• mommykink
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    That’s why companies got money to pay employees.

    Lmao okay.

    PPP was the biggest wealth funnel in modern American history. The funny part about how leftists always defend COVID policies is that they’re defending what was maybe Trump’s biggest grift. Certainly the most successful, because even his most vocal opponents will eat themselves alive the second one of their own criticizes it, and MAGAts have no issue with doublethink.

    I don’t mind landlords as there is a need for rentals

    You’re equating two different issues as one. Yes, there is a need for short-term housing. No, that does not mean that landlords are the ones who should manage it.

    • @halcyoncmdr
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      The PPP itself was just fine, Trump got rid of the independent oversight watchdog that was to look over it. And months later once it was trying to hobble its way back to oversight, the administration instructed government agencies to be as uncooperative as possible. So of course without a watchdog, the foxes took everything they could from the hen house. The program itself wasn’t the issue.

      https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-health-cc921bccf9f7abd27da996ef772823e4

      https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN23M2XC/

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        66 months ago

        Trump got rid of the independent oversight watchdog that was to look over it.

        And unsurprisingly billions of dollars disappeared shortly afterwards.

      • Neuromancer
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        The intent was good. The execution was bad. The government has been clawing back funds and putting people in prison. They had a time crunch to get it done and that led to some issues

    • Neuromancer
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      The lady who cuts my hair lived of ppp because she wasn’t allowed to cut hair. It was a life line for millions of people. If you were paid during Covid and were not working. Thank the ppp money.

      No, that does not mean that landlords are the ones who should manage it.

      Then who should manage it?

      • @SupraMario
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        86 months ago

        That’s great but there was a shit ton of theft because trump neutered the watch dog. So a lot of it didn’t go where it should have.

        • @Mirshe
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          And then even more theft because Trump neutered the court’s ability to requisition records.

          • mommykink
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            16 months ago

            Lmao there’s the mask off moment

            • Neuromancer
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              That’s not a mask off moment. I have no interest in living in the projects. I’d rather rent a nice house in a nice neighborhood. I don’t want the government involved with my housing.

                • Neuromancer
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                  I do not want the government involved in my housing.

                  By default if the government owns it. It’s a project. That’s where the term comes from.

                  I have no need for the government to supply housing as the free market does a better job. I lived in government housing in the military. No thank you.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    We’ll just have to agree to disagree on that. The free market does a terrible job at providing housing. You must have just been lucky with your landlords before. The fact that this thread exists demonstrating how crazy high housing is shows that the free market isn’t great for providing housing.

              • mommykink
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                -16 months ago

                yes, I will ignore the whole purpose of this conversation and instead let’s focus on how much I hate people who don’t look like me

                • Neuromancer
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                  -66 months ago

                  I never said anything about people who look like me. God that is a racist thing to say