This is the opening paragraph of a story published today by the Texas Tribune …
Monica De La Cruz, a firebrand Republican running in a fiercely competitive South Texas race, received thousands of dollars for personal business interests from federal COVID relief programs despite disparaging federal assistance programs as harmful to the U.S. economy.
Man, you just have to love the kind of reporting that exposes politicians’ hypocrisy in this Age of Hypocrites.
Here’s the rest of the story. Take a peek. It’s worth your time.
Monica De La Cruz cashes in on COVID aid, trashes programs | The Texas Tribune
The Tribune points out that De La Cruz is the latest Republican — yeah, this is mostly a GOP affliction — to criticize Democrats’ policies while scarfing up the goodies for their own gain.
So it is with this GOP candidate for Congress.
Do you recall in 2020 when Republicans railed against President Biden’s efforts to pump money into repairing and upgrading our infrastructure? Then, once Congress approved it Biden signed it into law, they stood up and boasted about all the money that was coming to their states and congressional districts.
The Tribune reported further about De La Cruz’s duplicity: āMonica De La Cruz raged against relief funding for Texas small businesses, but what she didnāt mention was that she and her family happily took nearly $200,000 of that same aid for themselves. Her hypocritical agenda of āHelp for me, but not for theeā is politics at its worst and South Texans deserve better,ā said Monica Robinson, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Where I come from, such blatant hypocrisy is a deal-breaker.
Per Heather Cox Richardson: (1) Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans forgiven; (2) Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) had over $2.3 million in PPP loans forgiven; (3) for Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), $987,237 in PPP loans were forgiven; (4) Kevin Hearn (R-OK) had more than $1 million in PPP loans forgiven; and (5) Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) had over $1.4 million in PPP loans forgiven. All five of these politicians blasted the student-loan-forgiveness initiative. What a bunch of hypocrites!
The PPP program, while not perfect,
was a BIPARTISAN program APPROVED BY CONGRESS. Itās intent was to keep employees on the payroll during a time of National crisis. The loans were conceived as forgivable from the outset, assuming certain conditions were met.
Student loans, on the other hand, were meant to be paid back. To compare the two is like comparing apples to oranges.
Should millionaire congressmen gladly accept free money from the taxpayers? I donāt think so. True patriots would have refused the money or paid it back. So it is disingenuous in the extreme for MJT and company to express outrage at carpenters and teachers and nurses being forced to pay for student-loan forgiveness.
Iām opposed to both the PPP program and the student-loan forgiveness programs. For that matterā Iām opposed to all corporate bailouts and subsidies. No wonder our national debt is so high!