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I wish I owned a gym here...just to be able to do this. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/police-to-new-jersey-gym-that-opened-in-defiance-of-order-have-a-good-day

This is great stuff. My wife takes it in her coffee in the mornings. Wegmans also sells this, I think the same price for 17oz.

This is just so ridiculous. https://buffalonews.com/2020/05/15/ecmc-to-lay-off-70-seek-furloughs/ The entire state should never have been put on lockdown. NYC yes. Not the entire state. Hindsight will prove this to be one of the biggest blunders in modern history.

Don’t question your math at all, I took it even more extreme, suggesting that the top 1% own 50% of the wealth. The issue I have with your theory is that in enables people to not want to do better for themselves. I’m sure that some of those people in the bottom third are hard workers, but as you point out at the beginning of your post it is my experience that if you’re in the bottom third and you’re not disabled it’s because you aren’t working hard enough. You simply can’t fix wealth inequality by trying to take it away from the top. Just won’t happen. So change careers, work harder, self improve. That’s the way out of the bottom third.

You're correct on there being plenty of wealth here in the US...but what about the rest of the world? Shutting down the worlds largest economy is brutal to the rest of the world that doesn't have the wealth to sustain populations for the next year waiting for a vaccine or new treatments. Lets say we were able to instantly capture all of the wealth that the 1% have (mind you most of this is in investments) and redistribute to the other 99%. That effectively doubles the net wealth of the 99%. How long can you go without a job if your net wealth were doubled right now? The giant influx of buying power would cause inflation to explode as youre now competing with everyone else who just doubled their net worth.

That’s a cool article. I wonder how much NYC is carrying upstate. Whenever visiting I feel like I need to hit the gym harder. Same goes for S Beach...

And this is why Florida's budget doesn't need a bailout... Too bad the state will be under water (literally) in a couple hundred years.

Ya I'm not a fan of "owning the libs". What I am a fan of is truth and understanding the why behind things. So him getting his name put on the checks was just silly, but I understand why he did it. Its an election year, and he wants to win.

Where did I say it brings me joy see him bring anguish to others? Additionally, poking the bear and "staying relevant" by doing something as nonsensical as making sure his name is on a check doesn't exactly bring anguish to others. If anyone felt anguish its because they jumped to conclusions about how much money it would cost to do so or that it would delay their check.

I agree on the narcissism. I think ruffling feathers is part of his strategy, and he’s pretty good at it.

Snowing in Clarence too.

To be clear no checks had been printed before the decision was made to put his name on them. A full page print at the high end is $.01 per print. Standard check is 1/3 a page. So the cost of toner for the $19.7M checks that have gone out, (all the print, including Trumps name) is $66,501. So not millions.

Didn't mean to start this shitstorm....just don't see how spending $3T on keeping people at home and debt forgiveness helps more than putting people back to work. Everyone is screaming about how the national Debt keeps going up until it means a free handout. +2 on the tweets, and I dont even have twitter.

It didnt cost millions to have his name added...maybe a $1000 to add one line to a template. Unless you're counting toner

Pelosi to present latest relief bill this afternoon.

So much wrong with this. No guarantee on a viable vaccine or treatment. Didn’t the swine flu vaccine developed in the 70s cause brain damage? It’s not the rich people in charge who are simply saying reopen, it’s the decline in R0 combined with pressure from their constituents. Lastly, redistribute the wealth??? Do you suggest a socialist takeover? Even if that were to happen none of the money you’re after would stay here. Almost half of Hong Kong’s wealth expatriated before it was handed over to China. The same would happen here .

Yea I'm definitely not trying to be insensitive to the elderly, just think the smartest thing to do would be to get everything back up and running as quickly as possible while being smart about people who are at risk. The whole pause initiative was initially implemented to not overwhelm the hospitals, not prolong the spread in hopes for a vaccine or therapeutic treatment that may never come.

We should be reopening as fast as the healthcare system can keep up with.

I think all of the non essential manufacturing and service out weigh that. Plus strategically as a company its easier to replace 5 employees each making 50k a year than the guy managing them making 100k a year, and more cost effective.

when I saw that band over the niagara peninsula this morning I was sure it was birds or insects...its gotta be sticking there.

The way I read it was that they're saying that its up 8% because lower income workers were laid off, skewing the average/median upwards.

I think theyre getting ahead of themselves. The corporate tax rate on large corporations would have to get higher pretty quick, possibly double to sustain the free handouts. Right now the unemployed are pretty comfortable due to the stimulus handouts. When consumer spending falls off a cliff because the handouts stop then the stocks will fall.

Paycheck growth was a strange quirk in the jobs report: More high-income earners stayed in their jobs than low-income workers, skewing the wage data higher.

Ya and anyone who works in food knows that UV light is used extensively for product and tank headspace purification.

Stop paying them to stay at home and watch how fast they come back to work...