Diary 279

Tuesday, December 22nd

It looked as if the promised stimulus package, somewhat reduced, would in fact be happening sometime; perhaps soon, perhaps not so soon. It works out to be $600 per person on average, but gives very little support other than that. European countries have been offering much larger sums to help their citizens for months now.

Not that Europe is perfect. They are currently under threat from a new strain of the virus. 

But then, in a blatant attention-seeking move, the former ‘president’ announced he would not sign the bill because it was too small. So first there was no problem; then the problem would go away; then it required no action; now suddenly it’s so big that only the former ‘president’ knows how big it is.

Meanwhile people who need help get none.