While I support the values behind tweets like this, god they're getting on my nerves, because it's just such a weak-ass argument.

"If you could buy me a drink yesterday, why couldn't you buy me another one today and every day?"

Uh... because it costs money? And because doing it every day would cost a lot more money?

Deferring payments once in an emergency does NOT mean the same institution can afford to defer all payments forever. Delaying evictions because of force majeure does not mean that all evictions can stop forever. These things don't scale that easily.

The really maddening thing is that the criticism is still basically correct. All these things--housing, healthcare, education, debt--desperately need to be restructured. But that still doesn't make 365 days magically equivalent to one day.

@zebratron2084 Counterargument: literally just yesterday they threw $1.5 trillion at the stock markets for a rally that was gone in as many minutes as hundreds of billions of dollars, and ultimately achieved absolutely nothing at all, after years and years of the US "not having the money" to do anything about its problems.

I don't know about you at this point, but I *really* don't think "there's no money for it" makes for a valid argument against anything anymore.

@Thaminga Oh, I agree with you there! It's not that the argument isn't basically correct--it's that it needs to be restructured in order to not be so laughably easy to shoot down. To extend the metaphor: It's not enough to say "but why can't you buy me a drink every day"--you gotta grab the motherfucker's wallet and fan through the $4,000 he still owes you after screwing you in a business deal where you did all the legwork. :)