Young Canadians flock to TikTok to thank 'Daddy Trudeau' for CERB spending sprees

[burnt]

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It IS a total shit show

There, fixed it for you.

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[Austrian Economics]

Good luck weaning anyone off these CERB payments. The push for some sort of "basic income" whereby half the population literally lives at the expense of the other half, is gaining serious momentum.

Thanks to the willingness of governments at all levels to borrow even more gigantic sums than previously, reckoning with the true cost of the shutdown has been temporarily pushed into the future.

If governments had any sense, they would have addressed Covid by diverting spending from existing programs, slashing non-Covid budgets and employment, and raising taxes to make people realize the true cost immediately. Had they done this, I think people would have had a much different reaction than they presently do. They would not be viewing this crisis as some sort of win-win proposition, when it clearly is not.

[bucket]

CERB and CEBA and the wage subsidy are all bank bailouts.....Had the economy been left to happen in this pandemic ....my guess is the banks would be done...


It has nothing to do with people ...this was a bank bailout...

[jazz]

Every generation likes to think they are better than the next and complain about the lazy kids! .

That money was supposed to be bridge living until the job market comes back whenever that is and these idiots bought macbooks? You defend that?

Whats worse is their undying love for idiot in charge Trudeau.

[jazz]

Good luck weaning anyone off these CERB payments. The push for some sort of "basic income" whereby half the population literally lives at the expense of the other half, is gaining serious momentum.

AE, if that happens you can expect a pretty big Atlas Shrugged moment will follow.

I will live off my US stocks and chem fallow my land.

I am happy to contribute to Canadas society and social net as it is but I will not contribute to anything that pays people not to do the same.

[chuckChuck]

The one thing we learned after the great depression and previous recessions is that cutting government spending during a downturn only makes things much worse.

If you want to crash the economy let thousands and millions of people with no income and no jobs default on rent, mortgages and end up on the street begging for food.

Trump borrowed and spent billions on support programs as well. Even sent some to farmers. That makes him a very stable genius! LOL

[Blaithin]

CERB is to people during Covid what EI is to rig pigs who refuse to work for real world wages after their industry busted.

How many times has EI been extended for them?

Don’t remember threads on here saying they didn’t deserve money because their jobs disappeared. They could always go out and get other jobs, albeit lower paying, but many chose to sit at home and reap EI instead since it payed more for less.

[jazz]

CERB is to people during Covid what EI is to rig pigs who refuse to work for real world wages after their industry busted.

Rig pigs who refuse to work? Are you serious? Have you ever been on a drilling platform? How many months of the year do you spend living in camp away from your family.

I know chuck never has even been close to one. That would be too close of a brush with productive capitalism for him.

Could you live with a 50% drop in your income? 8Million Canadians couldn't do it so why would you expect one narrow group to achieve the impossible.

[bucket]

When you support those that are happy to watch netflix while using the people that create a vibrant economy to pay for it...its a race to the bottom...

Look at the railways ...what kept them busy during a downturn?????

Alll of a sudden grain movement is in vogue....who do you think is driving part of the economy????

We sell ourselves short to the value of the canadian economy.....and we have fools representing us...

So when the tax bill comes and its coming I sure hope farmers remember those that were incompetent in representing farmers....the commissions....the farm groups ...and the rural MLAs and MPs

[Blaithin]

Rig pigs who refuse to work? Are you serious? Have you ever been on a drilling platform? How many months of the year do you spend living in camp away from your family.

I know chuck never has even been close to one. That would be too close of a brush with productive capitalism for him.

Could you live with a 50% drop in your income? 8Million Canadians couldn't do it so why would you expect one narrow group to achieve the impossible.

Way to miss half of a sentence Jazz...

I have lived with over a 45% drop in income. It wasn’t fun, it wasn’t easy, it was for short term because I did what most people do and worked my way towards better jobs with higher wages.

According to you it would have been better for me to sit at home and live off EI instead as that would have been only a 40% drop.

Most of Alberta’s problems right now in regards to debt load are that a large portion of the population based their lives on extorted oil industry wages and the OT they got at those jobs. Now those jobs are gone, the OT is gone, they struggle to make their absurd payments on even their government EI cheque’s so why would they want to come work like the rest of us at lower wages?

People choosing to sit at home to make more money from government cheque’s than they would doing actual jobs is the same, be it through CERB or EI or any other program.

[Partners]

Wonder what the plan is when the so called 2nd wave comes?
Will Turdos money tree still produce?

[flea beetle]

Wonder what the plan is when the so called 2nd wave comes?
Will Turdos money tree still produce?

Depends. How much tax you have to pay Sept. 1?