Seriously are you that stupid to accuse anyone getting enhanced unemployment benefits as being BLM/Antifa? 49 to 50 million unemployed and all protesters? That’s a pretty libelous statement. Plenty of Freepers unemployed right now. So we all sympathize with the protesters?
Grow the f up. Seriously.
It’s people with that attitude, “I’ve got mine, F y’all” that makes Republicans and Conservatives look like heartless, soulless bastards to the rest of society. And I being Republican and Conservative don’t want that tag.
Actually, I did not. But I don’t doubt that there are some out -of-work lefties doing just that with their stipend.
How about YOU grow up and realize that not everybody uses supplemental money in the ideal way. Just like with welfare, food stamps, WIC, etc.
I was actually fine with the $600 dollars out the gate. It was good, out-of-work people could use it to save up for a bout of COVID, among other things.
But then the Marxist Dumpster Fire happened. Paring the stipend down means out-of-work lefties will be more likely to spend the whole damned thing on food, plus it will help stave off economic collapse. You know, the thing that ensures that even those of us who “got ours” will be likely to starve or pass away from some now-preventable disease.
Actually, two other reasons Trump was wise to pare back the stipend.
1. As needed as the stipend is, there are businesses that are open that are having difficulty bringing their workers back because the stipend + state unemployment provide a better income than the jobs do. At least that’s how it seems, and it’s been reported on FOX. The decreased stipend, plus increased take home pay from the payroll tax moratorium, will alter that equation somewhat.
2. As needed as the stipend is, it is still a sort of indirect subsidy for state lockdowns. As long as that stipend exists, some governors will feel more comfortable keeping their economies locked down or slow-walking the re-opening, rather than re-opening as much as possible, as quickly as possible, to provide people alternatives, albeit health-riskier ones, to venturing into riot-torn cities for their needs and desires.