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In just two days, Santa Clara County's $11M financial assistance fund has run out

Original post made on Mar 27, 2020

An $11 million financial assistance program announced on Monday to help low-income residents who have lost work as a result of the new coronavirus has already run out of money.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, March 26, 2020, 6:20 PM

Comments (8)

Posted by 40 yrs in MV
a resident of Slater
on Mar 27, 2020 at 5:26 am

So it would be fair to say the need is going to be far greater than thought possible. April 1st is going to be brutal.


Posted by Groot
a resident of Willowgate
on Mar 29, 2020 at 1:23 am

Not very good at Math, are we?

San Jose and Santa Clara County leaders are not.

The voters should require addition and subtraction tests for folks who wish to make it on the ballot?




Posted by Uh Huh
a resident of Bailey Park
on Mar 29, 2020 at 7:00 am

What did they expect? Everyone loves free money and breadcrumbs, just like Googlers like free meals and other freebies.


Posted by The Business Man
a resident of Castro City
on Mar 29, 2020 at 11:34 am

In response to Uh Huh you said:

“What did they expect? Everyone loves free money and breadcrumbs, just like Googlers like free meals and other freebies.”

You remind me of when Apollo 13 suffered the explosion. One of the crew, Fred Haise immediately assumed it was caused by his other crewman Jack Swigert. Jack having done what was ordered to do regarding maintenance on an oxygen tank, nicknamed “tanks a stir”. The result of his action initiated a defect in the tank that Jack had no way of nowing was already there. It was determined that it was tests and had a discovered fault but somehow managed to be installed in the command module.

James Lovell had the leadership quality to understand that that kind of emotional and potential violent situation was not going to solve anything. He simply pointed out to both of them that their problems were no involving that issue at all.

Uh Huh seems to be putting the blame of the current problem onto those that had nothing to do with it. The problem really is the VIRUS and the fact we were TOO SLOW to get our act together due to poor communication and response endemic to our lake or centralizes health care, and viral response that results from a “private” run healthcare system.

Uh Huh also seems to want to use this opportunity to meet out hostility towards the wrong problem as well. THE VIRUS IS THE PROBLEM.

Uh Huh is ignoring that in order for our economy to stay afloat since there is no more than $1.7 Trillion in existence it must undergo at least 90-100 transactions a year to maintain our economy. But since more than 50% of our economic system is shut down right now, the impact is unavoidable.

And since there is no end in sight people like Uh Huh are going to scapegoat anyone they can to put the blame on the situation on the WRONG source.

And now that the Fed Reserve is about to print out infinite money to try to mitigate the problem, it will make it worse, the dollar value will crash, the interest rates will be forced to go up, and the economy will be damaged even worse. The Fed has nothing to do with the problem it is the VIRUS and it cannot be fixed by printing out money or giving out loans.

Please consider this Uh Huh?


Posted by Uh Huh
a resident of Bailey Park
on Mar 29, 2020 at 11:40 am

I didn't realize I said all that. But you certainly did.


Posted by The Business Man
a resident of Castro City
on Mar 29, 2020 at 12:03 pm

It looks like we have a "gang" of people trying to make everyone a scapegoat.

Just see that we have 6 likes regarding Uh Huh posts.

Someday we will look back at this and say, "what were we thinking?"


Posted by The Business Man
a resident of Castro City
on Mar 30, 2020 at 8:35 am

Another update:

Johnson and Johnson is saying it will have a vaccine to "start" human testing in September found here (Web Link)

That means it is safe to say we will be in the shelter in place order beyond September.

What are we supposed to do until then?

The State better get on track to protect homeowners and renters at least till the end of the year AT MINIMUM.


Posted by Robyn
a resident of another community
on Mar 30, 2020 at 2:58 pm

Where did the money go? Not in general, but specific, amounts.
How many received $4K, $3K, 2K, etc.? What due diligence was done?
Meanwhile our property taxes are due in the second installment, next month. Any relief there?


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