that ended a year on 4 months ago … even though, during Biden’s entire presidency, the media acted like TFG was a shadow president, giving him oxygen at every turn

Fuck these people

but I have to say, 17000 won't make much of an impact nationwide. The labor force is 170 million give or take. 17000 is 1/100 of one percent.

The unemployed tend to spend less, leading to more unemployed, leading to more unemployed spending less, and so on. This leads to a crisis in effective demand, which was the engine of the Great Depression. Your math doesn’t hold up.

When driving today I looked around at the small businesses I used to see and sometimes patronize. Well, many are gone. Just empty storefronts now. The squeeze on the middle class is bad and getting worse.