If the White House spends billions on aide packages for the cruise ship

[applegrove]

industry and the tourist industry and all the private entities affected by coronavirus it must fund COVID-19 treatment for the uninsured. Both are out of the norm spending. Otherwise that is not picking winners and losers. That is playing God.

[ehrnst]

1. Speaker Pelosi is on this as we speak.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/11/nancy-pelosi-coronavirus-stimulus-package-125564

[beachbumbob]

2. nothing happens unless it goes through Pelosi and democrats

she never had more power to get other issues addressed as well

[dansolo]

3. Where is Rand Paul complaining about the spending?

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. I sincerely fear we'll see more deaths attributable to poverty than infection when this is over.

I'm now hearing chatter out of Washington about a potential four week quarantine. The official poverty rate in 2018 was 11.8%. How many more people above the poverty line will be immediately under it within a week, two weeks, three weeks, a month of little to no work?

People at my company think I'm being Chicken Little about this. But so far, everything I've heard from my sources has come to pass and now looks conservative in hindsight. I'm not in panic mode, but definitely deep concern.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Expect severe budget cuts in the next administration

And when that happens, they better start looking for the boondoggles in military expenditures. It is the only sensible thing to do to avoid further hardshio on ordinary citizens.

[LiberalArkie]

14. They never look at military as way too many leaders in both parties have way too much

stock in military suppliers

[johnthewoodworker]

15. Someone might have to consider a tax increase on the wealthy and corporations.

[exboyfil]

5. Loans or take equity positions

[Wounded Bear]

7. Let's see how he bails out the hotels...his hotels. nt

[empedocles]

8. Cruise ship execs get funded. 1000+ crew members of ship . . . nah

[Delmette2.0]

9. We have seen this before

Think of the recent farm bailout. The big corporate farms got more money and the small farmers got so little they still went bankrupt.

[Scarsdale]

10. Aren't most of the cruise lines owned and operated by foreign companies?

Since their negligence is partly responsible for this pandemic, why can't THEY take some of the blame (and cost?) This is blatant pandering from the gop, to their donors. The cruise industry has made billions in profit, let them now cover some of the costs. Why do US taxpayers have to fund multi millionaires? This SUCKS as much as the orange turd in the WH.

[Chakaconcarne]

11. Surely there will be money in there for the hotel industry.

[lark]

12. He will do NOTHING for the working poor except let them die.

He doesn't care one bit about us and deliberately delayed testing the population for 8 weeks so he could have a company he's part owner in produce the test. They are obviously quite bad at it, or were told from the beginning to walk this as absolutely slow as possible. The same instructions were given to CDC so they routinely fail to test people who are probably actively carrying it. He thinks we'll just die in secret and no one will know, but I think we will rapidly be past that point. Guess that's when he blames Pence?

[StTimofEdenRoc]

13. Are any US flagged carriers?

Why ?

[Historic NY]

17. Because they avoid US taxes, can hire crews at lower wages,

Panama is one of the countries. These ships get around US regulations that govern everything, including safety.

[Apollo Zeus]

16. Cruise ships should be commandeered as additional hospital space

for the duration.

Don't think that many major cruise ships are based in the US because they don't like to comply with our labor, wage and liability laws. Floating sweat-shops.

[gab13by13]

18. Handouts for the rich is called Capitalism,

Handouts for the poor is called Socialism.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. Uninsured should come first and foremost.

Otherwise, we'll never stop the spread........

High priority should also be given to cash-strapped rural and inner-city clinics and hospitals.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. I really can't see the cruise ship industry recovering

for at least a year. That's a long time to subsidize them. It's not like retooling auto industry at all.