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appalachiablue

(41,132 posts)
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 10:22 PM Jul 2020

'Ted Cruz Spews Disgust At 'Waiters & Waitresses,' Who Don't Deserve $600 Unemployment Checks [View all]

'Ted Cruz spews disgust at ‘waiters and waitresses’ who he says don’t deserve $600 unemployment checks.'

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday blasted waiters, waitresses and bus boys who he said don’t deserve an additional $600 per week for being unemployed during the coronavirus pandemic.

In an interview on CBS, Cruz told host Margaret Brennan that restaurant owners are at a disadvantage because their staff doesn’t want to work while the pandemic is ongoing.

“We need to do significantly more to fight the disease,” Cruz opined. “At the same time, we have an absolute economic catastrophe. We have over 44 million Americans [who] have lost their job and we have got to get America back to work.”

According to Cruz, Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) are “shoveling cash at the problem.”...

https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/ted-cruz-spews-disgust-at-waiters-and-waitresses-who-he-says-dont-deserve-600-unemployment-checks/

~ Most people don't want to voluntarily die that way, a thought.

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better put a bag over your head when you go out, jagoff Withywindle Jul 2020 #1
Hahaha!! Evergreen Emerald Jul 2020 #3
He can order a #3 luvallpeeps Jul 2020 #4
I was thinking I wonder if there's a code for that. captain queeg Jul 2020 #8
Or, he may wish that it was ONLY spit. Marie Marie Jul 2020 #10
we need to make it possible for workers to stay home for a while and not spread the virus dawg day Jul 2020 #2
What an idiotic thing to say. Laffy Kat Jul 2020 #5
Heidi Cruz was a managing director at Goldman Sachs when they received a $10B bailout in '08. sop Jul 2020 #6
You know it, on the money appalachiablue Jul 2020 #16
Dems initially proposed a benefit not to exceed wage, Repubs rejected it Cicada Jul 2020 #7
Thanks for posting, I didn't know all of this. appalachiablue Jul 2020 #14
We are not your serfs, Ted Mopar151 Jul 2020 #9
The checks wouldn't be needed if Cruz and his leader had taken the pandemic seriously. Doodley Jul 2020 #11
+2 And if everything is safe, why do they need immunity appalachiablue Jul 2020 #17
Hey lying Canadian Cruz, your wife is ugly and your old man killed JFK Hassler Jul 2020 #12
WTF does he do? world wide wally Jul 2020 #13
Remind me of his time as a server. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #15
Ted Cruz doesn't deserve the votes of waiters and waitresses RainCaster Jul 2020 #18
Ted. Fucking. Cruz. Blue Owl Jul 2020 #19
His argument, that it prevents reopening, is wrong Cicada Jul 2020 #20
Raphael "Ted" Cruise is the world's reminder ResistantAmerican17 Jul 2020 #21
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