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White House Exploring Genius New Economic Plan: More Stimulus...by cashing in your Social Security

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by SamFisher, May 11, 2020.

  1. SamFisher

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    I'm sure this will go over well

     
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    Well, someone is going to have to do something to reverse the economic damage done by Democratic governors who locked down their states for no good reason.

    59% of COVID deaths in the USA have been age 85 and up. Half of deaths have been at nursing homes or long term care facilities. This is a virus that impacts the elderly and those with extreme pre-existing health problems. A blanket lockdown is not effective strategy. We need a targeted strategy that protects the vulnerable (elderly/sick). The best stimulus is reopening America. We should do it immediately.
     
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    LOL. Was this written by the Coronavirus?
     
  4. fchowd0311

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    The mortality rate isn't the issue as morbid as that sounds. It's the hospitalization rate which is around 5-10% that is the issue. No social distancing practices would have meant running out of ICU beds.
     
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    They've been pushing for a payroll tax cut which would harm Social Security so this is no just the next step.
     
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    This administration is just so damn corrupt. Let's bail out big businesses, allow the USPS to go bankrupt, let SS and Medicare die a slow death along with a portion of the country because we don't give a ****, but hey highest ratings ever!!!
     
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    @CoronaVirus
     
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    Bolding lines in your statement doesn't make it anymore believable especially coming from you.
     
  9. El_Conquistador

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    But how did you spend your $1200 that you received?
     
  10. El_Conquistador

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    And as we saw in both states that didn't lockdown and in countries that didn't lock down, no hospital ran out of ICU beds. And all those federally-funded hospitals that were built barely saw any traffic. Some saw no traffic at all.
     
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    Did Paul Ryan just become president or something? George W. Bush did a tour one time where his central campaign issue for re-election was privatizing social security and his approval rating tanked so hard they pulled him off the tour and started going back to good ole terrorism fear mongering.

    This is tactically stupid, and Trump knows better. He ran in 2016 on PROTECTING Social Security. He was lying about his Bernie with Racism platform, but still. It at least shows he knows what people want to hear.
     
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    Which states were still holding massive 20+ thousand people events like NBA and MLB games? Which states didn't recommend social distancing?

    Are you taking into account factors such as population density? Because yes, a state like Montana would have to practice less social distancing than a state like California or New York.

    You are doing the coin practice of assuming that the doomsday scenerio didn't happen, that means social distancing doesn't work. Do you understand the backwards logic here?
     
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    Also the fact that Biden isn't showing ads daily on how Trump is trying to kick millions of people off their health insurance, and take away pre-existing conditions right now as we speak is a huge flaw in the Democratic party & Joe Biden's campaigning abilities. They truly are the underdog if they don't have the funds to jump on that catastrophe of a strategy.
     
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    Good one..post of the year nomination. You would think perhaps the virus has its own political party

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    The best part about this post above is that the virus has difficulty transmitting in outdoor environments and is quickly killed by sunlight and humidity... making the beach one of the safest places you can go. On the other hand, the subways, which are still running in NYC, are prime locations to transmit the disease.

    Society's collective ignorance is quite stunning.
     
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    The ironic part is that not only are a legitimate coronavirus response and a generous round of stimulus good policy but they are good politics for the LOLpublicans, but they still think it's business as usual, which is why they're going to get wrecked in November.

    Democrats and Independents are going to crawl over a pile of used N95 masks to vote them out even it it means dying.
     
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    No point in doing that now. Let them dig their own grave and then use it later in the summer.

     
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    The Republicans want to #KillGrandMa and #KillSocialSecurity.

    Killing Grandma actually make SS more solvent, which was Trump's secret plan all along.
     
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    dang son your trolling level has slipped so badly I feel like replying at this point is cruel. Im still not convinced after the wmds fiasco that some weird shenanigans are going on with your account. The last version of jorge before you came back was better at this bbs stuff. This is hakeem on raptors emmit on cardinals bad. Step it up!

    this is painful since 2 second google search:
    https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid19

    "Our projections suggest warmer and more humid times of the year, and locations, may offer a modest reduction in reproductive number, helping with efforts to contain the pandemic and build response capacity. However, CRW numbers rarely drop below 0.5, indicating that upcoming changes in weather alone will not be enough to fully contain the transmission of COVID-19"

    As I type this my wife is in process of leaving her job. She was called back to her job where she would be exposed to the public and fools like you that do not understand respect and common courtesy.
    SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE



    We will be on one income but our resolve is strong and our eye on the prize that our forefathers envisioned when they wrote up the declaration and rights of LIFE LIBERTY PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
    POETRY IN MOTION

    *may offer modest reduction*
    SCIENCE!!

    For real tell the truth you are working for the virus?
     

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