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>If we don't grab the rod and save it, we're stuck feeding the man for many days, until there is another rod available to use.

the man doesn't have food now. not 6 months from now when your fishing line untangles. what do you do?




Give them the minimum number of fish for them to survive as a stopgap (two $1200 checks, some extra conditional $600 checks and unemployment).


these kinds of solutions always assume there isn't enough slack in the system to give more than the minimum when it's clearly not the case because all of the fed models have slippage factored in. but no when it's welfare absolutely every penny has to be accounted for.

>some extra conditional $600 checks

conditional on what? literacy? drug tests? skin color? why conditional at all?


> conditional on what?

I don't remember. I think it might have been for dependents. Go read the text of the first bailout bill. It's all there.




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