Despite the Beatles folding 50 years ago, it appears the Blue Meanies are still around. That is the only possible explanation for this latest diktat from the Trump administration that bankrupt companies don’t get to enjoy relief funding from the Paycheck Protection Program. Just because someone has already shown they can’t run a business during the previously strong economy, why should that mean they don’t get free money? After all, everyone else is.
We can all have our doubts about whether spraying a couple of trillion dollars around is the considerate reaction to anything at all, let alone what is working out to be no less than a pandemic. We can also ponder the silver linings here because the progressive project appears to have taken two fatal head shots at the same time.
