[gcparent]

I am not a welfare whore! In fact, I probanly won’t qualify for a stimulus 2 check. But I would rather the money go to Americans than Pakistan and Venezuela!!!

[lodi90]

I am not a welfare whore! In fact, I probanly won’t qualify for a stimulus 2 check. But I would rather the money go to Americans than Pakistan and Venezuela!!!

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Exactly correct and the point that the doctrinaire conservatives don’t get. The GOPe can always count on these useful idiots to block real MAGA reform.

[Zhang Fei]

I am not a welfare whore! In fact, I probanly won’t qualify for a stimulus 2 check. But I would rather the money go to Americans than Pakistan and Venezuela!!!

Except Trump signed the bill, and it is going to Pakistan and Venezuela. This new bill is on top of the money going to Pakistan and Venezuela. That's a $500b slug of cash on top of previous slugs of cash. Who's to say this won't be an annual ritual? That's what the GOP is trying to stop. An annual $500b deficit on top of the annual $1T deficits we already run. For fiscal year 2020, which ended in September 2020, the deficit number was $3T. That's $3T added on to the federal deficit in one year, over 2x what was tacked on ($1.4T) during the Great Financial Crisis of 2008.