Inefficient Government wastefulness of our tax dollars, props to these elderlies

[theking]

‘This is sheer economic waste. We distributed our $1,200 stimulus to our church:’ Why did we get these checks instead of poor Americans?


My husband is 82 years old. I am 83. We are retired. We are neither Democrats nor Republicans.

Last year, about midsummer, we both received $1,200 stimulus payments. They were not in the form of checks, but rather they were in the form of gift cards to buy “stuff.” We have been retired since 2003. We planned our retirement during all of our working years.

We do not light our fireplace with $100 bills, but we are comfortable. We asked ourselves: “Why were we receiving stimulus checks?” This money should have gone to people who had suffered loss of income, and needed it to pay for essentials.

I spent three days trying to find out how to convert these gift cards to cash so that we could distribute the money to people or institutions where the money was needed. It was a tedious, complicated and convoluted process.

Eventually, I was able to convert these cards to funds deposited to our individual bank accounts. We distributed our $1,200 stimulus checks to our church, which is hurting because the Bishop has closed all of the churches in the Diocese due to COVID-19, and plate collections have diminished.