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Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by steelstraw on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:51PM (#30173862)
The government can't even give our money away with a basic level of competence? This is worrisome.
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Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by sangnoir on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:46AM (#30174576)
> The government can't even give our money away with a basic level of competence?

Lots of people in the executive wing and their friends/cronies benefited: it was competence, but in the way one would hope. A member of cabinet resisted[1] releasing names of companies that benefited from PPE loans to congress, calling it "proprietary information" - that was not an accident or bumbling.

1. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/06/13/mnuchin-ppp-...

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