With AWI at near $40k/yr, why should any also struggling folks earning less than $40k/yr be bailing out folks earning more than $40k/yr?
The deciding factor in our 'bailout for The Some' tribal free-for-some is, proximity to crony connections in DC, no matter how bought.
If there is a 'common government' plan to 'bailout' our struggling economies, then, make that a 'common bailout' plan, not a 'who's your Daddy?/let's let the gladhanders pick winners and losers' based plan.
The current graceless political clawing going on in DC is just flat out unsightly. The entire town should burn to the ground, Democrats and GOP.
And, pretty much is.
If the CEOs walk away with billions from the public trough, and yet are still being rewarded the same as 'success', then what we are going to create in America is a redefinition of 'success', fueled by a corollary to Gresham's Law.
But, ditto goes to the mobbed up labor force paying for its second bass boat and 8 weeks paid vacation.
I and millions of small business folks and self employed taxpayers want someone to subsidize 8 weeks paid vacation for us, too, (not really, that is exactly what used to define succe$$ in America, not wanting something so blatantly spine softening), so ... who is that going to be?
This 'free-for-some' the tribe is trying to throw is tubing many of our economies... but not all of them. If it figures it out in time, there is hope. If not, then ... there is none.
In the present entrenched fascism, there is none. Since the price exacted for these failed CEOs and their failed workers is not in fact quality time reassessing the effort in a gov't surplus trailer somewhere, you must ask 'why not?', but you don't have to wonder for long. The reason is, these folks have bought and paid for their influence in DC. The reason is, the cronies are taking care of their own. The reason is, the only arbiter in the current free-for-some is the degree of separation one has from a connected crony in DC. If your little commercial group effort is not sufficiently cronied up in DC, then forget it, but make sure you pay your taxes to support those who are.