Disengaged and Indifferent

Charlotte Selton: You have done nothing for which you should be ashamed.
Benjamin Martin: I have done nothing. And for that I am ashamed.
--The Patriot

Thomas Massie with some back-of-the-envelope math on the cost that the multi-trillion dollar stimulus plan will levy on US citizens. The longer the economic lock-down drags on, the larger the costs of a collective bailout will be.

$2 trillion (Congress)
+$4 trillion (Fed & Treasury)
———————————
$6 trillion stimulus

$6 trillion divided by 350 million citizens = $17,000 per citizen

times a family of 4

=$68,000 per family of new national debt and dollar devaluation in this stimulus.

not a good deal

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) March 26, 2020

But does the average citizen care anymore? Perhaps they have come to expect government to have their backs whenever times get tough. Or maybe the numbers have just gotten so large that people figure there's nothing they can do. Just go with it...

Prospects of losing ever more liberty seems to find many people disengaged and indifferent.