Why is trump and McConnell stalling giving people stimulus checks now?

[duforsure]

I think they're waiting as long as they can to then try to use the checks and amounts as a bribe to vote for them, and use it for a pr campaign trying to make them look good, which will not work, and doing the opposite as people can't pay their bills. trump i think wants to starve us back to work prematurely like he has done with re-opening cities, which is also failing badly. Stalling direct payments is pissing people off, and they can see trump and the Republicans are just making things worse , and taking us from a recession we're now in , and heading us into a trump depression, while trump spreads propaganda that we'e doing good, like W Bush did. All these failures will make trump and republicans hated for generations for putting us in this horrific position. The young people will never forget , or forgive them , and be now Democrats for the rest of their lives.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Meh, they want their pound of flesh giveaway to the CEO class...

to them it's just a 'negotiation' with them having no real skin in the game.

People starving and getting evicted is just leverage to them.

[C_U_L8R]

2. They're stalling for checks to go out nearer the election

Cynical assholes get no benefit right now, no matter how much people are hurting.

[Hortensis]

7. Yes.

[Mike Niendorff]

3. 2 reasons

1) They don't give a shit about the working class. We're just "the herd" to them. Glorified livestock.

2) Regardless, they still understand that pain in the working class can be exploited -- in this case, to bargain for civil immunity for the ruling class.


MDN

[usedtobedemgurl]

4. They Are Trying To Force People Back To Work

People need money to survive, so they figure if they have none, they will be forced to work. What they did not think about is there is a lot less work for folks to go back to, and people also need their health to survive.

[SallyHemmings]

5. They can't go back to a job that is gone

What about the jobs tethered to onsite schooling? When most schools go cyber what happens to the janitorial staff? Or the cafeteria workers?

What about the commercial property managers? A ton of companies are finding people are productive at home. Why would you spend the money on office space?

The change is here. But it the meantime folks will need help getting to their next gig.

[MissB]

8. Their answer to that is clear. Ivanka said

to “find something new”.

They are just clueless assholes.

[usedtobedemgurl]

10. I totally agree.

I was just answering what they think they are trying to do. No one ever accused this admin of having common sense!

[RazzleCat]

6. This makes me nuts,

the economy is not going to recover until people feel comfortable interacting in public. You can force open all the business you want, but you can't force me to go to them. Like many I am older and have some pre existing conditions, I will not be doing more than the basics until its safer. So I go grocery shopping once a week, but thats it. I do not go out to eat, gamble (my vice), nor shop for new X, I also am not traveling (my main expenditure). Not only am I not spending, I am working to spend less because of a fear of what is going to happen to our economy.

You want business to "get back to normal", then shut it down, test, contact trace, bring down the numbers. Make people feel safe to interact again and business will recover.

[lagomorph777]

9. Because they want to lose?

Seems like every action they take is aimed at losing.