This is not stimulus. It is government handouts to people that largely do not need the money. More importantly, and not mentioned in the OP, it is pork funding democrat special interests.
Hey now, it's called "relief" and by relief I mean 10 percent goes to Americans and the other 90% goes out to bailing poorly run states out, teachers unions, who Biden seems to love, and ACA subsidies.
Representative Gosar
introduced a competing bill that would cost $1 trillion and would give $10,000 checks to Americans. The law passed gives Americans $1,400 and costs $1.9 trillion.
No one should be getting 1400 dollar checks. At most you could make the case for unemployment supplements because if you're someone that has a legitimate reason to be out of work (not just being a bum), then you should get some help. 1400 bucks doesn't even do anything and it's a number that was made up out of thin air. Trump also very stupidly suggested 2k checks which helped R's to lose the senate so really there's a lot of blame to go around.
The $1,400 is $2,000 when you add in the $600 that Americans got in Trump's final days in office. The March 2020 stimulus money was largely spent on savings (the personal savings rate went way up), and paying down debt/bills unrelated to covid. At this part of the economic cycle, I see little reason for additional stimulus spending. I would have to agree that the stimulus payments are not money put to good use.
