Posted on 03/31/2020 9:47:12 AM PDT by rktman
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue, a member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, told Breitbart News this weekend that the “real modern-day heroes” fighting the coronavirus crisis are those making sure food supply chains are up and running through this prolonged national shutdown.
Perdue, a member of Vice President Mike Pence’s White House Coronavirus Task Force, on Friday evening joined the team at the daily briefing in the White House Briefing Room to break down a new program that the USDA has put together to make sure kids nationwide are getting breakfast and lunch even though many schools are closed.
“That’s America, that’s the spirit of America. That’s what President Trump has led us into,” Perdue said. “Obviously, as a businessperson, he’s very anxious to get this economy back up running again. We’re not going to let this virus paralyze us for very long. We want to keep safe, we want to stay healthy—that’s the first priority. But I think these people who are cooped up, they want to get back to work and be productive like we had been. This economy was roaring and it will again, it’s just this unusual pandemic that no one could anticipate.”
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I do too. Where would we be without your sense of duty and contributions..
I still have a big problem with the “nonessential” business and worker thing.
The income and business of the gym owner or home contractor is VERY essential to that person and his/her workers.
Moreover, my favorite local artisan bakery has been shut-down. Declared “non-essential”. They run a coffee shop as well, so no one can enter the business. I expect they will simply go bankrupt and shut down completely.
BUT - Walmart, Target and Kroger are still open. Their workers are in just as close contact. No one would dare call them “non essential.” So now if I want bread, I must go to their government-enforced oligopoly to buy it.
The oligarchs win again!
Classifying a cashier at Publix as a hero is a bit much
The common thread is that they’re all made up of people from fly-over country and not part of the DC Swamp.
Along with PEPCO and Comcast,Verizon workers. the guys were in the cherrypicker trucks in my neighborhood yesterday.
They are more important than any entertainer.
Define ‘essential’. Some other idiots “essential” may not be this idiots “essential”.
LOL! I think I’ve been to that Publix when we were still in FL.
Amen...truckers especially....even the Amazon drivers bringing Chinese krap into neighborhoods.
And many others, like gas station, bank employees, postal workers. I have a bank appointment tomorrow to open a very important account.
[[[Classifying a cashier at Publix as a hero is a bit much.]]]
I dunno. Standing in front of hundreds of assorted slobs daily would be kind of unnerving to me.
“Classifying a cashier at Publix as a hero is a bit much”
Hey, man, then YOU do it. I have heard of plenty of retail workers and health care workers who quit rather than risk exposure. I went grocery shopping yesterday for the first time in nearly a week and I was able to get most of what I needed... they even had toilet paper!
Yes their jobs are important.
However why are people with different jobs now called heroes?
We elevate certain jobs and by definition, say other jobs aren’t important.
ALL JOBS are important, no one has a job if the economy doesn’t function.
Its another way to divide Americans up against each other.
The same with pitting generations against each each other, Millenials, baby boomers, etc.
This has been going on for the past 10-20 years.
This allows politicians to pick and choose and pit us against each other.
That’s what the cashier and bagger said when I asked them if they were nervous working daily. Said it was disconcerting at the very least.
Last night my son told me that Clarke’s Charcoal Broiler in Mountain View, CA is closing. It’s a family-owned operation that has been in continuous operations for 75 years — SEVENTY FIVE years. Families around here have taken their kids there for many generations. We used to go there often after our son’s Little League baseball games. I don’t know for sure if it’s caused by COVID, but I can’t imagine what else it might be.
I pray that all similar Mom & Pop places are able to weather this storm. I don’t want to come out of this with nothing but Denny’s and McDonald’s left standing.
Every time I go into a grocery store, I thank the workers I pass for being there to keep stocking the shelves and running/overseeing the checkouts....the same I do for those in uniform/retired, etc.
Yup. See plenty of RR traffic running through Reno daily. East and west bound.
We aren’t far from the tracks down here...I can hear them going through several times a day and instead of frowning at the 7 seconds of whistle blowing, I just smile in thanks these days...
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