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Wonder how many ordinary citizens (vs members of Congress, their aides, lobbyists living in the area) attend events at the Kennedy center? Given a disproportionate number of the wealthiest counties in the US are clustered around Washington D.C., I wonder why the Kennedy Center cannot survive without Federal monies… Same with NPR and PBS – if they are so desirable, why do they need the Federal monies? Why not NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox? It was interesting to note the AP summary indicated $25M for “Universities” – apparently $13M of that went to one – Howard. Anyone care to guess where Howard University is located…. Spoiler alert – Washington D.C. And it is a Private University, not even Public. Wow. And if you go to the website, it lists prominent alumni, many of whom are multi millionaires. How about the $25M for the House and $10M for the Senate for “teleworking” related expenses – that amounts to $57,471.26 per Representative. But they are being absolutely frugal compared to the Senators, where the $10 Million works out to $100,000 per Senator. Seriously, I suspect ordinary folks were able to telework for a tad less than that… Oh, and the $25 Million to clean the Capitol and Capitol buildings. First, you have to understand it is above and beyond any cleaning already in budgets. They were getting their offices cleaned before the pandemic, for sure. So $25M, if you pay janitors $20/hour (likely high, so the following calculations are even more sobering), that amounts to 1,250,000 man hours. That is 625 man years. You could hire 1,875 people for four months for that money.
Just think how much more good could have been done for the folks truly impacted by the crisis if all the crap that has nothing to do with recovering from the pandemic wasn’t put into the bill and instead those monies went to ordinary folks – hospitals and their workers, people who have or are in danger of losing their jobs, small business owners who are trying to stay afloat and pay their employees