It has to be Fake News but I read that President Donald J Trump’s name will be printed on every COVID19 Stimulus check mailed out

@GeistInTheMachine Even though he did nothing to introduce or advance the legislation that resulted in the check?

@OggggO He had to pass it, didn't he? Ultimately he had to OK it. He could have vetoed.

Obama never helped to bail us out.

@GeistInTheMachine Such hard work, signing his name on a piece of paper. And Obama did in fact bail people out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009

@OggggO The point isn't that it's hard to cut a check - the point is that Trump did it.

I didn't get a check under Obama. I may under Trump.

Of it's so easy, why didn't Obama give me a check? Especially if he was supposedly such a "progressive" and "socialist." Real man of the people.

Politicians are our servants.

I care about my material needs. I'm struggling.

If Trump cuts me a check directly and materially benefits me, I want him to win again. Simple.

@Mentor4females Show me where I'm wrong. I've stopped following politics. Couldn't give a rats ass. But if Trump signed off for a check with my name on it, then that's more than many people have done for me, and more than any politician has done for me.

@GeistInTheMachine Trump didn't cut you a check, Congress did. Meanwhile, you ignore the fact that Obama passed similar legislation despite it being pointed out to you. At this point I can only conclude that you are being willfully ignorant.

@Mentor4females None of what you said invalidates what I said.

I know it had to be passed in the House and Senate. Otherwise the bill would have died. But the bill could have also died had Trump vetoed, no?

There was a severe financial crisis in 2008, and Obama used taxpayer dollars to bail out the banks. Why couldn't he have given the taxpayers some checks directly just to alleviate some pain?

Even ignoring that, it doesn't matter IF there were no reason for a check to be given out prior to this.

Who is to say a President Clinton would have done the same thing Trump is doing, in allowing and signing the bill or whatever legislation that allows for the dispersal of these checks?

We'll never know %100 what a DemocRat president would have done because they are currently politically impotent.

Maybe a different president other than Trump would have never okayed the checks.

My bottom line stands.

@GeistInTheMachine
He. Did.


Anyone with a functioning brain.


And maybe they'd have a bowl of glass shards for breakfast every morning.

@GeistInTheMachine Dude that shit passed both the House and the Senate unanimously. Congress would have overturned any veto with ease.

There were individual stimulus checks and lots of stimulus spending under both Bush and Obama, and lots of other measures to help individuals in the Great Recession. And in many ways that crisis was less extreme than what we are looking at right now.

@GeistInTheMachine Tax returns are from him too. Right?