[TheRealThing]

There really is no other choice other than expand healthcare. The whole system will crash in the greatest time of need. I will commend the administration for pushing that out there.

Way too many holes in the Stimulus for me. Lots of working people left out.

This is a big stretch that states are on their own during a natural disaster.
IMO, this would fall under Defense definitely in this case with a foreign virus.

Like I said. The day the federal government started handing out material things it was only a matter of time. In Johnson's time there were 336 thousand people on food stamps. That's nationally. And the dent that put in the federal budget was zero. Today minus pensions, 65% of all federal spending is dedicated to giving people things. There quite frankly is no end in sight to the increase.

The US will go bankrupt and collapse, very likely in your lifetime. If that happens you better be a doomsday prepper, because all the money you can scrape up won't buy you the first French fry at McD's. Defense means keeping the bad guys at bay, period.