Denver, CO – Colorado paid $252 million in unemployment benefits in the last four weeks due to the economic crisis created by Governor Jared Polis’ “Stay at Home” order.
Benefits paid: Regular UI
- Week ending April 25: $86.1 Million
- Week ending April 18: $74.1 Million
- Week ending April 11: $62.0 Million
- Week ending April 4: $29.8 Million
- Average 2020 weekly benefits paid for weeks prior: $8.7 Million
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An additional $28.7 million in pandemic unemployment assistance (gig workers/self-employed) was paid in the week ending April 25, 2020.
To put that in context, $102.8 million was paid out in May of 2009 during the Great Recession.
Polis’ orders have decimated the economy.
Colorado is paying these benefits at an unsustainable pace, and something needs to change immediately. Polis’ fake reopening plan that keeps many businesses closed and all of Colorado at home will not jumpstart the economy or bring enough of these jobs back to make a difference.
Continuing to pay these excessive benefits will also cut into the budget, which is facing a $3 billion shortfall.
Polis, overzealous, unelected bureaucrats, and overreaching local governments sunk Colorado into a recession.
If things are going to bounce back without causing further permanent damage to the economy, Colorado needs to open up right now.
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He better not try taxing us or mucking with the Tabor amendment to get it back. He’s the one that initiated these draconian measures let his uber rich cronies and himself make up the difference for their mistakes!!
New slogan push: Handcuffs for white collar criminals. For the politicians, can we please reinvigorate the recall campaigns? I’m ready to barter and am planting a garden now. Every less dollar, every less dime the state of Colorado gets in taxation right now, is what is good for Colorado liberty. These alarmist news stories I’ve been seeing around about local municipalities having a shortfall, being unable to fund many government programs, having to cut back on government labor wages. I thought those were feelgood stories. Finally. Unemployment and budgetary shortfalls are not even the whole story. Get ready for severe discrimination for refusing to be trained like a dog, wear your leash mask and leash bracelet. It’s already happened to me, denied vital medical care for refusing to wear a mask when I’m otherwise healthy with no apparent infectious disease. Now we see what this decades long push to make medical treatment, vaccines, unnecessary superfluous requests for designer drugs on tv, and preventative health care with hospitals is all about. Going to the hospital will never be cool or trendy to sensible people. Avoid hospitals at all costs until they rescind their government submission training policies. An apple a day keeps the doctor away and look no further than the pages of history books to know in advance how private businesses will be forced to respond. If there is no customers they will have to either shutter or rescind restrictive policies which keeps the customers away. The free market at work. You will hear slogans like it’s happening to everyone so it’s not discrimination. I don’t make the rules I just follow them. It’s a company policy and I am unable to help you. (These are the talking points corporations are feeding CO medical and other industry staff right now.) aka; we agree with the imposed tyranny and are eager to promote it.
Thank you.
Next, if California starts printing its own money in state currency notes, by executive order of the governor, flattery by imitation, in a rush to copy, would New York beat Colorado?