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Discussion in 'General' started by R Acree, Mar 10, 2020.

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  1. Scook2397

    Scook2397 Well-Known Member

    Never said I want to throw money to poor ppl. I you are a slacker then go bugger off. Still GOVT socialism. I guess you live in a poor state. Sorry Douchebag
     
  2. XFBO

    XFBO Well-Known Member

    Kinda early in the day to be drinking adult beverages, no? :crackup:
     
  3. When it comes to bailouts, you have to look deeper.

    For the sake of easy math, let’s use $200,000,000 “bailout” money, and we will use Delta Airlines, because Delta has about 100,000 employees.

    Sure, they could take that 200 million and “help the working people” and just give that money directly to the people. That would mean each person would get $2,000. How long do you think that would last?

    Or they give Delta that $200mil and keep the company afloat. THEN Delta can keep those 100k people employed.

    People always make comments about the “greedy CEO’s” and the “big bad corporations”. But where do you think most of the jobs come from?

    Can you imagine the uproar if Walmart asked for a bailout. People would go apeshit. They’d be all about “what about the little man”.

    But Walmart employs 2.2 million people. So if Walmart needs a bailout to keep operational, and to keep those people employed, so be it.

    Disclaimer: I don’t know the financial situations of Delta and Walmart, I was just making examples.
     
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  4. Chino52405

    Chino52405 Well-Known Member

    I agree you can't distribute the same amount of money to all the people vs the employer, but that's only part of the story. Walmart employs 2.2 million people mostly below livable wage as noted in the comment above you liked. Then, Walmart (any public corp) will turn around and use that bailout to retain only the number of employees they need to remain competitive while using the real bulk of the money to sure up their stock price. The point of corporate bailouts to push the market up and protect that money, not make sure the corporation retains jobs in the US.
     
  5. pixie adair

    pixie adair Member

    yes but held up by a 5 inch titanium chain.

    its gone well beyond political today.
     
  6. Jed

    Jed mellifluous

    Maybe Mongo is still working on the Guillotine.
     
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  7. tiggen

    tiggen Things are lookin' up.

    Ummm.. hey, guys, can we not get this thread nuked please?
     
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  8. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    Oh good lord, that's not what was said.
     
  9. In Your Corner

    In Your Corner Dungeonesque Crab AI Version

    A lot of them were doing okay, maybe not living a spectacular life but making enough to pay their bills
    and feed their kids and go out to eat now and then or take the kids to a movie, and then someone made
    them stop working. How does that speak badly of the people who want to work but aren't being allowed?
     
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  10. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    And neither did Trump. You guys are pushing the line way too close on this one...
     
  11. rabbit73

    rabbit73 Scheiße

    I feel like the actual quote was much worse. This was at least humorous.
     
  12. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    Working on PPP loan and more stuff to get the boss set up to work remotely :D I think i'm at 4 or 5 just on the bailout conversation....
     
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  13. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    6....
     
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  14. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

    :crackup:
     
  15. dsapsis

    dsapsis El Jefe de los Monos

    Where is the red limiter? This thing needs a red limiter...
     
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  16. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    May have only been 5. Not sure I care enough to count :crackup:
     
  17. Sabre699

    Sabre699 Wait...hold my beer.

    Don't think so...it's on the dyno and pegged.
     
  18. Steeltoe

    Steeltoe What's my move?

    The horror
    The horror
     
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  19. RRP

    RRP Kinda Superbikey

    ok - that was fucking funny...
     
  20. Potts N Pans

    Potts N Pans Well-Known Member

    D efghijklmnopqrs T

    More like 15 letters away :D
     
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