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4. And the money to the big shots is nearly unrestricted

Reply to Grokenstein (Reply #1)

Fri May 15, 2020, 08:00 PM

May 2020

While any coins that fall far enough to get down to the likes of us has to be spent responsibly as determined by a cadre of fatcats who always know where their next meal is coming from. Or it has be filtered through a dozen hands, each one filching a processing fee or a convenience charge so that what started out as $100 gets to us as $62.50 or something.

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'Republican Party says, 'We don't have any money to help you.' Are you kidding me?' [View all] bigtree May 2020 OP

Corporate bailout in the billions? "Ha ha ha, money printer go brrrrrr" Grokenstein May 2020 #1

And the money to the big shots is nearly unrestricted gratuitous May 2020 #4

They have no problem bailing out the oil companies who run on debt and were poorly managed walkingman May 2020 #2

He's right, the GOP doesn't have money to help you UNLESS Dan May 2020 #3