Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Saagar Enjeti’s GREAT THINGS Of 2020: Vaccines, Stimulus Checks, A Coming Populist Revolution" video.

  1. I'm voting against both Republicans and Democrats in every race from now on. The only exception being when it's against the incumbent in the general election. It's disgusting that essential workers have been completely left out of these plans. There is active negotiation to give basically everybody else help. The only money we get is when it goes to everybody and only because they can't figure out how to exclude us. Most of us, weren't even doing so hot even before the pandemic, but now we get to do additional work and take additional risks without being protected or compensated for it. Disgusting.
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  2. To be fair, the unions became a part of the Democratic establishment and largely lost interest in helping the workers. It's one of the reasons why none of the unions have had the guts to strike. If the grocery workers or delivery drivers were to strike for even a day or two, the entire economy would shutdown. There's really power there that could be used to get real concessions that would benefit everybody.
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  3. Yes, but nobody did anything to help essential workers. I've had my hours cut because the company hired additional people and didn't use the extra people to make the workload more reasonable. But, since we're essential workers and this is due to them overhiring and not due to the pandemic, we don't get any of the pandemic assistance that other folks got when they lost hours.
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  4. LOL, also F you, now whenever I watch that show I'm just going to think of President Biden.
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  5. We dropped the gold standard because we couldn't dig up gold fast enough to keep up with economic expansion. One of the issues you have on a gold standard is that your economy had better not expand more quickly than you dig up more gold as you wind up with deflation as a result. It's essentially impossible to maintain a gold standard if you don't control the supply of gold. The main issue with going off the standard is that a bunch of incompetent morons were allowed to tell everybody that inflation is OK and deflation is always bad when the reality is that short periods of deflation are a healthy recovery and the only way of preventing the kind of inflationary expectations that have pretty much destroyed any interest in saving money for the future if you can't afford stocks and bonds.
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