House Passes CASH Act For $2,000 Stimulus Checks

Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-set-override-trump-veto-740-billion-defense-bill
Published: Dec 28, 2020
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2020-12-28 19:02:52 by Horse
Views: 2124

Update (1805ET): The House has voted 275-134 to increase COVID-19 relief checks to $2,000 under the CASH Act, achieving the 2/3 majority needed to pass. 44 Republicans voted for it along with nearly all of the Democrats.

The bill will now go to the Senate where it will likely suffer a swift death.

Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan

275-143: House passes legislation to increase direct payments in COVID-19 relief law to individuals from $600 to $2,000, with 2/3rds majority vote needed. 44 Republicans voted Yes with nearly all Democrats. CASH Act now heads to the Senate.

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#2: Fred Mertz    To: Horse (#0)

What does senator McTurtle have against it?

Fred Mertz posted on 2020-12-28 23:57:42   Reply   Private Reply


#3: ghostdogtxn    To: Horse (#0)

ghostdogtxn posted on 2020-12-29 00:03:40   Reply   Private Reply


#4: TommyTheMadArtist    To: ghostdogtxn (#3)

Buy more guns? Buy more ammunition? That is my plan actually. That and use the cash to move

TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2020-12-29 00:46:22   Reply   Private Reply


#5: Horse    To: ghostdogtxn (#3)

The $2,000 will help defray the rise in prices at the grocery store.

Horse posted on 2020-12-29 00:56:01   Reply   Private Reply


#6: BTP Holdings    To: Horse (#5)

The $2,000 will help defray the rise in prices at the grocery store.

I'll not see a dime of that. My Conservator will get it. The last payment of $1,200 she spread out over 12 months. And she keeps cutting my weekly pay. :-/

BTP Holdings posted on 2020-12-29 13:13:48   Reply   Private Reply


#7: TommyTheMadArtist    To: Horse (#5)

Because that will be about what it costs to buy two weeks worth of groceries pretty soon. Ever since 2007 the price of just about everything food related has doubled, and the reason why is because when the tarp money was spent to bail out the bankers, instead of using that liquidity to prop up small business and create jobs, they took that money and invested in coal, oil, gas, and natural gas. Then they invested in beef, pork, and poultry futures as well as agribusiness. The supply of food is owned largely by the big banks, and when that investment was made, the prices began to go up, because now the banks are shareholders. Add to that the number of houses on the dole and we are not competing against our own tax dollars in the market.

TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2020-12-30 00:13:02   Reply   Private Reply


#8: StraitGate    To: TommyTheMadArtist (#7)

Son-in-law and daughter said they got their $1200 "stimulus" yesterday. I asked him What are y'all going to do with it? (I wouldn't have asked if they hadn't brought it up.) He said It's already gone; we paid off bills with it.

Young folks are going to have a harder life than we had -- in just about every way. The world's gone crazy -- governments and people.

StraitGate posted on 2021-01-03 23:36:26   Reply   Private Reply


#9: Esso    To: StraitGate, 4um (#8)

Son-in-law and daughter said they got their $1200 "stimulus" yesterday.

"I'm gettin' red dirt rich and flint river pay."

Except this time around around. She's still mad at me for being a man.

I got yelled at about using the term nxxxr a few days ago. Fuck everybody, I'm tired of this game.

Let's light em' up!

Esso posted on 2021-01-03 23:52:51   Reply   Private Reply


#10: Dead Culture Watch    To: TommyTheMadArtist (#4)

Buy more guns? Buy more ammunition? That is my plan actually. That and use the cash to move

This^.

Am heavily armed, and have 3A+ armor.

2k would help ME move. Its complicated, but I rent, away from family. After 20 yrs of marriage, wife left, and, shits expensive living by yourself. By design fer sure.

I make more than family average (((supposedly))) for this state, but holy shit.

Dead Culture Watch posted on 2021-01-03 23:56:54   Reply   Private Reply


#11: Esso    To: Dead Culture Watch, 4um (#10)

Am heavily armed, and have 3A+ armor.

WTF? Who do you think you are?

ts complicated, but I rent, away from family.

After 20 yrs of marriage, wife left, and, shits expensive living by yourself. By design fer sure.

Maybe because you wasted all that money on body armor you don't need or use. Remember those "civilian" spooks that used to protect Schwartzkoff around?

I make more than family average (((supposedly))) for this state, but holy shit.

My AGI (according to the goob) is below the poverty level (but not means adjusted).

Esso posted on 2021-01-04 00:12:42   Reply   Private Reply


#12: StraitGate    To: Esso (#9)

got yelled at about using the term nxxxr a few days ago

Your music video was good, but incomplete: it didn't have any turkey, squirrel, or cxxn huntin' in it.

StraitGate posted on 2021-01-04 00:13:07   Reply   Private Reply


#13: Esso    To: Dead Culture Watch, Pinguinite, BTP Holdings, 4um (#10)

2k would help ME

Who the fuck do you think anybody here has that kind of money that would send it to you?

Sell me some of your 3A+ body armor from China.

Esso posted on 2021-01-04 00:18:01   Reply   Private Reply


#14: StraitGate    To: Esso, Dead Culture Watch (#13)

A couple of years ago a guy here in South Carolina won a $1.537 BILLION jackpot in the state (monopoly) lottery. That would give you some options.

StraitGate posted on 2021-01-04 00:23:12   Reply   Private Reply


#15: BTP Holdings    To: StraitGate (#12)

cxxn huntin'

I know a guy that is a coon hunter. He got the freezer out of my house and owes me $100. He told me, "I'll pay you that $100, then we're through."

I'll believe it when he slaps that C-note in my hot little hand. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2021-01-04 00:23:24   Reply   Private Reply


#16: StraitGate    To: BTP Holdings (#15)

Well, you know what they say -- a freezer and $100 in hand are worth more than just a freezer.

StraitGate posted on 2021-01-04 00:26:44   Reply   Private Reply


#17: Esso    To: StraitGate (#14)

A couple of years ago a guy here in South Carolina won a $1.537 BILLION jackpot in the state (monopoly) lottery.

Years ago, a guy I used to work with, won one of the first "Hoosier Millionaire" thingy's.

Bunky was dead less than a year later. He'd moved back to Baltimore or somewhere.

He was supposed to sell me a Makarov pistol. He's still dead.

Esso posted on 2021-01-04 00:30:13   Reply   Private Reply


#18: BTP Holdings    To: StraitGate (#16)

When that tornado hit Joplin several years back, he was doing jobs to rebuild houses. He was over ordering material and taking the extra material home. He is lucky they did not get him for contractor fraud. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2021-01-04 00:42:15   Reply   Private Reply


#19: StraitGate    To: Esso (#17)

I understand that the Hoosier Lottery has some regional variations for marketing purposes. In Gary they have one they call "Hoosier Daddy". Nobody's ever won it.

StraitGate posted on 2021-01-04 00:53:20   Reply   Private Reply


#20: Esso    To: StraitGate (#19)

In Gary they have one they call "Hoosier Daddy". Nobody's ever won it.

Gawd, I have know idea. OK, I get it.

Esso posted on 2021-01-04 01:02:24   Reply   Private Reply


#21: StraitGate    To: Esso (#17)

He's still dead.

Yeah, the Lazarus phenomenon is pretty rare down here, too.

That Makarov -- can you get ammo for it?

StraitGate posted on 2021-01-04 01:05:33   Reply   Private Reply


#22: Esso    To: StraitGate (#21)

That Makarov -- can you get ammo for it?

Probably, it was some 7.62x19 or something? Probably the only thing you can get, I don't know.

I've never owned a gun or even touched one. The TeeVee told me that.

Esso posted on 2021-01-04 01:12:39   Reply   Private Reply


#23: Pinguinite    To: Horse (#0)

So THAT's why crypto is blowing the roof off the house today.

Pinguinite posted on 2021-01-04 02:38:17   Reply   Private Reply


#24: Esso    To: StraitGate (#21)

That Makarov -- can you get ammo for it?

Doesn't matter much, never got it, that's why he was called Bunky.

But he was a millionaire for a little bit.

I'm full of shit also. I said I went through all 128,000 man hours of YouToob, twice...

It was actually three times.

Esso posted on 2021-01-04 02:51:11   Reply   Private Reply


#25: Esso    To: Pinguinite (#23)

What the heck?

Esso posted on 2021-01-04 02:53:36   Reply   Private Reply


#26: Esso    To: Pinguinite (#23)

AU + $33?

The world must be ending

Esso posted on 2021-01-04 02:57:32   Reply   Private Reply


#27: Esso    To: Pinguinite (#23)

So THAT's why crypto is blowing the roof off the house today.

OK, I get it.

Esso posted on 2021-01-04 03:21:08   Reply   Private Reply


#28: Pinguinite    To: Esso (#27)

Bitcoin broke above $34,000 yesterday. Until a few weeks ago, the high set 3 years prior was just under $20k. It's been on fire. Right now it's about 31k.

Pinguinite posted on 2021-01-04 13:13:16   Reply   Private Reply


#29: StraitGate    To: Pinguinite (#28)

Bitcoin still looks too risky to me. In early 2018 it dropped off pretty fast after its rapid rise in 2017. And it took 3 years to get back to that just-under-$20k peak. If the 2020-2021 curve looks like the 2017-2018 curve then it could drop hard and fast. I'm happy for the all the people who've done well with it! But I strongly suspect that sooner or later it will drop like a rock, and a lot of people will get burned when it does.

A funny thing about Bitcoin is that its fans (not talking about you here, Ping) chronically accuse its detractors of not understanding the technology, not knowing what a hash is, etc. As if somebody who did understand all that just couldn't be opposed to putting his life savings in Bitcoin. And here's another good one: anybody who doesn't want to invest heavily in Bitcoin must be convinced that it's going to tank soon, so he ought to short Bitcoin. If he doesn't he's a hypocrite. What kind of logic is all that?

I remember in 2011 when silver was $40/oz and people were still buying it.

StraitGate posted on 2021-01-04 14:44:56   Reply   Private Reply


#30: Lod    To: StraitGate (#29)

I read earlier today that the markets could have a big correction if congress turns blue. Who knows? Certainly not I...

Lod posted on 2021-01-04 14:51:28   Reply   Private Reply


#31: StraitGate    To: Lod (#30)

I'm the world's second worst investor. My big brother is the #1 worst.

He called me a couple of days ago and asked what did I think of Bitcoin? I said, Brother, if you buy it, it WILL go down.

StraitGate posted on 2021-01-04 16:23:10   Reply   Private Reply


#32: Lod    To: StraitGate (#31)

Brother, if you buy it, it WILL go down.

Sounds just like my oil/gas drilling debacles.

Real estate is the only thing that's never lost a penny, never, ever.

Lod posted on 2021-01-04 17:40:05   Reply   Private Reply


#33: StraitGate    To: Lod (#32)

Real estate is the only thing that's never lost a penny, never, ever.

Big brother loses even on real estate. He bought a condo and a warehouse in the Florida Panhandle a few years ago right before the bottom dropped out. Lost big on both of them.

StraitGate posted on 2021-01-04 20:12:39   Reply   Private Reply


#34: TommyTheMadArtist    To: Dead Culture Watch (#10)

I have property in the middle of nowhere and no neighbors for 27 miles there. You can better believe that if things go to shit, it will be a much better place to be, than in the middle of the hood where I currently reside. While it’s not as bad as some parts of my city, I can tell you that in the span of 10 years I went from being an artist to a gun trainer and a pretty good one too.

Though I think I am set on most of my provisions and what not, mobility is key for me. Fixing a vehicle and getting a place put up on the land is where things are currently headed. Have nearly everything I need, just need to haul it out.

TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2021-01-04 21:48:18   Reply   Private Reply


#35: TommyTheMadArtist    To: StraitGate (#29)

The crypto currency market is tied almost directly to the stock market and the second that the checks dropped in people’s accounts, they immediately started buying crypto. I watched what I had grow, and then suddenly and abruptly contract. I can tell you right now that those who are invested in the long term, are suckers because all the money is being made in the here and now, and people are going to watch a massive correction in crypto when the economy crashes.

Once the speculators have their run, then there will be no value to the crypto markets.

TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2021-01-04 21:51:03   Reply   Private Reply


#36: StraitGate    To: TommyTheMadArtist (#35)

Once the speculators have their run, then there will be no value to the crypto markets.

That makes sense to me; everybody can't win forever.

StraitGate posted on 2021-01-04 22:06:16   Reply   Private Reply


#37: Dead Culture Watch    To: Esso (#11)

Lol.

$380.00 is wasted money?

Holy shit. Dunno if trolling or serious.

Dead Culture Watch posted on 2021-01-04 23:05:48   Reply   Private Reply


#38: Dead Culture Watch    To: StraitGate (#14)

A couple of years ago a guy here in South Carolina won a $1.537 BILLION jackpot in the state (monopoly) lottery. That would give you some options.

It would! Unfortunately, i can math.

Dead Culture Watch posted on 2021-01-04 23:07:55   Reply   Private Reply


#39: BTP Holdings    To: StraitGate (#33)

warehouse

What was he warehousing?

When we delivered flowers in the big truck, we picked up loads in west suburban Miami. We would go into this Cuban restaurant for lunch. They had Colada, which was Espresso with sugar. We would get a extra large cup of that and take it back to the warehouse. They would split it between two or three guys to give them energy.

After we got loaded we stopped in north Florida for greens.

One time I backed into the dock and went inside. They were all sitting in break room. I said to them, "I didn't see you, you didn't see me and we didn't see a thing." And they all busted out laughing. ROTFLOL

BTP Holdings posted on 2021-01-05 00:36:20   Reply   Private Reply


#40: Dead Culture Watch    To: TommyTheMadArtist (#34)

Nice my man. Im not exactly, in the hood, but across the street is an apartment complex called the jungle. Most of area would be considered working class.

The thing that really bothers me is I’m 60 miles from relatives. I need to move from here at LEAST to where I’m closer to family.

Am jealous dood! Cheers.

Dead Culture Watch posted on 2021-01-05 21:57:15   Reply   Private Reply


#41: Dead Culture Watch    To: Esso (#13)

Ah.

A genuine gibberish spouting noob who has zero clue the entire structure is about to cave in on his head, and pretends its just the neighbors moving.

Hint: that sound you hear is war, and I’m here to tell you, money wont be worth shit soon . If i can get marginally devalued money now, from anywhere, Im gonna take it.

You actually think this will be on a ledger some place in two years? The collapse is coming because connected people have bankrupted us. You wanna sit and blame ME?

Ya, good luck with that my silly frens.

Dead Culture Watch posted on 2021-01-05 22:06:16   Reply   Private Reply


#42: Esso    To: Dead Culture Watch, 4um (#41)

A genuine gibberish spouting noob who has zero clue the entire structure is about to cave in on his head, and pretends its just the neighbors moving.

I'm a little more grizzled than that.

Hint: that sound you hear is war, and I’m here to tell you, money wont be worth shit soon .

I know what wars sound like. They're really loud. Ground shaking loud. Took a 2007 Honda Fit and a texting granny in a giant van to blow my ears out. Gotta like the irony there.

You actually think this will be on a ledger some place in two years?

No. I know how things work.

I'm not a bad fellah, DCW. I'm on your side.

Esso posted on 2021-01-05 22:24:56   Reply   Private Reply


#43: TommyTheMadArtist    To: Esso (#42)

At some point we all reach a point to where nothing is what we expected it to be. I probably have another 30 or 40 years if I am lucky and to be honest I doubt those years will be high quality. Unless I manage to lure an alien spaceship down to save me, old age does not hold much promise. I am however doing my best to live a decent and honest life now. This country is going through some changes we did not expect. I am certain everyone’s parents have felt the same way as the creep of age and the strangeness of our culture makes us all fearful.

I am not especially worried though. Most people cannot drive a manual transmission and can’t read cursive so I think I have a way of forming my own resistance to tyranny.

TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2021-01-05 22:32:31   Reply   Private Reply


#44: Dead Culture Watch    To: Esso (#42)

I'm not a bad fellah, DCW. I'm on your side.

Honestly? I know that my bro.

Not a single person here I don’t respect a lot.

Dead Culture Watch posted on 2021-01-05 22:34:37   Reply   Private Reply


#45: Esso    To: Dead Culture Watch, 4um (#44)

Anybody that "grabs life by the pussy" is OK in my book.

Esso posted on 2021-01-05 22:38:51   Reply   Private Reply


#46: Fred Mertz    To: TommyTheMadArtist (#43)

I am however doing my best to live a decent and honest life now.

That is good to hear and I'm happy for you. At least you're not swearing like a drunken sailor.

Fred Mertz posted on 2021-01-05 22:43:43   Reply   Private Reply


#47: Dead Culture Watch    To: Esso (#45)

Heh. Just changed that a minute before you commented.

It is a good message though.

Wth? Its still there. I changed it twice, lol.... bah.

Dead Culture Watch posted on 2021-01-05 22:45:16   Reply   Private Reply


#48: Dead Culture Watch    To: Fred Mertz (#46)

That is good to hear and I'm happy for you. At least you're not swearing like a drunken sailor.

DCW steps up to plate.

Dead Culture Watch posted on 2021-01-05 22:47:53   Reply   Private Reply


#49: Esso    To: TommyTheMadArtist, 4um (#43)

At some point we all reach a point to where nothing is what we expected it to be.

I know that Tommy, 2020 was the year that made me understand that I've wasted my life, not much unlike my father did.

I probably have another 30 or 40 years if I am lucky and to be honest I doubt those years will be high quality.

You know how I feel about through PM. I doubt I'll see the end of 2021, let long enough to know who the "President" is actually is.

I am however doing my best to live a decent and honest life now.

I always tried to live by that standard, Tommy.

This country is going through some changes we did not expect. I am certain everyone’s parents have felt the same way as the creep of age and the strangeness of our culture makes us all fearful.

I'm alone now except for an estranged sister that hated me from the day I was born. She'll get about 3 quarters of a million in equities, via transfer-on-death thingys, If my buddy Jay is still extant, he'll get about about a half million in PMs for his family.

Most people cannot drive a manual transmission and can’t read cursive so I think I have a way of forming my own resistance to tyranny.

That's funny. By some weird coincidence, I landed a job ferrying cars for an exotic car dealer, for awhile.

The punks didn't know how to drive a stick, and the insurance company wanted an old fart if'n the value of the car was over 75k.

Made a pretty good name doing that shit, it was kind of stressful, if it was a RHD.

Shit, the last one was some RHD something-or-other, they had to have a driver in front and back to protect the damn thing.

I'm sure you're wondering why. Because specialized car haulers (like the NASCAR) guys are few and far between in NE IN.

And they're usually wrecks. Secrets, you know.

Esso posted on 2021-01-05 23:19:44   Reply   Private Reply


#50: Dead Culture Watch    To: Esso (#49)

You also have a Class A license?

Would be three here I know of. Me, you, and holdings.

Dead Culture Watch posted on 2021-01-05 23:26:41   Reply   Private Reply


#51: Esso    To: Dead Culture Watch (#50)

You also have a Class A license?

CDL? No, pilot's license, not current.

My buddys Jay, Butch and Jerry do. I'm just a good wrench. I have been in charge of some pretty big equipment in the past.

Never thought you'd need a license to do that.

Esso posted on 2021-01-05 23:38:33   Reply   Private Reply