I sit here watching UHD, getting ready to crash for a bit of sleep. Tomorrow morning I go to work, grateful I have a job, saddened that many of my friends and aquaintences no longer have jobs. I am equally saddened that they will not have any way to pay for food or utilities or housing, with the way the government is doling out money to the wrong people.
What I am saying is that if we give away the cash in these so-called stimulus packages, using cash we have (or not have) in the Treasury, where are the unemployement funds these out-of-work folk can apply for come from??? Seriously! Where do the funds come from? If every governmental agency is tasked with cutting back, that’ll take care of some of the funds, but not enough. So where do we get the rest of the funds? Oh, yeah, unemployement taxes, the very funds that are supposed to help the average worker funds enough to find a new job and get settled in to the new surroundings.
If the unemployement funds are not available, then where do the unemployed people go to get funds to pay rent, buy food, clothe thier children? The lotto? Start selling drugs?
I am lucky I have a job. I am lucky my limo and taxi business give me the extra cash needed to cover the little things we used to do when my wife was still working. I pay my taxes, I believe in doing my part - I am a veteran. But I cannot do more than I do, and am going to be pissed if the government taxes my employer out of business, tries to tax me out of business, or tries to raise my taxes.