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Over $400 Billion in COVID Aid Was Stolen or Wasted
Reason ^ | 6.14.2023 | Eric Boehm

Posted on 06/14/2023 2:48:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 06/14/2023 2:48:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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If they are admitting to it, then its definitely too low


2 posted on 06/14/2023 2:49:40 PM PDT by PGR88
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I’m sure it was back doored into Democrats, GOPe and child sex slavers


3 posted on 06/14/2023 2:51:32 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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NOOOOO!!!!!! Please tell me this is not so. How could it be? Can someone fact check this so I can ignore it. /sark


4 posted on 06/14/2023 2:53:01 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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Ya’ don’t say!
Who’d a thunk it.


5 posted on 06/14/2023 2:53:25 PM PDT by SantosLHalper (Eat some bacon.No, I got no idea if it'll make you feel better, I just made too much bacon.")
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To: nickcarraway

Just another gub’ment program where dollars mean nothing and nobody oversees these taxpayer-generated funds. Totally disgusting, as always.


6 posted on 06/14/2023 2:56:44 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand (P)
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How about how the communists used this money to pay off and take over state and local governments?


7 posted on 06/14/2023 3:04:15 PM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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bttt


8 posted on 06/14/2023 3:07:09 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America)
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Well, 10% for the Big Guy....who knows who all else got paid off.


9 posted on 06/14/2023 3:12:26 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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New IRS agents should audit this waste and also audit whether those on entitlements/welfare are entitled under applicable regulations. The taxpayers could save Billions.


10 posted on 06/14/2023 3:19:07 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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That’s a shame. That $400 billion coulda gone a long way in ukraine


11 posted on 06/14/2023 3:25:21 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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Only a small fraction of that money made it to Ukraine, it was skimmed for domestic projects that Manchin an Sinema nixed.`


12 posted on 06/14/2023 3:26:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Brandon’s fault.(And a little bit of Trump’s fault as well.)


13 posted on 06/14/2023 3:33:14 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF ADCMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
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Um...the real theft, if the media cared to look, is hidden away in the other 90% of Covid spending. Likely a lot more than $400 billion siphoned off there.


14 posted on 06/14/2023 3:44:28 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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“More than $400 billion of it—nearly one in every $10 spent—was either wasted or stolen..”

THIS was half the purpose of the “pandemic”. Just like a lot of our wars. - $$$$$$

(The other half was government- taking control over the citizens instead of vice-versa)


15 posted on 06/14/2023 3:52:32 PM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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“Well, 10% for the Big Guy. . . .”

And a huge amount to China.


16 posted on 06/14/2023 3:56:01 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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I feel like a sucker being honest. I got a PPP loan and paid salaries, so I didn’t take the state unemployment and $600 weekly federal handouts... would’ve made a lot more if I did.

Many of my employees didn’t want to come back to work - they made $1000 a week not working.

In retrospect it may have ended up being a good thing. A lot of dead wood is now adrift floating outside my world and I get to rebuild. It hasn’t been easy. Covid shutdowns really caused me a major hardship the PPP loan just papered over a few months of what was essentially 2 years of nothing. All my competitors got the jump on me in liquidating their inventory so I got stuck with basically nobody to sell to and a warehouse of inventory and equipment idled. I did a little business.... but 20% of what I had done before Covid.


17 posted on 06/14/2023 3:56:12 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Only $400 billion?


18 posted on 06/14/2023 4:08:12 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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$400 billion out of $4.2 trillion? Probably more than $2 trillion.


19 posted on 06/14/2023 4:36:19 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (The soap box and ballot box have failed, it might be time for the bullet box.)
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I remember Trump begging Congress for $5 biilion for the Wall, and Nancy said “we can’t afford it.”


20 posted on 06/14/2023 6:05:18 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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