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

[chuckChuck]

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

We will have to wean lots of people off their CERB payments over the next few months. But it is a good thing there was a CERB or a lot of people with no income source would have had to choose between rent, food, or living off mom and dad or maybe on the street. Instead that money flows into the economy and helps keep other businesses and people working.

[SASKFARMER]

Wow is all I can say chuck.

CERB didn’t work as liberals love to sit in their basement and collect cash.

Two single adults get 4000 a month to sit home and if they are frugal they are very happy to just that sit at home.

Students getting 1250 to sit at home and play video games vs working will sit.

Trudeau pissed away billions on votes you know that deep down but still try to support the fool.

Money to foreign students. What the fu k was that for.

It was a total shit show

[burnt]

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It IS a total shit show

There, fixed it for you.

y/w

[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.