Pandemic Relief - Enriching the Rich

It's irritating to me when businesses, and people who didn't suffer any real adverse affects from the pandemic, and even CORPORATIONS took that money - that it was even offered to them - and then media turned around and blamed all of our economic woes on people who lost their minimum wage job because a company didn't take precautions to protect their workers, got closed down as a health hazard, and then took pandemic payments to further enrich themselves. 

That was a self imposed hardship for them! They were well rewarded for irresponsible behavior. I don't remember EVER being rewarded for doing what I'm supposed to be doing. Getting rewarded for NOT doing what you should be doing is the height of irresponsibility on the part of the rewarder and the rewardee. 

Pandemic relief shouldn't have been offered to anyone above the poverty threshold! And a responsible citizen would have refused the disbursment.

But it's hard for me to blame them for it. If anyone walked up to me on the street offering $100 bills I'd absolutely take it! So, the same applies to the pandemic relief. If it was offered, I'd expect everyone to take it. But not everyone was adversely, monetarily affected by the pandemic and absolutely should not have been taking taxpayer money for no reason at all!

  

Furthermore, media turned around when it was safe to go back to work and said no one wanted to work because they got used to "all of that free money". That right there is horse pucky! I knew A LOT of people looking for work that simply wasn't available in my area. And I DARE ANYONE to live on nothing more than what those relief checks amounted to over the same period of time they were dispensed. It cannot be done, least wise with any quality of life and security! (Maybe in a tent on the side of a ditch if the cops didn't swarm you thinking you were baking meth, siting you for trespass, and making you relocate - presumably so they could find you and site you again!). 

I am so very over disinformation coming from the left AND the right. No one knows what they're talking about or they're gaslighting. I tend to lean toward the latter since imperialism/capitalism can only function the way it's designed (that EVERYTHING goes to the top) if it can produce a scare and a scapegoat to blame everything on. Remember, that is precisely what Hitler did - he blamed all of Germany's problems on Jews, with narry a thought about the sanctions placed on them over WW1.

Now, the threat posed by capital, and both capitalist party's to one degree or another - is Latino's, POC, and the working poor - fascism is raising it's ugly head again.

I'm getting too old, sick, and tired to scream at the sky about this shit anymore. My journey is nearing its end. And I'll be leaving around 8 billion people to suffer the mess mankind has visited upon itself.

My empathy over this is now my greatest frustration.