{"id":25967,"date":"2020-04-07T15:48:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25967"},"modified":"2020-04-07T15:48:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:48:51","slug":"ante-upped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/07\/ante-upped\/","title":{"rendered":"Ante, Upped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/07\/schumer-calls-for-25k-in-heroes-pay-for-coronavirus-workers\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Schumer calls for up to $25,000 in \u2018heroes\u2019 pay for coronavirus workers<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling for up to $25,000 in \u201cheroes\u201d pay for front-line health care and service industry workers as Congress pushes ahead with a new coronavirus crisis rescue package.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * * *<\/p>\n<p>Nurses, truck drivers, grocery store clerks and others are \u201crisking their lives\u201d to care for Americans amid the COVID-19 pandemic and economic shutdown, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ludicrous on the face, of course, but so was the $1000 checks or whatever we&#8217;re supposed to be getting to mail back to the government.<\/p>\n<p>Oppose it, and you hate these workers, hey?<\/p>\n<p>No word on politicos who are sheltering in front of microphones get &#8220;heroes&#8221; pay for continuing to not keep their social distance from news microphones.  Heaven knows they count themselves amongst the heroes for voting to shovel Monopoly money into the wind.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bigger corporations would be expected to foot the bill for the pay hike, he said, while the federal government would provide funding for smaller firms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, I see: Prices are going up.  And you&#8217;re all fired.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I see who cares about the working man.  Not all heroes work on Capitol Hill, but those that do wear Ds.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I wonder how corporations will enjoy the double-whammy of lawsuits and additional expenses they&#8217;re voluntold by Democrats in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>This just in: I <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/07\/coronavocations\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opted to click Refresh<\/a> like the fool I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schumer calls for up to $25,000 in \u2018heroes\u2019 pay for coronavirus workers Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling for up to $25,000 in \u201cheroes\u201d pay for front-line health care and service industry workers as Congress pushes ahead with a new coronavirus crisis rescue package. * * * * Nurses, truck drivers, grocery store clerks and others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25969,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967\/revisions\/25969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}