Name: Dan Crenshaw's Problem with Stimulus Checks
Uploaded: 2021-04-06T17:11:04.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dan Crenshaw's Problem with Stimulus Checks' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dan Crenshaw's Problem with Stimulus Checks' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-06. Transcript available.

But that moment is special because there's value in suffering and in today's
society we have convinced ourselves that there is no value in suffering that
the entire role of say government is to end your suffering but this is a false
promise not only is it a false promise but it will create a weak society that
is unable to sustain itself that's a really important point and I think
there's I think there's deep truth in that this is why victimhood politics is
so dangerous and I would say populism is too I think the two are almost
indistinguishable from each other people are always trying to talk about
populism on the right and the left and I say look well here's what populism is
it's telling you what you feel it's mirroring your feelings back to you
telling you what you want to hear as opposed to the truth so that I think
that's a decent definition of populism I don't like it I don't like people
embracing it it doesn't just mean hey things that are good that people are for
well you know what a lot of people are for sixteen hundred dollar checks that
are
free that doesn't mean it's a good policy right that's a good example right
people voted if they voted and said do you want $100,000 yeah a year totally
everybody would vote yes yeah why wouldn't you yeah but is it but is it a
sustainable policy and of course right of course not and the kind of amounts to
the to the I think drastic lurches and you know welfare policy or
infrastructure spending and all of these things that we're seeing it's populism
on
steroids it's telling you what you want to hear and that's not truth that's not
truth and we have to get back to truth and we have to get away from this
victimhood mentality where we actually we actually elevate this idea of being
helpless see that's what's changed that's what's changed in the last decade it
used to be that well you you might feel some shame if you were the type to you
know what you know what I just I need some help I feel bad about it I'm gonna
get back on my
feet but I need some help right now that used to be the sort of American way
all right we need a safety net yeah nobody would disagree with that we need a
safety net we need to help people who have truly fallen on hard times who lost
their jobs because of kovid but does that also mean we need to provide a $1400
check to somebody who never lost their job and whose biggest hardship has been
zoom meetings of course not but over a hundred million people were getting
checks that never lost their jobs a hundred million easily it's way more it's
way
more than that I'm cutting it off at a hundred million so explain that to me
when we when we send out checks the direct cash payments I've always been
against direct cash payments so these the kovid stimulus checks yeah so because
they go out to anybody got those checks that didn't lose their jobs of course
what
yeah if you did the cutoff was like 75k a year so that means wait a minute wait
a
minute that means every federal well not a lot of federal workers getting any
money
because of the pandemic still got checks yeah these were never these were never
based on your situation what yeah really it's ridiculous I didn't know that I
thought you had to lose your job I thought there was a problem yeah wait a
minute if
your staff people who never lost a penny so if you look at their their their
tax receipts
you look at their their uh what they made in 2019 versus 2020 correct if they
they didn't lose any
money yeah no it's based on you're just just your income so I think 75k a year
was the cutoff
but also if you're a married couple 150k and if you have kids and it's even
more so you've got
a lot of active duty military friends you're getting thousands of dollars
because you know
they have kids and but it's like why and they're like why why am I getting this
is such a waste of
taxpayer money you know I mean do your duty and go spend it on a local business
I've been suffering
the money was allocated to people that lost money because of the pandemic no no
no because we already
have a system for that it's unemployment insurance our system works fine for
that that and this is
this was always my thing it's like look I'm in favor of temporarily boosting
payments to those who are
unemployed on unemployed insurance usually state-run unemployment insurance
runs at it it's it's at a
formula that would that would make sure that you're not making more than you
would have if you were
already employed because you don't want to have a disincentive to go back to
work right what we did in
the initial stages of the pandemic was increase that to 600 an extra 600 a week
if you're unemployed
I'm okay with that for a few weeks during hard times the problem is democrats
want to keep it forever
and now every business I talk to is like I can't hire people I I have so many
job openings
right now can't hire anybody because we still have it it's $300 a week but we
still have it it means
people are getting paid to stay home there's a distance there they're making a
purely rational
financial decision but again that's one conversation that's that's at least a
debate to be had you know
during hard times but the direct cash payments that's nuts that's nuts what are
the direct cash that's
the free money that's the frame that's the free money so this is the people
that even though they
still make the same amount they made in 2019 in 2020 they got a big check no
reason yep 100% that seems
crazy and that's well that's well over 100 million people they just got it they
didn't ask for it they
just received it so it's not something they're guilty of yeah yeah they just
received it but but but it
gets to the cultural argument that we're talking about no there was no backlash
for this even on the
right I remember I remember and I was I was I was a little frustrated with the
president or the ex
president Donald Trump president I voted for that he was he was pushing for
those two thousand dollar
cash payments I said don't you think that he was doing that politically and I
didn't vote that's
the point don't you think that that's the point that's exactly that's exactly
the point there's an
incentive now to pay people off with their own money and it's not good yeah but
it wasn't don't you
think that he was in a desperation situation where he just wanted to get reelected
I mean he's coming
through this was in December he was already he'd already lost oh so in December
after he lost he's
still but he didn't think he lost he thought he was so different conversation
it's a good
conversation he thought he was gonna somehow or another get reinstated I don't
I don't know if
you ever truly believe that but um he was pushing for it but yeah it is on the
on the victimhood side
that's this is the demise of the Republic when when when people are comfortable
with being bought off
with their own tax dollars and being comfortable in more than that comfortable
with being told that
they're victimized and that some other group is is responsible for that victimization
right so it's
not just a bad situation they're in a bad somebody else isn't someone did it to
you and maybe it's the
1% maybe it's those those mean corporate giants and now those corporate giants
trying to get all woke and
get on the Democrats good side like they always do you know because you know
they don't because
they want to maintain their little piece of the pie that's where it gets tricky
right where they
manipulate the narrative and they they realize where people's heads are at so
they try to jump on board
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