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 To the editor:Are you upset,
too? Did you get your PPP for your small business?
Most small businesses here in Lincoln/Logan County
did not.
A few of the wealthiest here in Lincoln did. But,
if you walk around the streets in Lincoln, Mount Pulaski, Atlanta
and see storefronts closed or empty, the original concept of PPPs
would have helped save your business.
But Trump's friends and large donors to his
presidential campaign did. Millions, thousands of dollars. When this
bill passed the House, it was designed to help real small, main
street businesses but after it staggered through the Senate, it
became one that benefited a chosen few.
Here's just a few of the rich people who received
PPP's:
Betsy DeVos,
Kanye West,
Reese Witherspoon,
Jared Kurshner,
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 Secretary Elaine Chou (wife of Mitch McConnell).
Many right-leaning evangelical churches received
millions,
Paula White's (the President's pastoral counselor),
Robert Jeffers (whose church hosted a Trump rally
in Texas),
Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson and the Church of
Scientology.
I must add that Nancy Pelosi's husband received
one for his hotel business. Many fast food and petroleum companies
received PPPs, too.
What's the common thread here? All were donors to
Trump's campaign.
So. small business owner, here in Lincoln and
Logan County, did you receive yours?
Thank you,
Rebecca Drake
[Posted
July 11,
2020]
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