Rep. Thomas Massie: The stimulus package that just passed is the biggest wealth transfer from common folks to the super-rich (Wall Street and bankers) in the history of mankind. Done in the name of a virus with $1200 checks as the cheese in the trap. This will be obvious in short order.

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[–]magnora7[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

I read another thread saying basically they're paying all the big companies something like $8000 for every American (totaling hundreds of billions), while Americans themselves get $1200 per American. So the bailout is very corporate-centered (as expected). And the $1200 is just to get everyone to shut up about the $8000.

[–]jamesK_3rd 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Yeh i don't think this was a corporate bailout so much as it was an in house payday for govt and govt employees. The last i checked was admittedly a couple of days ago, but it was broke down basically like this:

  • $100,000,000 to NASA
  • $20,000,000,000 to the USPS
  • $300,000,000 to the Endowment for the Arts $300,000,000 for the Endowment for the Humanities
  • $15,000,000 for Veterans Employment Training
  • $435,000,000 for mental health support/suicide hotline
  • $30,000,000,000 for the Department of Education stabilization fund
  • $200,000,000 to Safe Schools Emergency Response to Violence Program - - $300,000,000 to Public Broadcasting
  • A large pay raise for the house of representatives -a large payout to senate members for "expenses"..

Oops, just checked again..

That was a partial layout to the original. They apparently modified it slightly. Here's the doc, i haven't had the chance to go through it yet because my state is now in lockdown, and the panic this has induced has made it impossible to get certain staples or other items and I've been searching for them because of this, beyond the obvious toilet paper that everyone has been hoarding for the past 2 weeks.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6819239-FINAL-FINAL-CARES-ACT.html

We are planning on moving away from what was once a considered a moderate or even right leaning state but is now is seemingly just a socialist/democratic stronghold once this is over. Write your governor and tell them to embrace federalism and the idea that they should be able to tell the feds to pound sand. There very well could be cause for needing federalism in the future.

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Which kind of Federalism? The Neo-Hamilton kind?

[–]jamesK_3rd 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Any kind of federalism which returns power back to the individual states. The kind of federalism where a governor or a state senate says no to federal Medicaid expansion funding because they know it's bad.

Wasn't it the neo-hamilton federalist party that saw the rise of the blue/red parties.

Now I suppose we simply have a communist party and a blue party. That seems like a good place to start..

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Neo-Hamiltons were part and parcel of the banking scheme.

[–]Tarrock 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

That's a lot of suicide prevention hotlines.

[–]mikipika 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Trump is looking more and more like a Socialist.