Sorry, but this "$2,000/month for everyone" is total crap
It makes me ashamed that Democrats proposed it. Government benefits should be about getting money to people who need it, not stuffing huge sums of money into the pockets of people who don't. This will all be paid for by the next generation, and also likely in inflation because the Federal Reserve is just going to monetize the debt.
Under the plan, someone making $110k a year, getting his salary just like before the pandemic, for some reason will be given $2,000 a month. That is pandering and vote-buying of the most transparent sort.
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people and no, we can't afford that. 
when it is to buy a bomb, give corporations freebies and take no taxes from them, or give the 1% freebies and take very little tax from them.
Our government has been mismanaging our tax dollars by giving them to the uber rich and the 1%ers and bomb manufacturers for ages now. Those classes of people and bombs getting massive payouts from the US government are the reason we are in the debt we are in now.
It has been going on long enough that people should realize the "What about our children and grandchildren? How are they going to pay for this in the future?" is NOW. That "future" is already NOW. We ARE the children and grandchildren NOW. Nobody is paying that off, ever. They just use that as a way to pull at people's heartstrings about their kids and grandkids and people fall for it every. single. time. It never fails.
And that has been going on long enough that we ARE the children and grandchildren now. How long are Americans going to keep falling for that when they realize we ARE the grandchildren by now. I'm guessing forever, because Americans do NOT want to wake up. How long can we look at other countries treating their citizens like human beings with basic rights like healthcare and a way to pay rent and buy food and STILL buy into the claptrap reverse child psychology our government uses on us while they live off the money we paid in taxes, vote themselves pay raises every years, turn working in the government as a lifelong career of siphoning money off taxpayers to enrich themselves, then turn around and tell us we don't deserve anything in return for that tax money.
The relationship between the US government and its citizens is one of child abuse just like the relationship between Democrats and Republicans is like spousal abuse.
The psychology used makes it so the US government gives massive amounts of money to the uber rich, corporations, or to make more bombs then turns around and tells us we don't deserve anything in return.
That was OUR money in the first place. Yet, they treat us like children asking for a toy.
No, how about enough money to get us through a crisis that didn't need to be so bad if Trump and most of the rest of our government hadn't dismissed it as a hoax and refused to do enough to keep it from crashing our economy and our personal finances and putting far more of us into harm's way than needed to be put in harm's way. Trump just shipped a bunch of ventilators and PPE to Russia. Our own hospitals were making their own masks and making do in some cases with everything from welding masks to Halloween masks. 
Something is WAY wrong here.
The psychology used by Republicans beats Democrats over the head over sex scanals (OMG, another Democrat had sex, the horror?!?!), then turns around and kills people, bombs people, maims people, starves children while protecting a few cells who are not even fetuses yet, then the Democrats stand down and let them do it over and over and over again, to appease them, to coddle them some more. Now, we have Trump doing whatever he pleases and still we can't do anything about him. We MUST take the Republican's abuse, because what can we do? It is just like a spousal abuse situation between the two parties. Nothing is EVER done about Republicans when they do horrible stuff to others. Nothing.
One thing I will give the US government: To be so ineffectual handling a pandemic, they sure are effective at using psychology to keep Americans thinking we don't deserve anything in return for what we give our government year after year. They are especially great at brainwashing people to believe our tax dollars are to pay their salaries and redistribute the wealth to the already wealthy. They callour tax dollars handouts if it might help the poor and middle class. They actgetting anything at all in return for the money we give them year after year makes us freeloaders. It is OUR money in the first place that they keep telling us we should not have. It is not like we are children asking for an extra toy. We just want to survive. They need to learn that killing and/or weakening "the help" means they will have to learn to do for themselves, and so will their rich buddies.
This
is not policy.
Fund free education for the Class of 2020 and beyond, that's smart investing. Not tossing cash at every man, woman, and child.
