>> Is there some conspiracy to provide Covid aid? But it's not Covid aid anymore. It was aid that was begun during Covid, and now that Covid is over, there's p

>> Is there some conspiracy to provide Covid aid? But it's not Covid aid anymore. It was aid that was begun during Covid, and now that Covid is over, there's pressure from people (see elsewhere in this thread for example) to keep those programs in place. In 2019 you couldn't have enacted those aid programs, in 2020 they were enacted, purportedly temporarily due to Covid, and now there is pressure to make them permanent. That's no conspiracy, it's not a conspiracy when you say out loud in public what your strategy is. Politicians use a crisis to enact policies they couldn't otherwise enact. They admit this. An example on the other end of the political spectrum would be the second US invasion of Iraq, after 9/11. Before 9/11, an invasion of Iraq with the goal of regime change would have been unthinkable. Iraq was completely unrelated to 9/11, but the crisis was used to enact policies that wouldn't have otherwise been possible. Again, this is no conspiracy, Donald Rumsfeld said it out loud, someone's notes of that meeting read "Need to move swiftly – Near term target needs – go massive – sweep it all up. Things related and not." What I am saying is, keep this in mind the next time there is a crisis. "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program" -- Milton Friedman