Maybe, Just Maybe
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Maybe, Just Maybe
Is the $1.7 Billion Doj Trump "Revenge Fund" Corruption?
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Maybe. Or maybe restoring justice takes funding.
This has been a bunch of hubbub about the uh Trump DOJ putting together a 1.77 something billion dollar fund to go and help out those who were they say unfairly prosecuted by the Biden Department of Justice during those years. There's a lot of talk about hey you can't do that with taxpayer money, which I fully get. However, I gotta try and be fair. Right? Now I am not going to buy this and try and rule out the idea that this is just a bit of money shuffling and corruption. But I will try to present an alternative case. Alright. Now, let's say that I have set aside $500 to do work on my back porch. Which is about true. Is it unfair because I have taken money that would have gone maybe towards vacation and put it towards the back porch? I think you can argue that. A budgetary line item can sound pretty big. Then you start breaking down into the various components of what it's gonna be used for, and that at least provides a little clarity. Now, I will have to go and read the article later to see what they say that one plus billion is gonna be used for. But if I had to guess, I would say that it is to pay the time and wages and the resource cost because it does cost resources to access federal, well, access any small or large government database because they aren't otherwise ideally selling your information to advertisers. So they need to keep their data cent their data banks open somehow, which means please put a little money into the pot so that we can hand you these records which are otherwise sealed. So that 1.77 billion could very well be going to paying for the resources, the research, and the people paying for you know their livelihoods while they do this. I don't know how many people have been hired onto this project. I don't know how many different government agencies are gonna have to pay a pound of flesh to. Now, that's just justifying the cost of it. Do I think that it's the right thing to do? Well, like I said, I gotta throw $500 money at my back porch. Why? Because it was wood rotted and kinda unusable in the state that it was. It had a bunch of work that needed to be done, and it wasn't gonna get done by me just passing through and poking at the holes. When you gotta get something done, getting something done takes time, and it's not gonna look great. You're gonna say, what could that 500 have been used for? And that's entirely fair, but as long as it is being used for the paying of people who are gonna look into the matters, revisit the cases, and then potentially compensate those who were unjustly deprived of means for employment, deprived of time employed while they are fighting fraudulent cases. Well, that's gonna be a bunch of money, and I hope the 1.77 billion dollars actually does the work of restoring justice at the federal level done by none does the damage done by the federal level of things, and I regret to inform you that at the federal level money amounts just get big. So yeah, maybe the whole thing is a giant money laundering problem. Maybe it's just another sign of corruption, or maybe, just maybe, the justice that people have been calling out for takes a little extra because the injustice was that much extra to start with. Cheers.