{"id":175780,"date":"2020-12-01T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/01\/round-up-the-usual-wankers\/"},"modified":"2020-12-01T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T00:18:00","slug":"round-up-the-usual-wankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/01\/round-up-the-usual-wankers\/","title":{"rendered":"Round Up the Usual Wankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to prevent money from getting people who actually need it, Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Angus King (I-ME), Joe Manchin III (D-WV), and Mitt Rmoney (R-UT) and Mark R. Warner (D-VA) have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2020\/12\/01\/stimulus-congress-coronavirus\/\">proposed an emergency stimulus package that does little and will be an excuse for not doing more<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">A bipartisan group of senators introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/coronavirus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\">coronavirus<\/a> aid proposal worth about $908 billion on Tuesday, aiming to break a months-long partisan impasse over emergency federal relief for the U.S. economy amid the ongoing pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It would provide $300 a week in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2020\/08\/27\/expired-unemployment-benefits-congress\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_21\">federal unemployment benefits<\/a> for roughly four months \u2014 a lower amount than the $600 per week Democrats sought, while still offering substantial relief to tens of millions of jobless Americans. The agreement includes $160 billion in funding for state and local governments, a key Democratic priority opposed by most Republicans, as well as a temporary moratorium on some coronavirus-related lawsuits against companies and other entities \u2014 a key Republican priority that most Democrats oppose. The measure also includes funding for small businesses, schools, health care, transit authorities and student loans, among other measures.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s weak tea, and does not do anything meaningful, but for these folks, it&#8217;s a feature, not a bug.<\/p>\n<p>They are not there to solve problems, they just want to preen on the Sunday gas-bag circuit, because it is always about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to prevent money from getting people who actually need it, Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Angus King (I-ME), Joe Manchin III (D-WV), and Mitt Rmoney (R-UT) and Mark R. Warner (D-VA) have proposed an emergency stimulus package that does little and will be an excuse for not doing more: A &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[446,447,364,387,449,374],"class_list":["post-175780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-legislation","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}