The Kennedy Center for the performing arts deserve the money more than we do. I should do the math again before I post, but in 4 or 5 stimulus bills, last time I counted, 6 trillion. Divide that by the number of people in the US, and how much should you have gotten instead of 1,200? Enough money that the economy could’ve been kept afloat just on the usual consumer spending.
So, why do we stimulate the middle man instead?
Also, check the records. I didn’t see Trump ever mention reopening the way he does now until the first time Pelosi refused to pass a stimulus. It was at that moment we all know there was not going to be an economic pause, and no American Royalty was going to give us multiple checks as promised to help us ride out the virus. It took China 2 months to eliminate the invisible enemy, “we” couldn’t bother in the first weeks. I follow a conservative/libertarian whatever you want to call it, but an emergency is an emergency and a pause with temporary UBI would’ve saved a lot of lives and still counting.