On The Dole

BTW - "liberal" Dems like Dianne Feinstein can go fuck themselves too.

WaPo:

If the name of the Paycheck Protection Program didn’t make its purpose clear, its key sponsors spelled it out.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) explained that the program “was designed as an alternative for unemployment and to prevent unemployment.” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the director of the Small Business Administration announced that the “overarching focus” of the effort was “keeping workers paid and employed.”

But a closer look at three large companies that received millions from the $517 billion program shows that some companies have not retained most of their staff on the payrolls.

The Fairmont Grand Del Mar in San Diego, a luxury hotel owned by a group led by Richard Blum, a private equity chief and the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), received $6.4 million from the program. The hotel has been closed and most of its hundreds of workers are unemployed and unpaid, union officials said. To maintain their health insurance, workers send money back to the company.

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The companies say that they can’t rehire many people because they can’t fully reopen properties when a government pandemic order limits guests. But their decisions to withhold the money from payroll have left employees to rely on government unemployment checks, which in some states have been difficult to obtain and, for many, will soon stop when the benefit expires. Other furloughed employees are getting kicked off company health insurance because employers are not funding their premiums.

“It was a rotten move,” said Nazareth Reza, a 33-year-old mother who for eight years had been a banquet server at the Fairmont Grand Del Mar. “They have the money.”

“It makes me mad that the company got the money but we are still out of a job,” said Tomas Garcia, 26, formerly a server at Buca di Beppo in Albuquerque.

“It’s pretty cruel kicking people off of their health insurance in the middle of the pandemic,” said Christopher Cook, 47, who has worked 22 years at the Omni Providence in Rhode Island, mostly in the purchasing department. His family lost the company insurance on June 1. “If they received that [government] money — that’s mind-blowing to me.”

"Conservatives" are always yammering about "people won't work if you pay them not to".

They're indicting themselves, not the workin' stiffs who just want to make a decent wage so they can support themselves and their habits or hobbies or whatever.

And maybe I'm not supposed to want it, but right now, I want Wall Street and some of these company bosses to suffer - a lot and for a good long time.