The corruption is killing our country!-----Do They Think the White House Is a Bank? - Noah Rothman, Commentary Magazine

Do They Think the White House Is a Bank? - Noah Rothman, Commentary Magazine

• ...Tell me how the pandemic justified a $5 million disbursement to Boston’s Edward M. Kennedy Institute. 
• What public health emergency necessitated renovating Colorado Springs’ golf course irrigation systems? 
• Did Seattle need to devote over $28 million to downtown apartments for the city’s homeless population, or was that one of the city’s esoteric “priorities?” 
• Has anyone strapped on green eyeshades and audited L.A. County’s $5 million “creative works” jobs program for the city’s moribund “artists?”

Beyond the fact that cash is fungible (another elementary concept we apparently need to review), these are not the unintended consequences of the Covid relief bill. 

The various relief bills were designed to be oversized, subject to minimal oversight, and nimble enough to plug unanticipated holes wherever they appeared. 

The lack of interest from the press in the abject waste this program produced would be conspicuous enough...