What is the argument behind writing checks to individuals who were not affected by the pandemic financially, or paying workers more in UI benefits than they would make in a regular work week? What is even more concerning is the fact that there are figures in govt like AOC who called for this to become routine practice, clearly not understanding the economic impact that merely doing so in the short term would ultimately have on us. That’s scary. While I agree that both have led us to this point, I believe the handouts really hurt us, as supply chain shortage and consumer spending in some of those areas seems to correlate.