Democrats weaken the already horribly weak bill they passed
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This is not getting enough attention.
The House scaled back its paid sick & family leave bill last night. 2 key changes:
1) paid family leave of up to 12 weeks now only applies to people taking care of kids who aren’t in school
2) a lot fewer people will get 2 week sick pay https://t.co/31fxUoO0Hk— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) March 17, 2020
The Democrat-led House of Representatives on Monday quietly weakened paid leave provisions in a coronavirus relief bill that was already facing criticism from progressives for excluding 80 percent of the U.S. private-sector workforce.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday morning that "Democratic aides were alarmed by the changes, which were passed with no objections because House lawmakers are away from Washington [on recess]. The changes weren't shown to most lawmakers before the vote."
The new version of the bill, according to the Journal, "would still provide two weeks of sick leave to a wide swath of workers affected by the pandemic, including those who are in quarantine, caring for family members with COVID-19, and those who have children whose schools or day-care centers have closed."
"But for the next 10 weeks," the Journal noted, "paid leave would be limited only to workers caring for a child whose school or day care had been shut. Healthcare providers and emergency responders, as well as workers who had been in quarantine or caring for a family member affected by the virus, wouldn't be eligible for the additional 10 weeks of leave."
"Democrats are scaling back the paid sick leave bill that already left out 80% of workers," tweeted Max Berger, co-founder of progressive Jewish advocacy group IfNotNow. "Instead of proposing solutions as big as the crisis, it looks like they're still playing small ball."
Well done, Democrats. Now hurry and pass some bills that will give the airlines billions of dollars as well as the other industries even after they got a huge tax cut and instead of it going to help workers they bought back their own stocks.
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The Trump administration is working on a $750 billion bill to bailout industries including airline.
The Trump administration is discussing a stimulus package with the Senate today which includes $50 billion for the airline industry, following demands from an industry trade group.
In other news people are demanding that Bernie drop out and the hell with letting the rest of the country vote on who they want as president. I agree. Let's get on with the coronation already since it looks like the numbers have already shown Biden won. Yippee for democracy huh?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Democracy is dead, ling live demockery :-P
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
And just wait until they cut 700K people from food stamps
and countless others from Medicaid.
This is happening in just weeks
A judge put the kabosh on that
I posted it in yesterday's Open Thread, The medicaid work requirements have also been stopped by a judge.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
No sh*t?!?
Well that's good news for a change
No food stamp cuts
A federal judge blocked that.
Corporate Democrats = Republicans
One day, we'll look back and talk about the coronavirus being the largest transfer of wealth from the working class to the top 1%. By the time they soak all of us to save the corporate uppercrust, it'll make what they did to us in 2008 look like child's play.
I'll never vote for another Corporate Democrat again. Period.
Yep
This is going to be the shock doctrine or disaster capitalism on steroids. And Trump is working with Mnuchin to do a payroll tax cut that will do nothing for people who are not receiving a paycheck, but it will weaken social security. Gee what are the chances that stays in effect after the crisis is over?
Hold on folks this is going to get ugly because congress has their man in place and will get a lot of their wet dreams passed.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Exactly
The airlines, cruise ships, casinos, etc. will probably all get bailed out, while the working class of those industries gets the shaft. Wonder how much the Titans of Wall Street will get in this bailout/grift? The Fed has already dropped rates to zero. That silver bullet is shot. There's plenty of misery coming, but those poor billionaires need relief. Sheesh.
This article talks about what the WH want to do
and of course big business has it's effing hand out!!
No unemployment insurance you asswipe? You are the ones who should be the last in line for a cut to that because people are going to need to rely on it. It is insane what these grifters are going to line up to get while not giving a tinker's damn about what happens to their workers.
Amazon says it is paying people $2 more over their base pay and up to 2 weeks of sick leave which is good, but people are still supposed to stay home for 2 weeks after their symptoms pass.
Here is what Schumer says:
Oh don't even try to fool us, Chuck. After seeing the turd Nancy has already laid I don't think even a fraction of those billions is going to go to helping us. Let me guess...the hospital industry will see a major bailout while its workers get squat. Same with the drug companies. There is a reason they give you big bucks, Chuck, and it is not to help us.
From the comments:
Let's bailout those corporations yet again! This isn't Capitalism, this is corporate welfare...
Yep. Just like Bernie said on air in one of the debates. But sure let's just cancel the rest of the primary so that people won't look at Bernie and think that yes indeed he is what we need.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Secular Talk on youtube said over $2 trillion, and it barely
slowed the market dive.
What you say?
I wish America would reflect on that. Take care.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I guess after they just pumped $2 trillion into the stock market
they just don't know where they'll find any more money to pander to every whimsy of pesty workers who are too lazy to tell their hungry children to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
The cruise industry is doomed anyway after all the
cruise-taking old folks have died off. And after the economic devastation of the pandemic gets done, one cruise ship might be sufficient for those survivors who could afford such luxuries.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Heard they are using the idle cruise ships
as temporary homeless shelters
on the coasts
watch out if they lift the anchor with a
boatload of undesirables aboard
a cruise to nowhere
Cuba said they would take them...
https://kdwn.com/2020/03/17/cuba-welcomes-cruise-ship-with-covid-19-othe...
OMG I'm in the camp with Bernie that can see good things about Cuba.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
You’re in good company, lo.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Trump just promised a $1000 payment to all,
Yang style UBI. There goes the election.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
yeah, but
how much TP does a measly grand buy these days?
I'm shocked.
I'm shocked that Peter dumped Heather Ann. The Bachelor will never hold the same appeal after this failed reality TV romance.
As for Democrats, nothing they do shocks me.
ROFL
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"