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posted by martyb on Monday December 28 2020, @07:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the Hang-in-there dept.

Many sources are reporting that Trump finally signed the pandemic relief bill:

Not gonna summarize all the bits in it - it's some 5k pages of legalese gobbledygook, but I understand it continues augmented unemployment benefits, eviction suspension, funding to prevent government shutdown, and another direct cash payment.

I'm sure it also has a bunch of "porky pork", but the people are suffering, time is of essence, and it should have been done months ago.


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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday December 31 2020, @08:53PM (11 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday December 31 2020, @08:53PM (#1093406) Journal
    California Inner Empire was not urban blight. It was suburban and very much white professional yuppie land. So no, you didn't nail the problem. The problem was rampant speculation.
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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday December 31 2020, @10:03PM (10 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 31 2020, @10:03PM (#1093415) Journal

    California Inner Empire was not urban blight.

    Yet. A bunch of property that nobody will touch is a symptom of growing blight.

    • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday December 31 2020, @11:34PM (9 children)

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday December 31 2020, @11:34PM (#1093429) Journal
      Brand now million dollar homes is not blight. But you would not know - low aspirations punk ass who never had a real job, never mind a career.
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      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 01 2021, @02:16AM (8 children)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 01 2021, @02:16AM (#1093465) Journal

        Brand now million dollar homes is not blight.

        You just said they were negative dollar homes. Not buying the semantic shift here.

        • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 01 2021, @04:13AM (7 children)

          by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday January 01 2021, @04:13AM (#1093495) Journal
          People invested big bucks to build entire new upper-middle class communities. Then the Great Recession hit.

          You couldn't give them away because just the taxes exceeded the income of the suddenly jobless, and they were too far away for someone who was having a problem keeping gas in the car (or was living in their car).

          It's all out there. But you're too needing to keep up your fake reality that you won't even search.'

          Same as you don't know what it's like to have a real job.

          Why don't you have some sort of career? Given up? No real qualifications? No real experience? No real interest? No talent? Too lazy? Too afraid of failure? Personality issues that make you unemployable? Periods of delusion? Constantly delusional? Too busy shit-posting? The aliens gonna get you if you go outside? If you work most of your pay will be garnisheed for debts or fines? Outstanding warrants? Electronic ankle tracking bracelet? Too gross? Tourette's?

          Come on, there's got to be some reason your only job experience was part time at a concession stand years ago. Got caught stealing? Criminal record?

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          • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 01 2021, @04:55AM (6 children)

            by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 01 2021, @04:55AM (#1093501) Journal

            People invested big bucks to build entire new upper-middle class communities. Then the Great Recession hit. You couldn't give them away because just the taxes exceeded the income of the suddenly jobless, and they were too far away for someone who was having a problem keeping gas in the car (or was living in their car).

            As I've already noted, that sort of shitshow is how you kick off urban blight. There's a reason some places have this problem and others don't. And it doesn't have anything to do with too little taxes.

            Why don't you have some sort of career? Given up? No real qualifications? No real experience? No real interest? No talent? Too lazy? Too afraid of failure? Personality issues that make you unemployable? Periods of delusion? Constantly delusional? Too busy shit-posting? The aliens gonna get you if you go outside? If you work most of your pay will be garnisheed for debts or fines? Outstanding warrants? Electronic ankle tracking bracelet? Too gross? Tourette's?

            What's your career again? As I see it, I don't need nor want whatever you think a career is.

            Come on, there's got to be some reason your only job experience was part time at a concession stand years ago. Got caught stealing? Criminal record?

            I guess 11 years in hospitality accounting isn't really a job, right? At least, it pays the bills, and leaves a bit over 50% after taxes and bills for me to save.

            • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 01 2021, @05:33AM (5 children)

              by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday January 01 2021, @05:33AM (#1093510) Journal
              Ooh, I hit a sore spot. "Hospitality accounting" my arse. You're not an accountant. Not even a bookkeeper. We've been on to you for years. What is "hospitality accounting?" Helping a small place with their quick books?

              No wonder you don't have a clue.

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              • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 01 2021, @12:20PM (4 children)

                by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 01 2021, @12:20PM (#1093541) Journal

                Ooh, I hit a sore spot. "Hospitality accounting" my arse. You're not an accountant. Not even a bookkeeper. We've been on to you for years. What is "hospitality accounting?" Helping a small place with their quick books?

                I notice you don't apologize for getting it wrong. Yes, you hit the Azuma sore spot where the person just says shit about other people, and doesn't care in the slightest if what they say is right or wrong. Basically, constructs their own fantasy world and then tries to make everyone play in it.

                Sorry, I'm not interested.

                As to your questions, in the (non-covid) summer (this being seasonal work), the "small place" is a resort with 300 hotel rooms, 280 cabins, and 440 campsites, plus several restaurants, retail shops, and a Marina - in the middle of a park that sees more than four million visitors a year. and "hospitality accounting" just means that I do a different sort of accounting than the people who figure out what account to charge the office party cake to or strategies for minimizing tax exposure. In particular, it's a combination of auditing all sales transactions in that location plus monitoring that employees are handling money correctly.

                No wonder you don't have a clue.

                Because? This is a pathetic argument from authority without an authority. Last I heard, you worked in the past as a coder and now, are retired and volunteer work at a local food bank. Doesn't sound like you have the life experiences necessary to judge people based on flimsy evidence, right? Maybe you could come back to continue this argument when you do get such experience? It should only take a few decades.

                • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 01 2021, @01:55PM (3 children)

                  by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday January 01 2021, @01:55PM (#1093556) Journal

                  You keep projecting.

                  Get a real job for once on your life. Seriously, a camp ground? That's like somebody saying they work on a cruise ship. In other words, unemployed.

                  It's funny. Once my vision is fixed, I'll be using my retirement pension to subsidize my software development. And I'll make money at it, because it's what I do. I should be able to do it through my 90s, in part because I'm not going to open source anything, so no nagging from freetards about features they want that I think go in the wrong direction, or competing with forks of my own crap.

                  The extra money would be nice, as would being back in the swing of things.

                  Or to quote Foghorn Leghorn - "where's your ambition, boy?"

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                  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 01 2021, @06:21PM (2 children)

                    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 01 2021, @06:21PM (#1093655) Journal

                    You keep projecting.

                    Get a real job for once on your life. Seriously, a camp ground? That's like somebody saying they work on a cruise ship. In other words, unemployed.

                    Who would have thought that they would have campgrounds in the woods?

                    Given that this is coming from the person whose present career is cat-sitter, the accusation doesn't have the sting it might otherwise have.

                    I also find it interesting how we segued from talking about the futility of high taxation (using your own examples!) to my supposed lack of a career and insufficient ambition unbecoming of a SN hack. I guess I better drop a gill net and catch some massive red herring because the school is here.

                    • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 01 2021, @06:42PM (1 child)

                      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday January 01 2021, @06:42PM (#1093660) Journal

                      I'm retired. That's what people in their mid-60s do. I spend my weeks volunteering. You tried to give the impression you were an accountant or whatever, but your posts where you have no clue whatsoever about money say you're full of shit, like usual.

                      Nobody believes you. Absolutely nobody.

                      Then again, what can you expect from a hick living in Hicksville.

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                      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 01 2021, @10:00PM

                        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 01 2021, @10:00PM (#1093723) Journal

                        I'm retired.

                        Welcome fellow deadbeat. Bring the XBox and I'll bring the Cheetos and skunk beer.

                        You tried to give the impression you were an accountant or whatever

                        Yes, I'm an accountant and yes, I have on occasion tried to give that impression as well. So what? Have I ever argued that you should agree with me because of my authority as an accountant?

                        but your posts where you have no clue whatsoever about money say you're full of shit, like usual.

                        I notice those alleged posts didn't happen in this thread.

                        So anyway, I've been thinking about why you're bringing this apparently completely unrelated thing up in a thread about increasing taxes and I got it figured out. Your problem is that Canada isn't taxing you enough - that is, you need your taxes increased just like Apple does. That's why you're a deadbeat retiree rather than a real job careerist. Here's hoping that Canada fixes that and makes bank at the same time!