snooping around the media i find a lot of contradictory information...which, when dealing with congress and the media is no real surprise...especially when there is this much cash to be had...
the on-line front page of the n y times reversed itself...one supposes as the news broke and that seems reasonable...however deeper into the stories around town...
either trumpy and the fruit of his loins do not...
or do get a slab of the public pie...all up in the air.. i am however, tempted to think that some of this lucre ( boodle to put a more realistic name to it ) will find its way to trump family coffers...let me indulge in some speculative ( stress that since information is woefully incomplete and my thoughts are that the legislation on this "deal" will be book length legalese generally designed to be impenetrable ) public math...according to the most recent figures i can find there are 138,300,000 u s taxpayers...giving each $1200 would burn up $165,960,000,000 leaving $1,834,040,000,000...$100,000,000,000 for hospitals leaves, $1,734,040,000,000...$500,000,000,000 for "big business" ( and here we may find trumpy ) leaves $1,234,040,000,000 and that less the $377,000,000,000 for "small business" loans renders the amount down to $847,000,000,000 for which i can find no direct application...now for supposition...people earning $79,000 to $98,999 will get less than $1200 and those making $99,000+ get zip...that might pare down that $165.9 billion except there is an additional $500 for each child in the $0 to $79,000 range so that figure can stand and it may take a chunk out of that $847 billion remainder...so might aid for states and their failing income because of this...new york i am told is getting $3.1 billion...so figure around $150 billion to states out of that $847 billion remainder...$699 billion left after that...kids count data center's latest number for children under eighteen in the u s is 74,399,342...multiply that by the $500 figure and you get $36,699,671,000...subtract that from $699 billion and i find a figure of $662,003,329,000 in funds unaccounted for..maybe the states get more...maybe corporations...maybe the kleptocrat in chief...maybe kickbacks to congress form their business associates...maybe lawyers get a cut...maybe it goes back to the treasury...maybe my math is fucked..i am inclined to think with that much cash at hand there will be "accounting errors" and money will vanish...because humans behave like humans and we have thousands of generations of evolution telling us to get "more"...that was a selective advantage when the next meal's timing was iffy...it has since degraded into various forma of addiction and denial...greed being one of the many...feeding at the public trough has been a political fact of life since, at least, the imperial senate of rome...the one here is no less imperial and with no less an appetite...as for the $1200...i'm saving mine...they will take it back somehow.
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