President Biden thread

Yep...pro business unless that business speaks up for voting rights and equal rights for transgendered and marginalized communities. 

LOL

9 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Care to cite an example?

There's so many though going back for years.  Let's start here; Dallas Bathroom Bill

Jump forward a few years; TN Risks Business Support

And then current events...Stay Out of Politics

Maybe your media outlets don't cover the news. 

1 hour ago, Beerman said:

Care to cite an example?

Why don't you read, man? Is it that republican media doesn't have any such news. This is information that should be at the front of your brain. 

You get pushback because you ask such innane questions to readily available information. 

If you are going to engage in a discussion you should at least have a modicum of knowledge of the subject matter. 

Seriously! 

6 hours ago, Beerman said:

LOL.  No, they are representing the interests of business.

I guess you are correct in that they probably lean Republican, because Republicans are pro-business.

Yeah, like anyone who questions the powers of the COC are against business. That's pretty much like being against babies. Actually the COC seems pretty schizophrenic to me and I have to think they must be doing something right if they are pissing off Republicans (at least the most economically rapacious Republicans).  But they are the lobby that spends the most dollars in Washington so that is inherently corrupting.  The balance of power between the workers and the CEO's should be a delicate one, but in this country, we have sacrificed the workers to Mammon.  The COC did lobby against the AHA.   Guess they wanted to protect the interests of the insurance company CEO's while negating the right of the non-millionaire to buy insurance.  

On 5/3/2021 at 11:36 PM, Beerman said:

Your feelings on the source do not change what the Democrat congressman had to say.

It's more obvious then ever that they do.

Whether I have any ideas or not does not matter.   I was not elected, and as a citizen I can criticize the administration whenever I please.

But what we don't know in this story is whether jobs are down because we don't have people applying for them.  This is from CNBC:  

"Where jobs were lost

Gains elsewhere in the labor market did little to offset major losses. The worst performing industries for the month include temporary help services jobs, which lost 111,400 positions last month. This could indicate that staffing firms are having trouble finding businesses that want to hire temporary workers, Zhao says, which could be an indicator of labor shortages or that workers are holding out for permanent jobs during the market recovery.

Transportation and warehousing, which remained strong during market upheavals last Spring to keep pace with skyrocketing e-commerce demand, shed 74,100 workers in April, most being couriers and messengers. Zhao says any patterns here remain unclear but may be an early sign that consumers are going back to the store and relying less on online shopping and delivery.

Some groups are still disproportionately out of work

Improvements in the labor market aren’t helping everyone equally.

More women left the labor force than joined it in April, for the first time since January. About 165,000 women weren’t working or looking for work last month, compared with 355,000 men who joined the workforce. Experts say this points to continued challenges for women, who disproportionately take on care-giving responsibilities, in finding stable and accessible child care in order for them to return to work.

The unemployment rate for Black workers rose slightly and at 9.7% is the highest among any racial group, compared with 7.9% for Latinos, 5.7% for Asians and 5.3% for white workers. Black, Latino and Asian workers have had a harder time recovering jobs lost to the pandemic compared with white workers in the last year.

And more than a year into the pandemic, 4.2 million people are considered long-term unemployed, meaning 43% of people out of work have been without a job for six months or more.

What needs to happen for jobs to rebound

With April’s numbers, the U.S. economy is still down 8.2 million jobs today compared with pre-pandemic jobs.

Zhao says some employers and state and local officials may interpret today’s jobs report as an indication of a labor shortage, where there are more open jobs than there are workers to fill them. With that said, he finds it surprising that while most anecdotes of labor shortages are coming from employers in leisure and hospitality, that’s the industry that saw the biggest gains last month. But it’s also possible those gains could have been even bigger if not for other factors holding the economy back, he adds.

“We have to remember that the pandemic is still going on,” Zhao says. “The public health situation has improved dramatically from the Winter, but we still have high case counts on a daily basis.”

Further, says Jason Furman, an economist at Harvard University and a former Obama administration advisor, the issue could be “just as much about a shortage in labor supply as it is about a shortage of labor demand.” He told CNBC that in April, “it appears that there were about 1.1 unemployed workers for every job opening. So there are a lot of jobs out there, there is just still not a lot of labor supply.”

Still, Zhao says this debate could lead to more states voluntarily ending their pandemic unemployment programs, which some say incentivizes workers to stay on enhanced benefits rather than take a new job. Montana and South Carolina have already announced upcoming cutoffs of these programs in their state, even though the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan offers expanded benefits through Labor Day.

Research indicates hesitancy to take a job has more to do with health concerns of the virus than the benefits of jobless programs. Other analysts say workers are reconsidering the types of jobs they’re now looking for, such as ones with better pay or more flexibility; roles that use different skillsets; or openings in industries that are more stable.

“The best economic stimulus is ultimately the vaccine,” Zhao says. As of Monday, roughly 104.7 million Americans age 18 and older, or 40.6% of the total adult population, are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC."

In the end, this April figures are only from 1 month and deviate from previous months.  Who knows what it means?  We are living in a giant guessing game right now, in totally unprecendented territory.  But in the realm of any common sense, it's useless to grab on a single statistic and draw any meaningful conclusion from it.  All I KNOW for a fact is that jobs are going begging where I am because I see the want ads everywhere.  Are these all well-paying jobs?  No, they aren't (but construction is one that is) but it is a fact that we strugged to fill these jobs in pre-pandemic times and now they have become more impossible to fill.  If I owned a string of restaurants, I would be buying robot servers if it meant that I could sell more meals.  And you know what that would mean...more unemployment.

South Carolina has or is rescinding unemployment benefits. If I lived in a state where the politicians refuted the pandemic and its measures of containment, by extension I would conclude that they would also not likely to have regulations protecting workers in any industries. 

It's something that lots of republicans fail to grasp. Several areas of exhibited stupidity ABSOLUTELY indicates that you are a stupid person or organization and you will ALWAYS engage in stupid decisions, behaviors and recklessness! 

It's why we are taught from an early age about the company we keep. AND WHAT'S WORSE is that republicans are always FAILING and continue to support the failures instead of re messaging or actually having some ideas. 

2009 recession.... Obama needed to bail them out. Clinton.... Bush, failed Iraq War. Biden... Only 3 months with good governance.... Pandemic in some control.Economy ticking. 

Here’s a clue. Notice the difference in speech volume, cadence and syllables between Democrats and republicans. That is the first clue re the levels of intelligence and the actual consideration of the person. 

9 minutes ago, Curious1997 said:

...Here’s a clue. Notice the difference in speech volume, cadence and syllables between Democrats and republicans. That is the first clue re the levels of intelligence and the actual consideration of the person. 

I don't agree.  

I do, however, believe that there are things to be learned from the way elected officials use speech and language. For instance, Senator John Kennedy uses an exaggerated accent to try to give a folksy impression...really he's an ivy league educated opportunist who changes from liberal to conservative to Trumper as the objectives require. 

Florida has notoriously poor unemployment benefits and has the lowest unemployment rate among large states for March at 4.7%.   Lower than Texas, New York, California and Illinois, republican and democrat lead states.  

The governor has made it known last month he opposes any raises to unemployment benefits.  At this point with the lifting of all covid restrictions and the labor market very tight with many jobs available, I have to say that I see his point.

You can look at minimum wage, but if my tax dollars are spent on able bodied people that can work, that doesn't sit well with me.   I hate to take away their incentive and return to a lower paying job but they need to go back to work.

In response to the tightening market my employer is raising their minimum wage to $15 an hour soon, first raising it to $13 an hour.  So hopefully as the labor market shrinks wages will rise.  But I also think federal minimum wage needs to go up.

33 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

I don't agree.  

I do, however, believe that there are things to be learned from the way elected officials use speech and language. For instance, Senator John Kennedy uses an exaggerated accent to try to give a folksy impression...really he's an ivy league educated opportunist who changes from liberal to conservative to Trumper as the objectives require. 

Don't you think that tells you through his speech just how superficial he is? It would relate to cadence. 

Being educated doesn't absolve you of bad character traits. I actually think that speech more than any form of communication determines character. It is the forerunner to character. 

I have always found that people who take their time speaking because they are considering their words and it's import, actually are the most trustworthy individuals. It demonstrates how they assemble ideas and how they feel that it's best communicated. Considered people rarely hurry anything because they are worried about mistakes and implications. 

22 minutes ago, Tweety said:

Florida has notoriously poor unemployment benefits and has the lowest unemployment rate among large states for March at 4.7%.   Lower than Texas, New York, California and Illinois, republican and democrat lead states.  

The governor has made it known last month he opposes any raises to unemployment benefits.  At this point with the lifting of all covid restrictions and the labor market very tight with many jobs available, I have to say that I see his point.

You can look at minimum wage, but if my tax dollars are spent on able bodied people that can work, that doesn't sit well with me.   I hate to take away their incentive and return to a lower paying job but they need to go back to work.

In response to the tightening market my employer is raising their minimum wage to $15 an hour soon, first raising it to $13 an hour.  So hopefully as the labor market shrinks wages will rise.  But I also think federal minimum wage needs to go up.

Florida is also the home of the some of the worst voter restriction laws and incredible biases re ethnic groups. Most importantly it houses Trump who I am sure only moved there because Florida is more conducive to his criminality. 

So it is unlikely I would trust any factual information coming out of Florida. I would be willing to bet a considerable sum that everything is being tampered with re information coming out of Florida.