Stimulus

Quote: petroglyph

I vacillated about getting one, I have to sleep inclined.

I have slept inclined at a 30° angle for over 25 years.
I learned it quite by accident. My bed broke in the
early 90s and I had to sleep in a recliner for about
a week. Sleeping at an angle in the recliner on my
back I never slept better in my whole life. I started
doing it in bed and I wake up exactly in the same
position I went to sleep in. I never have back
problems, I never toss and turn, I never have limbs
that fall asleep being in a bad position. I have
researched it over the years and found but it's the
best position to sleep in. For one thing your internal
organs are in their right positions all night long.
They aren't held in place by anything, they're just
loosely positioned inside your body. So if you sleep
on your side your organs are pushed to that side and
it's not good for you at all. Even when I sleep in a
hotel I get extra pillows so I can build up the incline
behind me. Tried recommending this to people who
complain about their sleep over the years and they
look at me like I'm insane. Why, they've always slept
on their side and they would never change it for
anything. One of the greatest discoveries of my life
was learning to sleep on an incline.

Quote: petroglyph

What did everyone do with their stimulus checks?

Banked it of course.

Just had lawn sprinkler service come. A polite young kid. It is his job to make sure all the sprinkler heads are working, and generally aiming in the correct direction for the correct amount of time. I have 4 'zones'. We turn on zone 1. He says it all looks good. We turn on zone 2. There is one head that pops up but no water comes out. He digs it up and decides to replace it. I'm guessing maybe it just needed to be cleaned out? But I notice that in zone 2 there is a puddle forming with no sprinkler head. He did not notice. So he just had to dig it up and it popped up fine. But it was HIS job to look for it. If I wasn't out there it would have been missed until I noticed a flooded area. If you are not already bored to death, there were two other things he missed that even I didn't! (I rechecked zone 1 and there was a GIANT leak he missed)

I called the company. The first thing the lady said was is that, "Yeah, he's not ready to be out on his own, but with our regular guys not coming back until the unemployment runs out we are hiring anybody!" "I'll send one of our regular guys on Saturday to finish the job."

I KNEW that the extra $600 a week was BAD for society. This is a small business struggling to hire because they cannot compete with the average $1000 a week being given out for NOT working!

Quote: SOOPOO

I called the company. The first thing the lady said was is that, "Yeah, he's not ready to be out on his own, but with our regular guys not coming back until the unemployment runs out we are hiring anybody!"

Yeah, no. If your company calls you
back to work you're compelled to
go or lose your unemployment
benefits. You don't get a choice.
The company pays for unemployment
insurance, they run the show. You
can't say no thanks, I'll wait for my
benefits to run out. The employer
would stop the payments and they
in turn would stop the gov't subsidy.
And the guy would lose his job.

2500 people were called back to work
3 weeks ago where my brother works.
They whined and bitched because
they lost all those huge benefits. But
it was that or lose the bennies AND
get fired, so back to work they went.

Quote: Evenbob

Yeah, no. If your company calls you
back to work you're compelled to
go or lose your unemployment
benefits. You don't get a choice.
The company pays for unemployment
insurance, they run the show. You
can't say no thanks, I'll wait for my
benefits to run out. The employer
would stop the payments and they
in turn would stop the gov't subsidy.
And the guy would lose his job.

2500 people were called back to work
3 weeks ago where my brother works.
They whined and bitched because
they lost all those huge benefits. But
it was that or lose the bennies AND
get fired, so back to work they went.

Incorrect, at least in this situation. Any employee can claim they do not have child care, they are in a high risk group, they are caring for a COVID-19 + person, etc... and not need to return. I do not know how aggressively the State checks up on the liars, I mean employees, but it is not as simple as you saying the employee got a phone call and thus if he is not at work tomorrow his benefits are cut off.

Quote: SOOPOO

Incorrect, at least in this situation. Any employee can claim they do not have child care, they are in a high risk group, they are caring for a COVID-19 + person, etc...

So you get to stay on the dole
if you have an excuse to stay
home? Is that another NY sissy
state rule? I've never heard of
anything so lame-ass. I used
to pay unemployment insurance
on employee's, I would be up
in arms over this. If it's even true.

I got laid off at Amway in 1974 and
got called back 6 weeks later to
work in a much lower job. They
said if I refused I was fired and
the benefits went 'poof'. I went
back.

Quote: Evenbob

So you get to stay on the dole
if you have an excuse to stay
home? Is that another NY sissy
state rule? I've never heard of
anything so lame-ass. I used
to pay unemployment insurance
on employee's, I would be up
in arms over this. If it's even true.

NY is screwed up. I knew a guy owned a men's store. An employee quit for another job. Said job laid him off. Because he made more at the suit store he got hit for the UI costs in his rating!

NY is determined to drive every business out of the state.

As soon as the NY Senate turned Democrat, there are essentially no checks and balances on the Democrat Party here in NY. The "bail is unfair to poor criminals" law is an abject failure. First night of looting and assault on police officers in Buffalo resulted in 10 arrests, of which ZERO were in jail by the next afternoon. So they could do the same thing the next night!

It sounds like Trump wants another round of direct payments. He was pleased with the popularity of the first round (especially with the letter he attached signing his name to it).

Let's see how quickly all of the right wingers suddenly support a second round of Stimulus checks once Trump supports it.

It is an election year so short term spending to make voters happy is no doubt on his mind more than any moral reason for payments.

Quote: Gandler

It sounds like Trump wants another round of direct payments. He was pleased with the popularity of the first round (especially with the letter he attached signing his name to it).

Let's see how quickly all of the right wingers suddenly support a second round of Stimulus checks once Trump supports it.

It is an election year so short term spending to make voters happy is no doubt on his mind more than any moral reason for payments.

I've noticed a large boost in infrastructure spending every election year since at least Reagan. It helps that Americans have terminally short memory's.