I can't imagine the naivete required to think that the government spending hundreds of thousands or millions in order to pay a guy for a few days or weeks work is a judicious use of the people's money OR that it will do anything to fix long term employment.
And I simply don't understand a deaf ear turned to pleas to remedy tax and regulation policy so that employers can know what is coming and can reasonably take calculated risks again. That is the only thing that is every going to pull the economy out of the quagmire.
But they are either unbelievably ignorant or they are intentionally sabotaging a strong recovery.
Neither is reassuring to me.
I dont know why you can't imagine it. We see the mentality here on this board every day. When the thing was proposed some of us were saying there was no way this was going to work. But the Left kept bleating "it will put money in people's hands so they'll spend it and boost the economy."
Of course it did no such thing, predictably. Because gov't cannot give money. It can only take it from one person and give it to another. The pie makers win only because the oil workers lose.