Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Congressional leaders reach agreement on $900 billion COVID-19 relief package" video.

  1. You’re still not getting a new PlayStation.
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  2. I don’t think you understand the logic behind assistance for the airlines. It’s because few people are flying that there is a danger they will go out of business. If they go out of business, it will be massively damaging to the economy: a national air travel network is a basic requirement of a modern economy. If the airline industry fails, the economy as a whole will take much longer to recover, if it can recover.
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  3. Whatever works.
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  4. They haven’t yet said if they’re excluding or including adult dependents.
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  5.  @ikaros21  The other purpose of the stimulus checks are to stimulate the economy, so it doesn’t matter if a recipient spends their tax rebate on necessities or luxuries. It’s right there in the name, STIMULUS. I highly doubt anyone was buying a new car with their $1200 check, even if they had three wives and nine children. Maybe you’re thinking of fraud from the payroll loan program to businesses.
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  6. Something along those lines. Not unemployment supplement, but definitely something to help the non-working in general.
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  7. Do you know what lobbying even means? Congress doesn’t “lobby” itself. Whether they got a good deal or a bad deal, the Dems didn’t promise you that money, they promised to fight for it. The Republican Senate LEADERSHIP (McConnell) wanted NO stimulus checks, despite support for it among his own caucus—meaning Mitch could have gotten it done with bipartisan support. Except McConnell doesn’t want any bipartisan support from Democrats. $600 was the compromise between $1200 and $0 or there might not have been any bill passed at all. Don’t hang this on the Democrats. This is about McConnell exercising his Senate Majority Leader veto power. He has the sole sayso as to what gets voted on. He torpedoed the negotiations between Mnuchin and Pelosi when they were getting close to a deal by saying he wouldn’t allow their proposal anywhere near the Senate.
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  8.  @ki11ukw1k  I don’t think she and Mnuchin were given the opportunity. They (Pelosi and Mnuchin) were hammering out details, when McConnell torpedoed that deal, saying he wouldn’t even let it on the floor. Then he tried to pass his $500 billion “skinny” package, and couldn’t get enough votes from his own caucus. And let’s not forget the aberrant tactics from Mnuchin’s boss. Negotiations are extremely difficult between parties that don’t trust each other. Even more so when one or both sides has a history of bad faith tactics. You can ascribe that to both sides if you want, but only the leader of one side literally wrote a book on how to engage in bad faith negotiations and how to get the other side to compromise by giving them false promises and then changing your demands. It’s also interesting that Senate Republicans refused to join the negotiations, but McConnell kept his veto power—and eventually used it. So I question the statement that Pelosi should have taken the better deal. There still wasn’t a deal when McConnell torpedoed the final negotiations.
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  9. This isn’t a direct democracy. Our government is a representative democratic republic, as specified in the constitutional. Don’t like it, change the constitution. If that’s too hard, you can leave and find a different country more to your liking. If it doesn’t exist, go find an uninhabited island and start your own. You have options.
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  10. Not true. They can keep passing stopgap extensions to keep the government running. The link between the government shutdown and the relief package is purely fictional. They’re trying to create the effect of a ticking time bomb, but there’s no real urgency if they can keep resetting the timer indefinitely.
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