The Case Against $2,000 Checks Is Garbage

they might as well just send apaches to strafe neighborhoods.  it would accomplish the same result more quickly

How can anyone be so out of touch? They actually think someone gets $2,000 and says, “I don’t want this. I got more money than I know what to do with!” Many people are living on Top Ramen right now, and they could use $2,000 to buy some hotdogs to throw in there.

The Vichy Dems will only help Wall Street and the MIC, and those $2000 checks will not be used to buy stocks and bonds.   If those checks were earmarked to, say, start 401ks, with fees taken out of them, then yes, there would be checks.  Perhaps if those checks were actually $2000 Amazon gift certificates, then yes, there would be checks.  But people paying rent and buying food?  Not worth the tiny bump in profit.   And those darn people would just need food NEXT month, so no use spoiling them now.

I would be fucking astonished if there was not already Biden legislation in the works that would recompense the big rental-derivatives-holding  firms like Blackstone for lost rental revenue – while leaving the people who could not afford to pay rent, still owing rent.  Much like the mortgage thing Obama gifted Wall Street with.  Blackstone initiated the first rent-backed securities, and we all know how that game is played.  Blackstone et al. win, renters lose.  Blackstone was planning to dump those derivatives into the Hillary plan for taking 3% out of everyone’s paycheck and giving it to Blackstone Group to play with.   They will get their expected profits, no matter what.

Our government does not care about poor Americans.  Best to view everything through that lens.

that the checks would go out the next day after the Georgia elections.  However, Nancy will not accept the republican version of the $2,000 bill that does not have all the pork associated with it.  It is not republicans, but rather Nancy Pelosi who is holding up the $ 2,000 check.

I was saying since long before the emergency that a direct payment, which just happened to be about $2000 a month, should be limited to those living on less than $30,000 because  by the way American society was designed the wealthy would be the ultimate benefactors of all money given to the middle class. I stand by that analysis, but it does not apply today. Those making less than $75,000 are overwhelmingly those who have either lost their jobs or have lost a major portion of their costomers due to the pandemic. This is not 50% of the population getting an increase in disposable income, which would be quickly soaked up through “unnecessary” consumption, it will go immediately to necessary survival expenses. Perhaps many of those people had a lifestyle that was destructively based on excessive consumption, but that is a moot point now, and it would be cruel and counterproductive to judge them.

Manchin, McConnell, Cornyn, and “now that Biden’s won” Pelosi are saying nothing like that. They are just plain hurting people for their own purposes.

The benefit of getting survival money out to the majority outweighs the possibility that some who ‘don’t need it’ will get $2000.

The people who ‘don’t need it’ already got plenty (e.g. tax cuts, military spending, PPP etc) & the same people bitching about $2000 voted for tax cuts & payments to the rich gleefully (and probably got an extra campaign donation for doing so)

and as ZIS says, anyone who really doesn’t need the $ has plenty of people who do to donate it to.  possibly many in their own family or community.  or useful organizations in their community.  or useful projects in their own community.

money = fertilizer, grow more flowers