Monitoring Biden and other Contemporary Events

Except that tomes wouldn't be necessary – a comic book would suffice.

Actually a cover would do, he's that shallow.

He actually begged. I think he shouldn't get it until he devises a scheme to pay for it. Kentuckians who vote for this piece of **** and Moscow's Mitch need to bootstrap themselves out of this mess partially caused by Kentucky coal's contribution to global warming.

I think Biden was already okaying disaster funds for Kentucky while Paul was begging.

Of course he was. Joe Biden's not a Republican, after all. I just got pleasure from Rand Paul feeling he had to beg. 45 must have made him beg before.

Yeah that asshat 45 tried to use federal disaster relief to blackmail governors to pledge their undying allegiance to him.

He tried the same **** with Covid relief and used Jared as his gate keeper.

Fortunately their responses took so long the states formed regional compacts and made up for the asleep at the wheel White House.

I sure don't miss that hemorrhoid!

Me neither. But since the DOJ is never going to prosecute him for anything, we’ll never be totally rid of him - until he dies.

You're right about that! They will never do a damn thing! He will rear his disgusting ugly head again in 2024 I suspect and in this country there are still idiots that will vote for him!

My biggest hope is he gets primaried! And, if he wins - a 2nd Republican breaks off and runs in the election.

Judge bars Steve Bannon from releasing trial material to the public
Source: CBS News via MSN

U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols has issued a protective order in Steve Bannon's criminal contempt of Congress case, effectively barring him or his lawyers from releasing to the public the trial material given to them by prosecutors.

"All materials provided by the United States in preparation for, or in connection with, any stage of this case ("the Materials" are subject to this protective order," Nichols ruled Friday. "The defendant and defense counsel shall not disclose the Materials or their contents directly or indirectly to any person or entity other than persons employed to assist in the defense, persons who are interviewed as potential witnesses, counsel for potential witnesses, and other person to whom the Court may authorize disclosure."

Any materials related to the case that are already in the public sphere or obtained by Bannon outside of the evidentiary discovery process aren't subject to these rules.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/judge-bars-steve-bannon-from-releasing-trial-material-to-the-public/ar-AARH39U?li=BBnb7Kz

Do you assume hightor is a Trump groupie???? You seem to missing a lot, guess nothing has changed.

But you've demonstrated that you remain clueless:

And here is the previously quoted explanation of the origin of that story about storm trooper action:

Now, concentrate...Bannon works for Trump. See?

LOL

We know that the cash payments and eviction moratoriums helped USAmericans survive during the first phase of the pandemic but economists also blame these policies for inflation, supply chain shortages, and labor shortages. I was amazed at the degree of government largess and at how quickly the payments were distributed but it looks as if the policies followed in many of the European countries has worked better.

I don't know all the details and maybe members from Europe can explain, but these policies subsidize the wages of workers at a high percentage of their normal pay rate by giving money to firms to cover payroll. So, in a lockdown, a worker doesn't lose regular income, wait for a massive relief check, and then use this windfall to buy a huge flat screen TV. I believe this ultimately makes more sense. I'm not sure how it helps the unemployed and the retired; I imagine that they are covered by other welfare and retirement payments.

I have a hard time imagining programs like this in the USA as it sounds way too much like "socialism". But if it is socialism, it's helping the capitalist economies of Europe where there is less inflation, fewer shortages of goods, and less people leaving the job market.

I don't know how it is done and works elsewhere in Europe but only here in Germany.


Here we have "Kurzarbeitergeld" (short-time allowance).
Short-time work in the employment relationship means the temporary reduction of regular working hours in a company due to a significant loss of work. Short-time work may affect all or only some of the workers in the enterprise. The affected employees work less or not at all during short-time work. This has existed in Germany in some sectors since 1910, as a legal entitlement in the whole of Germany and all sectors since 1920.

Short-time work is intended to relieve companies in the event of a temporarily poor order situation by reducing personnel costs. Workers have to accept a loss of income in the process, as the short-time allowance does not replace the full net income. However, the job and a certain basic provision remain. Collective bargaining or labour contract provisions to top up the short-time allowance to up to 100 % of the net loss of earnings are possible. In contrast to dismissals or layoffs, the company can retain qualified and trained employees and retain the company know-how they possess.

Der Anspruch auf Kurzarbeitergeld ergibt sich aus dem Sozialrecht (§§ 95 ff. SGB III [in German])

The amount of this allowance is between 60% and 70% of the respective net wage (this depends, among other things, on marital status, number of children, etc.).

Since 2020, the promulgation of the Act on the Temporary Crisis-Related Improvement of the Regulations for Short-Time Workers' Allowance ("Gesetz zur befristeten krisenbedingten Verbesserung der Regelungen für das Kurzarbeitergeld") has extended the possibility of short-time workers' allowance and increased the benefits granted during the pandemic - the increased short-time workers' allowance provides for 70 per cent of the net difference in remuneration to be paid from the fourth month of receipt if the loss of remuneration during short-time work is at least 50%. If a child lives in the household, the rate is to be 77%. From the seventh month of entitlement, 80% and with a child 87% are envisaged.

From (German) history one can see that our short-time allowance has little or nothing to do with "socialism".
It is gladly used by employers*, because those who invest a lot of money and time in the education of their employees do not like to forego the returns on these investments and are therefore willing to employ the employees over a longer lean period.

*The two the best-known compensation benefits are transfer short-time allowance (e.g. in the case of company restructuring) and seasonal short-time allowance (received by industrial workers in companies in the building trade, roofing trade, scaffolding trade and gardening and landscaping trade if work cannot be done during the bad weather period for weather or economic reasons).
These make it possible to avoid redundancies in a targeted manner.