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Originally Posted by anononcty
I pay taxes but I don't expect to get food stamps, welfare, grants, etc so why should people who don't need them get them.
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So let's have overpaid govt shills on the payroll spend MONTHS of time and tax money carefully combing through each and every single citizens' "situation" and determine which ones "deserve" the lousy $600 or $2,000 and which ones DON'T!
Sounds like a real efficient prigram.. NOT!
We throw away over $700 BILLION a year on the military and war, $20 billion in farm subsidy welfare checks paying farmers to NOT grow crops, and another $50 billion on foreign aid, while McConnel said the $2,000 checks would cost $462 billion!
$462 billion to give EVERYONE in this country making under $75,000 a year- a $2000 check, and you are griping that some small percentage of that might go to people who you claim "dont need it"
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Many conservatives opposed increasing just-approved $600 checks to $2,000, saying it would add an estimated $462 billion to the national debt
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Whether someone "needs" the check or not doesnt matter, the program is to STIMULATE THE ECONOMY, people who get those checks will SPEND the money, that means they are paying past due bills, buying clothes and supplies etc (AND paying sales tax on that stuff which returns about 8% of the money) and their purchases keep stores and businesses in operation who in turn pay taxes on those sales- and that money goes back to the govt.
And yeah, I've HAD to get food stamps in the 1990s, not because it was a fantastic windfall to get FREE stuff, but because I moved to a new state and couldnt find a job and my only means of transportation was a partially converted 70 passenger ten year old school bus I was living in, there were no cell phones and I had no credit cards or savings, the $1000 cash I HAD when I moved was eaten up by repairs, gas and expenses on the road, I arrived with $70 left.
So I got a whopping $35 a month in food stamps!!!! a single able body male cannot GET welfare, but golly if you are FEMALE, especially if you get yourself pregnant- the state will fawn all over you with free everything!
I had to buy groceries in a way to get 80 or so cents in change cash and go to a couple or three stores and do the same so I could buy maybe 3 gallons of GAS which at that time was about $.89 a gallon and that didn't go very far in a 60 gallon tank!
That was the SAME time my father wound up in the hospital with a triple bypass, and grandma in Florida was hit by a car and died, and I was 3,000 miles away with no money and nobody could help.
The only job I was able to find then with no formal skills or college degree was a part time janitorial job that paid min wage, I think it was $3.35 or $2.70 an hour back then, and it was in a city 20 miles away, that was 40 miles a day driving a vehicle that got about 6 mpg to work 4 hours, and they paid every two week, it was completely unviable and I couldn't keep working there, the numbers simply didn't work- it cost me more in transportation than I made.
The rented RV pad I prepaid before moving, evicted me and I was parked on the street in the July heat with no air conditioning, no running water or shower and 4 dogs which I rolled some change up to buy dog food for, and got a food box at a nearby church.
I had NO idea what I was going to do, that was when two things happened, one was a cousin I hardly knew died and had left her IRA in her will to me, because she knew I had dogs like she did! That was $21,000 and it was supposed to take a week to get the check , but wound up taking closer to 2 MONTHS because she was only in her 50s and they wanted to check out how she died, get signature samples at her work etc.
The other thing that happened was the neighbors next to the RV pad where I was evicted from who had often stopped by to see if I needed a ride to town- came looking for me after hearing what happened, the wife found me parked on the street and said she and her husband wanted to invite me to park on their little ranch until I got on my feet!
They gave me the key to their house and said I could use their shower etc and their phone, "our house is your house" she said.
There's a lot more to the story after that, but I'll stop here, the POINT is- you dont know what other people's situations and lives are or what they are going thru! That summer/month my life was completely turned upside down and a LOT of stress- new state, no job or car or phone or money, 2 relatives dying, father winding up in the hospital, and that wasn't the end of it either.
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