Trump caved. I'm done. I no longer give two shits who wins the election now, he's just as bad as Biden.
@Cyber Liberty He was damned if he did,and damned if he didn't.
Too many people allow political dogma to run their lives. In an ideal world,there would be no relief package,but we don't live in an ideal world. We live in a world where the international bankers arranged for a senile old fool and life-long con artist to be elected President,and to do that it was necessary to destroy our economy and put people out of work.
Which,of course,meant people would be losing the life savings,their homes,their cars,and pretty much everything they had,despite doing their best to keep things together.
Face it,America and Americans became accustomed to living beyond their means starting back in the 1950's,when the idea was pushed that no matter how well things are going today,they will be better tomorrow.
Banks did their part with easy loan standards,and so did large manufacturers like GM,Ford,etc,etc,etc.
Want to buy a new house with no money down? No problem,just sign right here.
After a couple of decades of this,it became so accepted it wasn't even questioned by most people.
Whose fault is this?
The answer,of course,is the governments,the manufacturers,and where the rubber REALLY meets the road,is thee and me. Regular working people bought into the dream,and never looked back.
And,as with all other things too good to be true,one day it had to come to an end.
I am one of the lucky ones,in that I have a comfortable retirement because I don't live beyond my means due to having lived in poverty for a decade or more when I was younger. I literally lived in a panel truck parked in the woods or in friends back yards for a few years.
This made an impression on me,and when I finally did get my "act together" physically,I never spend more than I could afford on anything. I paid 12 grand for the house I have been living in since 1990,and put it on a $11,000 13 acre lot I bought in a rural area with low taxes. Yeah,it was a repossessed mobile home,and only 1200 square feet. So what? It's shelter from the storm,and I had the loan I had to take to buy the it,the land it sits on,the site prep,the septic tank,the well,and the repairs as well as the set up money paid off in 10 years. This includes the money I borrowed on it to set up a 60x24 foot work shop,wire it,and plumb it for running hot water. Hell,I even had money left over to buy some tools I needed to work on my antique cars.
Also,I quit smoking,drinking,doing drugs,and partying in general around 1980. No money wasted being "Good time Joe".
And truthfully,I honestly don't feel like I have missed out on much. None of anything I own is particularly fancy,but with the exception of my 2016 4x4 Silverado crew cab pu,it's ALL paid for,and that can leave the yard tomorrow if it becomes necessary because my 2006 GMC 3/4 ton 4x4 diesel extended cab pu IS paid for and there is not a damn thing wrong with it.
All this was more due to accident than by design. It didn't have a damn thing to do with being clever. I am sure that I had been healthy or had family backing that I would be as buried in unnecessary debt as most people.
Which is why I have sympathy for the people who are now caught in a bind when the economy bombed without notice,and the actions of the DNC and the RINO's kept it from recovering..
Face it,the $600 or $2000 checks from the government are going to save lives as well as keep families from breaking up and people from becoming homeless due to no real fault of their own. If you want to blame anyone,blame the Dims and the RINO's who created this crisis for their own personal benefits.
AND......,those bozos had damn sure better wake up because by now they have finally awakened a sleeping monster that will come to eat them if they don't do something to restore the economy. IF they are foolish enough to keep doing what they have been doing,there WILL be a violent revolution beginning within a year or so,and the first people to die in revolutions are the political leaders that caused them to happen.
This means they need to IMMEDIATELY stop the export of all our manufacturing jobs to their Chinese paymasters. Providing of course that it isn't so late it won't make any difference.
Someone also needs to remind them that in the modern world,you can run,but you really can't hide anymore. I have no problem whatsoever visualizing vigilantes setting out independently to track down Pelosi,Mitch the Bitch,etc,etc,etc. When you make people desperate because your actions have caused them to lose their jobs,their homes,and their families,bad things WILL happen to you.
