re: #27 Jack Burton

All of this arguing about 600 or 2000… it’s meaningless. Neither of these are what is needed. Other countries are giving people 2000 a month. Not once or twice. Sure anything helps a little. But when your rent for one month is almost as much or more than 2k… (and BTW I’m paying by far the cheapest rent of anyone I know in the county that isn’t in a studio apartment or just renting a room.)

All I hear is “Twice nothing is still nothing.”

Extending unemployment or getting something out to people monthly until this shit is over is the only thing that matters. The only plus from this particular argument is just how bad, evil, and stupid it makes the GOP and Trump look.

Well they did extend the $300/week of enhanced pandemic unemployment insurance until early april. I think that should be where the argument is, for me that should have been in the neighborhood of $500/week. Sending a single stimulus check to a bunch of people who have not had a drop in income seems pointless.