According to a source close to the process on Capitol Hill, in order to move forward with any kind of relief package, Pelosi and her far-left Democrat caucus will demand the following be included:
-Publication of corporate pay statistics by race and race statistics for all corporate boards -A bail out on all current debt at the Postal Service -Required early voting -Required same day voter registration -Provisions on official time for union collective bargaining -Full offset of airline emissions by 2025 -Publication and reporting of greenhouse gas statistics for individual flights -Retirement plans for community newspaper employees -Federal $15 minimum wage -Permanent paid leave
Re: Why didn't the stimulus bill pass?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:10 pm
by GFB
Can a Speaker of the House be flogged?
Re: Why didn't the stimulus bill pass?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:30 pm
by Sangersteve
The dems knew going in that this stuff wouldn't float.
They are using it to suppress the economy.
So they can hurt re-election chances.
With the exception of the hard core TDS sufferers.
Most dems even see through this.
Re: Why didn't the stimulus bill pass?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:34 pm
by Sangersteve
Cue up the attacks on Gov. Cuomo.
Re: Why didn't the stimulus bill pass?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:25 pm
by rusty
Of course it could have been because the Democrats didn't want corps to receive bail out money without being accountable to their employees in the form of wages, as well as not being able to get dirt cheap stock buyouts. Or maybe it was because the Dems didnt want corporate bigwigs to benefit from huge bonuses like they did following the 2008 bailout.
It never ceases to amaze me how people, in general, and especially people I know on this board, are so quick to side with people who are diametrically opposed to their own interests.
Let me throw this question out there. Other than strictly ideological ways, how do Republicans help YOU have a better life?
Re: Why didn't the stimulus bill pass?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:33 pm
by GFB
rusty wrote:Of course it could have been because the Democrats didn't want corps to receive bail out money without being accountable to their employees in the form of wages, as well as not being able to get dirt cheap stock buyouts. Or maybe it was because the Dems didnt want corporate bigwigs to benefit from huge bonuses like they did following the 2008 bailout.
It never ceases to amaze me how people, in general, and especially people I know on this board, are so quick to side with people who are diametrically opposed to their own interests.
Let me throw this question out there. Other than strictly ideological ways, how do Republicans help YOU have a better life?
Only liberal/Democrat would ask a question like that.
Re: Why didn't the stimulus bill pass?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:47 pm
by Zephyr
GFB wrote:Can a Speaker of the House be flogged?
I was thinking more along the lines of a firing squad.
Re: Why didn't the stimulus bill pass?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:49 pm
by Zephyr
Jello, one item you missed: She also included a resurrection of the O-Phone program.
Re: Why didn't the stimulus bill pass?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:53 pm
by rusty
GFB wrote:
rusty wrote:Of course it could have been because the Democrats didn't want corps to receive bail out money without being accountable to their employees in the form of wages, as well as not being able to get dirt cheap stock buyouts. Or maybe it was because the Dems didnt want corporate bigwigs to benefit from huge bonuses like they did following the 2008 bailout.
It never ceases to amaze me how people, in general, and especially people I know on this board, are so quick to side with people who are diametrically opposed to their own interests.
Let me throw this question out there. Other than strictly ideological ways, how do Republicans help YOU have a better life?
Only liberal/Democrat would ask a question like that.
Well of course you would say that. You think you're the smartest person in the room and no one else should have an opinion. You stay on a Texas based forum because you know that you will have a few that agree with you. That's fine. The great thing is, you can say whatever you want to and I don't care. In order to be offended by someone you must first need to have respect for that person, and/or think that person has valid opinions. I don't, so that's it.
Come on back, tell me how my opinions are dumb/stupid/uneducated/Communist/Socialist/anti-American/etc.
None of that reflects on me, it reflects on you. Not that you care, not that I care.
My big question to you is, why should ANYONE take your opinions as Gospel? Only people who agree with you can answer that.
Re: Why didn't the stimulus bill pass?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:04 pm
by GFB
Zephyr wrote:
GFB wrote:Can a Speaker of the House be flogged?
I was thinking more along the lines of a firing squad.
Oh great, now we’re holding up the bill.
Re: Why didn't the stimulus bill pass?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:05 pm
by jellowrestling
Zephyr wrote:Jello, one item you missed: She also included a resurrection of the O-Phone program.
They also want to tack on a $10,000 wipe-out of Federal student loans.
Re: Why didn't the stimulus bill pass?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:00 pm
by Sangersteve
What in the world does this have to do with stimulus ?
Pelosi wants to take that system nationwide.
Her bill, released Monday afternoon, provides that every state:
A) shall permit a voter to designate any person to return a voted and sealed absentee ballot to the post office, a ballot drop-off location, tribally designated building, or election office so long as the person designated to return the ballot does not receive any form of compensation based on the number of ballots that the person has returned and no individual, group, or organization provides compensation on this basis; and (B) may not put any limit on how many voted and sealed absentee ballots any designated person can return to the post office, a ballot drop off location, tribally designated building, or election office.