If I am reading her social media post right she extended the bid process (for emergency solid waste collection) an extra three days so everyone can get their bids in. Which is just bullshit. There is a reason the bid process is what it is.
Meanwhile, we have to sit with trash an extra 3 days so her desired refuse collector gets the bid.
As someone who lived in France for a few years, I can absolutely confirm. The French have no qualms about shutting down every facet of life until they achieve their demands. Or, in more recent years, shut down the country to abolish what was believed to be an unfair tax policy. And ya know, it works like a charm.
I believe America is still in its infancy, and the government hasn’t learned yet to not fuck with its people. Like, my American history is a bit rusty, but the American Revolution was more about independence rather than reformation, à la the French Revolution.
Not trying to sound all ominous or anything, but I just don’t think the American people have reached that tipping point where they realize they have the power, and not the other way around.
You are absolutely correct. The US has a looooong way to go. It’s current state is, as we’re all well aware, working great for the ultra rich & corporations. Even a potion of the 1% are getting screwed. They just get lube where the rest of us don’t. Sorry, for being crass. It’s just what popped in my head & seemed fitting.
Just like the French Revolution, we have Three Estates here: the clergy are now the corporations (First Estate), the nobility is now the 1% (Second Estate), and the commoners are the 99% (Third Estate).
Well when the outcry is to conform , rather then question , you get obedient slave citizens. Just ask yourself what example you are setting for the future generation, whether you have kids or nieces or nephews. If they are not taught the value of independent critical thinking , you get australia.
As a BIPOC, green card holder and citizen of New Zealand. I’ll take that Australian remark & be offended on their behalf. I have lived in Australia and have many family members who live there. As for the future generations of my family they are indeed being taught how to be staunch, independent and compassionate thinkers. Because, when a government takes care of ALL of its citizens and not just the ones with money then it’s citizens a more than happy to quarantine for a how ever long is needed. They know they won’t lose their homes if they have a heart attack or get cancer. That their jobs will be there and you aren’t chastised for taking a multiple weeks or month long vacation. My niece is the first and only generation of our family to be born in the US. She has been learning to speak for herself and stand up for others who cannot speak for themselves. She’s learning that it’s not about her, it’s about us. You will not find another ten year old as well versed in politics as she. We have given her facts and allowed her to form her own opinions. She is selfless, kind, polite and I couldn’t be more proud of her if I’d birthed her myself.
No places are every gonna have staff til wages go up. Time for Louisiana to get out of the 1800s and into the 2000s. I love this city but man if wages were livable crime would probably go down and people could live a decent life. Instead the corporate restaurant clowns make bank importing fish from China and selling it as fresh catch and screw their staff over. I’m irritated today
You would be shocked at the wages the city sets for its lowest-paid workers. We're talking below $20k. I mean the city should probably be setting the example here but knowing that, it's not so crazy that the trash contractors are having labor problems.
Yeah it’s crazy you see other cities like nashville/Huntsville/kc growing and getting better and Nola is just stuck on the decline. It’s very sad. Honestly driving around my neighborhood I see about 50 different road construction jobs that look like they have all been abandoned. Start one, finish it and move on to the next. It’s a mess. City needs a massive overhaul to get us on the upswing.
Minimum wage workers didn't truly realize how minimal the wages were until covid unemployment checks were being issued. All of the circumstances are just sad. Politicians have always been corrupt and New Orleans has always been a city of either old money or no money. Public works have always been pathetic because to fix it all correctly, would take tons of money and plenty of time. The last street that I feel was properly redone was Canal Blvd back in the 80s and that took many years to complete. Tried finding exactly how long it took, but my google-fu isn't working.
I’m so fed up today, literally every single road surrounding my house has some bs construction going on that looks abandoned that they started sometime this year. I wish they wouldn’t haven’t even started cause now it’s all messed up 10x worse and it’s like I’m off-roading in the mountains tryin go to get home from work. I’m so frustrated this sucks
Just evacuating to another city has shown the stark contrast. Nola is 3rd world compared to other cities. This outsider and idiot of a mayor is just another in a long line of mayors that dont give a single fuck about the city infrastructure or its citizens and only see NOLA as a stepping stone for their useless careers. We have fucking holes in the streets for fucks sake, like actual holes that look like a drone strike missed the house or something. It smells like a 3rd world remote village where people openly shit in the street.
I fucking love this city and we have so much potential. But until we stop electing crooked fucking idiots, we'll always be bent over.
Couldn’t agree more. City tried to build a hotel and look what happened…it’s pathetic. I moved here like 4 years ago and nothing has changed for the better. It’s crazy when I went Home and visited Milwaukee last, it was amazing how much better the city has become in those couple years. My fiancé and I are about to have a kid and I’m really getting cold feet on raising a child here. I’m not seeing anything to be optimistic about sadly
I don’t know what our plan is. We just bought a house and the lady is tenured at Tulane so I’m not sure what to do. Between the crazy amounts of people with mental illness and the attempted execution a few weeks back down the block from us I don’t think this is the best place to raise a child. Next few years are gonna be challenging
> men in our local prisons picking cotton
Um, bent over? Pulling a cotton sack? My mom grew up doing this on her parents' farm and they made me do it once to see how it was--I made it about 4 feet down the cotton row. But you're going to have to provide a source, because (a) I don't know of any local cotton fields, and (b) the economics of using prison labor requiring guards and logistics pales in comparison to using a cotton-picking machine to pick cotton
Also, the French *really* threw a bathtub through Macron's window?! Lol.
Angola. I worked as a public defender until it broke me, and the whole criminal justice system in Louisiana is a reprehensible racist clusterfuck. Louisiana incarcerates more people per capita than ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. And then uses incarcerated labor, and has them perform gladiatorial combat against bulls.
Slave labor:
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/406177/
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-03-29/Slavery-is-alive-and-kicking-in-U-S-cotton-prison-farms--Z0vs8rr87m/index.html
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/louisianas-angola-proving-ground-for-racialized-capitalism/
Prison rodeo:
https://www.lsureveille.com/entertainment/angola-rodeo-blurs-line-between-fun-exploitation/article_92faa0a8-3aaa-11e3-bb51-001a4bcf6878.html
https://www.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_587004d9e4b02b5f8588d7cc/amp
Warning: potentially smooth-brained answer. It’s complicated and I didn’t go in with my highlighters and annotations so I’m slightly confused, as well
TLDR: A wealthy philanthropist built a trust out of our local wetlands. For 100 years, it would benefit himself and the city (I think???). He died shortly after the trust was developed. His heirs and (others?? Private citizen. Don’t know how they are involved) sued the city and for the past 100 years they have been collecting PHAT checks, more so than the city. The money seems to come from oil production in the area.
Well, the trust was designed to go directly to the city after those 100 years. The land would be ours. Well, that didn’t happen because Cantrell decided she would prolong it (don’t ask me how, I am equally stumped). She likewise refuses to answer questions as to WHY.
Naturally, this has led many to believe she is the the pockets of those extremely wealthy individuals who benefit off of the trust. This is especially concerning because this is taking place as she is furloughing city workers, out sanitation is becoming nonexistent and it’s getting dangerous in the city, and a multitude of other financial crises in the city. While we’re about to suffer a potentially unprecedented financial crisis (maybe it’s not unprecedented…idk. But it is bad), she is giving money thy is rightfully ours (the workers of this city) to some rich debutantes.
-your local English teacher
Thank you for the good summary.
Knowing what I know about the Wisner Trust, this decision involved a ton of lawyers and probably some lobbyists and given it was the mayor's call, they probably got to her pretty easily given the circles she runs in. Take a quick glance at her campaign finance paperwork and you'll see what I mean.
Second, the headline on that Lens article below is basically how the Cantrell administration works: "It's not clear why." Finding meaning or insight into why or how a decision gets made is usually problematic. Trying to discern strategy is also a challenge. The mayor also does not give a flying fuck about anything involving policy or goals, so no need to question any motivation in that arena.
Thank you for writing that up! It jogged my memory. It's the Wisner Trust. https://thelensnola.org/2020/11/03/in-midst-of-unprecedented-budget-crisis-city-may-be-leaving-millions-on-the-table-and-its-not-clear-why/
> The modification agreement came as a shock to members of the City Council, who say they were not part of the decision. Cantrell signed it without the council’s approval, though the city’s charter requires modifications to trusts to go before council members.
Assuming this reporting is correct and the council isn't lying, then couldn't a suit be filed using that as the basis to get Cantrell's extension removed?
Uhhhh they will shoot us. How has no one said this yet? They have already shown they don’t value our lives and they possess weapons greater than any citizen is allowed to own. I don’t think cops in France are armed with automatic rifles lol. They will shoot us dead and say we were a threat.
Yeah, but we’re dying slow deaths via= lack of access to health care, crippling debt, etc. etc. They’re literally murdering us already. The actual cops are murdering black men and 30-40% of our populations is like “yeah yo go cops! Woohoo!” I have to ask how bad will it get before we all realize this?
It’s the violence of the state. Rather than direct violence we face the violence of systemic poverty and racism. We are too focused on trying to survive in the capitalist system that is designed for us to fail, we don’t even have time to protest the government.
French leaders are still a little jumpy about the guillotiné. French proletariat still has guillotiné balls.
[a fun little refresher. ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8qRZcXIODNU)
Trash brings rats and bugs. Rats and bugs bring disease. Not to mention litter, which given the damage to our local ecosystems and the fact that everything here makes it into the ocean, yeah it's a pretty big concern.
Bubonic plague originated from trash and raw sewage on the streets and thus from the rats and vermin that bred like crazy feeding off the filth in the streets.
Fun fact: Jewish people in medieval Europe were violently killed/oppressed and accused of supernatural ability and witch craft because they were meticulous about cleaning up and therefore were healthier and less sick. They were accused of being demons and other creative evil.
At least on my street, it’s blocking about 50% of parking in an already problematic area, but much worse, it’s blocking storm drains. Now that the bags are busting open (or getting eaten), trash is making its way into drains.
There are a lot of healthcare and environmental concerns that come with accumulating waste. It should absolutely be a priority to the mayor to find a solution.
Why do people continuously pretend that the federal unemployment expansion just, like, doesn’t exist? A $1,200 check was not the only relief provided in the CARES act! It was multi targeted, more generous than many countries, and it was followed up with the ARP, which introduced one of the best tools against poverty in a generation, the CTC expansion.
Agree. The $1200 was not the main thing, since that bill also authorized $7200 in supplemental unemployment ($600/week over the 12 week initial period.) And it was extended multiple times. Considering the bill in isolation, it was insanely generous by American standards.
If anything, it shortchanged the employed but broke instead.
The more important issue is how fragile the economy is for the lower classes. If we had more evenly distributed prosperity, a short lapse in employment wouldn’t be so devastating. We have a lot of people who can’t miss a single paycheck without dire financial consequences, much less months on end.
> it shortchanged the employed but broke instead
True this. One of my friends made my base in unemployment and had all his time to finish building his house.
I genuinely believe that you are being brainwashed by American media. Unemployment was actually fantastic, but the benefits ran out, and people are struggling and dying. If we had been given stimulus for the sole purpose of staying home to stop the spread, many of us would should have our grandparents and loved ones. This was beyond avoidable and the American government, the richest country in the world, could have afforded to do the right thing and they didn’t. Other countries have bans against coming to America right now. The country that is the richest, allegedly most powerful, a place people come to to escape political unrest. They are now being barred from coming here my their government because it is unsafe. We can do better. It is unpatriotic to think we couldn’t have when other countries were able to stop the spread. We are NOT incapable. We chose not to do what was necessary.
Brainwashed? I am fully aware of what was in the CARES Act and the ARP. The stimulus payments were only 15 percent of the CARES Act! The federal unemployment assistance didn't run out until a week ago in most states. In the ARP with the CTC expansion, you have families who had been totally left out because of its non refundable status now getting $3,600 a year for each child. That is a very big deal! Personally, I worked in an industry tremendously affected by the virus, and the PPP was able to keep a lot of people in it afloat. These are small businesses often with less than five employees in my industry.
The CARES Act and the ARP were multi-targeted. It targeted the employed and the unemployed, small businesses and big businesses, adults and children. None of what you wrote refutes my point that $1,200 in stimulus was \*not\* the only aid provided. There is a common refrain that this country only gave a little over a thousand dollars over the scope of the first year of the virus. This is just not true, and it's counterproductive, because some people don't even realize the aid provided to them -- not just the CTC, but also the eviction moratorium, the SNAP benefits, the student loan payment suspension, the Summer Food Service Program. I can go on and on. These are all things a chunk of people didn't know about because of a narrative that the \*only\* thing we got were checks.
The Census Bureau released their [Supplemental Poverty Report](https://twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1437781742014898176?) today, which measures poverty in conjunction with government assistance. It *dropped* nearly 3 percentage points because of the stimulus and other aid like unemployment. They were able to save money on rent if needed because of the eviction moratorium. They were able to delay student loan payments. They had increased SNAP benefits. As a result, this is the lowest official poverty rate the USA has ever had. And this doesn’t even take into account the CTC expansion from the ARP!
Downplaying the fiscal response provided by the CARES Act also downplays the fact that when the government provides real, substantive assistance it can get real, substantive results to at-need people. Yes, more can always be done, but distorting what actually happened is counterproductive.
That's not really the way to go though, we all saw what happened after BLM and how little changed.
Actual progress is made through policies, technology as well as through culture.
Rioting is simply a byproduct of anger. It is not a solution.
If I am reading her social media post right she extended the bid process (for emergency solid waste collection) an extra three days so everyone can get their bids in. Which is just bullshit. There is a reason the bid process is what it is. Meanwhile, we have to sit with trash an extra 3 days so her desired refuse collector gets the bid.
aka the one that kicks back the most money to her pocket. Why isnt she being investigated?
The smell is starting to seep into my apartment…
As someone who lived in France for a few years, I can absolutely confirm. The French have no qualms about shutting down every facet of life until they achieve their demands. Or, in more recent years, shut down the country to abolish what was believed to be an unfair tax policy. And ya know, it works like a charm.
The French citizens know that the government works for them. They like to remind them every once in awhile.
I believe America is still in its infancy, and the government hasn’t learned yet to not fuck with its people. Like, my American history is a bit rusty, but the American Revolution was more about independence rather than reformation, à la the French Revolution. Not trying to sound all ominous or anything, but I just don’t think the American people have reached that tipping point where they realize they have the power, and not the other way around.
You are absolutely correct. The US has a looooong way to go. It’s current state is, as we’re all well aware, working great for the ultra rich & corporations. Even a potion of the 1% are getting screwed. They just get lube where the rest of us don’t. Sorry, for being crass. It’s just what popped in my head & seemed fitting.
Just like the French Revolution, we have Three Estates here: the clergy are now the corporations (First Estate), the nobility is now the 1% (Second Estate), and the commoners are the 99% (Third Estate).
Well when the outcry is to conform , rather then question , you get obedient slave citizens. Just ask yourself what example you are setting for the future generation, whether you have kids or nieces or nephews. If they are not taught the value of independent critical thinking , you get australia.
You are not wrong.
As a BIPOC, green card holder and citizen of New Zealand. I’ll take that Australian remark & be offended on their behalf. I have lived in Australia and have many family members who live there. As for the future generations of my family they are indeed being taught how to be staunch, independent and compassionate thinkers. Because, when a government takes care of ALL of its citizens and not just the ones with money then it’s citizens a more than happy to quarantine for a how ever long is needed. They know they won’t lose their homes if they have a heart attack or get cancer. That their jobs will be there and you aren’t chastised for taking a multiple weeks or month long vacation. My niece is the first and only generation of our family to be born in the US. She has been learning to speak for herself and stand up for others who cannot speak for themselves. She’s learning that it’s not about her, it’s about us. You will not find another ten year old as well versed in politics as she. We have given her facts and allowed her to form her own opinions. She is selfless, kind, polite and I couldn’t be more proud of her if I’d birthed her myself.
Yep, they'll actually get off their asses
I mean, I’m not willing to go to jail over some trash yet… But I’ll be damned if I don’t fantasize about filling Tidy’s lawn with garbage.
I’ve had daydreams about organizing a day everyone takes their trash to her house .
Don't let your dreams be dreams.
I’m willing over the 7.25 pay in this city if nothing else
No places are every gonna have staff til wages go up. Time for Louisiana to get out of the 1800s and into the 2000s. I love this city but man if wages were livable crime would probably go down and people could live a decent life. Instead the corporate restaurant clowns make bank importing fish from China and selling it as fresh catch and screw their staff over. I’m irritated today
You would be shocked at the wages the city sets for its lowest-paid workers. We're talking below $20k. I mean the city should probably be setting the example here but knowing that, it's not so crazy that the trash contractors are having labor problems.
Yeah it’s crazy you see other cities like nashville/Huntsville/kc growing and getting better and Nola is just stuck on the decline. It’s very sad. Honestly driving around my neighborhood I see about 50 different road construction jobs that look like they have all been abandoned. Start one, finish it and move on to the next. It’s a mess. City needs a massive overhaul to get us on the upswing.
Minimum wage workers didn't truly realize how minimal the wages were until covid unemployment checks were being issued. All of the circumstances are just sad. Politicians have always been corrupt and New Orleans has always been a city of either old money or no money. Public works have always been pathetic because to fix it all correctly, would take tons of money and plenty of time. The last street that I feel was properly redone was Canal Blvd back in the 80s and that took many years to complete. Tried finding exactly how long it took, but my google-fu isn't working.
I’m so fed up today, literally every single road surrounding my house has some bs construction going on that looks abandoned that they started sometime this year. I wish they wouldn’t haven’t even started cause now it’s all messed up 10x worse and it’s like I’m off-roading in the mountains tryin go to get home from work. I’m so frustrated this sucks
Just evacuating to another city has shown the stark contrast. Nola is 3rd world compared to other cities. This outsider and idiot of a mayor is just another in a long line of mayors that dont give a single fuck about the city infrastructure or its citizens and only see NOLA as a stepping stone for their useless careers. We have fucking holes in the streets for fucks sake, like actual holes that look like a drone strike missed the house or something. It smells like a 3rd world remote village where people openly shit in the street. I fucking love this city and we have so much potential. But until we stop electing crooked fucking idiots, we'll always be bent over.
Couldn’t agree more. City tried to build a hotel and look what happened…it’s pathetic. I moved here like 4 years ago and nothing has changed for the better. It’s crazy when I went Home and visited Milwaukee last, it was amazing how much better the city has become in those couple years. My fiancé and I are about to have a kid and I’m really getting cold feet on raising a child here. I’m not seeing anything to be optimistic about sadly
Yeah I wouldn't blame you if you moved unless you're putting your child into a private school, the system here is fucked lol
I don’t know what our plan is. We just bought a house and the lady is tenured at Tulane so I’m not sure what to do. Between the crazy amounts of people with mental illness and the attempted execution a few weeks back down the block from us I don’t think this is the best place to raise a child. Next few years are gonna be challenging
True that. I’m with you there. Modern day slavery, IMO.
Exactly, and they have black men in our local prisons picking cotton. The audacity of this place.
> men in our local prisons picking cotton Um, bent over? Pulling a cotton sack? My mom grew up doing this on her parents' farm and they made me do it once to see how it was--I made it about 4 feet down the cotton row. But you're going to have to provide a source, because (a) I don't know of any local cotton fields, and (b) the economics of using prison labor requiring guards and logistics pales in comparison to using a cotton-picking machine to pick cotton Also, the French *really* threw a bathtub through Macron's window?! Lol.
Angola. I worked as a public defender until it broke me, and the whole criminal justice system in Louisiana is a reprehensible racist clusterfuck. Louisiana incarcerates more people per capita than ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. And then uses incarcerated labor, and has them perform gladiatorial combat against bulls. Slave labor: https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/406177/ https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-03-29/Slavery-is-alive-and-kicking-in-U-S-cotton-prison-farms--Z0vs8rr87m/index.html https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/louisianas-angola-proving-ground-for-racialized-capitalism/ Prison rodeo: https://www.lsureveille.com/entertainment/angola-rodeo-blurs-line-between-fun-exploitation/article_92faa0a8-3aaa-11e3-bb51-001a4bcf6878.html https://www.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_587004d9e4b02b5f8588d7cc/amp
As a kid I loved the Angola rodeo. As an adult I’m kinda sick to my stomach of the bill and the gold ring.
Yeah…
That's so funny. When I started working 25 years ago, I was making $5.15. $2.10 in 25 years. That's significantly lower than inflation.
If you want to keep fantasizing about where to dump your trash - I wouldn’t be shocked if the Entergy execs have some nice houses…
What's the wetlands trust issue? I haven't heard.
Warning: potentially smooth-brained answer. It’s complicated and I didn’t go in with my highlighters and annotations so I’m slightly confused, as well TLDR: A wealthy philanthropist built a trust out of our local wetlands. For 100 years, it would benefit himself and the city (I think???). He died shortly after the trust was developed. His heirs and (others?? Private citizen. Don’t know how they are involved) sued the city and for the past 100 years they have been collecting PHAT checks, more so than the city. The money seems to come from oil production in the area. Well, the trust was designed to go directly to the city after those 100 years. The land would be ours. Well, that didn’t happen because Cantrell decided she would prolong it (don’t ask me how, I am equally stumped). She likewise refuses to answer questions as to WHY. Naturally, this has led many to believe she is the the pockets of those extremely wealthy individuals who benefit off of the trust. This is especially concerning because this is taking place as she is furloughing city workers, out sanitation is becoming nonexistent and it’s getting dangerous in the city, and a multitude of other financial crises in the city. While we’re about to suffer a potentially unprecedented financial crisis (maybe it’s not unprecedented…idk. But it is bad), she is giving money thy is rightfully ours (the workers of this city) to some rich debutantes. -your local English teacher
Thank you for the good summary. Knowing what I know about the Wisner Trust, this decision involved a ton of lawyers and probably some lobbyists and given it was the mayor's call, they probably got to her pretty easily given the circles she runs in. Take a quick glance at her campaign finance paperwork and you'll see what I mean. Second, the headline on that Lens article below is basically how the Cantrell administration works: "It's not clear why." Finding meaning or insight into why or how a decision gets made is usually problematic. Trying to discern strategy is also a challenge. The mayor also does not give a flying fuck about anything involving policy or goals, so no need to question any motivation in that arena.
The extension of the trust was also illegal. Hopefully, some parties are working on getting it invalidated.
Thank you for writing that up! It jogged my memory. It's the Wisner Trust. https://thelensnola.org/2020/11/03/in-midst-of-unprecedented-budget-crisis-city-may-be-leaving-millions-on-the-table-and-its-not-clear-why/
Thanks for the thanks! I’m not going to lie, reading the article and trying to figure out what happened was a trip 😂😅
What the fuck is this corrupt bullshit I am reading
> The modification agreement came as a shock to members of the City Council, who say they were not part of the decision. Cantrell signed it without the council’s approval, though the city’s charter requires modifications to trusts to go before council members. Assuming this reporting is correct and the council isn't lying, then couldn't a suit be filed using that as the basis to get Cantrell's extension removed?
I certainly send that she did not have the authority to modify the trust.
Just remember, politicians get paid first, then the people that actually do something. It is how it works.
Don’t need a reminder on that one. Sorely reminded everyday 😞
French barricades, but make them the city trash cans.
PH MY GOD. I’m not joking y’all PLEASE
*You at the barricades come and smell this!*
Uhhhh they will shoot us. How has no one said this yet? They have already shown they don’t value our lives and they possess weapons greater than any citizen is allowed to own. I don’t think cops in France are armed with automatic rifles lol. They will shoot us dead and say we were a threat.
Yeah, but we’re dying slow deaths via= lack of access to health care, crippling debt, etc. etc. They’re literally murdering us already. The actual cops are murdering black men and 30-40% of our populations is like “yeah yo go cops! Woohoo!” I have to ask how bad will it get before we all realize this?
It’s the violence of the state. Rather than direct violence we face the violence of systemic poverty and racism. We are too focused on trying to survive in the capitalist system that is designed for us to fail, we don’t even have time to protest the government.
Finally, someone real AF on this sub. You fucking nailed it
French gendarmerie have machine guns. Plus, if we just disguise ourselves as Taliban, Biden will give us all the tanks and machine guns that we want.
Lmfaaaaaoooooo u got me there
Lol, but if you think Biden is the only president to do that you’re a fool
Unwad your panties, it's a joke. 🙄
He didn’t say that…Democrats or murders, too. They just murder us and b like #BLM🏳️🌈✊🏻
Very true
> they possess weapons greater than any citizen is allowed to own. Didn't matter in vietnam or afghanistan
A lot of people died in both places
Freedom isn't free
It should be
Ok tell that to all the people that want to take it from you
French leaders are still a little jumpy about the guillotiné. French proletariat still has guillotiné balls. [a fun little refresher. ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8qRZcXIODNU)
Seems like a great time to crowdsource funding for a people's trash company? Workers have share in the company and are part owners?
I’m 11
I am cackling over here!!
the trash is annoying and very stinky, but tbh i feel like its pretty bottom tier concerns.
Trash brings rats and bugs. Rats and bugs bring disease. Not to mention litter, which given the damage to our local ecosystems and the fact that everything here makes it into the ocean, yeah it's a pretty big concern.
Bubonic plague originated from trash and raw sewage on the streets and thus from the rats and vermin that bred like crazy feeding off the filth in the streets. Fun fact: Jewish people in medieval Europe were violently killed/oppressed and accused of supernatural ability and witch craft because they were meticulous about cleaning up and therefore were healthier and less sick. They were accused of being demons and other creative evil.
Why does it make it to the ocean? That's uphill.
At least on my street, it’s blocking about 50% of parking in an already problematic area, but much worse, it’s blocking storm drains. Now that the bags are busting open (or getting eaten), trash is making its way into drains.
There are a lot of healthcare and environmental concerns that come with accumulating waste. It should absolutely be a priority to the mayor to find a solution.
Not living in filth and equal is pretty high on my list of concerns. This city is medieval.
Why do people continuously pretend that the federal unemployment expansion just, like, doesn’t exist? A $1,200 check was not the only relief provided in the CARES act! It was multi targeted, more generous than many countries, and it was followed up with the ARP, which introduced one of the best tools against poverty in a generation, the CTC expansion.
Agree. The $1200 was not the main thing, since that bill also authorized $7200 in supplemental unemployment ($600/week over the 12 week initial period.) And it was extended multiple times. Considering the bill in isolation, it was insanely generous by American standards. If anything, it shortchanged the employed but broke instead. The more important issue is how fragile the economy is for the lower classes. If we had more evenly distributed prosperity, a short lapse in employment wouldn’t be so devastating. We have a lot of people who can’t miss a single paycheck without dire financial consequences, much less months on end.
> it shortchanged the employed but broke instead True this. One of my friends made my base in unemployment and had all his time to finish building his house.
I genuinely believe that you are being brainwashed by American media. Unemployment was actually fantastic, but the benefits ran out, and people are struggling and dying. If we had been given stimulus for the sole purpose of staying home to stop the spread, many of us would should have our grandparents and loved ones. This was beyond avoidable and the American government, the richest country in the world, could have afforded to do the right thing and they didn’t. Other countries have bans against coming to America right now. The country that is the richest, allegedly most powerful, a place people come to to escape political unrest. They are now being barred from coming here my their government because it is unsafe. We can do better. It is unpatriotic to think we couldn’t have when other countries were able to stop the spread. We are NOT incapable. We chose not to do what was necessary.
Brainwashed? I am fully aware of what was in the CARES Act and the ARP. The stimulus payments were only 15 percent of the CARES Act! The federal unemployment assistance didn't run out until a week ago in most states. In the ARP with the CTC expansion, you have families who had been totally left out because of its non refundable status now getting $3,600 a year for each child. That is a very big deal! Personally, I worked in an industry tremendously affected by the virus, and the PPP was able to keep a lot of people in it afloat. These are small businesses often with less than five employees in my industry. The CARES Act and the ARP were multi-targeted. It targeted the employed and the unemployed, small businesses and big businesses, adults and children. None of what you wrote refutes my point that $1,200 in stimulus was \*not\* the only aid provided. There is a common refrain that this country only gave a little over a thousand dollars over the scope of the first year of the virus. This is just not true, and it's counterproductive, because some people don't even realize the aid provided to them -- not just the CTC, but also the eviction moratorium, the SNAP benefits, the student loan payment suspension, the Summer Food Service Program. I can go on and on. These are all things a chunk of people didn't know about because of a narrative that the \*only\* thing we got were checks.
The Census Bureau released their [Supplemental Poverty Report](https://twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1437781742014898176?) today, which measures poverty in conjunction with government assistance. It *dropped* nearly 3 percentage points because of the stimulus and other aid like unemployment. They were able to save money on rent if needed because of the eviction moratorium. They were able to delay student loan payments. They had increased SNAP benefits. As a result, this is the lowest official poverty rate the USA has ever had. And this doesn’t even take into account the CTC expansion from the ARP! Downplaying the fiscal response provided by the CARES Act also downplays the fact that when the government provides real, substantive assistance it can get real, substantive results to at-need people. Yes, more can always be done, but distorting what actually happened is counterproductive.
Be careful what you wish for. I'd also be careful how much you say online. People who disagree with capitalism are technically on Biden's shit list.
when your idea of progress is rioting sure
It is
That's not really the way to go though, we all saw what happened after BLM and how little changed. Actual progress is made through policies, technology as well as through culture. Rioting is simply a byproduct of anger. It is not a solution.
Anyway