Congress mulling new $55B restaurant COVID aid package

Nypost ^ | 04/02/2022 | Jon Levine

[ChicagoConservative27]

Congress is mulling a new $55 billion aid package for restaurants and other industries battered by the coronavirus pandemic.

Restaurants are slated to receive $42 billion which is intended to backfill the 2021 Restaurant Relief Fund. That aid ran out before 2/3 of restaurants that applied could receive cash, according to Roll Call.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Restaurants destroyed by COVID lockdowns but now let's throw money at the problem...

[Interesting Times]

Another opportunity for massive theft.

[McGavin999]

They need to just get out of the way

[Governor Dinwiddie]

They know where they are in the polls. Midterms are coming. This is thinly veiled vote buying.

[SpaceBar]

If they take the money they’re tacitly agreeing that the government was within its legal right to shut their business down.

[SpaceBar]

The government is behaving like the KGB chief Lavrentiy Beria who used to send his rape victims flowers.

[facedown]

Yeah, that won’t be inflationary. </SARCASM>

[SmokingJoe]

The Dems still borrowing vast amounts of money they can't pay back from China or by printing bank notes? Yup.
Here comes another Venezuela courtesy of Dementia Joe.

[TornadoAlley3]

All Biden had to do was nothing.

[combat_boots]

“Now I know why you guys wear masks.”

“Phenomenon”

[escapefromboston]

Better than sending money to foreign countries I suppose.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Way too late to help all those that went out of business.

[Captain Peter Blood]

China and Russia are no longer buying our bonds.

[SmokingJoe]

Good for them.

[Paladin2]

When do I get restitution/reparations/compensation for BiXiden’s/Pelosi’s/Schumer’s/Ditch’s Inflation?

[A strike]

Only $55 billion? How very chintzy of them.

[frogjerk]

Guarantted this money will go to minorities and women owned businesses first...just like the last cash that was quickly wasted.

[gundog]

After you’ve been bled dry(from each, according to his ability), you’ll be eligible for assistance (to each, according to his need). Unless you’re white.

[Antihero101607]

𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘺 $55 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯? 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘻𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.

Bundled into a larger bill of how many trillion?

[Tupelo]

RE: Congress mulling new $55B restaurant COVID aid package

Whew! At first glance, I thought congress was going to have a new restaurant put in for themselves. I saw that $55B and just figured, that is about right for congressional standards.

Then I read the full headline.
For God’s Sake, $55B for an aid package for restaurants? That is simply wasting money
/s