Posted on 12/15/2020 5:36:17 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A COVID-19 relief package, reportedly negotiated between a handful of Senate Republicans and Democrats, includes a bailout for Defense Department contractors while excluding a second round of stimulus checks for Americans.
A draft of the relief package, obtained by The Daily Poster, reveals that the spending bill does not include a plan by Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to provide Americans with $1,200 stimulus checks but does provide a bailout for defense contractors.
Slipped into the package, seemingly on the final 525 pages, is an extension of a CARES Act provision that allows federal agencies to pay taxpayer money to defense contractors who are not working during the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
“There are no direct payments for regular working people, people living off tips,” a congressional aide told Matt Taibbi, an independent journalist. “But they made sure there’s a provision in there to help defense contractors who aren’t working right now. They get what they’re looking for.”
The Daily Poster notes:
The draft stimulus legislation obtained by The Daily Poster includes an extension of a program to replace the wages of certain government contractors who miss work due to COVID-19. The program, Section 3610 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, allows federal agencies to reimburse contractors who are unable to work in person due to the pandemic, and whose jobs do not allow telework, for up to 40 hours per week of lost wages. In effect, the program uses government money to reimburse defense contractors for giving paid leave to their employees. [Emphasis added]
The provision was added to the last page of the 525-page bill after defense contractors sent a letter to congressional lawmakers lobbying for the language. The same bill does not authorize direct payments to millions of Americans...
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Bwaaahahahaha!
Just as we suspected. Its another payoff!
GD are people ever STUPID. They voted for these prostitutions.
The Military Industrial Complex is all that matters, $10 says if Gropin Joe is sworn in, we are back in another war within 6 months.
Deals were made, hands were shaken, the American people were the ones to be stuck with the blood bill.
At this point that 4th Box might have to be the case.
I won't take that bet, you are probably right.
Only question is WHO? Biden already sold out to all our enemies - China, Iran, Russia and Ukraine.
Who are we gonna fight? Israel? Taiwan?
Syria, they’re going to make sure Assad is dead and the country is split between ISIS and Turkey.
will it pass?
And yet not a single one of the so-called conservative Senators will go to the floor of the U. S. Senate and shine a light on the cockroaches scurrying through the beltway sewer. Our institutions are corrupt and those serving them have exactly ZERO interest in reforming them.
McConnell and the rest of the Senate have moved on. Back to business as usual. Donors first, the people only matter in the last 3 months before an election.
The Donor Party of Washington, DC
I get veritably fired by the State for their pathetic experiment — my career- path rendered all but moot in this “new normal” and this is the compensation I get?
Everyone gets paid except the people. It’s time to burn it all down. 1% controls 90% of the wealth. Burn it down.
The Biden Administration will be way too busy pushing it's head up China's ass to fight with them. Susan “I love Iran” Rice will never let us get into any shit with Iran. So who the hell are we going to fight? Right now the Generals in charge have so screwed up the military, I am not sure we could beat Luxembourg.
Nothing for the 40 million unemployed that had huge income losses this year (estimated that 40% of all Americans had income loss this year).
But hey, most traded good, middle class jobs with benefits for part-time minimum wage jobs with no benefits in order to survive.
Most people living paycheck to paycheck prior to this Chinese attack. Rent, mortgage and loans can’t be made on half or less income. And all overdue rent is due in a lump sum in January. Cars repossessed. Card cards canceled. 10 million families evicted starting in January, moving as fast as the eviction court rocket docket moves. 10 million judgements and wage garnishments to follow.
A whole generation of working Americans forced into poverty. And no one is hiring.
Even now the swamp does not want Trump to get credit for another stim check. Their will be more stimulus deals after the steal is complete and my guess is that will be the next check.
We are now a Banana Republic complete with brazenly corrupt elections and a rapidly developing caste system. All is good if you are connected to government job or pension. Otherwise, you are mostly SOL.
Syria, they’re going to make sure Assad is dead and the country is split between ISIS and Turkey.
>>allows federal agencies to reimburse contractors who are unable to work in person due to the pandemic, and whose jobs do not allow telework, for up to 40 hours per week of lost wages.
Regular unemployment (50% and filing with the state) isn’t good enough?
“Who are we gonna fight? Israel? Taiwan? “
Probably someone like Luxembourg. Just so Joe can make the statement that he’s a wartime President.
Canada?
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