Trump's strategy on vaccines (and Covid) was denial, obfuscation, and obstruction.
Fortunately, Biden straightened it out.
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Fortunately, Biden straightened it out.
bad attempt at rewriting actual history
we are world leader in vaccination _inspite_ of the complete incompetence of the T***p WH
injectible bleach or “insertable” lights
Overworked, underpaid: workers rail against hotel chains’ cost-cutting
The Hilton chief executive also affirmed to investors cost-cutting reductions to housekeeping would be made permanent, even as his compensation increased by 161% from 2019 to over $55m in 2020, while median pay for Hilton employees declined by 34% from 2019 to 2020.
The Hilton chief executive also affirmed to investors cost-cutting reductions to housekeeping would be made permanent, even as his compensation increased by 161% from 2019 to over $55m in 2020, while median pay for Hilton employees declined by 34% from 2019 to 2020.
New York’s patchwork recovery masks vast inequities laid bare by Covid
Surface indicators – yellow cabs, packed restaurants, partying NYU students in Washington Square Park, Bruce Springsteen on Broadway – are in their own way merely masks for social and economic disparities already present but laid bare by the onset of the pandemic and corresponding demands for racial and economic equality that followed.
Petra Moser, an economist at New York University’s Stern School of Business, says long-term effects of the pandemic will take years to tease out. “The most salient effect is in schooling. The poor kids in public school were hit really hard. They were denied a year of education and nourishment that they usually get and the effect is horrendous. “You’ve got kids staring at a screen for hours a day for a year. Not only did they lose their teachers for a year, but they may now be able to concentrate less because they haven’t been fed,” Moser adds.
Other aspects of the pandemic that could affect New York’s comeback include the role of women, who have dropped out of the workforce in disproportionately high numbers. “This pandemic has the danger of pushing women out, and we’re in danger of losing young women with kids who had to stay home. We’ll see greater inequality in that area and we’ll have to be careful to make sure to encourage them to stay in the workforce or come back.
Concerns about the value of the commercial real estate, says Moser, pale in comparison to the costs incurred during the pandemic in terms of human capital. “There could be an increase in inequalities unless there are specific policies to help public school kids catch up, and to help mothers who had to cut back on work. The vitality of the city depends on everybody having a fair shot, because the point of living in a place like this is that comes with opportunities.”
Surface indicators – yellow cabs, packed restaurants, partying NYU students in Washington Square Park, Bruce Springsteen on Broadway – are in their own way merely masks for social and economic disparities already present but laid bare by the onset of the pandemic and corresponding demands for racial and economic equality that followed.
Petra Moser, an economist at New York University’s Stern School of Business, says long-term effects of the pandemic will take years to tease out. “The most salient effect is in schooling. The poor kids in public school were hit really hard. They were denied a year of education and nourishment that they usually get and the effect is horrendous. “You’ve got kids staring at a screen for hours a day for a year. Not only did they lose their teachers for a year, but they may now be able to concentrate less because they haven’t been fed,” Moser adds.
Other aspects of the pandemic that could affect New York’s comeback include the role of women, who have dropped out of the workforce in disproportionately high numbers. “This pandemic has the danger of pushing women out, and we’re in danger of losing young women with kids who had to stay home. We’ll see greater inequality in that area and we’ll have to be careful to make sure to encourage them to stay in the workforce or come back.
Concerns about the value of the commercial real estate, says Moser, pale in comparison to the costs incurred during the pandemic in terms of human capital. “There could be an increase in inequalities unless there are specific policies to help public school kids catch up, and to help mothers who had to cut back on work. The vitality of the city depends on everybody having a fair shot, because the point of living in a place like this is that comes with opportunities.”
‘I can’t live on $709 a month’: Americans on social security push for its expansion
Senior citizens and disabled Americans who rely on benefits for the majority of their income are pushing for expansion of social security. Calls for reforms include increasing benefits in line with the cost of living, as employers are providing fewer retirement pensions to workers and the US population at retirement age of 65 is expected to grow from 56 million to 78 million in 2035.
Currently, social security benefits in the US are lower than in the majority of developed nations, compared with the percentage of earnings the benefits provide to the average worker. The benefits are also taxed and Medicare costs are deducted as well.
Senior citizens and disabled Americans who rely on benefits for the majority of their income are pushing for expansion of social security. Calls for reforms include increasing benefits in line with the cost of living, as employers are providing fewer retirement pensions to workers and the US population at retirement age of 65 is expected to grow from 56 million to 78 million in 2035.
Currently, social security benefits in the US are lower than in the majority of developed nations, compared with the percentage of earnings the benefits provide to the average worker. The benefits are also taxed and Medicare costs are deducted as well.
You (and mspohr) are of course welcome to your own interpretation of events, but not of the facts, and the fact is that Operation Warp Speed signed up those -- and other -- manufacturers to fast track vaccines for the US. Perhaps it was inspite of Trump's "incompetence" and "denial, obfuscation, and obstruction" but somehow he did not obstruct the vaccine R&D and manufacturing. Indeed, many public health experts admit that we'd be much further along in vaccination rates if the then-candidates (Biden adn particularly Harris) did not throw political shade on the process.
Biden did nothing more than sign additional contracts for production of more vaccine -- much more than the US needs -- which I can only assume is so we can give it to the ROW. Well, to be fair, Biden did lead with political theater -- double masking on top of vaccines et al. But it was the 50 states that did the heavy lifting.
rhumbliner
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nope.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...-is-not-function-trumps-operation-warp-speed/
tl;dr:
In July, Pfizer did agree to partner with the government on distribution of a vaccine, leveraging what will be a massive, complicated effort run by the federal government to ensure that as many people as possible can be immunized. But its developmentefforts weren’t part of the government’s program.
“Pfizer, unlike its competitors, did not join Operation Warp Speed, the government initiative designed to erase the financial risk of vaccine and therapeutics development by providing funding to companies and helping coordinate the trials,” The Washington Post’s Carolyn Y. Johnson reported Monday. “Instead, Pfizer plowed $2 billion of its own money into the project and then struck a $1.95 billion contract with the U.S. government to provide 100 million doses, contingent on the vaccine being effective.”
the interpretation of the facts.
there was an almost 170 page pandemic response manual that had been compiled during Ebola, Zika, MERS, first SARS, etc that was tossed, ignored, etc.
SARS-COV-2/COVID-19 was going to “magically go away”
cruise liners infected with Covid-19 had problems disembarking due to the fact they would give t***p and his administration “bad numbers”
during that time t***p was advocating drinking bleach and literally sticking high intensity lights up your rectum, “light colonoscopies”
someone finally overrode the OI and got “operation warp speed” going after the virus was completely politicized and still is, masks, vaccinations still identify politically
don’t try to whitewash the complete incompetence of the t***p administration and rewriting history
You also seem to have a very insular view of the virus
It is a planet wide virus.
It is necessary to vaccinate as much of the planetary population, ~7,000,000,000 so far more than enough for the US population is necessary, or the millions if not billions of human and non-human bioreactors don’t continue manufacturing variants that are more lethal, transmissible and such.
Biden/Harris you may have legitimate complaints about, but t***p was like a zoo animal screeching and throwing its feces with his initial actions, and responses to this very day
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I think we can give Operation Warp Speed credit for speeding development of vaccines. However, we can't ignore Trump's continuous efforts to deny the pandemic, ignore public health experts advice on control, and obstruct the CDC and public health experts. It is certain that many more people were infected and died because of these actions.
(I think we have strayed far from "Green New Deal" here and it might be best to move further discussion of this to one of the COVID threads - which I have been ignoring because of politicization.)
Is your boss ending remote work? As a CEO, let me tell you why they are wrong | Dan Price
The miserable trek down the freeway or the sweaty wait for a late bus is coming back in vogue now that companies from Apple to Amazon and Goldman Sachs to JPMorgan Chase have told their workers to come back to the office in larger numbers. They say they need to do this to foster innovation and increase productivity. As a CEO, that doesn’t make any sense to me.The miserable trek down the freeway or the sweaty wait for a late bus is coming back in vogue now that companies from Apple to Amazon and Goldman Sachs to JPMorgan Chase have told their workers to come back to the office in larger numbers. They say they need to do this to foster innovation and increase productivity. As a CEO, that doesn’t make any sense to me.
Instead of making a top-down decision as a CEO, I asked our staff how they want to work. Just 7% wanted to go back to the office full time, while 31% wanted an office-remote hybrid and the remaining 62% wanted to work from home all the time. So I told them: sounds great. Do whatever you want. This stuff isn’t hard.
Employees know how to do their jobs better than any CEO ever could.
The miserable trek down the freeway or the sweaty wait for a late bus is coming back in vogue now that companies from Apple to Amazon and Goldman Sachs to JPMorgan Chase have told their workers to come back to the office in larger numbers. They say they need to do this to foster innovation and increase productivity. As a CEO, that doesn’t make any sense to me.The miserable trek down the freeway or the sweaty wait for a late bus is coming back in vogue now that companies from Apple to Amazon and Goldman Sachs to JPMorgan Chase have told their workers to come back to the office in larger numbers. They say they need to do this to foster innovation and increase productivity. As a CEO, that doesn’t make any sense to me.
Instead of making a top-down decision as a CEO, I asked our staff how they want to work. Just 7% wanted to go back to the office full time, while 31% wanted an office-remote hybrid and the remaining 62% wanted to work from home all the time. So I told them: sounds great. Do whatever you want. This stuff isn’t hard.
Employees know how to do their jobs better than any CEO ever could.
A Planned Biden Order Aims to Tilt the Job Market Toward Workers A Planned Biden Order Aims to Tilt the Job Market Toward Workers
This week, the White House is planning to release an executive order focused on competition policy. People familiar with the order say one section has several provisions aimed at increasing competition in the labor market.
More broadly, the executive order encourages antitrust regulators to consider how mergers might contribute to so-called monopsony — conditions in which workers have few choices of where to work and therefore lack leverage to negotiate higher wages or better benefits.
This week, the White House is planning to release an executive order focused on competition policy. People familiar with the order say one section has several provisions aimed at increasing competition in the labor market.
More broadly, the executive order encourages antitrust regulators to consider how mergers might contribute to so-called monopsony — conditions in which workers have few choices of where to work and therefore lack leverage to negotiate higher wages or better benefits.
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This Is Tax Evasion, Plain and Simple Opinion | This Is Tax Evasion, Plain and Simple
In the decades after World War II, close to 50 percent of American companies’ earnings went to state and federal taxes. Economically, it was a golden period. Middle-class incomes grew at roughly the same rate as those of the richest Americans. But as globalization gave companies the ability to choose where they recorded profits, Congress scrambled to keep their business by lowering corporate taxes. In 2018, American companies were taxed at an average effective rate of less than 14 percent, by our calculations.In the decades after World War II, close to 50 percent of American companies’ earnings went to state and federal taxes. Economically, it was a golden period. Middle-class incomes grew at roughly the same rate as those of the richest Americans. But as globalization gave companies the ability to choose where they recorded profits, Congress scrambled to keep their business by lowering corporate taxes. In 2018, American companies were taxed at an average effective rate of less than 14 percent, by our calculations.
Corporate tax breaks have helped business owners amass inconceivable amounts of money over the past few decades. Meanwhile, middle-class Americans have footed the bill, as Congress has propped up the budget by raising taxes on wages.
This is tax evasion, plain and simple. When a company logs billions of dollars in profit in a shell company, it violates the spirit of the Internal Revenue Code’s economic substance doctrine, which states that a transaction must have a purpose other than to reduce tax liability. But multinational companies get away with it by spending billions of dollars on top-tier lawyers and former lawmakers. Hobbled by budget cuts, the Internal Revenue Service has struggled to audit them.
In the decades after World War II, close to 50 percent of American companies’ earnings went to state and federal taxes. Economically, it was a golden period. Middle-class incomes grew at roughly the same rate as those of the richest Americans. But as globalization gave companies the ability to choose where they recorded profits, Congress scrambled to keep their business by lowering corporate taxes. In 2018, American companies were taxed at an average effective rate of less than 14 percent, by our calculations.In the decades after World War II, close to 50 percent of American companies’ earnings went to state and federal taxes. Economically, it was a golden period. Middle-class incomes grew at roughly the same rate as those of the richest Americans. But as globalization gave companies the ability to choose where they recorded profits, Congress scrambled to keep their business by lowering corporate taxes. In 2018, American companies were taxed at an average effective rate of less than 14 percent, by our calculations.
Corporate tax breaks have helped business owners amass inconceivable amounts of money over the past few decades. Meanwhile, middle-class Americans have footed the bill, as Congress has propped up the budget by raising taxes on wages.
This is tax evasion, plain and simple. When a company logs billions of dollars in profit in a shell company, it violates the spirit of the Internal Revenue Code’s economic substance doctrine, which states that a transaction must have a purpose other than to reduce tax liability. But multinational companies get away with it by spending billions of dollars on top-tier lawyers and former lawmakers. Hobbled by budget cuts, the Internal Revenue Service has struggled to audit them.
The Ascension of Bernie Sanders Opinion | The Ascension of Bernie Sanders
Maureen, let me just tell you what we’re trying to do here,” he says. “We’re working on what I think is the most consequential piece of legislation for working families since the 1930s.”
“Who denies the realities of what he is taking on?” Sanders says, digging into some eggs over easy and white toast. “Does anyone deny that our child care system, for example, is a disaster? Does anyone deny that pre-K, similarly, is totally inadequate? Does anyone deny that there’s something absurd that our young people can’t afford to go to college or are leaving school deeply in debt? Does anybody deny that our physical infrastructure is collapsing? Does anybody except anti-science people deny that climate change is real? Does anyone deny that we have a major health care crisis? Does anyone deny that we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? Does anyone deny we have a housing crisis? Does anyone deny that half the people live paycheck to paycheck?” Sanders, who has talked about spending up to $6 trillion on the reconciliation package, says he will not support a two- or three-trillion-dollar bill. “That’s much too low.”
Maureen, let me just tell you what we’re trying to do here,” he says. “We’re working on what I think is the most consequential piece of legislation for working families since the 1930s.”
“Who denies the realities of what he is taking on?” Sanders says, digging into some eggs over easy and white toast. “Does anyone deny that our child care system, for example, is a disaster? Does anyone deny that pre-K, similarly, is totally inadequate? Does anyone deny that there’s something absurd that our young people can’t afford to go to college or are leaving school deeply in debt? Does anybody deny that our physical infrastructure is collapsing? Does anybody except anti-science people deny that climate change is real? Does anyone deny that we have a major health care crisis? Does anyone deny that we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? Does anyone deny we have a housing crisis? Does anyone deny that half the people live paycheck to paycheck?” Sanders, who has talked about spending up to $6 trillion on the reconciliation package, says he will not support a two- or three-trillion-dollar bill. “That’s much too low.”
juliusa
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There is no way this moron is going to convince Joe Manchin to spend $400B on the GND to fund senior in-home care.
finance.yahoo.com
Her argument that it will hit the workforce would not fool a third grader. If 40 hours a week of in-home care is required for an aging senior, it has to be provided by someone - who does it or pays for it will not change that. The only thing that changes is if it is done by a relative and not charged, it does not count in GDP.
Scenario 1: Provide the 40 hours of care by a relative no charge. That person cannot work 40 hours doing something else, so there is a 40 hour reduction in other work that can be performed by the workforce. The 40 hours is not recorded in GDP and there is no income to be taxed by the government.
Scenario 2: Provide the 40 hours of care by a caregiver, paid for by the person or their family. The caregiver cannot work 40 hours doing something else, so there is a 40 hour reduction in other work that can be performed by the workforce. The 40 hours is recorded in the GDP, and the income is taxed by the government.
Scenario 3: Provide the 40 hours of care by a caregiver, paid for by the government (Biden's $400B GND funding). The caregiver cannot work 40 hours doing something else, so there is a 40 hour reduction in other work that can be performed by the workforce. The 40 hours is recorded in the GDP, and the income is taxed by the government.
All three scenarios will hit the workforce in the same way - like a "ton of bricks" according to our Secretary of Commerce. She should fess up to the $400B simply being the wealth transfer it is, rather than say it will somehow impact the workforce.
Nothing wrong with Biden supporting a policy of wealth transfer - so why do they think they have hide it and sell it as a workforce issue?
Perhaps the government should help the workforce by paying someone to cut my lawn and trim my hedges instead of my doing it myself. Or fix my car instead of my doing it myself.
Aging population to hit U.S. economy like a 'ton of bricks' - U.S. commerce secretary
President Joe Biden does not yet have enough support from fellow Democrats to secure $400 billion in spending for at-home care for the elderly and disabled that the economy desperately needs, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Reuters on Monday. Raimondo, who is paying for round-the-clock...
Her argument that it will hit the workforce would not fool a third grader. If 40 hours a week of in-home care is required for an aging senior, it has to be provided by someone - who does it or pays for it will not change that. The only thing that changes is if it is done by a relative and not charged, it does not count in GDP.
Scenario 1: Provide the 40 hours of care by a relative no charge. That person cannot work 40 hours doing something else, so there is a 40 hour reduction in other work that can be performed by the workforce. The 40 hours is not recorded in GDP and there is no income to be taxed by the government.
Scenario 2: Provide the 40 hours of care by a caregiver, paid for by the person or their family. The caregiver cannot work 40 hours doing something else, so there is a 40 hour reduction in other work that can be performed by the workforce. The 40 hours is recorded in the GDP, and the income is taxed by the government.
Scenario 3: Provide the 40 hours of care by a caregiver, paid for by the government (Biden's $400B GND funding). The caregiver cannot work 40 hours doing something else, so there is a 40 hour reduction in other work that can be performed by the workforce. The 40 hours is recorded in the GDP, and the income is taxed by the government.
All three scenarios will hit the workforce in the same way - like a "ton of bricks" according to our Secretary of Commerce. She should fess up to the $400B simply being the wealth transfer it is, rather than say it will somehow impact the workforce.
Nothing wrong with Biden supporting a policy of wealth transfer - so why do they think they have hide it and sell it as a workforce issue?
Perhaps the government should help the workforce by paying someone to cut my lawn and trim my hedges instead of my doing it myself. Or fix my car instead of my doing it myself.
juliusa
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Nope. So lets fix them them my modeling them after our "disaster", "totally inadequate", "absurd" K-12 education system?
How about we fix K-12 and show the public we know WTF we are doing, then convince them to turn over pre-K, child care, and post-secondary education to the government.
No public health expert has said any such thing. Trump did help get the vaccines developed rapidly. However, he tried to hide the fact that he and his family were all vaccinated. Vaccine disbursement under Trump was a disorganized *sugar* show. BIden took care of that by putting Zeits in charge of the vaccine rollout. And today, here we are with everyone that wants one vaccinated, not quite enough it turns out but that is especially the fault of the Trump led republican party. There is a reason rural Missouri has raging infection issues. This past month the only people that have died of Covid in MD were un vaccinated people. That's remarkable progress.
You have to be kidding . We still have not recovered from George Bush Jr giant education fiasco. He turned our schools systems into a giant quagmire of testing instead of educating and teachers everywhere taught how to game the testing process. The process was taken over. BY A REPUBLICAN... 20 years ago. Judging by how effectively BIden has fixed vaccine rollout maybe he should tackle education.
juliusa
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Agree. Start with fixing K-12. Once he does that, continue with the federal government takeover from 0 to 25 years.
Seems he is struggling with the education part to get the remaining 30% or so vaccinated.
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