Posted on 05/08/2020 10:57:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington-- When Congress passed its $2 trillion economic relief package in response to the coronavirus epidemic battering the country, lawmakers provided relief to Americans, small businesses struggling under the economic pain of the crisis and state and local governments on the frontlines of combatting the virus.
But mayors in small and medium-sized communities from coast to coast are sounding the alarm after they were left out of the package, despite facing the same cash crunch as their larger neighbors. Only localities with populations of 500,000 were eligible for direct aid under the law, known as the CARES Act.
Those cities and towns were "completely shortchanged," said Bryan Barnett, mayor of Rochester Hills, Michigan, and president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, which has been pushing Congress to ensure localities receive a share of federal aid in the next package.
"The frustrating part of that is we certainly know that America's larger cities need help and need support as well," he said. "But coronavirus is not a big-city problem. It's an every city problem."
Barnett, a Republican, said his city, with a population of just under 75,000, faces the same fiscal issues as Detroit, which has a population of more than 600,000 and qualifies for the emergency aid.
"Every community is having massive budget holes, even those that are well prepared," Barnett said. "The stress is on the local communities in this locally executed, federally supported program without the federal support. When someone has a COVID-19 emergency, they call the Rochester Hills Fire Department, who takes them in a Rochester Hills ambulance on Rochester Hills roads to a Rochester Hills hospital. There's no federal support on that entire trail."
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Oh no...how will they have the crossdresser storytimes?
How will they be able to hire enough guards to jail all the merchants trying to feed their kids, or moms outside with their toddlers?
Get the money from the public school teachers that you paid to NOT teach.
Is the answer to every problem with the virus, a financial bailout from Washington, DC? Is there an expectation that this is how financial problems across the country will be dealt with?
Cry me a RIVER. Anyone who wants to stay in live in Washington DC needs to suffer the consequence of living in a corrupt city.
Another branch of the Hegelian dialectic tree. It shades EVERY SCUMBAG, SUPERCRIMINAL in “governments”.
If you can not manage your budget without the virus, do not expect the virus to bail you out.
“WASHINGTON MUST PAY FOR OUR SHUTDOWN OF OUR ECONOMY, OTHERWISE WE MUST LET OUR BUSINESSES OPEN AND LAY OFF POLICE NEEDED TO ENFORCE SOCIAL DISTANCING”
Didn’t each governor decide how serious and to extend or not extend the shutdown in their state?
Get the money from the public school teachers that you paid to NOT teach.
How many cities are still feeding the illegals’s kids, with free breakfasts, lunches and dinners at their closed schools. Besides buying the food, aren’t they pay for those prepping the food, cooking the food and delivering it to the schools and then handing it out to the kids.
Are the “legal” kids’s whose parents lost their jobs due to this bs, getting free food from and at the schools?
You might try allowing people to go back to work.
Cities are nice. But the people can actually live normal lives without some of the departments in a city office. Government employees also need to be combed out between essential and non-essential.
If you needlessly keep your cities shut down because you’re ascared, then you pay the price. Asses up! Back to work! No more federal Santa Claus money. This crap must end.
Yeah, we should finance their craziness. Boo hoo hoo.
I believe that what got us into this shutdown disaster is the likelihood that if DJT had not initiated it he would have been impeached by the Republicans and, of course, removed
It probably does not matter in the long run as the wholesale invention of money is the beginning of a classic hyper inflation and Depression. I have some savings but hate the thought that it has to go into Emergency Food and such supplies and with all that food I need several cases of ammo, too. Well I am scheduled to work half the hours in next week and probably for several weeks so I guess I can swing all that.
Illegals’.
Take it from the public school teachers union.
Open up the damn country. Problem solved. What a bunch of crybabies
Solano County is taking a pretty good leap in allowing a lot of businesses to reopen.
https://admin.solanocounty.com:4433/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=32211
Page 4 has an excellent chart in colors showing what can be done next week.
The middle sector in that chart needs to be expanded.
Yep!
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