16 million layoffs and still two weeks left before month's end. How do you get them working again when no one will want to spend unnecessarily in a Depression?
Unemployment
It won't be unnecessary spending. It will be necessary spending.
Just have them all bag groceries.
put them on roadwork crews like usual
No. They lost their jobs exactly because they weren't considered essential work. In order for their jobs to resume businesses will need customers who are willing to spend money on non-essential services and goods. Sixteen million laid off already will lead to many more laid off since every unemployed person becomes a lost customer for multiple different businesses who then feel the need to start laying off more of their own workers, who then count as even more lost customers for other businesses, etc.
Just teach them all how to code. After all, we're still importing hundreds of thousands of H-1 poos. Must be a shit ton of pent up demand for those skills if that hasn't been stopped yet.
How are restaurant outings and cruise ship tickets necessary expenses? Why would unemployed people during an economic depression want to spend money on that?
LOL Pennsylvania stopped paying out state benefits. They're pocketing the federal; no one here will ever see them. The redneck chimpouts are going to be glorious.
I paid off my mortgage last month, and I'm still working for now, btw. I'm in "let it all burn" mode.
Yeah, government work projects are probably the best idea here. Hopefully something huge and important that can actually make good use out of fifty million out of work Americans or whatever the number ends up being after the fallout is complete here.
>DOWNWARD SPIRAL DOWNWARD SPIRAL
I make steel that is used for oil and gas industry, automotive, avation, and national defense. Even covered under the DPA. We're getting laid off at the end of the month.
Maybe railroads that can actually carry high speed trains.
Bring all the manufacturing jobs back from china and now all those laid off journalists have a place to work
Fuck
They can build the FEMA camps & ovens needed to dispose of themselves.
I don't think people realize how bad things are yet.
>Millions of people are losing their jobs because of Coronavirus
>70% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings
>There are two generations of fighting-age men who are a few bills away from having nothing to lose
This could be bad. Really bad.
Sorry but manufacturing is never coming back. We just have to accept that. The jobs just go to Vietnam or Thailand instead. Hell, even China is starting to be considered too “expensive” to manufacture in.
No one mentions that they're paying an EXTRA $600 a week, on top of your regular unemployment benefit, until July. They changed the rules so people can quit, they don't have to be fired to get unemployment benefits. Millions of people are pretending they're scared of getting corona because getting unemployment and sitting at home is paying MORE than their jobs are. You'll make more money on unemployment. Why wouldn't you file?
All these HABBENING UNEMPLOYMENT GREAT DEPRESSION headlines are starting to bother me. We're incentivizing people to quit their jobs and file for unemployment because it pays more than working.
its almost like the US economy was a poorly held up house of cards, isnt it
invading foreign countries just to keep the petrololar alive for a couple more years, exporting the dept slavery system around the globe in the name of freedom
I'm so glad its all coming down crashing, its music in my ears. a symphony a shattered glass as the American dream hits the rock of reality
Also UNRELATED to china flu. You're getting the axe because various countries started an oil price war before all this stuff. Everybody forgot.
fuck this gay earth
pump it
Yea its over
the bubble has popped
UBI will be implemented in one form or another nationwide. Andrew Yang was right, automation is right around the corner and to quell the uprising our big daddy government has to throw the goyim a few shekels to sedate them. Am I wrong? If I'm wrong tell me I'm wrong..
Japan is bringing theirs back, why not us too?
>doubt
The first depression didn't last very long exactly for the reason the government wasn't the overbloated blood sucking parasite it is today. Today America makes nothing has no infrastructure to make anything and has the most entitled workforce in history whose first reflex is always to beg the government for assistance.
This outbreak is the financial equivalent of a stroke. You either artificially restore spending via basically handing money to the bottom part of the economy and then hope it's enough to get it back to working on it's own, or you sit there playing with yourself while the economy dies for lack of wealth circulation.
>They changed the rules so people can quit, they don't have to be fired to get unemployment benefits.
Source? I'm hearing the opposite.
news5cleveland.com
>"Under the way it works in Ohio and other states and under the federal law if you are leaving a job because you would rather go on higher wages under unemployment you're not eligible. So if you leave a job, you're not eligible for unemployment. You're only eligible if you are fired or furloughed, you've got to be laid off essentially," Portman said.
This economic recession is going to be much worse than people realize.
>Am I wrong? If I'm wrong tell me I'm wrong..
how about you gain some confidence you fucking faggot? jesus the absolute state of this board
This is what I keep telling them. This company has roots back to the Revolutionary War. We make ALL of the airplane shit that Boeing and Lockheed uses. We make armor plate. Melt shot is closing, and when we roll whats left, it's lights out.
They can go work the fields. Ag needs help. Milk cows. wear a mask. They can be put to use. They can dig holes all summer. Roads need work. Get a shovel you fucks.
I'd rather not catch a virus for a couple bucks you wage slave
autism
Yea just pay people to dig holes and then fill them!
READ A BOOK YOU BRAINLET
Also Agriculture is a subsidized socialist mess like everything else in this country and farmers are throwing product away.
The unemployed can build the wall on the Mexican border.
>mfw there are people who unironically died delivering hamburgers during a viral pandemic for 8 dollars an hour
you know whats coming
The price of pussy is going to be so fucking cheap by the end of the month. I bet I can raw dog your sister for like $30.
Unironically based. Construction projects made by the government will save the US by creating infrastructure projects that the Chinese have been doing by trampling the rights of their people for years. Two paths to the same ends. Alternatively let it all burn, but they won't. The status quo will be maintained in the long term.
>let it all burn
RIP your equity user. Maybe I can buy your house in cash once its value crashes.
NYfag here. You can quit here, didn't look at other states
UBI in the US would be like putting a bandaid on the Titanic
Give it 6 months. Even the most beta cuck lanklets can be trained to eventually lift girders. Women will not take said jobs & will latch to men like leeches.
That was the essence of the 99 problems song. Men with real problems don't care about getting laid. I guess the suspension of women as sexual selectors is a slightly decent upside to the hell we're falling into here.
Dude, you'll be coomin' in colons for 5 bucks in 3 weeks.
I made money on this shithole. Bought in in 2000.
So you recovered since 2008? Might be time to sell if things go south. If everything burns, what do you think will happen to real estate?
I’m stealing this
And yet...
2008 wasn't even a blip on my radar. I was laid off maybe 5 weeks total. This is different. This is the end. You have to see it from my perspective. These coils of steel we roll....many of them are more than some of us make in a year. This is high tech shit. It's gone. It's going.
Yep
Your property didn't lose value in 2008?
Artificial Fed life support shit keeping it going I assume. Brrr money printer and such.
What about turbo lanklets like myself? almost 7 feet tall and 120 pounds. I'm excellent at picking apples...but i hate picking strawberries.
Get a job you bums. They gov should send foot soldiers to the doors of trump bux holders and demand they work for their trump bux.
No. I live in Pennsylvania. We weren't some "hot spot" tech hub. But I assure you, you're all fucked now. I've spent the last 20 years amassing guns and ammo and generally not enjoying my 100k per year salary.
Simple. First to rebuild will be the one that makes the most gains.
The military contractors who led the way out of the last depression became monsters of vast wealth and power. Every kikel will want the same opportunity.
This is that chance.
Ohio is about to be a shit show if they don't start paying.
They're not paying at all in PA. Even to people who have been let go. And they were put in charge of the 600 bucks per week fed shit, which is going right in the pockets of our politicians. But they'll just stand outside and cry with unloaded ARs, at best.
Someone give me the quick rundown on if I need to be actively applying to jobs to receive unemployment right now. All I could find is that "some states" would be waiving the work search requirement, but I have no idea how to tell if my state is one of them. The NY dept of labor website has a FAQ for stimulus aid and doesn't even address work search in any way, but normally it's just a given you need three work search activities per week. Except nothing in my industry is hiring, and it doesn't make sense to apply to some shitty Amazon factory job just to leave in a few weeks when my much better-paying job starts back up in a month or two.
i am still on unemployment.
but i exhausted my state benefits
who do i contact about getting my federal benefits?
QRD on PA is even if you are fired, furloughed, or the company closes, you're not getting paid. State unemployment is CLOSED. Check Twitter if you don't believe me. My daughter got shitcanned almost a month ago and has received nothing.
Riots?
Dude, what the fuck? I was 140 pounds at 6'2'' when I was a teenager, and I was lanky as fuck. If you are seriously almost 7 feet tall at 120, I would like to know more about your life, your family history, your hopes, thoughts, dreams, and desires. Please spin a yarn and paint a picture of what it's like to live as one of the T'au Air caste
I said NY. I already got my check + $600 last week. It's going out. I just need to know if they're going to crack down my door 6 months from now if I can't pass a work search audit.