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The insane decision to shut down the economy has resulted in 22 million jobs lost (in just the past 3 weeks) and will likely result in 30+ million before we bottom. Many of those losses are permanent and the longer we take to restart the economy to full throttle the greater the damage will be.
1 posted on 04/17/2020 5:25:57 AM PDT by tatown
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If it would get rid of Trump, and the democrats would emerge in charge, the democrats would have no problem with another great depression.


2 posted on 04/17/2020 5:28:41 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Stop the fearmongering! Post flu statistics along side COVID-19 statistics!)
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Rush is going to take to the airwaves at 12:06 Eastern and express his deep disappointment in the gates, phases and flu tracker wonk plan.

And then it will be on like Donkey Kong.


3 posted on 04/17/2020 5:29:45 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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And the Fearpers (communist infiltrators to this site) don’t even care.


4 posted on 04/17/2020 5:30:02 AM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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This is a rat wet dream, they rejoiced in the killing of the economy in one fell swoop, it creates a condition right out of their play book. High unemployment, the killing of jobs and businesses and an opportunity to reset and push their agenda


6 posted on 04/17/2020 5:32:07 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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I know everyone has considered there are 20-80k deaths a year from influenza..BUT
Have you considered this...Those many die every year and they have a vaccine for the flu?
Does this mean that even if they have a coronavirus vaccine thousands of people will die every year from it anyhow?


7 posted on 04/17/2020 5:33:51 AM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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The airplane is headed straight for the ground due to the pilots having lost their minds and all one has to do is shove one of them out of his/her seats and pull back on the stick. Just takes a few brave people in leadership to shove the Demopilots out of the seats.


8 posted on 04/17/2020 5:36:37 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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Is it time to panic?


11 posted on 04/17/2020 5:40:10 AM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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Everything coming out now, I have said since Day 1, is now being reported as news. That it was created in a Chinese lab. One thing I had not thought of, when the dictator of China walked around in Wujan with just a mask, it proved that the virus didn’t come from there.....

We are locked down. How many cases of CV in my town...

ZERO!

Just heard on Los Angeles radio KFI am that there are FIVE COUNTIES IN CALIFORNIA WITH ZERO CASES OF CV yet they are still in total lock down as if they were Disney Park, Casino, in NYC...

I still think this is all to destroy Donald Trump. Remember what the evil forced did to JFK and RFK and no Lee H Oswald didn’t do it.


15 posted on 04/17/2020 5:45:09 AM PDT by buffyt (Welcome to Austin. Please don't move here. I hear Dallas is Great! Don't California My Texas!)
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I think a lot of the jobs will come back, girlfriends shop fired about 20% about half that needed to be fired anyway, they are using this to take care of that now but will bring back the others when it picks back up.
I don't think things are going to completely tank but it will take a year or two to clean up.
18 posted on 04/17/2020 5:49:59 AM PDT by Jolla
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That outcry had better happen, because this… We’re beyond now saying this is unsustainable. This is untenable! This is cataclysmic! We’re in the midst of a self-created disaster that we could fix (snap, snap, snap) at the snap of our fingers.

I totally agree. The decision is how best to outcry especially to Democrat Governors. I suspect it would have to be massive protests at the gates of each governors mansion.

22 posted on 04/17/2020 5:52:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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24 posted on 04/17/2020 5:54:23 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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Rush is poorly educated. He has no science. He has no math.

He is incapable of comprehending what is happening


34 posted on 04/17/2020 6:09:10 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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“22 million jobs lost (in just the past 3 weeks”

There are far more people trying to file unemployment, but the UI systems cannot handle any more. We will see 5+ million each week for 10+ weeks at this rate.

22 million? That number is most likely over 32 million already, people just can’t get into the systems to file unemployment claims.


40 posted on 04/17/2020 6:14:37 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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The democrats are salivating at all the new unemployed voters they will have.


43 posted on 04/17/2020 6:16:23 AM PDT by ballplayer (By)
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It was Giant Mistake #1 by Trump to shut down the country. But at least it was made in good faith. Turns out the data was bad and models completely, absolutely wrong. Hospitals were not overrun; patients were not dying in the hallways from lack of care.

Once that was apparent, there was no reason to keep the shutdown going. An immediate reversal was required. Flip the switch completely. Let locals do their local lockdowns if they get local treatment overruns (not “hotspots,” but deaths in hallways). Everyone else, no restrictions. Just encourage social distancing, and self quarantine of old folks. Open the schools immediately.

But Trump is sticking with the gradual reopening. This is is Giant Mistake #2. But this time, it’s made with good information. The coming economic wreckage is 100% Trump’s fault.


48 posted on 04/17/2020 6:46:23 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Unredact the 99 Collyer Report!!!)
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The evidence is in: Shut down, destroy the economy and slow the pace of infection and hospitalization or distance and practice some self-control and common sense and a little inconvenience and slow it about the same. Pick one.

Time to recognize the former path was wrong and borne of ignorance and fear and stop it.


72 posted on 04/17/2020 8:07:25 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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OK I guess I was wrong. I am listening to Rush now and he actually seems to like this plan.

Perhaps he believes that protests are going to force an opening before we have to step trough Fauci’s 99 gates.


76 posted on 04/17/2020 9:17:19 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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Of course the Democrats are on board with a new Great Depression. The first Great Depression led to the New Deal, a judicial re-writing of the Constitution to obliterate the concept of a limited federal government with enumerated powers. It ended 70 years of Republican dominance in the federal government and replaced it with 60 years of Democrat dominance, at least in Congress. It was the best thing to happen to the Democrat Party since the election of Andrew Jackson.

The Democrats have mostly been out of power for the last 25-40 years, depending on how you look at it, so of course they dream of a new Great Depression. They want the opportunity to impose their new Green New Deal and usher in another era of Democrat dominance. This has always been the progressive plan.


85 posted on 04/20/2020 10:17:11 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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