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To: neolib who wrote (462618)	12/30/2020 1:52:36 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 543145

I agree much of the stimulus programs would have gotten an F in a public administration course. Especially the hundreds of billions given to businesses, rather than giving money to them, they should have run it through the people and let the businesses adjust. IMO, the most important thing above all else, from day one, was securing the poor and needy, and getting cash to the needy. As you said many are doing well, it is the poor I worried about. And there has been so much fraud in those business loans and grants.. Just think of how many millions of poor people right now have no idea how they are going to survive. And focus on that. And they could have tailored it e.g. only give direct cash payments to people making less than say $50,000 a year.