1.9 Trillion dollar Covid bill passes

[bacha29]

This is going to be the justification soon for the refinancing of the Social Security Fund.

Social Security 2100 is a plan getting attention. But as long as the SS surplus can continue to be borrowed off there's not much movement on it and likely won't be until later this decade.

 

[Brownslave688]

Sending your stimulus checks back yet along with the one you're about to get?

Lol you think everyone got a stimulus

 

[bacha29]

Lol you think everyone got a stimulus

Phased out for those in the higher income brackets.

 

[Analbumcover]

$23.3 million for “democracy programs” (page 1485).

Good to see America spending millions and millions of dollars trying to export its moral hegemony to the rest of the world, regardless of whether or not they want it.

 

[rod]

Bitcoin ponzi still going strong

Between Bitcoin and your rich wife why are you still working at UPS ?

 

[Brownslave688]

Between Bitcoin and your rich wife why are you still working at UPS ?

This should be my last year in brown. Unless I decide to stick around for insurance to have a another kid.

 

[rod]

This should be my last year in brown. Unless I decide to stick around for insurance to have a another kid.

Good luck--hope it works out for you.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Good to see America spending millions and millions of dollars trying to export its moral hegemony to the rest of the world, regardless of whether or not they want it.

I think @rickyb agrees with your sarcastic remark ... I certainly do!

 

[Old Man Jingles]

I have donated all my previous COVID checks to musical artists or friends in the music support industry.
I'm thinking I might use this one to help purchase this tone machine!

G&L CLF Research Doheny V12 Electric Guitar - Pharaoh Gold Firemist

Solidbody Electric Guitar, with Basswood Body, Hard Rock Maple Neck, Rosewood Fretboard, 2 Humbucking Pickups, and Tremolo - Pharaoh Gold Firemist

www.sweetwater.com

 

[rickyb]

I have donated all my previous COVID checks to musical artists or friends in the music support industry.
I'm thinking I might use this one to help purchase this tone machine!

G&L CLF Research Doheny V12 Electric Guitar - Pharaoh Gold Firemist

Solidbody Electric Guitar, with Basswood Body, Hard Rock Maple Neck, Rosewood Fretboard, 2 Humbucking Pickups, and Tremolo - Pharaoh Gold Firemist

www.sweetwater.com

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u sing and play non stop rage against the machine in ur spare time

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I have donated all my previous COVID checks to musical artists or friends in the music support industry.
I'm thinking I might use this one to help purchase this tone machine!

G&L CLF Research Doheny V12 Electric Guitar - Pharaoh Gold Firemist

Solidbody Electric Guitar, with Basswood Body, Hard Rock Maple Neck, Rosewood Fretboard, 2 Humbucking Pickups, and Tremolo - Pharaoh Gold Firemist

www.sweetwater.com

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I drink beer and play the guitar

 

[Wally]

So I guess my Central States pension is safe now

Heck, raise the payout to 8k a month!

How we paying for all this again?

 

[rickyb]

Heck, raise the payout to 8k a month!

How we paying for all this again?

the govt can print money without taxation. you can tax the rich. how do you pay for hte wars? and should you?

 

[Old Man Jingles]

I drink beer and play the guitar

It usually sounds better that way!

 

[MAKAVELI]

I know @rod is happy he won't have to switch to eating cat food.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

u sing and play non stop rage against the machine in ur spare time

I do like Tom Morello!
And RATM and Audioslave as well!
Tom and Chris Cornell together made Audioslave very cool!
I like Tom's acoustic guitar playing especially.

 

[Wally]

• 
  $169,739,000 to Vietnam, including $19 million to remediate dioxins (page 1476).
• Unspecified funds to “continue support for not-for-profit institutions of higher education in Kabul, Afghanistan that are accessible to both women and men in a coeducational environment” (page 1477).
• $198,323,000 to Bangladesh, including $23.5 million to support Burmese refugees and $23.3 million for “democracy programs” (page 1485).
• $130,265,000 to Nepal for “development and democracy programs” (page 1485).
• Pakistan: $15 million for “democracy programs” and $10 million for “gender programs” (page 1486).
• Sri Lanka: Up to $15 million “for the refurbishing of a high endurance cutter,” which is a type of patrol boat (page 1489).
• $505,925,000 to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to “address key factors that contribute to the migration of unaccompanied, undocumented minors to the United States” (pages 1490-1491).
• $461,375,000 to Colombia for programs related to counternarcotics and human rights (pages 1494-1496).
• $74.8 million to the “Caribbean Basin Security Initiative” (page 1498).
• $33 million “for democracy programs for Venezuela” (page 1498).
• Unspecified amount to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Curacao, and Trinidad and Tobago “for assistance for communities in countries supporting or otherwise impacted by refugees from Venezuela” (page 1499).
• $132,025,000 “for assistance for Georgia” (page 1499).
• $453 million “for assistance for Ukraine” (page 1500).

Well a BUNCH is

So we are borrowing to give? Why don't these countries borrow it themselves?

 

[rickyb]

I do like Tom Morello!
And RATM and Audioslave as well!
Tom and Chris Cornell together made Audioslave very cool!
I like Tom's acoustic guitar playing especially.

i saw prophets of rage, soundgarden, and chris cornell solo

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

It usually sounds better that way!

 

[bottomups]

So we are borrowing to give? Why don't these countries borrow it themselves?

Agreed. Why don't the Israelis borrow from the Saudis?