Raw LLM Responses

This is part of the reason why I've been somewhat critical of the approach of stimulus checks to prop up the economy. For some reason restaurants have become the poster-child of the pandemic fueled economic collapse. Everyone talks about how they're going to save the restaurant industry by ordering more takeout with their stimulus bucks. Except many industries don't have a "takeout" model they can follow to keep revenues flowing during the pandemic. Tourism, hotels, concerts, and so forth. It doesn't matter how many stimulus checks you send out to Americans, it's not going to save those industries. Plus you know most people are ordering from restaurants close to home, takeout doesn't much help the restaurant located next to the tourist attraction that is currently closed. Meanwhile [home and consumer goods are booming](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/24/pandemic-shipping-economy/) as people spend those dollars on stuff they can have at home. There's so much demand for consumer goods that cargo ships are sitting offshore for lack of warehouse space to unload their goods. Amazon has been making money hand over first, as has the shipping industry who deliveries all that stuff to homes. I understood the original stimulus checks almost a year ago, but by this point we should have been able to better target this stuff to out-of-work workers and the most hard hit industries.