Like Captain Renault in the gambling casino in “Casablanca,” congressmen are “shocked, shocked” by all the fraud spawned by the trillions of dollars in COVID handouts they approved.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis issued a report Thursday blaming fintech firms for the pilfering of Paycheck Protection Program loans that began in 2020. But the real fraud is the illusion that members of Congress give a damn about plundering American taxpayers.
PPP was enacted in March 2020 and eventually provided $800 billion in loans to more than 11 million businesses. Congress designed the program to carpet-bomb the nation with federal tax dollars.
The Small Business Administration, which administered the plan, effectively told people, “Apply and sign and tell us that you’re really entitled to the money,” said Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. He testified PPP was an invitation to fraudsters because there weren’t “even minimal checks to make sure that the money was getting to the right people at the right time.”
Gaslighting at its finest. Act shocked, with no accountability.
WHY did taxpayers have to foot the payroll for people who are multi-millionaires (like Tome Brady and Jay-Z (and there are hundreds of others)??
WHY??
Because your “leaders” took enough bribes, kickbacks, and favors to make it seem reasonable.
The ONLY WAY to stop these “get rich in Congress” snakes is to march them outside and hang them on TV.
Otherwise, just stand by while they bleed you dry with taxes, fees, fines, surcharges and make laws to put you under ever greater surveillance, which, considering the amount of surveillance we are under now, should be enough to want to make YOU bring the rope.
Instead, you just keep cheering.
You just can’t live without the CIA spy devices allowing you to turn on your oven and kitchen lights, because actually flipping a switch is JUST SO HARD!
You dummies.