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Originally Posted by John41
No big secret. Treasury has already disclosed who got the money and who, like Harvard, had to give some back thanks to the Treasury. What irritates me is that some of that taxpayer money is going to criminal illegal aliens. And some states want the taxpayer to bail out their pension funds. Also these states were involved in distributing some of the money, not just the Treasury, and their antiquated COBOL systems aren’t up to the job.
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1: Harvard did not receive business stimulus funding. It received funding that was set aside specifically for universities and other higher education entities. It received less than some other schools in the greater Boston area, and dedicated 100% of it to relieving financial aid obligations for students who needed it. Only 50% was required to be dedicated to that.
2. It irritates me that some of the money is going to criminal LEGAL citizens. Scofflaws, scoundrels, rogues, thieves, burglars, wife-abusers, sexual molesters - they're ALL getting this money. That bothers me a lot more than the occasional slip-up in accounting that gives an undocumented kid money, because there are a lot more of Americans who commit criminal acts in our country, than there are undocumented immigrants who commit criminal acts in our country.
The American citizen who molests his daughter, to me, is more of a concern than a Christian man from Venezuela who gets his son smuggled into the USA to save his life from gang wars. Your mileage may vary, but I'd MUCH prefer to have to learn spanish to understand my new next door neighbor, than have to listen to the screams of a 10-year-old being molested by her daddy.