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Trump says he will not allow federal inspection over bailout funds
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- Title
- Trump says he won't comply with key transparency measures in the coronavirus stimulus bill
- Published
- Mar 28 2020
- Word count
- 974 words
How foolish we all where to think that a mere law explicitly and specifically forbidding Trump from stealing from the American people would actually stop him.
I remember when Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney’s company, got multi billion dollar contracts during George W Bush’s presidency after 9/11. But half a trillion dollars with no oversight would be so much more than what we’ve seen before. Well okay, the more I think about it there was the big bank bailout, and the pentagon gets hundreds of billions a year... but still this seems quite significant.
We will see if the people working for Trump follow the law.
He doesn't have to honor the stipulation that Democrats stuck their neck out for and can hand money out to whoever at his own discretion? There's no going back to Congress or anything, he can approve the bill as is, but not honor that part and no one can really do anything about it? There's no real recourse here?
Flawed democracy
Given the SCOTUS is the one who can determine that and the president can only veto entire bills, I presume not.
I don’t even understand the premise of bills anymore. What’s the point of drafting all these intricate details if he isn’t going to be followed it anyway?
I want to say it’s to trick us all in to believing the politicians are looking out for us.
Devil's advocate, there IS people on the "left" that don't support the restrictions. Why? Because after 2008, one big problem was that because there was so much red tape, not enough people actually used the monetary fund. And the lesson from 2008 was, not enough money pushed into the economy.
TBF, germany doesn't have a overtly corrupt lying businessman at the helm right now. We can afford to delay checks and balances and sort ourselves out later. The US? Not so much. They allow trump unsupervised access to half a trillion dollars and him buying his reelection is the least of their worries.
democracy, republic, my ass... If it wasn't coronavirus time right now, I'd be wondering why half the damn population wasn't rioting. At the same time I understand that won't be happening anyway.