You mean this bastion of socialism that owns it? Really? SMH.
https://www.investopedia.com/a....

See, the problem you have with this wonderful post is you expect people to use or know facts. That doesn't fit the narrative as the first response made so obviously clear.

I wish I had points. You deserve all the points.

I don't know what state you're in but last time I voted i had to show my ID. Same with the purchase at the liquor store. The gun store. For purchase on my card above a certain dollar amount. For certain movies. To use my discounts a various stores. The last time I walked into the courthouse to renew my tag or licenses. Last time I walked into an airport. Last time I signed up for a service.

If you are using anything but cash you are basically doing this anyway. This just means they can send you an email or notice directly without having to hassle with your bank. My god you snowflakes are killing me with your whining.

The magic money comes mostly from places we already spend money anyway. According to the Senate we already spend $1.03 trillion on social programs. Based on our recent bailout we can easily see we already have the money to do this. We spent 63 billion dollars* on giving most of the country UBI for one month. Assuming, based on the simple fact that only 2/3 of the tax paying/ working population would qualify for some or all of the this we can safely say the would be close to 40 billion a month. $480 billion a year. Also assuming, since this would be automatic, you would eliminate most overhead of the dozens of programs that are already out there. Unemployment payments would go to this system. The net tax increase would be negligible. SSI, Medicare and Medicaid are self supporting and are not not legally part of the US government budget. They;re just added in to start crap. So based on the Gov's own numbers, we could easily cut what we spend in half.

*These numbers are likely to change as the checks continue to go out, but at a basic level this seems feasible. I have found no updated numbers.

My apologies on the pdf: https://www.budget.senate.gov/...

I see you got the Kool-aide. While states in a sense should be somewhat prepared for things like this, we in the good ole USA came up with things like the CDC, NIH, FEMA, DHS for things just like this. They were to get ahead of the issues. Pre-stage equipment, supplies, and have additional personnel and experts to help deal. We decided many years ago to do this at the Federal level because of economies of scale and it wasn't really worth the states investing billions into these things and having 50+ of these above agencies creating all these unnecessary redundancies that are needed so rarely. This is why it's not your Governor's fault. This was an international event. You governor has minor influence in the international sphere. The President does.

Enough of this crap. All this blaming the WHO for using what it had is just a joke and scape goating. The US was sharing intel with NATO and Israel in November. https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/...

We all know China hides crap. We could have shared the report with the WHO. We could have used the report to prepare or at least more closely monitor the situation. We did nothing. I don't know the depths of the early intel so we can only speculate. What we do know is that when it started to be taken seriously on the world stage we did nothing: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

The little travel ban was worthless. We did not block anyone to count and had no testing for those we allowed in. https://www.politico.com/news/...

The State Department didn't address travel for weeks: https://travel.state.gov/conte...

So sure the WHO failed. China failed. Using them as scapegoats for our failure is just sad and will lay the foundation to repeat the same mistakes in the future. I can't even fully blame the president for all his failures, but he needs to step up and own this so he can lead this country out of it. I don't see that happening and in the meantime Rome burns.

I can't give some states much credit for their response, but Trump is the Commander in Chief. Full stop. He is tasked by the Constitution to execute the orders given by Congress and has a lot of leeway in how to do it. He is ultimately responsible for all things that happen on his watch. Like it or not. As Harry Truman once said "The buck stops here."

This clears up the stalemate a little. Way too much out there but the GOP Senate's original plan was a $hit show:

https://www.salon.com/2020/03/...

I truly do wish I had points today for you sir!

The head of infectious disease at my local research hospital put my states infection rate somewhere around 25%. Only one positive test when he made that statement. There aren't enough tests available so anyone not tested doesn't have it according to the talking points. Yet people are still dying from unknown respiratory illnesses. At this point we are adding 500 known cases an hour. https://www.worldmeters.infor/... Looking at the numbers, it seems the only countries that are going to escape this without catastrophic numbers will be those nations with a public private mix such as Germany or Denmark. The 1 payers aren't looking good and the models like ours aren't looking good. We really need to watch how this goes and what worked and have a real discussion once this is over. There are a lot of things that need to change in the for profit healthcare system.

At least they're not lying about it.

So where could it come from? you mean that 1 trillion dollar a year deficit the latest tax bill gave rich and corporations Couldn't pay for some of it? How about the trillion dumped into the repo market since last summer that might or might not have been paid back? How about that 14 trillion given to the backing industry from 2000 to 2014 that mostly hasn't been paid back? How about those billions in Walmart incentives? Or any other large company? Do we even know what fossil fuel subsidies and tax credits look like these days? How about those in the defense industry? How much could we save by removing the contractors out of the military and letting the troops do the jobs like they used to? There's plenty of money out there. We just need to determine we might should spend it on things that benefit use instead of adding it to billionaires bank accounts.

I so wish I had points. This needs to be a +5 something.

And you really think you have a choice in dealing with Facebook, Google, Verizon, Amazon... You might want to check on that.

While the f-35 is a flying turd bowl in my opinion also, it's an answer to prayers for the Marine Corps. Since the Marines rely on the AF and Navy for air superiority they don't want or need air superiority fighters. They want a replacement for the Harrier and they got it. It has the advanced targeting systems they need and it works and integrates well with the existing ground weapons systems. It appears to have everything the Marines wanted in a ground support aircraft and it has the ability to maybe defend itself should we loose air superiority.

The Marines have a limited engagement mission: Secure the beach/port and provide security for Navel assets. Anything beyond that is the Army's job. It just so happens that anything required to secure the beach just happens to translate well on the rest of the battlefield. Please don't make the Marines like the other branches or vice versa. They all have there place.