Biden ally Larry Summers, a former treasury secretary, said $2,000 stimulus checks would be a 'serious mistake' that could overheat the economy
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Summers told Bloomberg he was "not even sure I'm so enthusiastic about the $600 checks," let alone $2,000 ones.

Apart from this article, I have to say it was quite an experience having Christmas yesterday and all my family talked about was the $2,000 checks. Trump comes out of this looking like the good guy after more than one Dem has publicly talked about how bad this would be.

  • deadtoddler420 [any]
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    4 years ago

    The $2000 thing makes me wonder if he could actually win in 2024, it's such a 2016 Donald move. But I donno, its like one smart thing he's done in a year where he's done an absolutely shit job running for re-election and four years from now he's gonna be even more grotesque (granted, so will Biden).

    • OhWell [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Biden said a few weeks ago after the checks were removed from the relief bill that the government wasn't supposed to help people and no one should ask for a hand out .Several Dems came out this week to use conservative talking points about how "it's too much" and "a hand out".

      I can tell you this from yesterday, my entire family will probably never vote Democrat again. We're all poor and the thought of $2,000 to pay off debt and get some help, that is a great deal to them. All I heard yesterday was how shocked they were that Trump of all people offered this. "This is what Democrats should be doing. This is what I used to vote for them in hopes that they would do. How did anyone truly think Joe Biden of all people was going to help us?" that was the words of my uncle who quit voting for them after the 90s.

      • Darkmatter2k [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        “This is what Democrats should be doing. This is what I used to vote for them in hopes that they would do. How did anyone truly think Joe Biden of all people was going to help us?” that was the words of my uncle who quit voting for them after the 90s.

        They are so fucking horrible everyone can see it, but people still tell you that voting biden was harm reduction.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      GROVER GANG, GROVER GANG, GROVER GANG, GROVER GANG
      GROVER GANG, GROVER GANG, GROVER GANG (GROVER GANG!)
      SPENT THREE BIL THIRD CAMPAIGN
      MY BITCH LOVE TO CAMPAIGN, OOH
      SKIPPED A TERM THEN REGAINED