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FBaggins

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10. Largely because they were never really "loans" to begin with

Reply to LoisB (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 28, 2023, 07:52 PM

Feb 2023

They were designed by Congress to get money out quickly to employees who would otherwise lose their jobs during the pandemic. They were never going to be paid back.

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Supreme Court seems ready to sink student loan forgiveness [View all] dalton99a Feb 2023 OP

If and when it is allowed to stand, the president should cancel every penny of it MichMan Feb 2023 #1

Why isn't anyone clamoring for repayment of the PPP "loans"? It seems to me that every day I LoisB Feb 2023 #2

+100 Freethinker65 Feb 2023 #8

Largely because they were never really "loans" to begin with FBaggins Feb 2023 #10

I can understand that. Maybe a better job of vetting the recipients could/should have been done. LoisB Feb 2023 #11

No question about that. Massive amounts of dollars were lost/stolen FBaggins Feb 2023 #12

Why isn't anyone clamoring for repayment of the PPP "loans"? It seems to me that every day I LoisB Feb 2023 #3

What? blueinredohio Feb 2023 #4

What? blueinredohio Feb 2023 #5

"the legal right to sue." bucolic_frolic Feb 2023 #6

Ah, I wondered yesterday what the Supreme Court was going to take away from us this time SWBTATTReg Feb 2023 #7

I see several headlines like that. CNN had a bit of a different take on it underpants Feb 2023 #9