“ last year the U.S. government pulled 13 million people out of poverty with a few million strokes of the autopens” I am pretty sure the government forced more

“ last year the U.S. government pulled 13 million people out of poverty with a few million strokes of the autopens” I am pretty sure the government forced more people into poverty with the lockdowns. To treat the stimulus checks as some mind of boon when people were forced to close productive businesses seems intellectually dishonest at best.