{"id":42409,"date":"2020-04-24T20:15:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42409"},"modified":"2020-04-24T20:15:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T20:15:51","slug":"stimulus-arrives-but-do-i-swoon-over-name-on-memo-line-uhh-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42409","title":{"rendered":"Stimulus arrives, but do I swoon over name on memo line? Uhh, no"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our “economic stimulus payment” arrived in the mail today.<\/p>\n

The name below that term on the check’s memo line read “President Donald J. Trump.”<\/p>\n

Gosh. What am I supposed to do now? Do I swoon over the fact that Donald Trump’s name appears on the memo line? Would I do so were I a dedicated adherent to the cult of personality that Trump seems to have cultivated?<\/p>\n

I cannot put myself into the shoes of one of those folks.<\/p>\n

I looked at the payment. We signed it. We’re going to deposit it into the bank. I will not give another thought — not even a passing<\/em> thought — to the name on the memo line. You see, this payment was much less Donald Trump’s doing than that of the Treasury secretary and the leaders of both congressional chambers; and, by howdy, that includes the Democrats<\/em> who control the House and who comprise a substantial minority in the Senate.<\/p>\n

How much heavy lifting did Donald John Trump do to bring this payment to one American household? My best guess: hardly any.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Our “economic stimulus payment” arrived in the mail today. The name below that term on the check’s memo line read “President Donald J. Trump.” Gosh. What am I supposed to do now? Do I swoon over the fact that Donald Trump’s name appears on the memo line? Would I do so were I a dedicated … Continue reading Stimulus arrives, but do I swoon over name on memo line? Uhh, no<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7910],"tags":[1512,9261],"class_list":["post-42409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-news","tag-economic-stimulus","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42410,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42409\/revisions\/42410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}