Posted on 06/02/2021 4:37:32 PM PDT by CedarDave
The state of New Mexico is not above a bit of bribery to get people to sign up for their coronavirus shots.
New Mexico on Tuesday joined some other states, businesses and organizations offering cash and prizes to those who get vaccinated. The states include Ohio and Oregon, and the businesses rewarding employees for getting shots include Dollar General and Trader Joe’s.
A spokesman for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham suggested the word “bribery” was extreme. A bribe entices a person to do something against their interests, he said.
“Getting your shot is definitely in your interest,” the spokesman, Tripp Stelnicki, said. “It’s in everybody’s interest.”
The grand prize of $5 million in New Mexico is the largest single prize offered in states’ coronavirus vaccination lottery incentives, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.
State Rep. Jim Townsend, a Republican from Artesia, didn’t call it a bribe. But he called it “horribly wasteful” to spend tax money this way. “Everything around this governor has to do with money,” Townsend said “And she’s either giving it away or she’s taxing the people who are working.”
Townsend, 66, said he has received his vaccinations. “We have to be responsible for our decisions and our actions,” he said. “We’re training people not to do [the right thing] until after they’re paid to do it.”
The source of the cash is American Rescue Plan stimulus money, federal payouts to states to deal with the coronavirus pandemic and its effects. The Governor’s Office said the U.S. Treasury Department last week confirmed states may use stimulus funding for lotteries, cash payments and other incentive programs to boost vaccination rates.
The state offered a total of $10 million, plus in-state travel packages, hunting and fishing licenses, passes to state parks and museums, and other items.
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OK but my price is $20 mil if I throw that in. :)
And they’ve got 24 hours to respond starting ... right now!
The State of New Mexico is committing fraud with this rigged lottery. Rigged? Absolutely. What fool would believe that the State of New Mexico would risk selecting a winner who had died or was dying from complications from taking the experimental treatment?
There are those korporations who would con rubes into taking a shot or a pill once a day and there those sheep who would beg their masters to sell it to them.
To really let the sheep bleat about their true wishes, make the treatment into an oversized spiked suppository so they can virtue shuffle on parade past those they berate as "anti-vaxxers".
That or make the "vaccine" a gel with directions to apply it to the bottom of a boot and then lick it off.
Very unlikely. What’s interesting to me is that the people who are refusing to get vaccinated seem to not believe their own talking points. Give them a shot at winning $5 million and they are getting vaccinated.
“Getting your shot is definitely in your interest,” the spokesman, Tripp Stelnicki, said. “It’s in everybody’s interest.”
...”We know what’s best for you, better than you do.”
Wonder what consequences will sooner or later come down on those who choose not to go along with what they’re told?
I’ve had the shot so I entered the lottery.
Good luck, Dave. The variables are many. DG had 2 modeRNA shots before he expired...2 days after 2nd. Friends D & G had 1 modeRNA shot and are still struggling...3 weeks later. That’s the genius of the perfect DEPOP plan. Nobody can ever say with certainty...so it would be impossible to convict any criminal.
what batch you are getting...how much...how organs react to it...etc., etc., etc. the permutations are endless.
Funny how the Writer / Director of the Movie John Carpenter meant it as a slam against Reagan and the Right.
He was quoted as saying “I just love that it was giving the finger to Reagan when nobody else would.”
Well, talk about Irony.
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