Steve Mnuchin insists Americans can live on just $17/day during pandemic

[Snake Plissken]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/steve-mnuchin-insists-americans-can-live-on-just-17-day-during-pandemic/

Instead of being sent to prison, Trump and the rest of the members of the Trump crime syndicate should be forced to live on $17/day until they commit suicide.

[packman]

1. Of course - but, rent-utilities-pills-medical expenses-etc,etc.

May be true on that $17 for food (beans and rice), but all those "extras" is what gets you.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. I Just Spent $36 At Pharmacy

3 scripts. That's 2+ days, & I have very good insurance. Somebody with a bronze plan probably pays 3x that.
There's 6.5 days. Now, they'd be down to $13.40 a day & haven't paid rent or electricity.
Guess food is optional in Mnuchin's world.

[Aquaria]

3. 2+ days of meds?

Or 2 days of spending?

I’m a little confused by the wording.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. 2 $17 Dollar Days

Using Mnuchin's number, my scripts wiped away 2 days for the month.
Figurines 30 days x $17 minus the $108 for meds (my bronze plan assumption of copay, or 3x what I pay" leaves $402. That's where the $13.40 a day left came from.
Sorry for the confusion.

[jimfields33]

6. IF just food, yes you definitely can eat very well on 17 dollars a day

[Walleye]

29. Mnuchin has never in his life eaten on $17 a day.

What a prick!

[jimfields33]

33. No doubt. He's been rich his whole life.

One reason for no empathy for people.

[Walleye]

34. Never bought health insurance either, no doubt.

The propaganda from these pricks is playing hell with my blood pressure.

[bronxiteforever]

13. +1000 Absolutely correct.

[Iliyah]

4. WTF is wrong with these people? . . .

Mnuchin also said that re-opening and lifting the ban on the social interaction would be determined by health and not by economy aspect. What a load of shit.

And anyways, shouldn't it be left up to the scientist and medical expert?

[TheBlackAdder]

22. US Poverty level is $12,760 for one person, that's $34/day. Mnuchin says folks can live on 1/2 that?

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I use the word 'says' because I know he doesn't think it. He's just bullshitting.

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[greenjar_01]

5. I can see the seventeen dollaaaahhhs!

I mean, it's a glitch in the Matrix that there are literally $17 visible in the iconic image of dipshittery, if you count the top corner of column 1 row 5.

[Karma13612]

21. 🤣🤣🤣 good one! 🤣🤣 n/t

[customerserviceguy]

23. Great catch! n/t

[LiberalFighter]

7. Has he in the last 10 years?

Could he now?

[Aquaria]

8. You first, you ugly fucking toad.

Then get back to us with how that worked out for you.

[crickets]

26. +1

[Brainfodder]

9. Forgot to mention you'd have to move to another country, first?

[lastlib]

10. Just my f*cking HEALTH INSURANCE premium is more than that!!

Effing shithead!

Hell, my CAR insurance is $15/day!

When are we going to be RID of these d***heads??

[gibraltar72]

11. Put your shit in a trust and show us ya bastard.

[Grammy23]

12. They have no clue and no imagination what living on that meager amount would be like.

Or if it is even possible. They do a back of the envelope estimate and call it good. None of these so-called experts has EVER had to actually try an experiment to see how it works out. I highly recommend they take that plan and live on it for 4-6 weeks just to get a taste of the life they will live. No cheating either. They have to eat, be housed and pay all expenses associated with their lives just for a taste of reality.

One thing these fools fail to take into account is how many people really live do paycheck to paycheck. There is no rainy day fund. No Emergency Stash. No tomato can in the backyard or mattress stuffed with cash. So once this week’s check is spent on food, rent/mortgage, utilities, car note, credit cards, gas or transportation costs, co-pay to the Doctor and pharmacy, there is only pocket change left until the next pay day when the cycle starts all over again. If there is ANY interruption to those checks (or reduction in expected amount) they are screwed and start falling behind. If they start getting paid again, they struggle but might catch up. But with EVERY.SINGLE.PAYCHECK.THEY.MISS, they get deeper in the hole. Chances of catching up gets harder and harder and soon gets to be impossible. Without loan forgiveness or a pause in mortgage payments or other debts (without dinging their credit rating) they will be screwed financially for a very long time. The psychological scars may be harder to trace but they are there, too. That is what these out of touch bastards at the top do not know about and if they are told about it still DO NOT CARE. Let that sink in. They do not care about the damage they have helped inflict. And these are the people at the top left in charge.

[DBoon]

15. some do live on less than this

they are homeless. They crowd our public spaces in makeshift tents. They havehad their humanity stolen fomr them. They are destitute.

Is this Mnuchin's future for us?

[3catwoman3]

16. I'd like to see...

...him and his bleached blonde bimbo wife try that.

[grumpyduck]

17. Okay, you fucking piece of amoeba manure,

why don't you show us how? Why don't you prove it to us?

Why don't you STFU?

[Wellstone ruled]

18. So Stevie,510 dollars per person.

Hmmm,okay,510 X2 =1020 for a thirty day month for a couple. Okay Stevie,you Houses you have for rent here in Vegas cost minumum of 1500 plus all Utilities and HOA fees as well as Lawn Care. Golly Stevie,if that was the case,your 10k houses would all be vacant and your Buddies at the Mortgage Bank would be demanding your cover your loans.

My guess is Stevie has already served notice of Vacancy on most of his Houses already. Most of his houses are rented by Casino and Hotel Workers.

[2naSalit]

19. I want to see them do it first.

[Windy City Charlie]

20. I think

I think Mr. Mnuchin should lead by example. The "expert" needs to show us how it's done.

[Alacritous Crier]

24. Oh them bankers..... smh... -- nt

[Vinca]

25. The idiot needs a trip to the grocery store to straighten him out.

In addition, most people would get behind on mortgages or rent, utilities, car payments and other "extras" like that.

[Marrah_Goodman]

27. I am less pissed off after I read the article

He is talking about the stimulus bill lasting 2.5 months ( personally I think there will be another in a month or so regardless of what he thinks)

Almost everyone will have other forms of income besides the stimulus check.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. Uh huh

I'd like to see that asshole get by on that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. "Let them eat cake" doesn't quite work any more.

But "Let them live on $17 a day" should be enough to start rolling out the guillotines...

[tman]

31. I can eat good on $3.50 a day but that's just food.

[gopiscrap]

32. how much is that fucking bastard living on

per day?