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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 6151149" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Our government pulls in over $4.5 trillion in tax revenue every year.  Not the point.  You're comparing a one off program to assist small businesses during a pandemic to a country that borrowed way beyond its means to pay back the loans or even service its debt.  I'm not getting what you're trying to justify here.  You seem to be defending Greece for providing fantastic benefits they couldn't pay for while at the same time attacking the U.S. for providing some relief in a crisis.  You can't have it both ways.  Greece was terribly irresponsible, and I'll concede that our government has been also.  We need to rein in spending and pay down our debt because with the rise in interest rates just servicing the debt costs over a trillion a year.  Not sustainable to keep on with the deficit spending.</p></blockquote><p></p>