Per Fox News...Trump news conference at 7p Friday night

[Babsig]

Just announced on Fox. Trump live at 7p

[Alberta's Child]

See Post #259. The “bank” in these cases is basically the Federal government.

[Raycpa]

There is a leverage issue too. Democrat and Republican landlords will be putting pressure on governors to get people back to work.

[DoodleDawg]

Anyone who is not working and relying on the Democrats' enhanced PPP unemployment to stay home will not benefit.

Neither will anyone who is retired and on Social Security. Funding for which Trump has done away with.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you for that link. I sent my comment.

[DoodleDawg]

The executive order coming requiring all health insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions for all customers.

Obamacare already requires all health insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions. Save the executive order for when Obamacare gets struck down by the courts. It'll be needed then.

[Miss Didi]

Quick video clip of the two highlights of the presser:

REPORTER: "Just in this room, you have dozens of people who are not following the guidelines..."

TRUMP: "It's a peaceful protest" pic.twitter.com/ApwteDYAlb— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 8, 2020

[DoodleDawg]

“Executive Order for healthcare companies to cover pre-existing conditions.”

They already do. Obamacare requires it.

[Political Junkie Too]

Why does someone who is retired need a paycheck protection?

-PJ

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Ooooo - thanks so much!

[DoodleDawg]

Why does someone who is retired need a paycheck protection?

Why do people who are unemployed need a cut in their FICA withholding?

[Political Junkie Too]

Why do people who are unemployed need a cut in their FICA withholding?

They don't. They need to get back to work.

Now answer my question.

-PJ

[Rummyfan]

Well, I don’t know anything about golf - except that even the notion of someone getting a hole-in-one is amazing to me (I can’t imagine the hours of thought, practice and muscle memory that go into that.)

There is a good deal of luck involved too. Sure you're aiming at the flag, or the portion of the green you think best with respect to the flag position..... but it still takes a perfectly struck shot. And any golfer will tell you that is a very very rare thing LOL.

[Jamestown1630]

I don't doubt that many were 'well-off' - it costs a lot to belong to a country club like that. But I have no information suggesting that they were all 'retirees'. Even if they were, I suspect that they were all people who worked for what they have - and apparently, they worked very well.

I can understand why many people, in the current atmosphere, keep their heads down over certain issues. It makes sense in a lot of situations.

But, generally, nobody should care what other people 'think'.

The Bible has some good wisdom touching on these issues; it suggests that we be

'wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.'

[DoodleDawg]

Now answer my question.

I agree there is nothing in this for retirees except for a halt to the funding of their Social Security and Medicare. Impact to the deficit aside, what kind of ads to you think the Democrats will come up with over that?

[Political Junkie Too]

Good point. They don't have to be retirees to live in a country club.

I just figured that country club residents are immune from BLM protests, and any doxing will be dealt with pretty harshly by deep pockets.

-PJ

[Mom MD]

in the one that’s selfish? you are the one crying that this stimulus does t help you. We made a decent living not a “ton” of money last year then my husband retired. My point was we are the only ones I know that actually lost money/income and are the only ones I know that did t get a stimulus check. As I said I do not think the government should be in the business of giving out free money period

[pnut22]

My son in Ohio has 4 rentals. He is not covered by the moratorium. Rents are coming slowly, but still coming. He pays utilities so if they don’t pay he can’t pay. Not pretty, but it’s a short term problem and the $1200 helped a lot.

[Jamestown1630]

When I was a little kid, my father (who started out as an amateur boxer, and won the Golden Gloves) thought I had the physique to become a lady golfer; and he thought my brother could be a jockey.

Time went on, and I became the equestrienne; brother grew up resembling a football player.

[Political Junkie Too]

If the funding is temporary, just to break the logjam in Congress, the ads will be minimal. I think this is a feint to get Pelosi and Schumer off of abusing the Covid-related paycheck protection as a cover to bail out mismanaged blue states.

But, if there are going to be ads, let me think...

The ads will have to come from either the Biden campaign or from PACs. If Biden runs ads, he'll have a hard time defending whatever he's asked about them, and that will change the narrative away from whatever the ads were accusing. Biden has a long record of voting. Anything Biden says will be taken as the DNC platform for November. He's sure to mangle that all up to the point where it becomes worthless. And he's in bigger trouble if he starts taking positions against his long-established voting record.

If the ads come from a DNC PAC, I think they will be addressing seniors (assumed to be fearful of having their social security benefits cut) who are currently more afraid of the Democrats' radical left-wing agenda. Most of what the seniors lived through are things the Democrats are now calling racist and hateful. Violence in the cities are making seniors afraid to go outside. The Green Agenda will make things more expensive for seniors on a fixed income.

I think that ads targeting the seniors will more likely push the towards President Trump than away from him.

-PJ

[Raycpa]

Covid is reducing social security outlays. Savings can be shared with workers temporarily.