[Redleg Duke]

They are running out of other peoples’ money!

[Captain Peter Blood]

Well when you have a guy like Mayor Pete hogging all the time off I aim not surprised. By the way where is Pete, nothing out of him him quite awhile.

[llevrok]

The program saw benefit delays when it first went live in January 2020, right before the pandemic hit. In the first six weeks, more than triple the amount of people expected applied for the program, and the demand has continued to be high.

"Popular" which is Gov-Speak for stay home and don't work. We got you covered

[j.havenfarm]

Problems encountered were….”unexpected.” Boy, that’s a rarity In government

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[Robert DeLong]

As Field Of Dreams said, build it and they will come, not for the entertainment in the case, but for the money. Zimbabwe here we come, with hyper-inflation resulting in a useless fiat or even digital currency.

[Steely Tom]

Something just has to be done about this deficit.

[Spok]

Taxes are when politicians take money from people that have earned it, and give it to people who might vote for them. -Thomas Sowell

[Republican Wildcat]

“Because of the popularity of the program and the amount of benefits paid we’ve seen the fund balance continue to go down,” Carole Holland, the chief financial office for the agency. “And so it does seem that it’s likely that we will have a cash deficit situation in March or April of 2022.”

Who could have predicted such a thing? < / s >

One thing advocated by Trump at the Federal level that thankfully never passed.

[dynachrome]

If grandpa becomes “grandma”, can I get leave twice?

[tennmountainman]

Just do the favorite RAT thing…raise taxes.

[Chode]

[Timber Rattler]

Republican Sen. Lynda Wilson said it was disappointing “how we didn’t anticipate what could happen.”

Seriously?

[libertylover]

I suspect this was “unexpected” to the AP and no one predicted it.