Not thrilled with any of this aid as the national deficit keeps going up. Although fiat currency deficits are sort of meaningless overall at some point that meaningful deficit does become meaningful and the bill collector comes a calling. We need to rein this stuff in.
Having said that, we are still suffering the effects of the China virus and idiot lawmakers' reactions to it. So I'm more okay with this aid than not. Certainly better to go to farmers than undeserving orgs like Planned Parenthood or banks or any of the other grifter organizations binging at the trough. Of course, this relief on my part assumes the aid is "zero sum." Unfortunately, I'm aware enough to understand that it won't be and more checks will be cut (politicians don't need a reason (like the China virus) to do this, all they need is an upcoming election). One of the real downsides to democracy: permanent constituencies that need to be bought off and politicians' need to do the bribing.
Yup, not thrilled with any of this. But certainly there seems to be a need. And it is certainly better than what the Dems would be doing (yes, I admit to this being in the category of "Pyrrhic victory"). I guess that makes me a brain-dead Trumpian. Given the political climate of the times and the limited possibilities these times allow I guess I will have to settle for the better of two bad alternatives.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could figure out a way to get a Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment ratified...? I suspect, however, that that ship has long sailed; that there are few in the electorate these days who would be willing to face a) the kind of government austerity a balanced budget would give us, or b) the kind of taxation necessary to "fund" all the "rights" voters seem to insist on having these days, or c) both.
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