I was about to ask if you really think stimulus checks are driving demand for things like new cars and new houses, considering who got most of the money and their likely financial state... then I realized that this is America.
So I’ll just say... Good point
A lot of people gave Republicans shyt for their stance about the stimulus bread, but they weren't entirely wrong. I know it's an unpopular opinion around here to say, but not everybody was struggling during the pandemic and actually came better than they did prior. Even a lot of US states ended up better financially than they originally expected and their budgets weren't blown up.
Depending on the industry that you worked in, it was still business as usual and some of us actually saved bread WFH all of these months. So you legit had half the country struggling, while other people were people fine. For the latter people, they didn't necessarily need the stimulus check as they were going spend the extra income that they had once things started to reopen. It's a difference between someone needing something and could use it.
Even now, a lot of states still have a lot of the COVID-19 stimulus bread left over with no COVID-19 shyt to use it on. That's how a lot of states had the extra bread to offer those insane COVID-19 incentives to get people vaccinated. That's why I don't blame them for saying give back the COVID-19 funds you didn't use and we'll distribute them elsewhere.
And I'm not talking about the gentrified joints either.
Goddamn. #BaldGang with the rare W.
