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stlgasm wrote: ↑

May 12, 2021

This may have been posted already and it’s from 2019, but pretty cool so I wanted to share... check out #1!

Niche.com: 2019 Top Urban Suburbs in America
https://www.niche.com/blog/city-life-in-the-suburbs-top-urban-suburbs-in-america/

That website also has the Top 19 places to live in Missouri are in the St. Louis area. Number 20 is Parkville, a suburb of Kansas City. Then after that, you don't get to another KC suburb until number 28 (Lee's Summit), number 32 (Weatherby Lake), number 39 (Liberty), and number 48 (Blue Springs). Columbia comes in at number 34.

Some of the City of St. Louis's neighborhoods rank in the top 50, so it's not all just suburbs.
https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/se ... /missouri/

Reuters: Missouri, Tennessee join U.S. states cutting pandemic payments

The governors of Missouri and Tennessee are joining five other Republican-led states in ending all federally funded pandemic-related unemployment benefits this summer, saying the extra money is keeping those out of work from rejoining the labor force and making it hard for employers to fill jobs.

^Gotta love Missouri. He just can't help sticking it to the urban areas.

The number of states doing this is up to nine now. I don't understand how a state, much less a governor by themselves, can overturn a federal mandate? 

framer wrote: ↑

May 12, 2021

The number of states doing this is up to nine now. I don't understand how a state, much less a governor by themselves, can overturn a federal mandate? 

Cuz local control! (Except when municipalities are doing something divergent from what the state wants - minimum wage, for example)

My governor in IA has joined that list, too.  Fully ironic that they're trying to get people back to work by getting rid of unemployment assistance because they're "making too much" on unemployment.  Maybe those businesses that are paying less than unemployment benefits are the problem, not the people collecting the benefits?  Maybe that's where legislation and governing should look, rather than hurting the workers? I dunno, I'm just a libtard.

Bart Harley Jarvis wrote: ↑

May 12, 2021

My governor in IA has joined that list, too.  Fully ironic that they're trying to get people back to work by getting rid of unemployment assistance because they're "making too much" on unemployment.  Maybe those businesses that are paying less than unemployment benefits are the problem, not the people collecting the benefits?  Maybe that's where legislation and governing should look, rather than hurting the workers? I dunno, I'm just a libtard.

Poverty is the cudgel that is used to coerce workers into being exploited by Capital. The system is working according to its bipartisan intention.

framer wrote:The number of states doing this is up to nine now. I don't understand how a state, much less a governor by themselves, can overturn a federal mandate? 

I think UI is run by the states, the Feds provide financial assistance but it's up to the states to dictate the rules.

^It doesn't need to. Just distribute the federal UI through the treasury like the stimulus money. Or run federal UI out of the post office. Democrats/the left continue to underestimate conservative willingness to forsake their own constituents for meager political gain or even just owning the libs.

MarkHaversham wrote: ↑

May 12, 2021

Poverty is the cudgel that is used to coerce workers into being exploited by Capital. The system is working according to its bipartisan intention.

It's incredible to me that these state governors/legislatures are taking away a benefit, because they think it's benefiting the intended beneficiaries too much. "This effort is working too well. We need to shut it down. If it were far less effective at helping people out we'd happily keep it in place." It's mind boggling. 

BellaVilla wrote: ↑

May 12, 2021

^It doesn't need to. Just distribute the federal UI through the treasury like the stimulus money. Or run federal UI out of the post office. Democrats/the left continue to underestimate conservative willingness to forsake their own constituents for meager political gain or even just owning the libs.

I don't think liberals are that bothered by it. They want enough stimulus to keep people from rioting in the streets en masse and parading politicians to the guillotine, but with the pandemic winding down the stimulus probably seems less important.

Mentioned this in the other thread, but since its getting more discussion here, I'd like to reiterate that just as with medicaid, our GOP leaders are forcing Missouri taxpayers to subsidize federal unemployemnt insurance for the rest of the country.

Its been funny to monitor the governor's twitter page. Recently, he's has been touting the success of Missouri's strong wage growth (our wage growth is tops in the country over the last year) but it is entirely due to an increase in the minimum wage (which he opposed) and a tightening labor market amid the pandemic (which stripping Fed UI benefits actively undermines). 

He's also obsesses with a window manufacturer outside Jeff City investing in 100 jobs. Which is nice, don't get me wrong, but he's tweeted about it like 10 times.

MarkHaversham wrote: ↑

May 12, 2021

wabash wrote: ↑

May 12, 2021

MarkHaversham wrote: ↑

May 12, 2021

Poverty is the cudgel that is used to coerce workers into being exploited by Capital. The system is working according to its bipartisan intention.

It's incredible to me that these state governors/legislatures are taking away a benefit, because they think it's benefiting the intended beneficiaries too much. "This effort is working too well. We need to shut it down. If it were far less effective at helping people out we'd happily keep it in place." It's mind boggling. 

The only reason we have poverty/homelessness/hunger in this country is that the people in charge in both parties decided not to give money/housing/food to people who need it. Suffering has always been a policy choice, it's just a little more transparent now.

Edit: Ironically, blood-red Utah is the only state I've heard of where "give houses to homeless people" seemed to gain any traction recently.

I understand your broader frustration, but that take isn't entirely fair in this particular instance, where one party decided to give money to people who need it. Implementing a policy to help address suffering was their policy choice. Another party (at least in many states) is now actively and successfully reversing that policy.  

MarkHaversham wrote: ↑

May 12, 2021

Bart Harley Jarvis wrote: ↑

May 12, 2021

My governor in IA has joined that list, too.  Fully ironic that they're trying to get people back to work by getting rid of unemployment assistance because they're "making too much" on unemployment.  Maybe those businesses that are paying less than unemployment benefits are the problem, not the people collecting the benefits?  Maybe that's where legislation and governing should look, rather than hurting the workers? I dunno, I'm just a libtard.

Poverty is the cudgel that is used to coerce workers into being exploited by Capital. The system is working according to its bipartisan intention.

framer wrote:The number of states doing this is up to nine now. I don't understand how a state, much less a governor by themselves, can overturn a federal mandate? 

I think UI is run by the states, the Feds provide financial assistance but it's up to the states to dictate the rules.

As someone mentioned on the Covid thread, these states that forgo anymore UI benefits are still paying into the system for all the other states to use

BellaVilla wrote: ↑

May 12, 2021

He's also obsesses with a window manufacturer outside Jeff City investing in 100 jobs. Which is nice, don't get me wrong, but he's tweeted about it like 10 times.

Probably the reason the window company is growing is because people are spending their stimulus monies/communist pay.

sc4mayor wrote: ↑

May 12, 2021

Nice video out of Indianapolis about the Arch.  Tomorrow they’re going to Fulton and Hannibal.
https://www.wthr.com/mobile/video/trave ... ymufSVdSnE

I love that the actor in Hannibal "talked some smack" and got him into a painting contest. Just maybe Mr. Clemmons was onto something there.

An article about the Central Library in The Daily Beast: The Over-the-Top Library with a Secret Treasure

^I love that the door is blinking in one of the pictures, but . . . always hidden. I do love that door. (And I love that library.)

Yeah, good stuff, but how can any article talking about the Central Library's hidden treasures not mention the natural spring still flowing beneath a sub-basement trapdoor? 

+1!

Oh hey, look. The McClownskys got us in the national news again:

NBC: St. Louis lawyer who waved rifle at protesters running for Senate in Missouri
The Hill: Mark McCloskey files to run for Senate in Missouri 
So the entire Republican primary is a giant clown show. Which . . . shouldn't be a surprise, I suppose.