How U.S. Government Paid-Off
Its Super-Rich
In Order to Pass Its
Coronavirus-Relief Laws
Eric Zuesse, originally
posted at Strategic
Culture
On December 14th, two
excellent news-reports were belatedly published about some of the massive
corruption that was behind the initial U.S. federal coronavirus-relief law, the
CARES Act, and about U.S. Senators of both Parties now intending to include
such corruption in the next one. (NOTE: This present news-report may be viewed
as a confirmation, and a further explanation, of what I was predicting in my
article on April 22nd, “Why
Post-Coronavirus America Will Have Massive Poverty”. What that was predicting
is being confirmed in the two recent news-reports that are cited here.)
Regarding the CARES Act, J.
Robert Downen headlined in the Houston Chronicle on December
14th, “Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church got $4.4 million
in federal PPP loans”, and he reported that “Lakewood received a $4.4
million loan through the Paycheck Protection Program, a part of the federal
CARES Act that provided loans to pay employee wages or for other basic
operational costs such as utilities. The program marked the first time federal
lawmakers allowed for direct financial assistance to houses of worship. … More
than 1,000 religious groups in Texas received hundreds of millions of dollars
to retain a combined 59,000 jobs, the Chronicle reported in
July.”
At around the start of the
coronavirus-epidemic, the Texas state government had announced, on 24 January
2020, that “Our workforce continues to grow and is now
14,188,100 Texans strong”, and this means that the CARES Act’s
breaking-of-precedent (“the first time federal lawmakers allowed for direct
financial assistance to houses of worship”) was helping to retain employment
for one two-hundred-and-fortieth of employed Texans, and therefore it couldn’t
even possibly have produced any significant impact upon the rate of
unemployment in Texas, but only improved the re-election chances of public
officials in Texas, by its purchasing from Texas’s preachers (who have lots of
political clout in that state) a more favorable attitude toward those incumbent
governmental office-holders, who had provided this largesse, upon their special
interest.







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