Quote (excellence @ Jul 29 2020 12:46pm)
barnie acting like that there is no stimulus going to taxpayers lmfao. if he wants to pay for peoples' rent he can write a check, he's made enough cash mooching off the taxpayer for 40+ years now.
A couple million dollars can only pay like 2,000 people's rent for a single month. 28 million are facing evictions because of the Republican bungling of the Covid response.
Let's get more specific:
Average rent for a two bedroom is $1343:
https://www.abodo.com/blog/2019-annual-rent-report/Bernie made $1.1 million from his book, and his estimated net worth is $2 million:
https://www.thestreet.com/lifestyle/bernie-sanders-net-worth-14678955So he could "bail out" 1,489 American households for a single month, or 124 for a year while going completely broke.
Meanwhile, the $6 billion just included for weapons of war (which the DoD doesn't even want) could cover 4 million American households. The total military funding in the proposed Republican "Covid relief" bill is $21 billion. That could help nearly 16 million American households.
This post was edited by inkanddagger on Jul 29 2020 02:59pm