Is There Wasteful Spending In The Coronavirus Stimulus Bill?

[Guisslapp]

I work for one and sit on a board for another. I know about non-profits. But, this relief bill was intended to put a band aid on a hurting economy. Pelosi, and I'm sure other politicians, has already been droning on about Relief Bill 2- The Sequel. Checks should have gone out last week and small businesses should already have met with SBA reps (usually a state's SBDC) and completed application for emergency loans. That's it. Nothing else was needed, especially not in the first blush of relief when we all know, and knew, round 2 was going to happen.

Nonprofits can be small businesses. It is just a tax designation and lack of ownership that distinguishes a nonprofit. The forgivable loans to the small businesses were not for the benefit of the owners of the small business - the only part that is forgivable is what is paid to payroll and operating expenses. Thus, this wasn’t really about the small business owner, but the employees and vendors to the small business that would be hurt my the small business not having cash flow.

[dawg80]

Not gonna go down this road...501c3's have to be incorporated, blah, blah, blah... not the point. And neither is the point about their vendors etc...something had to be put on hold, put on the shelf to...wait, I'm going down that road!

[Guisslapp]

The object was to create this state of suspended animation in the economy. Nobody is working but the business continues to spit out operating cash so that there is less unemployment and the disruption to confidence that it causes.

[johnnylightnin]

The object was to create this state of suspended animation in the economy. Nobody is working but the business continues to spit out operating cash so that there is less unemployment and the disruption to confidence that it causes.

Right. Like putting the economy in a medically induced coma.

[TYLERTECHSAS]

Remember how I was right while you were enjoying getting your chain yanked by the usual folks about the progressive wish list in the irrelevant House bill?

You are losing it. The regressives got a ton of their wish list in this crap bill.

The problem with you is thinking you're smarter then everyone on BB&B; which is the same problem liberals have with the rest of America. This causes multiple issues when discussing items.

[Guisslapp]

You are losing it. The regressives got a ton of their wish list in this crap bill.

The problem with you is thinking you're smarter then everyone on BB&B; which is the same problem liberals have with the rest of America. This causes multiple issues when discussing items.

Like what?

[dawg80]

Like what?

"Duh" alert! Case in point.

[Guisslapp]

"Duh" alert! Case in point.

The liberal wish list is what I am asking for an example of.

[dawg80]

The liberal wish list is what I am asking for an example of.

Obviously you haven't been reading...

• $10,804,687,000 for international development
• $350,000,000 for refugee resettlement
• $93,000,000 Congress ($25 million of which is for "salaries and expenses")
• $75,000,000 for PBS stations
• $75,000,000 for the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities
• $75,000,000 National Endowment for the Humanities
• $50,000,000 for the Institute of Museum and Library Services
• $25,000,000 for the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
• $7,500,000 for the Smithsonian Institution

[TYLERTECHSAS]

The liberal wish list is what I am asking for an example of.

Obviously you haven't been reading...

• $10,804,687,000 for international development (Biggest BS waste)
• $350,000,000 for refugee resettlement (2nd Biggest BS waste unless shipping them back!!)
• $93,000,000 Congress ($25 million of which is for "salaries and expenses")
• $75,000,000 for PBS stations (3rd biggest BS)
• $75,000,000 for the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities
• $75,000,000 National Endowment for the Humanities
• $50,000,000 for the Institute of Museum and Library Services
• $25,000,000 for the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
• $7,500,000 for the Smithsonian Institution

And there will be more when it all comes to light.

[dawg80]

What's that $93 million to Congress for? $25 million for salaries...and another $68 million for__________??? What? redecorating their offices?

$11 billion for "international development," $350 million for "refugee resettlement" that really means illegals.

[TYLERTECHSAS]

What's that $93 million to Congress for? $25 million for salaries...and another $68 million for__________??? What? redecorating their offices?

$11 billion for "international development," $350 million for "refugee resettlement" that really means illegals.

Biggest BS waste unless shipping them all back!!

[Guisslapp]

You guys are making yourselves look really stupid.

International development funds are to keep this crisis from growing in poor countries and then coming right back here after we have things under control.

"[T]o put it bluntly, the United States will not be safe from this pandemic until the world is safe from this pandemic—without widespread access to a vaccine or countermeasures, cases rebound quickly when quarantines are lifted as has been shown in Singapore and Hong Kong this week," read a letter the CGD sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., last week.

The funding for these three international organizations was not an 11th-hour addition; it was included in the original Republican version of the coronavirus bill.

[dawg80]

You're not much of a Libertarian...

[TYLERTECHSAS]

Just as I told you should would, she delivered on the Senate’s bill - the House had the bill for much shorter period of time than the Senate. It is now to Trump.

Don't even tell me you are a fan of that nut job or even think Pelosi delivered anything but constant misery to America.

Now back to her hate campaign and accusing Trump of something she actually caused in America. Pelosi and the Dems have been lying for 38 months after losing. Poor Pelosi must have dementia like Biden.

"China and Pelosi lied. People died".

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