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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou know shit is getting real when Mitt Romney proposes giving every adult American...
...$1,000.00. I mean, it ain't going to happen. But that Mitt Romney is on board is very, very surprising.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Just delay date of receiving Social Security and probably reduce SS checks.
jimfields33
(15,948 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)0rganism
(23,970 posts)looks like UBI has some cross-party appeal
Hugin
(33,198 posts)Oh, darn. I was all excited.
Shucks.
Add another zero to that and a law preventing them from funding this by looting the social safety nets and I might consider it.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)Maybe we need to use reverse psychology on those pea-brained idiots like Orangeface and McConnell. Maybe if we said to NOT give people a cash payout to help them get through this, and to buffer the economic devastation to the country, then the repuke assholes would push it through.
Somebody ought to tell Orangeface that Obama is against the idea.
Hugin
(33,198 posts)Obama can also catch anvils thrown from third story windows.
Among other feats of super humanitity. Lemme tell ya.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)People need a hell of a lot more after this much evil, add 3 more zeroes!
Hyperinflation, sure, but that fucks you rich assholes more than my poor ass, so gotcha!
THAT IS WHY THEY LOWBALL!
RIGHT THERE!
EarthFirst
(2,904 posts)Cause Im pretty sure Mom told me I was priceless! 😉
Hugin
(33,198 posts)Priceless and worthless are the same thing, right?
gibraltar72
(7,511 posts)Raven123
(4,862 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Chaos of this Pandemic infection is causing in his Religious Group . Something in the neighborhood of 9 million of his Group will be directly infected and in that lies his concern.
Willard wants special protection for his fellow Religious Membership.
Chainfire
(17,636 posts)Social programs, in times of crisis, when you know that they will fail. Don't think he has had a change or heart, this is just more politics.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)Just hasn't announced it yet.