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BUMPED2002 posted...

Situations like this COVID-19 fiasco is the main reason why the Democrats in the 1930s created SOCIAL SAFETY NET PROGRAMS known back then as the New Deal because they had witnessed the devastation of the effects of the Great Depression on working-class Americans who did not have loads of money to hold them until things got better and most of them lost their jobs, their homes and their farms.

In the past 50 plus years or so, a certain political party has demonized those very programs as either being "Entitlements" or as being taken advantage of by "Freeloaders."

I'm willing to bet those people who'll receive a stimulus check are thankful that they at least have a cushion to soften the financial blow during this time.

I cant speak for the politicians themselves but regular people I know that are republican dont care these safety nets exist they just hate people abusing it. They tend to use a saying "they are called safety nets not safety hammocks"

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