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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (176450)	8/11/2020 10:17:48 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356072

My wife and I tried the other night to make a list of people we thought were worse off due to CV19. We came up with only a few people we personally know, that we are aware are worse off (including ourselves). We have one friend who has worked largely part time as a care provider (she has some inheritance income, and only works to supplement that), but since she was self-employed, and the people she worked for wanted to isolate, she lost that income, and doesn't qualify for unemployment. All the assistance she has received was the $1200 stimulus check. Most the people in our town who are self-employed are farmers, and the biggest impact they have is Trump's F'ing them on export markets. CV-19 hasn't helped there, but its hard to finger it as the major issue. I've lost some income in a rental house, because the renters moved out, and I won't relist it until the Oregon State inspired rental eviction moratorium expires. I was delighted the renter chose to move when they did, (June) because they would have been a classic case to stop paying for the max the State allowed, then move out. But then one commercial property I own picked up a tenant. So I'm about even. But all in all, I don't see much actual impact to people I know. Plenty of people bitch, but they almost all have the same or similar income. I know lots of retirees, and they are all better off, they have the same income, + the stimulus check. So how many people do you know that actually are worse off? How many $T are we going to spend without bothering to figure out if its actually needed?