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!"
It amazes me that being resistant to economic ruin on a personal level makes one greedy in your eyes. And it should carry a death penalty.
Perhaps you and your troopers will help load the cattle cars, too?
Good points, another one I see is our legal system. Say a restaurant or hair salon open back up and a customer or one his family members get the virus two weeks later, a lawsuit will may follow. Multiply this scenario by millions I can’t even think of and this spells our doom as a Country. This fear of legal repercussions is the elephant in the room that is not being discussed by anyone.
Kill the old people, kill the crazy Docs too!!
If people are worried about the potential for virus induced deaths, just wait till they get a load of Great Depression II induced deaths followed by Civil War II deaths. At this point it will be a miracle if we can avoid either.
Why am I not surprised. You poor sad individual. I will do better than that I will pray for you today. Have a blessed day.
“Mr. President, do you understand how many suicides of prominent business owners are going to start piling up?”
Root should have gone in to more detail and taken it beyond suicides of “prominent business owners”. The man in Vegas killed himself. What about the employees he had to let go? How many of them will die as a result of suicide, domestic abuse, or lack of medical care because they can’t afford it?
Sadly, all true.
Just...WOW.
My grandmother used to tell haunting stories of how many people jumped out of windows during the Depresdion.
Only 2. Sorry I’m having a bad weekend and I’m posting in the wrong space.
Carry on.
You sound like a freaking thug. Obedience? Up yours!
Agree the country needs to open back up and whatever happens happens.
Businesses are going to fail and that’s a given but suicide iss the result of an underlying psychological illness.
People will starve to death if they don’t eat, that is why grocery stores are open. Everything else is closed because self-centered idiots refuse to follow the rules, and some purposefully sneeze and cough just to act defiantly..
We do what can be REASONABLY done to keep people alive.
We are not being reasonable in my not so humble opinion.
At some point nature should be allowed to takes over.
Unlike the party of death. Who play God. They literally murder many before they are born..even some as they are being born.
They would euthanize the old. In some cases, that could mean anyone over 60.
Yet, now we are suppose to pretend they are concerned about a few thousand mostly old people?
No, they are concerned about doing whatever they can to make look Trump look bad.
Do we really need anymore evidence?
Interesting that their candidate for President would otherwise be a prime example of a elderly person that should be Euthanized. He has lost his wits. He is no longer of any use.
Except he is the only chance they have to beat Trump.
Anyhow, i have said from early on. Not sure why we can’t use the same precautions we are using now in the work environment.
Doesn’t make sense we can go to the grocery store but not to work?
As long as the clowns in Congress are willing to print money to fund bad decisions, the push to protect phony-baloney jobs will outweigh the public good. Too bad we could not find more Donald Trumps to govern at many levels.
“I would take great pleasure in locking you up with the entire weight of the federal government behind me and my troopers some times people need to be taught obedience the hard way.
Just...WOW.”
It’s amazing what people post on here sometimes, isn’t it? And this comment is in response to people wanting to go back to work and others who want to preserve their business, not threatening to overthrow the government.
Yep
Yup, but the Chicken Littles on this site will curl up in a corner and shake uncontrollably...
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