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The trillion dollar grift

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11 July 2023, 05:53 PM
wtg
The trillion dollar grift
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The pandemic relief was the biggest bailout in history, and it opened the door to wide-scale fraud the likes of which no one had ever seen — more than three years later, we still don't know how much damage was done


https://www.rollingstone.com/p...billions-1234784448/


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11 July 2023, 07:15 PM
Steve Miller
Damage? Oh BS.

What the author is complaining about is that the *wrong* people got help. Not oil companies. Not Wall Street. Regular people.

Might have been the most egalitarian support plan ever devised, and it worked.


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12 July 2023, 10:23 PM
Nina
I tend to agree with Steve. I also think that some of the so-called fraud is really a case of the state being completely unprepared to roll out a program like that to give so much money to so many employees.

At least that was my experience in managing my teeny little piece of the payments at my work.