05-19-2020, 03:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-19-2020, 03:49 PM by Eric the Green.)
(05-19-2020, 12:34 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(05-18-2020, 11:16 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The Democrats rescued the economy by pushing 2 trillion dollars to shore it up, but Trump sent a lot of it to his big business cronies, and now they wonder why their businesses are getting killed.
It was a bipartisan bill. The Democrats pushed economy killing measures like paying more to people in unemployment than they got when working, thus encouraging people to stay unemployed and helping to prevent the economy from recovering. The Republicans pushed economy preserving measures like small business loans to help keep people employed.
The pork for big oligopoly corporations was unsurprisingly pushed by both sides.
The pork was administered by Trump, as far as I can gather. He gave the benefit to his oligarchic supporters, his own class of which he is the patron and representative.
The Democrats pushed for the economy preserving measures too. During this unusual alignment of 4 planets around March 20-24, the Republicans came on board for one brief shining moment; now they are resisting action again.
Of course, referring to "paying more to people in unemployment than they got when working, thus encouraging people to stay unemployed etc." is just typical Republican trickle-down economics tripe that has no truth to it.