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[quote=Anonymous]On small businesses, especially?

Local elected officials - Governors and County Executives - are between a rock and a hard place and they have been all year. They are given the false choice between saving lives and saving the economy, and it never should have been this way. It’s a failure of the FEDERAL government. Every other first world country has paid their citizens and residents to stay the eff home. In some cases, up to 80-100% of their salaries. Not saying other countries did it perfectly, but they are not a toxic cesspool of virus and economic ruin. America’s haphazard patchwork of state and county level restrictions is a miserable failure, and puts undue blame and burden on the people trying to find the least bad option. 
Sure. Maybe Larry Hogan shouldn’t have opened Ocean City so quickly. Maybe Marc Elrich should have opened schools and kept bars closed. Maybe the CARES funds should have been distributed more efficiently. I’m not someone who would go to any lengths to defend Elrich OR Hogan (or Bowser, Alsobrooks, or whatever Virginia electeds bear responsibilities), but their issues are nitpicking compared to the fact that Trump punted the issue to them. “I take no responsibility at all”

The UI benefits are convoluted and don’t bring service jobs back. The rent relief is temporary and will require back pay. Everybody is falling behind in school, whether virtual or hybrid. Large corporations walk away with the federal assistance money and small businesses get peanuts. Corporate landlords don’t give a crap if their small business tenants don’t have any revenue. They still owe rent and utilities. And the ICU beds are still filling up, because enough people believe that masks are against freedom (don’t forget, MoCo may have voted 80% for Biden, but that 20% for Trump is still a lot of people).

Elrich, Hogan, the Council, and I assume likewise in other counties are simply finding the least bad way to work with the awful and woefully mismanaged hand the federal government dealt them. No decision they make is going to be popular. No decision they make is going to make you happy. There are two  to blame for this and, thankfully, one of them will also face eviction on January 20th. The other resembles a turtle.[/quote]

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