By Tom Loury
Unemployment access is almost impossible. I interviewed one person that started filing five days before any results in answering the questionnaire to receive unemployment. This person might be eligible time start two week from filing, time starts then two weeks pay, then file employment efforts every two weeks to receive a two week check.
It took every morning many filing effort, every afternoon many filling efforts and some nights when the website was not shut down. You would get 3 pages into the filing and everything would shut down. It took five days of many hours per day. Look at all the money the state saved!
Now the governor is replacing the man in charge who was a Rick Scott hold over. Was it his fault? It looks good on paper. The department of Management Services secretary Jonathan Satter will be in charge of the broken system. Let’s hope Jonathan can give Floridians new hope so they can pay some bills and buy some groceries. It’s way over a month into this job crash and people are desperate.
Late Breaking news: Governor DeSantis waved the two week review for collecting unemployment.
After reading each bill, remember we are in the middle of a Pandemic and that is why the budget was so important! To pass some relief bills for the sick and dying.
From the Newspaper Association!!!
This is how disingenuous our Congress really is!
$20,000,000,000 (Billion!!!) to the USPS (because, why not?)
$300,000,000 to the Endowment for the Arts (Ah, let’s do it! They’ll never know)
$300,000,000 for the Endowment for the Humanities (because, not that many people even knew that was a thing?)
$15,000,000 for Veterans Employment Training (for when the GI Bill isn’t enough)
$435,000,000 for mental health support (Man, oh man, thats a lot of suicide hotlines) Continue reading
Pictured is Lane hunting Easter Eggs with his Mother, Father, Grandmother and Grandfather. It was a 30 minute hunt and was rewarding for all. This family had plans for a big family reunion Easter dinner and an Easter Egg hunt with lots of children. Along came Coronavirus killing people, making people sick. I have one thing to say. Let’s remember what Easter stands for and I say no more.
From the net:
It was reported that State Rep. Karen Whitsett of Detroit has credited the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine with saving her life after she tested positive for COVID-19.
President Trump publicized the drug during a briefing, Trump said that the drug as shown promise for a possible cure.
When Whitsett got to the hospital, she found a state order prohibiting the use of hydroxychloroquine.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, issued the order and retract it several days later.
Whitsett said: Continue reading
While going through my past pictures I came across this picture taken during Vegas Night sponsored by the Lady Lake Chamber ten years ago. This picture shows one of the Chamber members winning chips not money. It was a fun game night and went on for a number of years.
By TomL
China and the COVID-19 threaten shortage of Smithfield meat processing plants.
Large number of employees at the slaughterhouses and meat processing plants are diagnosed with COVID-19 putting America’s supply of meat in jeopardy. If you can’t process or no one is there to process the meat the farmers take a hit. We should never have allowed our food chain supply be dominated by another country.
Smithfield products are also sold under other names like Nathan’s Famous, Farmland, Eckrich, Armour and Healthy Ones, etc.
This started in 2013, lets see who was in office??? A Chinese holding company bought the long time Smithfield brand based in Virginia. Many plants remain in America but are under holding company control.
Some of the plants involved in the closures are in Cudahy, Wisconsin; Martin City, Missouri; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota and others. Smithfield with plants across our country employ ten of thousands of Americans. Continue reading
On ‘Covid19’ – These (below) are “Quotes” from the press: Readers questions not answered!
Q-“Masks in a medical setting stop the wearer’s fluids from contaminating other patients”.
AISI-Why then should we not all wear a mask to protect those around us?
AISI-For the same reason, ask that people around us do the same?
Q-“Mask N95 was, at some point determined to be a safe for medical usage”.
AISI-N95, means only 95% protection. How many ‘Medic’ infections would have been avoided if N100 masks were used exclusively”.
Q-“Cost efficiency would also figure in as to why one was chosen over the other”. Continue reading
Dear Friends,
As I write this column, the COVID-19 crises is still underway but we are seeing some signs that the precautions we have all been taking are beginning to work. Models and projections that we have seen are continually being readjusted in a positive direction. The number of infections, hospitalizations and deaths are much lower than previously thought. Progress is being made, thanks to strong leadership by our Governor and his emergency management team. His actions have been balanced and reasonable because he recognizes that statewide shutdowns, quarantines and curfews are not effective as a one-size-fits-all approach. Allowing local communities to address their specific circumstances and identifying virus “hot spots” are much more efficient at controlling further outbreak.
Moving forward, test and treat is going to be the best long-term solution we have at fighting this problem. No one can say for sure how long this virus will be around, and whether or not it will come back in another season. This is brand new to all of us and is, in part, what makes it scary for most people. Now is a time for faith, not fear. The media is constantly showing us the numbers of deceased victims, and images from New York hospitals that are struggling, but what they aren’t showing is the number of people that have fully recovered. Our healthcare systems are some of the best in the world and the professionals caring for our sick people there are highly trained and competent. For that, we are extremely blessed. Continue reading
The following is a review of just some of the ways the CEP is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic:
Get. Gather. Go.
Hopefully, you saw our efforts around the marketing blitz to GET businesses informed on the Paycheck Protection Program, have them GATHER the necessary information, and GO apply. We ran radio, billboards, social media, cable, and print. The social media campaign reached more than 50,000 people. We created a dedicated website (GetGatherGo.com) in addition to our COVID-19 response page. The goal was to get as many local businesses as possible to apply. We hosted a webinar on filling out the application and filled it to our 100-seat capacity. The webinar was recorded, posted on our website, and was viewed more than 1,000 times. Finally, actively engaged with all of our lending institutions to make sure businesses had the latest tips on applying.
Local Loan Fund
The City and County have both approved funding for a local loan fund. The Paycheck Protection Program has moved much faster than anyone anticipated and is much more attractive to borrowers than originally promoted (the loan is forgivable and any portion not forgiven carries a 1% interest rate). This is a much better option for our businesses and we are encouraging those who were interested to pursue this instead. However, the CEP finalized the agreement with both the City and County so that we can activate this program should we need to in the coming days. As a note – the CEP is taking no fees or admin on this program. Continue reading
Easter was good. It was just a small part of our family not the 25 we originally planned, but for good reason. We had a one child Easter egg hunt for my grandson. He was happy and we had a nice meal for five of us. It is our duty to make sure that those around us know what Easter really means.
Our world has become a hostile place with tornados ripping through the country side and killing people, lethal viruses creeping across our country killing people. We can’t live in fear. We just go with what happens and pray for the best.
The virus brought out some peoples’ good side. I was pumping gas and a guy I have never seen before walked up and handed me some gloves and said will these help. I have extra to share he said. I called on a customer that gave me a face mask to help protect me from the virus.
A lot of my customers just shut down. One locked his doors but with an open sign on the door. If a customer came to the door they were allowed in to make their purchase. One customer said she could not keep enough product on the shelves, people are buying extra. Continue reading
