Stimulus handouts are crippling US

If I am correct, and I am, more free money is hitting the pockets of undeserving Americans this week – courtesy of the red, white and blue-blue-blue. 

These $1400 stimulus checks seem to appear out of thin air. But where is this free money coming from anyways, and who’s getting it?

Well, the process for creating free money begins before U.S. election day. When politicians hear from desperate Americans in need of vital help from our savior, the mighty federal government. Upon hearing this cry for help (opportunity), wise politicians come to the rescue by offering astronomical sums of money to these people – no strings attached. The people then head to the polls to secure their free money. 

Politicians, now in Congress and with the people’s backing, do their part to maximize a promise of free money for all. They argue for every last dime for their constituents in the name of stimulating the economy and saving people from economic ruin.

No matter the intentions of these politicians, the biggest accomplishment of these payments includes making more people reliant on the government for survival. This is in part due to the ease with which these stimulus checks are approved and distributed. 

What the politicians don’t say is that one day people will have to pay these stimulus payments back. After all, who else is going to pay them back but the people who took advantage of them?

Unfortunately, the price of all these payments comes in the form of adding trillions of dollars to our nation’s debt. Still, Congress approves these massive spending sprees without much grumbling from citizens who receive the money. But some citizen outrage ensues upon discovering that other people and businesses also received money without deserving it. 

This outrage is not justified given their hypocrisy of undeservedly receiving hefty government checks themselves. It’s not exactly because they are being hypocrites; it’s that no one deserved free money in the first place.  

For example, look to the recipients of the $600 unemployment bonuses from last summer. They received more money than ordinary unemployed people, simply because they were unemployed during a pandemic. Essentially, they were incentivized to not work!

Still, I never heard them complain about receiving the money, and I haven’t heard much outrage directed at them for taking advantage of the free money.

Well, I was quite disgusted watching the money be disbursed to all those underserving people. But like many others, I continued my contributions to society by continuing to work.

Just by getting laid off, I could’ve doubled the $9/hour I made working at CSC in the summer.

Moreover, I watched as some peers took advantage of the $600 and still lived in their parent’s basement. I also heard other tales of those who worked under-the-table jobs and double-dipped in the unemployment cash. 

I’m not sure which is worse, my peers or the double-dipper. I suppose the double-dippers at least contributed their labor to society.

No doubt, not all who take advantage of the added benefits during the pandemic are doing so with ill intent.

Some people needed money after losing their jobs; however, that does not justify the incentivization of so many people to be unemployed. The only justification for this increased welfare state we live in is the recently more pervasive grasp of government. 

That is because the grasp of government, not the pandemic, has crippled America. The pandemic didn’t lock people in their homes, close businesses down, shutter schools or change life as we know it; our government did.

With that said, if these politicians ran on the promise of crippling America, as they have, instead of promising free money, our citizens would be more self-reliant, our government would be less invasive, and society wouldn’t have to waste resources on the undeserving and overprivileged.