillion package includes many of the same elements as the Senate bill, which is still being negotiated as of Tuesday morning -- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he expects to vote on a Senate bill by Tuesday night. These similarities include support for workers and small businesses financially impacted by the large-scale economic slowdown from stemming the spread of the outbreak; help for hospitals and health care workers in need of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies; tax breaks for average Americans; direct cash assistance to all adult Americans and other measures directly applicable to the crisis at hand.
But it also includes a number of other measures that have rankled Republicans, including funding for the Kennedy Center -- a performing arts center in Washington, D.C. -- the elimination of the U.S. Postal Service's debt to the treasury, a requirement that airlines accepting assistance under the bill have a union representative on their board, environmental regulations for airlines and more.
Pelosi argued that the Senate bill, unlike the House's, would "put corporations first, not workers and families." Republicans, on the other hand, argued that Democrats are using the pandemic to push through the left's agenda items under the pretense of a bill to fight the coronavirus.
"They ought to be embarrassed," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said of similar proposals being pushed by Senate Democrats. "There is no time for this nonsense."
Here's some of what's in the House Democrats' $2.5 trillion, 1,404-page bill.
Diversity provisions
The House Democrats' bill requires that any company getting coronavirus-related aid disclose its diversity stats, including its employees' race, gender, pay, corporate board diversity and the structure of its offices that deal with diversity and inclusion.
The reports, which will be made public within a year of the companies accepting federal coronavirus-related assistance, will also include the "number and dollar value invested with minority-and-women owned suppliers ... including professional services (legal and consulting) and asset managers, and deposits and other accounts with minority depository institutions, as compared to all vendor investments."
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Speaker Pelosi's <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> bill includes: <br><br>-Provisions for a federal takeover of elections<br>-A climate change study on aviation<br>-Intrusive corporate diversity reporting burdens<br><br>Seriously? Now is the time to help struggling Americans, not play swamp politics with virus aid. <a href="https://t.co/k2QDIcc8hP">pic.twitter.com/k2QDIcc8hP</a></p>— Oversight Committee Republicans (@GOPoversight) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1242167210497445894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Post Office bailout
One section of the bill would eliminate $11 billion worth of debt for the U.S. Postal Service -- money that it currently owes to the Treasury Department. It would also require the Treasury to "eliminate the $3 billion annual borrowing limit in current law," according to a summary of the bill released by House Democrats.
Union boosting
In addition to requiring each airline that receives money through the bill to have a union representative on its board, the House Democrats' summary says the bill would nullify a variety of executive orders issued by the Trump administration on collective bargaining.
Environmental provisions
Any airlines that accept assistance from the House Democrats' bill would be forced to "offset their carbon emissions and reduce their overall emissions by 50 percent by 2050." That matches with environmental plans from Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders to have the U.S. reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The House bill would also expand an FAA program that incentivizes airports to purchase environmentally friendly equipment and create a "cash for clunkers" program -- similar to one created by the Obama administration for cars -- but for older airplanes.
Additionally, it will provide $1.2 billion in grants over five years for the production of "sustainable aviation fuels" that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by "at least 30 percent" compared to traditional jet fuel.
Obamaphones
One section of Pelosi's bill allocates $1 billion and calls for federal authorities to immediately expand the "emergency lifeline broadband benefit" for every household that contains at least one "qualifying low-income consumer." That would include any "mass-market retail service by wire or radio that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or substantially all Internet endpoints, including any capabilities that are incidental to and enable the operation of the communications service."
That benefit would include cell phones.
The National Republican Congressional Committee said the House bill is "full of unrelated liberal goodies, including the return of the Obamaphone," a program that the Government Accountability Office found was "rife with fraud" according to a Washington Times report at the time.
Newspaper retirement plans
House Democrats' plan, according to its summary, expands a recent law that provides "pension funding relief for a number of community newspaper plan sponsors."
$15 minimum wage for companies accepting assistance
Two different sections in the House Democrats' summary of the bill address minimum wage. One provision would "require corporations that receive any federal assistance" to pay all of its workers at least $15 per hour. In addition to the minimum wage, that same provision includes a ban on golden parachutes, restricted bonuses and compensation for executives, a ban on stock buybacks and a ban on companies changing their collective bargaining agreements.
Kennedy Center
The House Democrats' bill provides $35 million to ensure that the D.C.-based John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is able to remain operational and pay its expenses during the coronavirus-related economic slowdown.
The next page of the bill indicates that $300 million would be allotted for the National Endowment of the Arts with an additional $300 million for the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Voter registration
The House Democrats' bill has a variety of election-related mandates, including that states allow at least 15 days of early voting for elections and no-excuse absentee mail-in voting -- two things that could be useful in holding elections during the continuing coronavirus threat.
But is also prohibits states from "imposing additional conditions or requirements on the eligibility of a voter to cast an absentee ballot such as notarization or witness signatures, and prohibits requiring identification to obtain an absentee ballot."
It also forces states to allow same-day voter registration, a practice that is becoming more common throughout the U.S. but is far from universal.
Student loans
Democrats' summary of their bill would eliminate "a minimum of $10,000 of federal and private student loan debt for each indebted borrower." Student loan forgiveness has been a go-to issue for Democrats in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail.
What’s in Democrats’ coronavirus bill? Arts funding, union help and more
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wh...navirus-bill-arts-funding-union-help-and-more
As Senate Republicans were reeling late Monday following two unsuccessful procedural votes on their version of a coronavirus response bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., released her chamber's version of legislation to fight the disease and its economic effects -- and it includes a raft of provisions with questionable relevance to the pandemic that has killed more than 17,000 worldwide and sickened more than 390,000.
The $2.5 trillion package includes many of the same elements as the Senate bill, which is still being negotiated as of Tuesday morning -- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he expects to vote on a Senate bill by Tuesday night. These similarities include support for workers and small businesses financially impacted by the large-scale economic slowdown from stemming the spread of the outbreak; help for hospitals and health care workers in need of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies; tax breaks for average Americans; direct cash assistance to all adult Americans and other measures directly applicable to the crisis at hand.
But it also includes a number of other measures that have rankled Republicans, including funding for the Kennedy Center -- a performing arts center in Washington, D.C. -- the elimination of the U.S. Postal Service's debt to the treasury, a requirement that airlines accepting assistance under the bill have a union representative on their board, environmental regulations for airlines and more.
Pelosi argued that the Senate bill, unlike the House's, would "put corporations first, not workers and families." Republicans, on the other hand, argued that Democrats are using the pandemic to push through the left's agenda items under the pretense of a bill to fight the coronavirus.
"They ought to be embarrassed," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said of similar proposals being pushed by Senate Democrats. "There is no time for this nonsense."
Here's some of what's in the House Democrats' $2.5 trillion, 1,404-page bill.
Diversity provisions
The House Democrats' bill requires that any company getting coronavirus-related aid disclose its diversity stats, including its employees' race, gender, pay, corporate board diversity and the structure of its offices that deal with diversity and inclusion.
The reports, which will be made public within a year of the companies accepting federal coronavirus-related assistance, will also include the "number and dollar value invested with minority-and-women owned suppliers ... including professional services (legal and consulting) and asset managers, and deposits and other accounts with minority depository institutions, as compared to all vendor investments."
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Speaker Pelosi's <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> bill includes: <br><br>-Provisions for a federal takeover of elections<br>-A climate change study on aviation<br>-Intrusive corporate diversity reporting burdens<br><br>Seriously? Now is the time to help struggling Americans, not play swamp politics with virus aid. <a href="https://t.co/k2QDIcc8hP">pic.twitter.com/k2QDIcc8hP</a></p>— Oversight Committee Republicans (@GOPoversight) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1242167210497445894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Post Office bailout
One section of the bill would eliminate $11 billion worth of debt for the U.S. Postal Service -- money that it currently owes to the Treasury Department. It would also require the Treasury to "eliminate the $3 billion annual borrowing limit in current law," according to a summary of the bill released by House Democrats.
Union boosting
In addition to requiring each airline that receives money through the bill to have a union representative on its board, the House Democrats' summary says the bill would nullify a variety of executive orders issued by the Trump administration on collective bargaining.
Environmental provisions
Any airlines that accept assistance from the House Democrats' bill would be forced to "offset their carbon emissions and reduce their overall emissions by 50 percent by 2050." That matches with environmental plans from Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders to have the U.S. reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The House bill would also expand an FAA program that incentivizes airports to purchase environmentally friendly equipment and create a "cash for clunkers" program -- similar to one created by the Obama administration for cars -- but for older airplanes.
Additionally, it will provide $1.2 billion in grants over five years for the production of "sustainable aviation fuels" that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by "at least 30 percent" compared to traditional jet fuel.
Obamaphones
One section of Pelosi's bill allocates $1 billion and calls for federal authorities to immediately expand the "emergency lifeline broadband benefit" for every household that contains at least one "qualifying low-income consumer." That would include any "mass-market retail service by wire or radio that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or substantially all Internet endpoints, including any capabilities that are incidental to and enable the operation of the communications service."
That benefit would include cell phones.
The National Republican Congressional Committee said the House bill is "full of unrelated liberal goodies, including the return of the Obamaphone," a program that the Government Accountability Office found was "rife with fraud" according to a Washington Times report at the time.
Newspaper retirement plans
House Democrats' plan, according to its summary, expands a recent law that provides "pension funding relief for a number of community newspaper plan sponsors."
$15 minimum wage for companies accepting assistance
Two different sections in the House Democrats' summary of the bill address minimum wage. One provision would "require corporations that receive any federal assistance" to pay all of its workers at least $15 per hour. In addition to the minimum wage, that same provision includes a ban on golden parachutes, restricted bonuses and compensation for executives, a ban on stock buybacks and a ban on companies changing their collective bargaining agreements.
Kennedy Center
The House Democrats' bill provides $35 million to ensure that the D.C.-based John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is able to remain operational and pay its expenses during the coronavirus-related economic slowdown.
The next page of the bill indicates that $300 million would be allotted for the National Endowment of the Arts with an additional $300 million for the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Voter registration
The House Democrats' bill has a variety of election-related mandates, including that states allow at least 15 days of early voting for elections and no-excuse absentee mail-in voting -- two things that could be useful in holding elections during the continuing coronavirus threat.
But is also prohibits states from "imposing additional conditions or requirements on the eligibility of a voter to cast an absentee ballot such as notarization or witness signatures, and prohibits requiring identification to obtain an absentee ballot."
It also forces states to allow same-day voter registration, a practice that is becoming more common throughout the U.S. but is far from universal.
Student loans
Democrats' summary of their bill would eliminate "a minimum of $10,000 of federal and private student loan debt for each indebted borrower." Student loan forgiveness has been a go-to issue for Democrats in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail.
Good God were just plain screwed....Can we fast forward to November and send the Dems packing already?
Talk about a quid pro quo. Talk about (what should be) felony bribery.
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These people are sick.
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I knew Nancy was on something that was messing with her hormones.
I knew Nancy was on something that was messing with her hormones.
I'm not saying this virus is not to be taken lightly but it is looking very obvious that the Dems and all their supporters including the media, higher ed, Hollywood, govt departments, certain governors, certain local leaders, global organizations, possibly some foreign nations, have been setting the stage for the biggest heist in the history of the world. Enough is frigging enough.
Just introduce a bare bones bill for the people and **** em... put a zero percent loan for any business that needs it for the next six months and tell everyone a more comprehensive package is coming afterwards... if they shoot that down find an end around
they would be loans not gifts
and from what I read they would come with restrictions like holding staff levels to no lower than 3/13/20 numbers, limits on top exec pay and no stock buy back until after the loans are paid off
I was thinking about this the other night. Are they trying to destroy our herd immunity or something?
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Is that from or reminiscent of Kathy Bates in "Misery?"
I think I'd take my chances with Kathy Bates!
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A less bad day, mkt goes up, virtually Tibsy and Trog free.
Probably just a coincidence.
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Now its really close to me. My GF works in a different nursing home than me and they had a resident test positive. The story is one of the aides had visitors from Italy who had it or was in contact with it, but lied on her questionnaire that they have to fill out everyday. The girl ended up getting fired, but its very likely she passed it along because she ended up testing positive as well. My GF does not work in that part of the building, but it is only 120 beds so its not a huge facility. So now me, her, my daughter, and all the residents at my nursing home are at risk. I dont know how someone could be so ignorant to knowingly chance bringing that into a nursing home.
You were kind when you used the word ignorant IMO. Repugnant. I'm sorry to hear this man, you seem like a relatively young guy in good health, maybe just stock up on some Pure Organics vitamin C powder (found that's the best vitamin C on the market from my perusing) and take every precaution you can for the next several weeks. I'm sure it is worrisome for your daughter though.
Being in the health/wellness industry, I'm sure you know Linus Pauling swore by his vitamin C therapy.
I'm not sure what that's from, Kathy Bates put the wooden block between his legs at his ankles, and ahhhhhhh. That still raises the hair on my neck.
******* dems
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Thanks Im not too worried about myself. My biggest concern is transferring it to residents at my place. My gf has asthma and my daughter is healthy, but only 8 so you just never know how it will effect them.
I just want a ******* non biased bland media source in this country where spin is punishable by death... and i dont even support the death penalty... this is outright criminal...
Just look what they did with the “How long the virus survives outside of the body reports... utter bullshit scare tactics
They to perfect laboratory environments for sustainability and then didn’t really test if it was just viable or just still detectable by growing it in a culture... cause the former way leads to really high biases according to the materials ive read in the past about the flu... they can grow it in a culture for 48 hrs on some surfaces, but its viability is really 9 hrs max...
I mean every story is based on an agenda... its absurd...
Just look what they did with the “How long the virus survives outside of the body reports... utter bullshit scare tactics
They to perfect laboratory environments for sustainability and then didn’t really test if it was just viable or just still detectable by growing it in a culture... cause the former way leads to really high biases according to the materials ive read in the past about the flu... they can grow it in a culture for 48 hrs on some surfaces, but its viability is really 9 hrs max...
I mean every story is based on an agenda... its absurd...
Like the same hordes of useful idiots who raid grocery stores everyday to make people nervous that the supply line is broken, to instill fear, to destabilize our communities and in turn destabilize the country due to an agenda. You have to wonder if some are spreading the virus on purpose in order to get those numbers higher and freak out more people.
If that is the end game for those people by jeopardizing the lives of the most vulnerable in order to perpetuate the outbreak and further destabilize America, I hope they rot in Hell.
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Nevada governor bans malaria drugs for coronavirus patients
Unbelievable. It doesn't seem like a governor should be able to make a decision on medical treatments. If someone close to me died and then they would have had a chance with that treatment, I would be thinking about something other than not re-electing him.
Unbelievable. It doesn't seem like a governor should be able to make a decision on medical treatments. If someone close to me died and then they would have had a chance with that treatment, I would be thinking about something other than not re-electing him.
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Make your own mask. This is great - https://blog.archimedic.com/origami-respirator
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So on Fox, Dr. Siegel was fielding questions. One said she had COPD and asked if it was ok to go shopping, and if she should wear a mask. He said she should be careful because she is at greater risk, and that he is ok with gloves, but not masks because they don't work. Here is his explanation -"Viruses tend to get on the surface of the mask, then you touch the mask and then put your fingers in your mouth or nose".
Yes, much safer to let the viruses land directly in your mouth or nose.
Yes, much safer to let the viruses land directly in your mouth or nose.