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We spend $23,465/second on our military budget. $1.4 million/minute. $84 million/hour. But they just cut us a $600 check and it took 9 months of hem hawing to do it.
If you need math to back it up, our new budget was a record-breaking $740 billion. $740 billion/365 = approx $2.027 billion a day = $84.474 million/hour = $1.407 million/minute = $23.465/second
Don't have any statistics but something I never see anyone talk about that drives me insane is that so many people have gotten absolutely no money outside of maybe that 1200 check because everything has been tied to unemployment benefits - not everyone who doesn't have a job qualifies for unemployment. If you got fired, not laid off - you don't qualify. If you haven't worked a certain number of hours this year as determined by your state - you don't qualify. The people who are long term unemployed and likely need money for more than anyone else have gotten literally nothing to help them. It's so fucking insanely cruel.
Yeah, my unemployment ran out in September and I’m trying to figure out what I’m gonna do because covid and mental illness are making it hard to keep employment. My last $1200 check got 100% garnished so I couldn’t pay my bills, and I’m expecting this one will too.
Edit: Not woeposting, just pointing out that this won’t do shit for anybody in a similar position to me.
Mention that part of this new proposed bill (not signed into law yet) stipulates that after it's passed, similar bills to it can no longer be passed. This is all they're giving us. :agony-deep:
Lawmakers eventually reached a deal to wind down lending facilities created by the CARES Act at the end of the year, repurpose more than $400 billion left over in the programs and bar the creation of identical provisions in the future.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/20/mcconnell-says-congress-has-agreed-to-900-billion-coronavirus-stimulus-deal.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard
I'm stupid so perhaps I'm reading it wrong, but that's what this makes it sound like.
Woah $600, here in California I might be able to rent half a living room if I'm lucky.
10% of the US population owns 77 trillon dollars. Over half of all money in the country. Millennials own 4.3% of wealth. Since 1983 middle income share of wealth has been cut in half from 34% to 17%. In 2018 there were 13 million kids in the US facing food insecurity.
I live in the suburban deep south, the cheapest apartment nearby is a downscaled form of a five-over-one that costs almost double that a month :agony:
In the rural town I grew up in rent has gone from $800 a month for a 3 bedroom house or apartment to $1500-2000 over the last 10 years despite wages remaining pretty much stagnate over that time.
https://twitter.com/NathanLerner/status/1248649171999035395
this might be the side-by-side stimulus tweet you're looking for, comrade.
I have already posted this one on the site I think, but here it is : the wealth repartition in America 8 FUCKING YEARS AGO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
After they see the video, show this :
https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
It's up to date, and incredibly revolting if anything. If one of them say billionaires deserved all their cash, please buy them a trip to a gulag or something. Also, you'll need to remind them what they're getting as a stimulus is one single pixel.
I spend at least a little of every day trying to do this. I don’t think I’ve radicalized a single person. Some people are there, some people aren’t. For those who aren’t, it seems like nothing but the Puyi treatment will change their minds.
I noticed a few friends radicalizing after George Floyd. Some liberals I know already seem pretty angry about Biden. I’ve been doing all I can to push them in the right direction, but it’s hard to convince people they’re wrong when their being rich depends on them being wrong.
Also, is there a part of the USA where politics doesn’t always suck? I live in a bourgeois backwater and it seems almost impossible to do anything interesting here. We’re organizing and we’re trying but it feels like climbing Everest barefoot at the moment.
Plus I feel like workers don’t really use Facebook. Or if they do, they’re terrified of expressing their political views there. On the other hand, Facebook is overrun by landlords and small business owners.
