Floridaman
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Oh great, inflation...just what we needed.
Edit: but yeah both Trump and his cabinet, and the Democrats in congress have called for something like that so, if both parties are agreeing, something like that is likely.
China Wuhan Virus Pandemic
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Edit: but yeah both Trump and his cabinet, and the Democrats in congress have called for something like that so, if both parties are agreeing, something like that is likely.
Harlock
I should have expected that really
Something to keep in mind
www.telegraph.co.uk
Coronavirus cure hope as 79-year-old Italian man successfully treated with experimental drug
The drug, remdesivir, was first developed by US drug firm Gilead to treat Ebola
www.telegraph.co.uk
Terthna
Professional Lurker
Not if the plan for implementation is good; which is unlikely, I'll give you. Still, I think Trump could actually pull it off without screwing it up, which is more than I can say for Biden or Sanders.
Floridaman
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The problem is we will be adding money with no new goods, as more money chases the same amount of goods we get inflation, it doesn’t matter what plan is used. Before people ask yes a tax cut would do the same, however those increase the incentive to work providing more goods, here it is simply just giving money which won’t increase incentives to work.
The problem is that quite simply, there are going to be a lot of people missing paychecks and needing money NOW.
Inflation is a very secondary concern in this kind of situation; a tax cut will not put money in your pocket and food on your table NOW.
Tzeentchean Perspective
Well-known member
Fuhrer Merkel does it again:
Holy fuck...is Merkel as senile as Biden?
Floridaman
Well-known member
that was dumber than AOC wanting to treat climate change like the war, at least people remember the US as the good guys in the war.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
A homeless person in Silicon Valley died of the coronavirus Monday, the same day that a 3-week 'shelter in place' was ordered for the San Francisco Bay Area
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the death on Monday, the same day officials told Bay Area residents they should stay indoors until April 7.
www.businessinsider.com
Uh oh.
Wuhan Clan comin at ya!
Protect ya face!
Terthna
Professional Lurker
Exactly. What we are going to be looking at having to deal with here is a dramatic spike in unemployment, at least as bad as it got during the 2008 recession. Many people will not have any income, so taxing a smaller percentage of said non-existent income would do little to help matters. We need people spending money to keep our economy going.
Wuhan Clan ain't nuthin to fuck with!!! Wuhan Clan ain't nuthin to fuck with!!!.........
A homeless person in Silicon Valley died of the coronavirus Monday, the same day that a 3-week 'shelter in place' was ordered for the San Francisco Bay Area
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the death on Monday, the same day officials told Bay Area residents they should stay indoors until April 7.
Uh oh.
Wuhan Clan comin at ya!
Protect ya face!
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
Got one.
Floridaman
Well-known member
My point was right now they should do neither. I merely included the tax cut rationale because I figured people would bring up my support for that.
Tzeentchean Perspective
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Feds Suspend Refugee Resettlement to U.S. Amid Coronavirus
The State Department is suspending refugee resettlement, at least temporarily, to the United States amid the coronavirus crisis.
www.breitbart.com
IOM, UNHCR announce temporary suspension of resettlement travel for refugees
Geneva – As countries drastically reduce entry into their territories owing to the COVID-19 global health crisis, and restrictions around international air travel are introduced, travel arrangements for resettling refugees are currently subject to severe disruptions. Some States have also placed...
Oopsy-daisy, no more refugee resettlement for the time being! Whoever could've anticipated this?
And a look at Mexico. It WILL get worse down there:
Mexico Is Dangerously Unprepared For The Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak
The virus is going to spread fast in Mexico, where a weak and corrupt state has made almost no preparations despite ample time to prepare.
thefederalist.com
Funnier news: The coronavirus panic seems to have helped incite the twitter meltdown of the frontman for some c-grade nu-metal band:
Trapt Are On A Crazy Twitter Rampage Defending Trump's Coronavirus Response And Not Even Richard Marx Is Safe
You’ll never believe this, but famous people have opinions about coronavirus. And so do Trapt, the early aughts nu-metal band you may remember from their 2002 hit singles “Headstrong” and “Still Frame.” Trapt have spent the past two days going the fuck off on Twitter defending Trump’s response...
www.stereogum.com
A Panicked Nation Comes Together to Watch Nu-Metal Band Trapt Melt Down on Twitter
Truly, we are all Trapt.
TRAPT Have Spent The Last 48 Hours Melting Down on Twitter Over Coronavirus
Trapt frontman Chris Taylor Brown must be going crazy inside quarantine, because over the last two days, he seemingly is having a Twitter meltdown about COV-19, or coronavirus. Brown is notorious for his Trump-loving right wing views, which our friends at MetalSucks, have covered in great length. W
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Airedale260
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As horrible as this whole thing is, it’s also the sort of generational event that causes a geopolitical earthquake and permanent changes in politics, business, and everything else.
While I’m willing to bet we see a shift in some manufacturing back stateside, consumers love cheap goods too much for it all to come back. I am willing to bet that Mexico is probably salivating at the possibilities, along with other parts of Central America, and hell, probably parts of Africa.
But remember, it's the ignorant Fox News watching Boomers that are at greater risk of exposing themselves to the virus and dying...
Spring Breakers Party on Beaches Despite Social Distancing Orders
Young people defied orders to practice social distancing as coronavirus concerns steadily increase, congregating on South Florida beaches.
Eh, even posters on certain other message boards are recognizing the idiots aren’t the boomer generation. There was some dumbass woman who had it in my town and went grocery shopping before going into self quarantine with her kids (her excuse was that she’s a single mom and they were covered up...).
Called into a radio station to talk about it; sounded like a real rocket surgeon. Fortunately apparently she was at the other end of town but still.
Morphic Tide
Well-known member
The catch is that there isn't nearly as much of it. China wins on sheer, mind-numbing scale.
prinCZess
Warrior, Writer, Performer, Perv
Twitter is a cancer, and it's undoubtedly not going to be the first super-drama on the platform that comes as a result of quarantine and the nature of social media both lining up in some kind of apocalyptic play to make people be idiots...
That said, Trapt is a pretty decent band. Maybe it's just my generational nostalgia of them from High School, but they occupy a fun Nickelback-tier of knockoff Disturbed metal bands.
Labor probably isn't cheaper (though I've not looked into it and could well be wrong)--China has a big comparative advantage there just because of the massive labor market and the state's whole-hearted and excited willingness to hold the hands of its companies and supply them with loans, infrastructure, and peons to man their work-camps--and giggle at the idea of 'worker unions' or labor protections (except suicide netting--that's a worthwhile investment in keeping the peons producing Iphones!).
Agree in principle, though. There's a lot of production that could/should be done in other countries, perhaps especially South America, that only isn't because of the massive boom of China brought on the backs of its economic liberalization, the capital its allowed them to flex, and their domestic market. Mexico and South America would make a better source for things, investment included...Provided there can ever be any kind of political stability to things in the area (one instance the PRC has been very efficient at maintaining, to give the devil his due).
Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
Modern "metal" has absolutely nothing to do with the musical genre that bore the name, it's not even descended from it, it's a straight outgrowth of the hardcore punk scene, which also ruined the name Punk.
Metal doesn't have screaming in it, period.