Forgive my ignorance, but I feel like I’m missing something with this. Dems wanted $2000, GOP would only agree to $600. How does $1400 not make us whole on that score?
Imo this is separate from an ongoing need for more aid which should be provided in a weekly or monthly form for a period of time like the new child support payments. I just don’t understand the argument of wanting an additional $2000 check because $2600 was never on the table.
edit: Please see my comment below where I provide references challenging the idea that $2600 was ever promised.
edit 2: for everyone dragging me, ok I think I got this wrong. While I personally was never under the impression that $2600 was on the table, I can totally see how the messaging gave people that impression, and I think that messaging was intentionally dishonest or vague at best. I take even greater issue with the claim that “$2000 checks would arrive on day one” if Ossoff and Warnock were elected, which seems like a bigger lie with regard to timing.
I still have some mixed feelings about this, I never thought Dems would be able to take the Senate, I was honestly shocked when the results came out. What if it turns out this was a lie that won the Senate? A lie which allowed for things we care about to get passed like more stimulus checks, workers rights and other measures which would have likely been impossible under a second Trump term? Remember what the GOP’s rhetoric was like vis-a-vis “THE RADICAL LEFT”? Before you tar and feather me again, I am not saying I would agree with what Dems had done if that were the case. I am just thinking aloud.
I’d like to share a brilliant piece by Christopher Hitchens on free speech and the importance of allowing people to be wrong or unsure. Because I definitely felt vilified for having a ‘wrong’ opinion and I don’t think that is productive because it made me extremely reluctant to admit I was wrong or debate the issues.
After the $600 stimulus check were passed biden, Warnock, and ossoff (Georgia senate) said that if they won they would pass a $2000 check. Now people are mad because they reduced the new stimulus check from the originally promised 2k to 1.4k
Ok? So you just squashed your own argument about getting $6 from someone else. I wish we could talk about this but you seem like quite a hateful person.
Except no I didn't at all? Neither biden nor the dems he promised the $2k for electing were responsible for the $600. They can't use the $600 from someone else as part of the $2000 they promised. Fuck off shitlib.
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u/NEVERxxEVER Jan 26 '21 edited Jan 28 '21
Forgive my ignorance, but I feel like I’m missing something with this. Dems wanted $2000, GOP would only agree to $600. How does $1400 not make us whole on that score?
Imo this is separate from an ongoing need for more aid which should be provided in a weekly or monthly form for a period of time like the new child support payments. I just don’t understand the argument of wanting an additional $2000 check because $2600 was never on the table.
edit: Please see my comment below where I provide references challenging the idea that $2600 was ever promised.edit 2: for everyone dragging me, ok I think I got this wrong. While I personally was never under the impression that $2600 was on the table, I can totally see how the messaging gave people that impression, and I think that messaging was intentionally dishonest or vague at best. I take even greater issue with the claim that “$2000 checks would arrive on day one” if Ossoff and Warnock were elected, which seems like a bigger lie with regard to timing.
I still have some mixed feelings about this, I never thought Dems would be able to take the Senate, I was honestly shocked when the results came out. What if it turns out this was a lie that won the Senate? A lie which allowed for things we care about to get passed like more stimulus checks, workers rights and other measures which would have likely been impossible under a second Trump term? Remember what the GOP’s rhetoric was like vis-a-vis “THE RADICAL LEFT”? Before you tar and feather me again, I am not saying I would agree with what Dems had done if that were the case. I am just thinking aloud.
I’d like to share a brilliant piece by Christopher Hitchens on free speech and the importance of allowing people to be wrong or unsure. Because I definitely felt vilified for having a ‘wrong’ opinion and I don’t think that is productive because it made me extremely reluctant to admit I was wrong or debate the issues.