From CBS Pittsburgh:
Pennsylvania Stands Still As Neighbors Hike Minimum Wage, But Some Lawmakers See Action In 2022
What do Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey and Delaware all share in common besides a border with Pennsylvania? They each have higher minimum wages than Pennsylvania, and some are raising them in 2022 – but Pennsylvania is not.
“It’s 5,651 days since the Pennsylvania Legislature last gave a raise for the minimum wage. That’s a long time,” PA Sen. Christine Tartaglione, a Philadelphia Democrat, told KDKA political editor Jon Delano on Tuesday.
While Pennsylvania’s minimum wage is stuck at $7.25 an hour, neighboring states will be offering more on Jan. 1: $8.75 in West Virginia, $9.30 in Ohio, $10.50 in Delaware, $12.50 in Maryland, $13.00 in New Jersey and $13.20 in New York.
Tartaglione authored the last minimum wage in 2006 and has a bill to raise the wage for everyone, including all restaurant and tip workers.
“Now I have Senate Bill 12, which will bring the minimum wage to $12.00 with a pathway to $15.00. It’s not going to start right at $15.00,” said Tartaglione.
From NJ101.5:
New Jersey’s minimum wage is going up again
If they haven’t been forced to already due to other pressures, many employers across New Jersey must increase their minimum hourly pay for workers in the new year.
New Jersey’s statewide minimum wage, which impacts most employees in the state, is set to increase by $1, to a total of $13 per hour, on Jan. 1. The mandate is part of legislation signed by Gov. Phil Murphy in February 2019, which gradually raises the minimum hourly wage to $15 by 2024.
“I’m proud the Garden State has remained on course to a $15 minimum wage despite the challenges of the pandemic,” said Robert Asaro-Angelo, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. “We’re working to get our residents into not just jobs, but good jobs with sustainable wages and the generous benefits that come with working in our state.”
More inflation …..
From the Star Ledger:
Has the residential real estate market in N.J. peaked? Here’s what industry experts say.
Double-digit price growth. Low inventory. Cheap interest rates.
Residential real estate has been in a frenzied boom since the pandemic began. Buyers have been grappling over homes by waging bidding wars and running prices up tens of thousands of dollars above asking.
But, has the market finally peaked?
Industry experts are saying, it depends from which angle you measure the peak.
“Yes, it has peaked, in terms of the number of home sales,” said Jeffrey Otteau, a real estate economist and president of the Otteau Group. “From this point forward, we’re seeing fewer home sales occur, which will continue into next year.”
Home sales were down for each of the last five months of 2021, according to data from the Otteau Group. It started in June with a 12% decline in contract sales and continued with a 22% decline in July, 16% in August, 20% in September, 16% in October and 7% in November.
But we haven’t seen the peak yet for prices. Although, Otteau said, it is coming.
“In terms of prices we believe the peak won’t occur until late summer 2022,” he said. “The reason is that the economy will continue to get stronger and that millennial generation will continue to transition from renter to homeownership, which will bring demand. The interest rates will drift higher, but they’re still historically low.”
Prices increased 12% statewide in 2020 and 15% statewide in 2021. They will likely gain another 5% in 2022, Otteau said.
Corporations are quick to raise prices, or commit more stealthy types of fraud such as shrinking of packaging in a deceitful way to make you think you are getting the same amount when in fact its less. Even more deceitful is when they do this all while calling it “new and improved.”
If they give a raise, it’s with a takeaway, like a lower quality healthcare plan or a higher deductible.
When it comes to giving a raise, for them it’s like having the Hershey squirts from too many White Castle sliders while on the ride home in your BMW with white seats. That sphincter is tighter than Kim Kardashian’s pants.
The military’s renewed interest in ultra-high-speed missiles — spurred by concern that the U.S. is lagging behind Russia and China — opens the door to lucrative contracts that could last decades.
More spending.
And here, all along, I had been told should China/Russia attack America they would just get nuked off the face of the earth, so, with that being a deterrent, this would never happen anyway.
What are Americans so afraid of anyway? There are enough nukes in America to turn the Earth into a second sun. Why are Americans so afraid of the Chinese? And if so, why do American Businesses love the Chinese so much?
It’s all so absurd.
Are the Americans afraid they will be attacked by Chinese Hypersonic Weapons and have Wayne, NJ taken over with it’s residents speaking in Mandarin?
Crossing fingers..so far so good for my flight to Newark
https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today/Ewr
Does Otteau post here?
Hello. And Bye.
We’re deep into this pandemic and testing sites are running out of kits less than an hour after opening the doors. It coincides with O’Biden’s recent confession that they don’t have a covid plan. He claimed he had a “plan” during his campaign. Most of us knew it was bullsh1t but the muppet masses were duped by the left once again.
When Trump was president, he placed floating hospitals on each coast, ordered manufacturers to retool and produce protective gear and respirators, opened up the Javits Center and other similar facilities and drove an initiative that accelerated the development, manufacturing, and distribution of covid vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics from outbreak to distribution in 9 months. The difference in leadership is drastic and quite sad… from real leadership to a doddering fool, wandering the halls of the White House with sh1t in his draws.
And as the muppets are/were being distracted by an onslaught of doom and gloom thanks to the left1st media, the democrats tried to fabricate the biggest heist in our history a.k.a an infrastructure bill to the tune of $1,700,000,000,000. Let’s pray this withers and dies on the first Tuesday of November 2022.
Trump also told you to inject bleach into your veins.
Haha.
It’s time for China to put the final nails in the coffin of this corrupt country.
Wow Ed..all that for a hoax that would go away by Easter and vaccines are not needed. His f@tvorange as$ was properly shown the door. Dow on way to 37k, jobless claims at 50 year lows, wages rising for real Americans bc Dems ensuring it happens..thanks Joe.
You know, Fauci and Walensky basically declared it over by this Easter.
Fauci needs to go
20,483 cases, record breaking day, a huge jump. Nearly 100k cases in a week. Deadliest day (50) in 10 months (nearly pre-vax levels). Hospitalizations jump to 3000+, approaching the peak set last winter. Murphy on the beach in Costa Rica, Biden on the beach in Delaware.
grim,
Court cases aside, do you think the OSHA mandate will stick given the availability of testing supplies, current transmission rate and overall logistics involved in enforcing it?
Hospitalizations jump to 3000+, approaching the peak set last winter. Murphy on the beach in Costa Rica, Biden on the beach in Delaware.
As stated above: “bc Dems ensuring it happens..thanks Joe.”
If Fauci ever retires he gets a $350,000 a year government pension. His current salary after 55 years of working for the government is 440,000, higher than the president.
wages rising for real Americans
Unless you’re in the financial or banking industry as your job is being offshored, frozen, downsized and diminished. I guess they’re not real Americans. Any wage increases are happening on a state by state level for minimum wage muppets only… those same muppets that still hold out hope that their democrat representatives truly do love them beyond election time.
“When Trump was president, he placed floating hospitals on each coast, ordered manufacturers to retool and produce protective gear and respirators, opened up the Javits Center and other similar facilities and drove an initiative that accelerated the development, manufacturing, and distribution of covid vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics from outbreak to distribution in 9 months.”
He then downplayed the Pandemic and made the vaccine useless by convincing his party mates that it wasn’t necessary while secretly taking the vaccine himself.
https://www.vox.com/2021/7/6/22554198/political-polarization-vaccine-covid-19-coronavirus
Trump also told you to inject bleach into your veins.
And he said it more than once, ensuring that the media would cl1max on each other as they reported it. It certainly wasn’t fake news. lol.
wages rising for real Americans.
The only thing rising for real Americans is the water around their necks.
Won’t be long before they are drowning.
Bezos and Musk having nocturnal emissions every night on beds of cash.
While many experts doubted that a vaccine could come out in the first year of a pandemic caused by a novel virus, Trump promised to get a vaccine done in 2020, poured money into the task, and ultimately was right.
Any questions?
Fauchi will go.
All the way laughing to the bank.
Gotta love the Greatest/Boomers.
Boy they sure made a mistake this time.
“Unless you’re in the financial or banking industry as your job is being offshored, frozen, downsized and diminished”
A fictional book, exalted by R dopes as good policy, told me that this is free market capitalism and I should be thankful for these “producers” of society.
Any questions?
May 2018
The Trump Administration disbands the White House pandemic response team.
July 2019
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency left the post, and the Trump Administration eliminated the role.
Oct. 2019
“Currently, there are insufficient funding sources designated for the federal government to use in response to a severe influenza pandemic.”
Jan. 22, 2020
“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Jan. 24, 2020
Trump praises China’s handling of the coronavirus: “China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”
Jan. 28, 2020
“This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency…This is going to be the roughest thing you face” Trump’s National Security Advisor to Trump
Jan. 30, 2020
“The lack of immune protection or an existing cure or vaccine would leave Americans defenseless in the case of a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on US soil,…This lack of protection elevates the risk of the coronavirus evolving into a full-blown pandemic, imperiling the lives of millions of Americans.” [Memo from Trump Trade Advisor Peter Navarro]
Feb. 2, 2020
“We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
Feb. 7, 2020
“It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu… This is deadly stuff” [Trump in a private interview with Bob Woodward from The Washington Post made public on Sept. 9, 2020]
Feb. 10, 2020
“I think the virus is going to be—it’s going to be fine.”
Feb. 10, 2020
“Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”
Feb. 24, 2020
“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… the Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb. 25, 2020
“CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
Feb. 25, 2020
“I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
Feb. 26, 2020
“The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb. 26, 2020
“We’re going very substantially down, not up.”
Feb. 26, 2020
“Well, we’re testing everybody that we need to test. And we’re finding very little problem. Very little problem.”
Feb. 26, 2020
“This is a flu. This is like a flu.”
Feb. 27, 2020
“It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Feb. 27, 2020
“The ineptness with which the Trump Administration approached this problem is not only serious, it can be deadly if not changed in the approach.” – Rep. Lloyd Doggett [During a hearing, Rep. Doggett questions HHS Sec. Azar on Trump’s refusal to take this virus seriously, warning about mask and test shortages]
Feb. 28, 2020
“We’re ordering a lot of supplies. We’re ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn’t be ordering unless it was something like this. But we’re ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
Feb. 28, 2020 “The Democrats are politicizing coronavirus. Coronavirus. They are politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs …. This is their new hoax.”
Feb. 29, 2020 “In truth we do not have a clue how many are infected in the USA. We are expecting the first wave to spread in the US within the next 7 days.” [Email from Trump Advisor and virologist Steven Hatfill to Peter Navarro, reported by The Washington Post on Sept. 15, 2021]
Mar. 1, 2020
Peter Navarro warns Trump that the federal response is “NOT fast enough” and that a “very serious public health emergency” was looming. [Reported by The Washington Post on Sept. 15. 2021]
March 2, 2020
“You take a solid flu vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” [Trump to health officials who answered “No.”]
March 2, 2020
“A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 4, 2020
“Now, and this is just my hunch, and — but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this. Because a lot people will have this and it’s very mild.”
March 4, 2020
“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5, 2020
“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5, 2020
“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6, 2020
“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6, 2020
“You have to be calm. It’ll go away.”
March 6, 2020
“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6, 2020
“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 6, 2020
“I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”
Mar. 6, 2020
“We are, really, very highly prepared for anything.”
March 7, 2020
“No, I’m not concerned at all.
March 8, 2020
“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
March 9, 2020
During a news conference, White House officials said the U.S. will have tested one million people that week and thereafter would complete 4 million tests per week. By the end of the week, the CDC had only completed a paltry 4,000 tests.
March 10, 2020
“Just stay calm. It will go away.”
March 11, 2020
The World Health Organization categorizes the coronavirus as a pandemic due to its alarming spread and severity.
March 11, 2020
“It goes away….It’s going away. We want it to go away with very, very few deaths.”
March 12, 2020
“The system is not really geared to what we need right now…That is a failing. Let’s admit it.” [Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to Congress]
March 12, 2020
“You know, you see what’s going on. And so I just wanted that to stop as it pertains to the United States. And that’s what we’ve done. We’ve stopped it.”
March 13, 2020
“I don’t take responsibility at all.”
Bystander says:
December 29, 2021 at 5:40 pm
“Any questions? …”
Yes, are you currently taking anything to control your TDS? If not, you need to start asap! If so, you need to ask your doc to increase the dosage.
Always the defense when the truth can’t be defended.
Lib,
I like Feb 25th. So Ed says Trump developed vaccine in 9 mos? How was it nearly ready in Feb? Oh right, pure BS. See scientists actually do research years in advance and were not waiting for an Orange fart at the door. Amazing.
Always the defense when the truth can’t be defended.
There is no truth left in America.
America doesn’t run on Dunkin’, it runs on greed, lies, deceit, and threats.
Can we compare Trump’s policies vs. Biden’s on covid? Can we compare Murphy’s to DeSantis? I don’t see the differences other than rhetoric and maybe forcing kids to wear (or pretend to wear) masks in schools. The left has been pursuing a let it rip strategy while pretending not to. That’s fine…but own up to it.
Don’t Look Up.
Netflix.
Good.
Gizzy Maxwell guilty.
Sing birdie sing.
Then put her in prison for life.
Is it too late to change Kamala for Kamilla?
I mean, really, it’s only changing one vowel and adding a consonant. Just think about the improvement America would have with just these little changes.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7602424/
Amid a record-breaking surge, the U.S. is now averaging more COVID-19 cases per day than at any other point in the pandemic, according to new data updated on Wednesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Federal data shows the nation is now reporting an average of more than 277,000 new cases a day, shattering the previous record of 250,000 cases per day from last January.
“These numbers are absolutely staggering, especially considering we are two years into the pandemic,” said John Brownstein, Ph.D., an epidemiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and an ABC News contributor.
Let’s Go Brandon!
Eddie,
And just think, they are now posting it’s not even primarily Omicron.
Smoke ’em if you got ’em, gonna be fun times ahead.
Guess that’s why they are legalizing edibles, they know you are going to need them.
Next stock market crash is going to make 1920 look like a slap to the face.
Think people are nuts now, just wait till the hopelessness sets in with the general public.
“CNN is waking up to the realization that President Biden is not delivering on his promise to crush Covid-19.
In a piece published Tuesday, White House reporter Stephen Collinson criticized the Biden administration’s handling of Covid-19 at-home testing—the need for which should have been predictable as winter approached.
“President Joe Biden and his team repeatedly promised more Covid-19 testing, including at-home kits that deliver rapid results, but they are now admitting a virus that is more adaptable than the politicians who fight it has outpaced them again,” he writes.
The president admitted his administration’s failure during a phone call with governors this week, saying more should have been done to make testing kits available as the holidays approached.
Last week, he pledged to distribute 500 million kits, but distribution won’t begin until January—“which will be too late to help this week’s holiday crunch.”
Any Questions?
Phoenix,
Think people are nuts now, just wait till the hopelessness sets in with the general public.
I think Clot is right… packs will be roaming the street in a crime-ridden spree of looting and lawlessness. We see it now; smash and grab tactics, skyrocketing crime, uber inflation, seeding more division, destroying one symbol and replacing it with another, etc. Add the restraints of a pandemic and you have a perfect storm brewing lead by a rudderless wreck at the Federal level. All in a time where their focus is fixed on a $1.7 trillion dollar heist to boot. It’s dire and getting worse.
Eddie,
Save some money. Maybe then you can be privileged enough to have a seat in the circumcised glans of the world’s largest flying di l do.
Ain’t life grand?
Really though, it needed to have some detachable testicles to get the full effect, but since it was filled with roid fuel it lost those and went bald like it’s owner.
https://youtu.be/ps0Ad5hFw4w?t=25
Get a glass.
If the intention was to increase the number of home tests, it might have been smart to ensure that there were enough approved manufacturers prior to such an announcement, with enough lead time to ensure test kits could be manufactured.
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-emergency-use-authorizations-medical-devices/in-vitro-diagnostics-euas-antigen-diagnostic-tests-sars-cov-2
Clearly the FDA was sitting on a pile of applications, for at least 7 or 8 months. Are we to believe that the 11 new approved tests in the last 60-70 days was just sheer coincidence (almost half in the last 30 days)? There had been absolutely zero approvals between Abbott being approved in March and this new flurry of test approvals. What was the hold up? Many of these manufacturers were approved and selling tests in other major countries around the world.
Sorry, too little too late.
Any questions?
Yes, see “I don’t take responsibility at all”
That is diff…admitting responsibility is a feature of adulting and Rs like childlike presidents who never admit they do anything wrong. It is a sign of strength to R dolts. But Ed, I generally agree with you but it did not start on Jan 2021. It started on 9/11 with fear, mistrust, and bloodlust that bankrupted this country morally, fiscally, and politically. They militarized local police, spied on you without warrant and created a system of data collecting to blackmail nearly every person on earth. Mix that with rise of anonymous ‘internet tough guy/Karen’s and no one likes anyone anymore. I saw their post. They are a D..or R..ass&ole. There you go.
Phoenix: Whatever happened to the correction officers who were supposedly guarding Epstein when he supposedly killed himself?
3b,
Last I heard is that they are being reassigned to guard Ghislaine.
Americans have always been a “bit” distrustful of their government.
But now, it’s at an all time high.
So this is what it’s like when a civilization fails. I mean, I read about it in grade school, just never thought I would actually experience it.
Initial jobless claims decreased by 8,000 to 198,000
Continuing claims decreased by 140,000 to 1.716 million.
The 4-week moving average for initial claims (199,250) is the lowest it has been since October 25, 1969!!
Labor market tightening?!
Technology has dissected past the subcu, the muscle, the bone, the dura, and into the cortex of the human brain.
We now watch police murder with impunity, we knew criminals did it, but now it’s clear no one has the lock on that.
We see female kindergarten teachers kick children. Boy, who would have thought that.
Karens, oooh, the beautiful Karens. Put them on a pedestal, make them cheerleaders, celebrities on Baywatch, only to have them attack old men on an airplane when they don’t get what they want. Thank you cell phone camera, no one would ever believe this.
Enough hacks have been done where we have a good glimpse into the heads of the elite of America.
Now go buy your legal pot, a bag of chips, and your favorite spirits.
Then step into Zucks Metaverse. The end will come soon enough.
The whole testing situation related to covid is a disgrace. From the very beginning of this pandemic virologists said the key to managing the virus is testing. I didn’t understand what this meant when I first heard this, two years later I understand. Leaving home to be with people? Test! Whether it is social, business, entertainment, dining, whatever the occasion, take a covid test before you walk out the door. For this to work tests must be fast, free, widely available, accurate and easy to use. It doesn’t solve the pandemic, but it certainly makes it more manageable. The fact that the technology has existed for more than a year and that the US is unable to employ it effectively is disgraceful.
Phoenix: Whatever happened to the correction officers who were supposedly guarding Epstein when he supposedly killed himself?
They probably were delivered suitcases with a cool million in them. Should we take bets on how long before Maxwell is disposed of?
We are all living through this pandemic. Public health is not and should not be a political issue. Making public health political only serves politicians and the media. News has evolved into entertainment and it is a profit center for media and controversy attracts viewers. Viewers are voters and that attracts politicians. None of this serves the interests of the public.
Remember when news was respected for being unbiased and sticking to facts? Money corrupted the industry. Maximize profits by maximizing viewership. Maximize viewership by selling what they want to hear, whatever will engage them.
Old realtor says:
December 30, 2021 at 9:52 am
We are all living through this pandemic. Public health is not and should not be a political issue. Making public health political only serves politicians and the media. News has evolved into entertainment and it is a profit center for media and controversy attracts viewers. Viewers are voters and that attracts politicians. None of this serves the interests of the public.
Americans are selfish pr1cks. All one needs to do is drive on the Parkway or any other road with more than one lane of traffic to see it.
To this day, we still have people on this blog who are anti-vaccine, even though it may save their own lives and reduce the load on the Covid care network of UNSELFISH medical workers, which is getting very thin. I know two nurse managers personally.
At this point, they’ll take first year nursing students and will pay them more than they’ll ever make to take care of grandma who listened to these Covid downplayers. It’s so much easier to blame it on Fauci than on Tucker. But they don’t stop there. They will only be pleased if you are willing to follow them off the political plank. Selfish pr1cks.
I had a coupon for four peppermint shakes for free at Chick-Fil-A. When we went in to grab them (they couldn’t be used in the drive through), the staff was great and mask compliant. But half of the customers could give two sh1ts about Covid. Sure, it won’t kill them! Selfish pr1cks.
Here is a webcam in Costa Rica. Even though it’s outside and masks are only required to be worn indoors, the vast majority wear them.
https://camarasvialescr.com/camara/NXlaLMW3YnEph3qNhXx4/cartago-ruta-10-baslica-nuestra-seora-de-los-ngeles
We are the dumbest country in the world.
Lib – In NJ Governor Murphy dropped the indoor mask mandate on May 24th.
NY Gov Hocul put back the mask mandate on Dec 10th, with a caveat that business could have a vaccine checking requirement to avoid it.
There will always be people who don’t conform without the threat of no service in a restaurant or other business. Everywhere I go I see signs that say please wear a mask, but not mandatory not to shop there. Business don’t want to be the bad guy here, it’s up to the Governor to get off the beach already.
People in this country don’t listen to the government regardless of mandates.
Mandates are as toothless as immigration laws. We expend a greater effort blaming our leaders for their poor performance than we do trying to improve our own lots.
A real government would be figuring out how best to protect the health of its citizens without endangering the economy. Our dumbass leadership continues to lie and
contradict themselves through non-sensible and unenforceable rules which selfish people will choose to ignore. You don’t fight a highly transmissible virus by opening theatres and encouraging winter travel.
On testing, Governor Murphy tweeted yesterday from the beach to go visit the free PCR testing sites.
Well I checked our county has ONLY one free test site at the Freehold Firehouse with 3 hours of operation from 1 to 4 PM on only Wednesdays. They were closed this week.
There aren’t too many test sites around but there seem to be plenty of testing in Newark and Jersey City but other places not so much..
https://covid19.nj.gov/faqs/nj-information/testing-and-treatment/where-can-i-get-free-public-covid-19-testing-or-treatment
There was also a big announcement on SEPT 2nd by the Governor for rapid tests in the schools allocating 1/4 Billion for it which they got from the Feds. School district however is responsible and would need to draft a plan and submit the plan to get $$. Why would this not be a state run plan? They are punting here again, I have not heard of any school districts putting in covid testing plans. Feds punt to States, and well the State punts and wants to push responsibility down further to the towns even with all of this money the FEDS approved they cannot run even a dam testing center in every county that is drive thru and runs day and night. They could even stand up several state run labs to perform the PCR tests and centralize testing of swabs but no we won’t do that. The plan now is to rely on home tests, which there aren’t any to be had because of mass shortages because nobody ordered them and the manufacturers have a long lead time once the contract is signed. I would be shocked if any of these home antigen tests are even manufactured in the good ole USA.
Lib – ” don’t listen to the government”
There will always be a few. While waiting last night at the airport there were a few mulling around maskless. When the patrol came by they quickly masked up. There will never be 100% compliance with any law or rule. That is why there needs to be enforcement.
NYPD had to get involved in the Burger King incident.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/28/5-anti-vax-protesters-arrested-after-storming-nyc-burger-king/
Juice: I got my PCR test yesterday in Bergenfield . It was opened from
9 to 3. I had an 11:00 AM appointment and got there at 10:30. I was home about 11:30. They confirmed my registration, handed me a bag with a tube, went to my car spit in the tube, and then screwed on the vial with some substance in it, and shake vial until the substance dissolved in tube. Put back in bag and then went back to the drop off box in the auditorium. It was very easy all around.
“At this point, they’ll take first year nursing students and will pay them more than they’ll ever make to take care of grandma”
And the result of doing this is worse than Covid. Landmine territory with zero experience. The amount of weak links in the chain is off the scale.
A real government would be figuring out how best to protect the health of its citizens without endangering the economy.
You don’t fight a highly transmissible virus by opening theatres and encouraging winter travel.
Opposite ends of the spectrum here, the way I read it. How do you accomplish it?
Juice: I got my DNA test yesterday in Bergenfield.
went to my car spit in the tube, my DNA is now in a registry.
Welcome to China//Cough,cough,/America.
I guess if you are going to die no difference between death by covid or medication error.
End result is the same.
Lib,
Our government has proven that it is untrustworthy, inept, rife with fraud, deceitful, self serving, corporate run, I could go on forever.
I’d start moving up my plans for Costa Rica if I were you.
NYPD had to get involved in the Burger King incident.
Have it your way.
BTW – we all have sniffles this morning after our jaunt home last night. No headaches, no sore throats, no loss of smell or taste and no fevers. Symptoms usually show for Covid between day 2 and 12 of exposure with the average being day 5. That means no Covid, but more likely a cold.
4 out of 5 Covid tests came back negative yesterday. 1,729,988 test performed nationally with 301,472 actual cases.
The symptoms need to be emphasized more, as the thin testing we have now is overwhelmed with people who have either a cold, flu or psychosomatic symptoms caused by a mental issue.
Why would this not be a state run plan? They are punting here again, I have not heard of any school districts putting in covid testing plans. Feds punt to States, and well the State punts.
It’s work. You take a government job when it’s work that you want to avoid. And it’s okay to be in government and not do anything, that’s expected, but you don’t want to make a big mistake, that can get you canned and then work becomes a possibility again.
Punting is the safe move. Just like in football. Get your 25 and ride off into the sunset.
Question: If O’Biden was removed from office for medical reasons, Carmella steps in but who becomes VP? And then who decides a tie-breaking vote in the Senate?
28k cases reported today, another huge jump in cases.
Anyone know how to write Android and Apple apps?
Want to make one. Call it Government worker how many days left before I retire and collect pension and health benefits app.
Need something that runs in the background, Years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Has to have fake disability option for those who can’t hack the full 25. Plus other features like double dip, grease politician, summer Disney discounts, where to moonlight and locate my boss.(location based)
I wonder if I can fund this with Kickstart.
Fast Harris selects a new VP, and house and senate have to approve. New VP would be the tie breaker.
Fast Harris selects a new VP, and house and senate have to approve. New VP would be the tie breaker.
What if all 50 Senate Republicans shoot down the VP choice? No tie-breaker exists at that moment. Then what? See where I’m going here? :)
We are the dumbest country in the world.
Indeed. Look who’s occupying the White House. The muppets “voted” for him.
Eddie – After JFK was killed Congress created the 25th Amendment, which was ratified by the states in 1967. President was given power to name a new Vice President, with the a yes vote from Congress.
It was tested in 1973 when Nixon’s VP Agnew resigned, Nixon then named Ford as VP. It was a messy time still however. Ford had to name another new VP when he became President after Nixon resigned 9 months later.
Fast: I don’t know in that example. I still think the Dems would rather keep
Biden than have Harris as Pres. I think they want her gone in 2024; she won’t go quietly.
Juice,
I get it but if the sitting President names a VP and it needs to be approved by Congress, it still doesn’t answer my question on what happens if the Senate is split 50-50 on the choice. There’s no VP for the tie-breaker. See the conundrum? Or, is there a tie-breaking vote somewhere else?
Fast Fauci Eddie,
Have the government pay the employees at establishments that can’t be made covid safe. Not just everyone with a pulse (and apparently, a whole bunch without). Proof of hardship is not that difficult to prove. Most activities can continue. Open windows and wear sweaters. Limit capacities. If planes can be made to fly Covid-safe. Then certainly a school or a museum can.
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-25/
There’s an ocean of information out there for those inclined to spend a few seconds searching for it.
Ed if there is no VP, or the VP abstains, or even votes no, the bill fails. Majority rule after all. Hasn’t happed all that much maybe 260 tie votes in our history. Kamala has cast 15 tie breaker votes this year the most of any VP. Biden never had to cast any when he was VP, he had it pretty easy as VP. I did meet Biden once too when he was in Hoboken. He took up a back room for dinner and meetings at the Hudson Tavern in Hoboken one evening after touring damage from the Hurricane Sandy.
joyce,
I did read it, that’s why I posted the question. Am I missing what happens next in a 50 – 50 Senate tie?
Best PCR by us is Adam Diagnostic in Pine Brook. It’s actually a lab, so they return results in 27 hours with the big Xmas delay. My hockey playing son gets tested often since his hockey team is a train wreck. He’s still the only one who wears a mask everywhere and will probably be the last man standing on his team. But masks don’t work. Nonetheless, this place is a scan the code on the door, fill out info online. Inside for swab and leave. Took ten minutes. Line was maybe ten deep at 8:30pm on Monday night (the 27th). No charge with insurance. On way home, get Shan Shan noodles with intestines right next door.
Price controls is never the right solution for economic problems. Price controls always lead to distortions. And minimum wage laws are price controls. It simply forbids some employment that would otherwise be mutually beneficial from happening. It discriminates against the employment of the most inexperienced and least skilled laborers.
My son is franticly looking for a rapid test, he was exposed on Tuesday and has tickets for the Jets game on Sunday. No symptom’s and fully vaxed, not that it matters.
We have about 8 Binax rapids left. Not selling them though. Try Walmart online. They come online frequently. Just keep checking.
4 -11 Jets or the 4-11 Giants, neither is worth Covid exposure…
He just found one at the local town pharmacy, Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid were all out. Lets see how it goes.
Juice told you, 50-50 means no … 50 is not a majority.
Fast Eddie says:
December 30, 2021 at 12:09 pm
joyce,
I did read it, that’s why I posted the question. Am I missing what happens next in a 50 – 50 Senate tie?
Trick – CVS has some Binax inventory by me in Monmouth and I see some in a few stores in Bergen.
Check here for your stores, just put in zip code.
https://brickseek.com/cvs-inventory-checker/?sku=550147
BTW Wallgreens took down their online stock checker for BinaxNow and QuickVue home Covid antigen tests.
It now says “Visit your store to see if it’s available” you can no longer search nearby stores etc for inventory..
Juice told you, 50-50 means no … 50 is not a majority.
So, if one side knocks it down, we never have a VP. Got it.
He was able to get it at the town Pharmacy, then dumped it on the floor while taking it. Sent him back out and told him to get a few.
Grim, can you free my last post?
Ed I think I know where you are going with this now.
Right now it’s a 50/50 spilt in Senate, until mid-terms where 34 of 100 Senate seats are up for election and some could flip either way.
If Sleepy Joe caught the RONA and did not make it, president Harris would be sworn in and probably immediate name Gavin Newsom to be the new VP. There would be a vote in both houses of congress where he would probably pass in the House with a vote of 221 to 213 and fail in the Senate with a 50/50 vote with no tiebreaker.
Hence no VP, until Harris picks someone who can pass the vote or the next election occurs in 2024.
Juice: Not sure on the Newsome choice, Pres and VP then both from
California?? Won’t play well with the Dem moderates and going into 2024.
Eddie,
Why more obstruction and stupidity? There is more to governing than obstructing the other side. The other side is neither your enemy or opponent, they are your fellow American.
OK then 3B – Ned Lamont from Conn…
Juice,
Ed I think I know where you are going with this now.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! ;) Thank you!! THEN, what happens. Carmella, as prez, says I want him or her as VP and the Republicans say f.uck you until they can agree on a true moderate. The dems would behoove themselves to pray shitty pants is good enough to continue being President Placeholder so the above situation doesn’t present itself. They have a slight advantage in Carmella as VP but if the old man is too whacked out, the Republicans can hold them over a fire… which they should.
Lib,
Serious question: When you move to CR, how are you going to trade equities or otherwise manage your investments? Is the Internet there reliable and secure?
Fast: What do they do assuming Biden makes it through first term, and Harris is the presumed candidate. They know she is a disaster.
At the local shop rite every 80 year old grandma and grandpa in town is out food shopping most are not wearing masks. Going to be a long deadly winter.
Very mellow about now. rain is falling in SoCal. Much needed. We’re getting a soaking.
House is clean. Everyone is lounging. Life is good.
Gary,
Hate to pop the bubble, but you have Romney, Murkowski, Toomey, Collins who are not a lock. Add in Rubio is up for election and may want to put some distance from the Wingnuts for a 2024 run.
Shoprite in Neptune has rapid tests. Two tests per box $19.99.
Shoprite in Neptune has rapid tests. Two tests per box $19.99.
Kelly’s in Neptune has a mini open faced Reuben for less. Better option.
JFHC take some meds or eat a barrel already
Bystander says:
December 29, 2021 at 5:40 pm
Ah Kelly’s. Yes the best Reuben!
Kelly’s where my cousin met his wife……sadly they are now in the middle of a divorce!
We are now two Walmart’s down in NJ, there could be riots..
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/12/2nd-nj-walmart-closes-due-to-coronavirus.html
Nomad,
Costa Rica has excellent internet and even decent 5G coverage in the larger cities and resort areas. Most places have wireless for free (even moreso than here) since the locals mainly purchase cell service pay as you go. It’s dirt cheap too. When I went with ExPat, I got a sim card which gave me two weeks of unlimited cell service, two calls to America and one call back as well unlimited texts for under $10 on the nation’s best provider. Cell service is socialized to keep it cheap and equitable for all.
As for security, the same technology that exists here works down there. VPNs, dynamic IPs, etc. It’s really quite modern.
Did you know Bubba? He was our favorite bartender from Zach’s until he moved up there. I think COVID took out Hudson Tavern.
Juice Box says:
December 30, 2021 at 12:01 pm
He took up a back room for dinner and meetings at the Hudson Tavern in Hoboken one evening after touring damage from the Hurricane Sandy.
About the single tank of gas thing.
Filled up in Kenosha, because gas in Wisconsin is significantly cheaper than IL. Crossing IL through Chicago is only about 80 miles. Indiana around the bottom of Lake Michigan and around into Michigan on I-94, and to Ann Arbor. Crossed over into Toledo and gassed up there. OH & WI substantially cheaper. End to end only about 400 miles.
Also, going to the Pro Football HOF is great. However, unlike Cooperstown, where people make a pilgrimage, the PFHOF is a good 2 – 2 1/2 hour visit that should only be done as a stop off if you are zipping through NE Ohio. Very nice place though.
Stu: we get it. You found a place that you want to retire, but stop with the denigrating of the United States. PVCR is a glorified retirement community, and CR has the benefit implicit U.S. military and economic protection, and will bend over backwards to cater to people in your position, to bring hard currency, social connections, and resources into the country. Of course it is laid back. It is the permanent vacation….. at the end of the day though, it is not the United States, and that is a huge chasm. I’d rather retire to HI or somewhere in the southwest instead, not that I would though. But that is just me.
I don’t know why you want to retire so young. You seem to have a lot to offer, and you positively influence many people in the workplace. The U.S. economy needs more horses like you.
the implicit benefit of
Weather seems to be the most attractive component of the C
CR experience. I’ve heard the experience of living the CR lifestyle really
captivates some. Perhaps if all-else fails a Kibbutz somewhere in Israel.
Chi yup Joe the owner, Bubba for sure and many others as I lived next door for a stint. I am friends down here in Monmouth with a female bartender from Ireland that worked there, kids are on the same soccer team here etc.
I saw Sex, Lies and Videotape at a cinema in Eilat. Great movie, but we just went to get into the air conditioning.
One of my favorite in experiences on the trip was passing through Taba out of the Sinai into Eilat. I had been in Egypt for a couple of weeks, and there was no way I was going to shave and risk getting an infection. Well I was super tanned, couple weeks growth and no haircut for a couple of months, and this guy walks up to me and ask directions. I said no I was American. The guy said I looked at everyone here, saw you and said this is the only guy who is native.
Personally, I think it is a NYC thing, where you always adopt a look as if you know exactly where you are going so you aren’t a target.
Ex says:
December 30, 2021 at 8:43 pm
Weather seems to be the most attractive component of the C
CR experience. I’ve heard the experience of living the CR lifestyle really
captivates some. Perhaps if all-else fails a Kibbutz somewhere in Israel.
ChiFi,
I guess I’m just sick of Jersey. And I’ve been to Hawaii. Three times actually. We’ve been to 4 of the Islands I think. It’s beautiful. Loved every minute of it. But way too expensive, too trafficky and way too isolated for my taste. Could never find old friends to visit. Too far and too expensive.
Just to allay your fears. My plan is to get a place like this. https://www.bluewaterpropertiesofcostarica.com/costa-rica-real-estate/property/casa-hijau-beautiful-ocean-view-home/
Non-stop airfare can be had for $200 direct on JetBlue nearly all year round. I’m guessing the country is subsidizing their international airport porting charges to benefit their ecotourism. It’s just too easy and inexpensive to head down. I expect to see a lot of you down there. Heck you pay the airfare and buy me a few drinks and I’ll feed and house you for free.
I’ll try to do less bashing of our corrupt country, because you are correct. We do protect much of this hemisphere. But as I grow older, I become more and more disgusted by how stupid of a populace lives here and how corrupt our politicians are at every level. I don’t see this changing ever. And I do see a plethora of future problems stemming from it. Throw in the risk of civil war due to the hatred growing between the left and the right and this country could be in for some serious financial pain.
As for retiring young? I am an adept investor and a frugal maniac. I worked my buns off to get to this position. Between work and the sweat equity I’ve put into both homes, I’m pretty set for life. So why work until I’m near dead. We probably have different views of retirement anyway. I see it as non-stop fishing and gardening so I can do less grocery shopping. Also, would like to leave a great vacation home (or permanent home) to my older son, who I’m fairly sure one day will be the custodian of my younger son. I know it’s mostly foreign to my peers today, but my life has mostly been putting off any current gratification in exchange for a longer earlier retirement. I drove my little red Civic hatchback until I was 45 because I knew an Audi or a BMW would have just delayed my retirement. Sure, Gator and I could have afforded our own home, but by living in our multi-family for 11 years, we didn’t have to save a penny towards our kid’s college accounts. And there’s enough in there for either to go anywhere. Delayed gratification is fine, until you die young. I do not want to chance it. Not that I lived a life of depravity. But being frugal has always led us to not do certain things we have wanted to, but will now be able to do in retirement. Including, driving a nice car. Buying a home with an ocean view and enough rooms for multiple friends and family to visit simultaneously.
Remember. The short-term plan is to get a place in Nevada and continue to work for a few years while figuring out the Costa Rica situation. Will live in US during CRs rainy season, which coincides with the the more pleasant desert climate. As long as we are in CR every 6 months, we can maintain our visa and work on citizenship. It’s actually a pretty good plan. As we get older, we sell our Vegas abode and live the simple life until we die.
And I’ve done the retirement cost calculator based on 3% a year spending. Heck, we can easily live off of the earnings alone in an 7% a year stock market without touching the principle.
There’s also one other major issue which I haven’t shared publicly, but which really makes the CR move practical. Call me one day and I’ll explain. Or meet Gator and I for a drink outside at the Silk City or on my deck. I have to get some use out of the heat lamp anyway. We can talk colleges for my kid as well. He continues to exceed my academic expectations making the college hunt tricker. Why couldn’t he be a popular jack-ass like me in high school. It was so much easier.
Sure, Ty/Small/GOAT whoever..right after you eat a dik. Truth is too much to handle for red hat dolts who are pining for his big wrinkled Orange a$$ to run in 2024.
I’ll bash this sh TT hole country. It attacked me when I played by the rules. No sympathy from me.
This country doesn’t manufacture much for what it’s good at manufacturing is hatred
America is back on top. We are #1
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10357685/US-records-512-500-daily-COVID-cases-breaks-world-record-second-day-row.html#comments-10357685