Drew Sheneman for December 22, 2020

Congress is vastly unstimulating.

Blame the GOP for this. The Dems wanted $1200, but the GOP blocked every effort to do so.

And I was going to use my stimulus money to buy a new LAMBORGHINI !!!

:-(

Why is Congress shouldering the blame due to Moscow Mitch’s ineptness and uncaring attitudes to Americans without pricey club memberships?

Let’s be clear that the GOP wanted less and the Democrats wanted more for people. But the GOP kept insisting on corporate protections as a condition.

Would buying food be okay . . . ?

Stimulus Bimulus. It’s a crappy amount of money that anybody who really needs it will burn through in about 2 minutes… and anybody who really doesn’t (our family, for instance: We’re retired) will likely enough put into a savings account. Dumb. But I admit it was “fast” for an INCREDIBLE meaning of “fast”… This is what we pay them the big bux for? Maybe we should vote ALL the bastards out in 2022 (that would be 99% of the rethuglicans and 15% of the Demoalrats).

The bill is almost a thousand pages with every little bit of unfinished legislature thrown in. You can’t tell me this was unintentional. I know this happens often when Congress is cleaning up loose ends at the end of the year, but it’s a pretty good bet there is a lot of pork barrel bulls**t hidden in there. Here’s hoping one of the big papers like the Washington Post go over it and break it down for us taxpayers who are going to pay for it all.

$600 times the number of unemployed equals 900 billion? Only in America.

OF COURSE it couldn’t be any more… Moscow Mitch and his sycophants HAD to save any excess money to give to their corporate owners.

Remember trickle down folk.. spread that booty.

Canada gave me $500 last summer, I’m retired. The CERB was about $2K a month if you qualified. And that was then, America this is now. Your tax dollars at work

How about a logical explanation, from either party, why many countries have been able to provide monthly subsistence payments to their citizens in need, but our great country makes the rich the prime beneficiaries and sends out scraps to the rest of its citizens.

I actually saw a financial guru giving advice on how to spend your $600.First pay down your high interest credit cards or invest in safe stocks or Treasury instruments.In this country the gap between the Haves and Haves-not is vast. And the Haves are clueless.Some Congressmen are talking like this $600 is going to solve every thing.

It disgusts me how relief checks are framed by Congress and the news media as “stimulus” money. Both institutions are so brainwashed by corporate America that even emergency aid isn’t really about helping humans in need, but ultimately is about keeping rich capitalist pigs living the lifestyle to which they’ve grown accustomed.

I’ll send mine to the food bank.

The millionaire republican congress critters who make over $150,000 a year don’t want to take away your incentive to work.

They also caused a whole bunch of unemployment so they support the Darwin plan, ya’ll can fight and kill each other for the whatever’s left.

First of all, it isn’t a “stimulus” bill, it is disaster relief. What we expect (yet not often get) in the aftermath of fires, floods, earthquakes, and whatnot. In this case, of course, the disaster was CAUSED by an airhead carnival barker, along with his cowardly cronies in Congress. (Spoiler alert: most of the cronies are Republicans!) Second of all, read the fine print. The first “stimulus” bill was loaded up with corporate welfare (thanks to Steven Mnuchin), and we can expect more of the same from this.

REPUBLIKKKANS!!! Not “congress.”

Democrats are at a distinct disadvantage; it’s difficult to negotiate a fair compromise when the other side is perfectly happy to settling for NOTHING.

Wow! Six hunnerd dollars? Now I don’t have to look for work no more!

And NOW The Tangerine TRAITOR is threatening to screw up the entire deal!