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8 Million More Living In Poverty, 9 Million Small Businesses In Danger Of Closing, 10 Million Behind On Rent…
Economic Collapse Blog ^ | 2/9/21 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 02/10/2021 1:34:10 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal

The economic downturn that we are currently experiencing is making the last recession look like a Sunday picnic. Yes, 2008 and 2009 were bad, but they weren’t anything like this. Unprecedented intervention by the Federal Reserve has allowed the rich to get even richer during this crisis, but meanwhile millions upon millions of ordinary Americans are deeply suffering. Unfortunately, what we have gone through so far is just the beginning.

As a child, I was a big fan of Sesame Street, and one of the characters that really stood out to me was Count von Count. I loved the fact that he was always counting things, and that is what I am going to do in this article in order to illustrate how bad economic conditions have now become.

Let’s start with the number 7. According to the Congressional Budget Office, approximately 7 million more Americans would have jobs right now if the COVID pandemic had never happened…

But in fact, what the CBO is projecting is dire: around 7 million people out of work in 2021 whom CBO thought before the pandemic would be working. That’s dire – and a call to immediate action, not calm, not wait-and-see.

(Excerpt) Read more at theeconomiccollapseblog.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: collapse; economy; housing; unemployment
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1 posted on 02/10/2021 1:34:10 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Cloward-Piven brought to fruition by a virus.


2 posted on 02/10/2021 1:40:24 PM PST by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

liberals wasting time trying Trump when they could be saving American lives.

Voters will remember.


3 posted on 02/10/2021 1:40:55 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

To the Rats this is “nothing to see here,move along”. Collateral damage.


4 posted on 02/10/2021 1:40:56 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

You think that is a problem, 1000’s of Illegals are pouring across the border as I send this message.


5 posted on 02/10/2021 1:42:43 PM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Bidenvilles coming to a neighborhood near you.


6 posted on 02/10/2021 1:42:57 PM PST by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Do they have $1000 dollar plus cell phones? Premium cable and internet? Video game consoles replete with games? Eat out often? Starbucks coffee? $75,000 late model car? Vacations to exotic resorts? Latest hair weave or beauty parlor pedicure, coif, and/or manicure?

Hard times are easier when you know how to be frugal.

7 posted on 02/10/2021 1:43:46 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O my great Redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

In MI, 40% of restaurants are done for good.

Deplorable Democrats are to blame.


8 posted on 02/10/2021 1:45:17 PM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The newsoms and whitmers of the wod need to be in the uneohnent line


9 posted on 02/10/2021 1:46:01 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

15 days to slow the spread.


10 posted on 02/10/2021 1:47:13 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Highly targeted Covid relief could be issued based on lines 7(SS tips) and 8(allocated tips) of W-2 forms to restaurants and their waiters.


11 posted on 02/10/2021 1:47:31 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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12 posted on 02/10/2021 1:53:42 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

There are not “8 million more people living in poverty”. The US counts people who “would be living in poverty” if it were not for public and private assistance. Families receiving over $50K a year in assistance are considered “living in poverty”. In 2019, the average bottom-quintile US household received $45,389 in government transfers and another $3,300 in private assistance. With Uncle Sugar tossing in thousands extra in stimulus, that figure is much higher in 2020. This massive debt will eventually drag us all closer to real poverty.


13 posted on 02/10/2021 1:57:07 PM PST by ETCM
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Voters for what. Future elections deleted. Only democRATS getting their wishes.


14 posted on 02/10/2021 2:01:55 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The Count;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6p0G4talFg


15 posted on 02/10/2021 2:03:27 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Making America Last Again


16 posted on 02/10/2021 2:11:49 PM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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All is going according to the Xiden plan


17 posted on 02/10/2021 2:15:50 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

The only problem with that though we no longer have fair elections. If we want a certain person in office, the Elites of the Rat/RINO uniparty of treason in Congress have to approve that person first and they are not going to approve someone who doesn’t play their game.


18 posted on 02/10/2021 2:24:06 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
liberals wasting time trying Trump when they could be saving American lives. Voters will remember.

The vote-counting machines say, "We don't need no stinking voters."
19 posted on 02/10/2021 2:36:40 PM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: polymuser

😢 That is awful.

The Chinese restaurant we frequent is doing fine. (They are dine in and take out) I do not know of restaurants that closed in Michigan, but quite a few restaurants closed just over the border in Ohio.


20 posted on 02/10/2021 2:53:36 PM PST by madison10
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