Originally Posted by e6bpilot

Yeah, the poors are terrible at household budgeting, that's why they are poor. They are probably spending it all on pork rinds, fancy car wheels, and diet soda.

I think that everyone knows that we overshot with the stimulus cash because they assumed there was going to be a long term economic hole to dig out of. Now we are in a weird period where there are still benefits but we need them back in the workforce.

We are having trouble getting low income workers back to their crappy jobs, and high earners, who were largely unaffected by the pandemic, are the ones shaming them for their insolence. It's actually really funny.

This too shall pass. Better to overshoot the stimulus than undershoot and create real problems like we had trying to recover from the 2009 recession.