'The epitome of hypocrisy': 17 Tennessee Republicans accepted PPP loans -- but want to slash...

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"That's wrong on so many levels…. It is the epitome of hypocrisy to say 'I'm going to get this federal help, but you don't deserve it. You need to go back to work.'"

'The epitome of hypocrisy’: 17 Tennessee Republicans accepted PPP loans — but want to slash...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, liberal economists such as Robert Reich (former secretary of labor in the Clinton Administration) and the New York Times' Paul Krugman have applauded enhanced unemploy...
alternet.org
8:45 AM · Jul 5, 2021

https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/ppp-loan/

During the COVID-19 pandemic, liberal economists such as Robert Reich (former secretary of labor in the Clinton Administration) and the New York Times' Paul Krugman have applauded enhanced unemployment benefits as good for the U.S. economy — stressing that those who receive that money are likely to spend it immediately. Republicans, however, have been claiming that enhanced unemployment benefits from the CARES Act of 2020 or the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 encourage Americans not to look for work. But in Tennessee, according to reporter Jackie DelPilar, some of the same Republicans who now rail against unemployment benefits received payments from the CARES Act's Paycheck Protection Program.

Reporting for Fox 17 Nashville, DelPilar explains, "A FOX 17 News investigation found 17 state lawmakers who supported the unemployment cuts also accepted PPP loans for their businesses. They accepted a combined $12.4 million."

Rep. Gloria Johnson, a Democrat who serves in the Tennessee House of Representatives, is calling out the hypocrisy of those lawmakers. DelPilar quotes Johnson as saying, "That's wrong on so many levels…. It is the epitome of hypocrisy to say 'I'm going to get this federal help, but you don't deserve it. You need to go back to work.'"

Republicans in the Tennessee State Legislature who accepted PPP money but are now pushing to cut off Tennessee residents from enhanced unemployment benefits, according to DelPilar, include Sen. Jon Lundberg, Rep. Jeremy Faison, Rep. Kevin Vaughan, Rep. Jerry Sexton and Rep. Eddie Mannis. Sexton, DelPilar reports, "accepted a total of $2.2 million for his three businesses." And Lundberg, the CEO of Corporate Image (a public relations firm in Tennessee), applied for a PPP loan in 2020 — giving his company "$271,000 in government help," according to DelPilar.

*the end*

[SheltieLover]

1. Aren't they special?

Lock them.all up!

[paleotn]

2. Republicans are scum? Whoda thunk?

[Blue Dawn]

3. I loathe people like this.

And it would have have to be my state.

Geez.....

[smirkymonkey]

4. Why can't people see how loathsome and hypocritical they are?

You would think that something this egregious would finally shatter their delusions.

But no. They are still just mindless, masochistic little sheep who keep voting for more humiliation, degradation and corruption.

[crickets]

5. "I've got mine. Screw everyone else." Vile. nt

[Blue Owl]

6. Disgusting!

Yet par for the course for these depraved fucks...

[AllaN01Bear]

7. pay it back , then lock em up.