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stumbled across an article describing the disaster that was the PPP loans. Over the past month, day after day, I read stories of small business owners receiving a fraction, if anything, of the loans they expected, they deserved.</p><p id="5b4b">Instead, high-profile individuals like Kanye West received millions in aid in the form of PPP loans. That should enrage all patriotic Americans. Our fellow citizens who own small businesses were shoved to the side for people like Kanye West, allies of Trump, and Wall Street-backed businesses.</p><p id="2c12">Furthermore, the SBA data had shown that nearly 90,000 companies received loans without promising to create jobs or rehire workers…</p><p id="a4f9">That infuriates me to no limit. Where is the support for the common citizens?</p><p id="5d81">Do you know who else got a loan? The Los Angeles Lakers. However, the company decided to give the loan back, rightfully so.</p><p id="f4bc">No matter what companies

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have received loans and decided to give them back, a systemic problem exists.</p><p id="21ff">When such injustice is present in the highest levels of our government, how can anybody expect justice, progress, and honesty in society?</p><p id="b658">Enormous problems, such as this, need help from some of America’s great minds and active figures.</p><p id="2186">I hope, one day, we will see a governmental body that actually looks out for the commoners, the small businesses. With all the problems 2020 has brought, I can only dream of such a world.</p><p id="b464">Until then, I’ll pretend I’m a kid again. The real world, the world of grown-ups, is for people who can look the other way and pretend nothing happened when they get slapped in the face by unrighteousness. Maybe I’m an adult, but I don’t think I’ve grown up yet.</p><p id="2b2e">I’ll take a happy meal, cartoons, and a 7 pm bedtime; you can have criminal government officials.</p></article></body>

Ignorance is Bliss, So They Say

The SBA Showed Me What I Knew But Didn’t Want to Believe

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Reminiscing on the simplicity of childhood and teenage years is often comforting in times of stress. Thinking about such times allows me to change my point of view on the world; maybe things aren’t so bad after all.

When I was a kid, I thought the world was innocent. I believed those with moral actions and intentions were rewarded, but society has shown me otherwise — especially recently.

This morning, I was doing some online reading when I stumbled across an article describing the disaster that was the PPP loans. Over the past month, day after day, I read stories of small business owners receiving a fraction, if anything, of the loans they expected, they deserved.

Instead, high-profile individuals like Kanye West received millions in aid in the form of PPP loans. That should enrage all patriotic Americans. Our fellow citizens who own small businesses were shoved to the side for people like Kanye West, allies of Trump, and Wall Street-backed businesses.

Furthermore, the SBA data had shown that nearly 90,000 companies received loans without promising to create jobs or rehire workers…

That infuriates me to no limit. Where is the support for the common citizens?

Do you know who else got a loan? The Los Angeles Lakers. However, the company decided to give the loan back, rightfully so.

No matter what companies have received loans and decided to give them back, a systemic problem exists.

When such injustice is present in the highest levels of our government, how can anybody expect justice, progress, and honesty in society?

Enormous problems, such as this, need help from some of America’s great minds and active figures.

I hope, one day, we will see a governmental body that actually looks out for the commoners, the small businesses. With all the problems 2020 has brought, I can only dream of such a world.

Until then, I’ll pretend I’m a kid again. The real world, the world of grown-ups, is for people who can look the other way and pretend nothing happened when they get slapped in the face by unrighteousness. Maybe I’m an adult, but I don’t think I’ve grown up yet.

I’ll take a happy meal, cartoons, and a 7 pm bedtime; you can have criminal government officials.

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