LMAO wrote:Our population is around 330 million. The amount appropriated toward direct relief checks is about $410 billion. Doing the math ($410 billion / $1,400 checks) gives us close to 293 million people. 37 million people is nowhere close to 100s of millions. And that's without mentioning the additional relief in the form of extended unemployment payments, a beefed up child tax credit, expanded health insurance, pension bailouts, rental assistance, etc. Do I agree with the means testing, especially in high CoL areas where $75k single or $150k joint might still put someone or a family in the lower middle class? No, but I'm not going to let perfect be the enemy of good. No one is going to be completely satisfied with the bill, but it'll help the country get back on its feet faster (and Dem legislators have learned from the 2009 stimulus which didn't go far enough and extended the recession), and that's good enough for me. From what I've seen, most of the people complaining about this are the far-left tankie dipshits and the reactionary morons on the right. Pretty much everyone else—from moderate conservatives to moderate liberals to moderate leftists—is content with the bill.
Seuss in his later years regretted his earlier racism, and his estate is finally honoring his wishes by pulling some of the more unscrupulous books. If anyone doesn't like it, then they can become a children's authors and create their own works. The situation isn't Orwellian because the state isn't preventing anyone from creating, publishing, or distributing their own works. This whole thing is an example of the Streisand effect. The only reason I even know about it is from right-wingers crocodile tearing about this insignificant culture war in the media. Same thing with the Potato Head 'controversy'.
That first paragraph explains your position thanks, I profoundly disagree with most of it as I see very little going to the '
needy' and huge amounts of spare cash going to be invested in stocks and shares - as for "
most of the people complaining" that's a matter of which sounding box you listen to, just like everything else in the US and indeed the UK these days.
Like in the UK for Boris, Biden will get the credit for the inevitable post Covid bounce ... whether that carries through to the midterms will be the burning question, just my view but Biden is not fit for office, physically and mentally he's well past his sell by date, that's not much of an issue now but 100% it will come more and more into public focus if it's true.
The "
pork" in this bill will be brought up over and over again, if Biden can't think on his feet they had better keep him well away from the media or he will be eaten alive, this is an enormous can of worms that once Covid is past only the "
pork" will be left to talk about.
My view is that like Boris, Biden will glow in the post recovery boom and will probably be fine for the mid-terms - but is he healthy enough?
Seuss is a distraction - cancel culture is more than one man and a few books - you learn from history, literature, art and acts of hideous violence - to ignore those lessons by '
cancelling' anything we don't like? that's not only stupid it's dangerous. Fail to learn from history and it will simply repeat itself.
The situation couldn't be more Orwellian -
Whilst Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia do not exist and Big Brother did not succeed in destroying individual thought. In a large part of our world, big brother is succeeding, through the management of the news and the censorship of the written and spoken word, in severely impairing man's ability to think freely. Even in the free world, many maintain, inroads have been made: commercial interests try to doctor the news and sometimes succeed, elected officials are tempted to misrepresent the truth, Government agencies attempt to and sometimes do invade the privacy of the individuals, and military leaders feel compelled to hide some of their activities.That's pure Orwellian does it not all start to ring true?