Posted on 04/05/2020 4:32:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore."
Remember that line from the famous American movie "Network"? It's time for a rebellion. Every out-of-work American and every out-of-business American business owner needs to open their windows and shout it, shout it so loud it reaches President Donald Trump, Congress and every swamp politician from Washington D.C., to New York to Boston to Beverly Hills, California.
It's time for this madness to stop. Mr. President, do you understand how many suicides of prominent business owners are going to start piling up?
Here in Las Vegas, a business owner closed his business, laid off his 45 employees (with tears in his eyes) and then went home and committed suicide. Did you see that in the news?
It's happening across America.
Do you understand the pain of the employees? People can't even get through to file for unemployment benefits. The websites have been down for days on end. No one answers the phones.
Do you understand how many lives are being ruined, how many jobs are being killed, how many great businesses will never reopen? The people are getting desperate and despondent. They have no money for food, rent, gas or survival.
We can't stay closed. We have to open up the U.S. economy. There is no more time for debate. There is no more room for caution. I have ideas and compromise below.
First, these coronavirus "death counts" have to stop. You're scaring people half to death. I suggest new kinds of death counts be put up on the screens to compete:
-- JOBS KILLED by this complete business shutdown.
-- BUSINESSES CLOSED.
-- AMERICAN DREAMS DESTROYED.
-- SUICIDES.
Another Great Depression will destroy this great nation. And we're on the way, unless you open this economy again.
And why not open America for business again -- with tight restrictions? What is happening now makes absolutely no sense. We are allowed to shop at big-box stores like Costco, Walmart and Home Depot; health food stores like Whole Foods and Sprouts; grocery stores; pet stores; auto part stores; pawn shops; marijuana stores; liquor stores; and gun stores. And get this: Golf courses are open.
If all of that is allowed, why can't we open all stores and businesses but with the same health precautions and restrictions?
I love and appreciate the UPS drivers and Costco cashiers on the front lines. But if they can work, why can't the rest of us? Do Costco checkout guys and gals and supermarket cashiers have a big S on their chest? If they can face it and survive, why can't the rest of us?
The liberal Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, just recommended everyone wear masks and scarves. Isn't this the compromise to get us all back to work?
Here's the mantra for the day: Wear a mask. Get back to work!
We need to open the U.S. economy before it's too late, before we're all doomed -- not from coronavirus but from the fallout of a Great Depression. Here is the compromise. Here are the new rules.
Anyone who wants to stay home can. If you want to collect welfare, food stamps and unemployment, you can. Anyone at high risk -- seniors, the sick, the obese, those with illness -- should shelter at home.
But the rest of us (the working people of America) are willing to take the risk; to keep our businesses alive; to save jobs; to save the economy; to prevent a Great Depression; to prevent mass suicides, alcoholism, drug addiction, poverty and misery.
We can all work -- just like the Costco employees and supermarket cashiers and UPS drivers. We can all wear masks. Our customers can wear masks. We can all practice social distancing. Employees can stand six feet apart. Stores can limit customers. New customers can be allowed to only go in when others leave. We can sanitize our workplaces and stores like never before.
It's time to start organizing a mega call campaign to President Trump, Congress and local politicians across this country. It's time to tell them that the American people want to take precautions, that we'll accept restrictions but we need to get back to work. Or we're holding you accountable for ruining our jobs, careers, businesses, dreams, lives.
The pandemic is horrible. But we can't keep the economy closed. Your caution and fear are killing our lives more than any pandemic. The politicians are destroying America.
Shout it: "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
Many other businesses are now at the point where they may as well stay closed “for the protection of our customers and workers” to hide the fact that they wont have any customers if they open tomorrow anyway. I’ll give the entire U.S. auto industry as a perfect example.
The clock is ticking. In yesterday’s presser Trump seemed to get it, Pence seemed to get it, and even Fauci seemed to acknowledge it.
Dr. Tony has been given 30 days to mitigate. After that America opens for business and whatever happens happens.
That boat sailed in January.
The question in my mind is will the Rats let us “open up” but continue to weld our borders shut?
Bttt
I did something out of character for me yesterday at my local Meijer store. I was in the 20 items or less self check out lane watching a gal two people ahead of me with a FULL shopping cart. When it came time for me to move to one of the scanners, I asked the Meijer employee monitoring the lanes why she didn't tell the lady with the full cart to go to the proper check out lanes. The employee told me she wasn't allowed to.
So after I checked out my few items, I went back to the girl who was still checking out her items and told her she shouldn't be in that lane and pointed out the 20 item limit sign. All she said was I'm sorry.........I said you're not sorry, you are rude and you did it on purpose. Then I shook my head and walked away.......
Obama voter undoubtedly.
Open up everything next week. Order all health care providers to treat coronavirus, hell, everyone with Hydroxychloroquine; assuming we have enough. We can’t let this country go down the tubes as the demonrats want.
It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”
-Sam Adams
Perhaps it’s time to face the fact that Ben Franklin’s observation about the impossibility of purchasing security by removing freedom is as true today as it was in the 18th Century. Risk cannot be removed from life, it can only be mitigated at a certain cost. It’s now time to realize the cost is about to overwhelm the ability of the economy to recover.
As far as where the line of “reasonable restrictions” should be drawn, social distancing as a sensible suggestion by health officials is about as far as I believe it should go. Each individual can make decisions on mask-wearing or staying secluded due to personal health risks. This whole matter has allowed a crop of petty tyrants to erupt like crabgrass in a spring lawn. Each town mayor, county executive, and governor should be made to reflect on their actions that have removed livelihoods and collapsed their tax base.
The caveat should be if you choose to not quarantine at home then if you get sick you cannot uses any healthcare resources such as an ICU room or ventilator because the whole purpose of isolation is to keep the number of infection low enough so that those who are truly innocent can have access to life saving care. If greedy self centered people want to risk their lives fine but they get zero access thus they cannot take resources away from someone who did not be a selfish a$$hole. This would be easy to implement track the cellphones and toll tags if the person was not at home for extended periods of time the obviously they broke quarantine. Harsh but effective.
Now stay home don’t make the national guard force you too, I have zero desire to be recalled and have to police up the idiots but will with ruthless efficiency as will my troopers who will follow my orders to do so. We did in Kosovo, and a host of other places they will follow orders here given by a lawfully elected officials none of which is unconstitutional in a time of national emergency. The Supremes won’t even get involved this was decided over a hundred years ago the precedence is already set.
This is spot on.
Democrat governors will not open their states on the President’s orders. They closed their states and only they will open them. Here in Pa. Gov. Wolf (D) is so giddy with power I can’t see him opening anything until mid-summer. By that time half of the small businesses will have ceased to exist.
The current situation cannot continue. The engine that drives prosperity, productivity, has been killed. Many businesses will fold. Contrary to what the left thinks, businesses don’t have infinite money. There must be sale of product.
When you see that no money is coming in, but the expenses continue, and the taxes will have to be paid, you realize that it will be months or years before you can once again on the positive side, assuming that you can open this summer, and so you close everything.
Knowing when to hold and when to fold is essential.
The government has NO resources, and it is insane to think that the government can pay everyone not to work indefinitely. It has already committed to deficit spending that will hurt us bad, assuming there is a recovery someday.
I wish that were true, so what border is that to which you refer? Which border is sealed shut. Doc, I think you are crazy.
Thanks for the compliment.
What douche bag comment. FOAD.
While I agree that this "lock down" needs to end today i.e. NOW I still have the feeling that some, maybe a lot, of the small business owners are sitting on millions in personal wealth while we feel sorry for their temporary cash flow problems.
Till now Trump has solidly stood behind the governors. That will change. Once it does the legs will be taken out from under the resisters. Particularly as other states reopen and start collecting revenues again.
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