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Do you think society needs more gvmnt workers,?
thats what they would turn into.
I don't think these people are going to get hired by the government. All we're doing is following the success of the first WPA program of 90 years ago. Once America got back onto its feet the WPA was largely disbanded for lack of necessity. Today it's 30 million people. When this pandemic picks up steam next month 30 million will become 50 million and eventually 60 million. How are we going to feed these people? The food banks are stretched to the breaking point now. A recent article below stated that 1 in 4 children will be hungry because of Coronavirus.
Go visit the governor of your State and tell them, how you feel --- however, you may want to leave your gun at home, if you are of a mind to own one. And be prepared to learn, you're just going to make more dead people.
Go stick your head back in the sand. That's what the sanctimoniously fearful do.
What a bs statement. Drop the blind ideology and script. People want to work ffs.
You're privilege speaks volumes.
Some people want to work, but plenty do so only as a last resort. And if they get as much or nearly as much by sitting in their butts, they will often choose to do that. And now, with the extra $600 on top of regular unemployment that people are getting, very few people will go back to a $12/hr job when they are getting $4000 a month - at least through July.
You are the one demonstrating blind ideology if you are so certain that lower-income workers would give up all that free money to go run a cash register for half the amount.
It's a little late - Nancy and Chuck already snuck in the Free Money ($600 for each adult) per WEEK on top of their State Unemployment checks + SNAP and free Medical. They don't want to work, when they get more by not working. There is no requirement for any of them to even look for a job.
Add to that - Nancy and Chuck want to tie all sorts of provisions to an Infrastructure Jobs program.
Unions, State Bailouts, Carbon Tax and lots and lots of Regulations.
How did Chuck and Nancy manage to “sneak” the UE bump into legislation?
The UE bump is per state qualified unemployed, not $600 for each adult. Perhaps you are confusing this with the $1250 per adult / $500 per child handout, that included tens of millions with SS and pension benefits that had zero risk of not paying.
Then there’s the $ billions that went to so called small businesses with substantial reserves due to a federal process that allowed it to happen. We don’t know the identities of every business that recieved funds to pay their furloughed employees.
The first $1200 stimulus was probably a good idea but the money has already been spent by its recipients. How many stimulus checks can the Feds mail out to them before the well runs dry? At least with a WPA program the government saves future costs to rebuild the infrastructure by doing it now.
Why should the Federal Government spend a dime on state/ county/ local infrastructure?
FDR had the right idea. During the Great Depression, instead of letting the unemployed sit on their butts boiling old shoes for dinner in Hoovervilles, he started the Works Progress Administration which put approximately 9 million people to work building badly-needed infrastructure.
Today, the unemployed sit on their butts microwaving TV dinners and playing X-Box in Great Depression-style Trumpvilles while the government throws free money at them that adds nothing substantial to the economy. Our infrastructure, build during the 1930's, is crumbling. It could use a good retrofitting. 30 million unemployed could be put to good use rebuilding it and earning their checks instead of them sitting at home collecting free money the government doesn't have to give while waiting for bankrupt employers to call them back to non-existent jobs.
Let's get the ball rolling.
ROFLOL You mean like building dams and roads and planting forests stuff that requires hard labor? Good luck finding someone to sign up for that
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Heads should roll. Not literally, we hope. 
Maybe cabbage or lettuce heads. 
