Posted on 04/25/2020 4:45:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Recently, Brit Hume, the sober and understated Fox News commentator, voiced the thoughts of millions when he said,
“I think its time to consider the possibility… that this lockdown, as opposed to the more moderate mitigation efforts… is a colossal public policy calamity.”
The financial extent of the calamity was quantified by economist Scott Grannis when he observed that “almost overnight, we have wiped out all the net job gains of the past 14 years.” He made that comment on April 12 and the losses aren’t over yet. Grannis bluntly concluded that, “The shutdown of the U.S. economy will prove to be the most expensive self-inflicted injury in the history of mankind.”
The loss of liberty incurred as a result of shutdown is not as easily quantifiable, but is no less significant.
Epidemiological “models” have provided the scientific basis for this large-scale abrogation of personal and economic liberty. Now that the models have been shown to be grossly inaccurate, some are demanding accountability.
In a recent op-ed, Georgia congressman Jody Hice wrote:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Thank you for taking a chunk out of the dam, Brit.
People who think that they are the world’s smartest can be extremely dangerous. Their egos make it might impossible to ever admit that they’ve been wrong.
We’ve had mostly Ivy League graduates running the government for decades.
How’s that working out?
We should definitely have a Pol Pot style Revolution.
When you take the BS out of this, all you have left is an intentional depression for the purpose of IMPEACHMENT.
Hopefully, we will have an electoral revolution in November.
At this late date, color me dubious.What we do have is indeed "an intentional depression,” but for its own sake.
Democrat pols love them some helpless constituents.
They’re so easy to exploit for fun and profit.They’re singing “Happy Days are Here Again.” And not even hiding it all the time.
Ask yourself, for a moment, “How much of what (you) have come to believe in the course of the last month has been a result of your own cognition?” How much has been “revealed” for you? How much are you willing to carry forward.
“It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.” Mark Twain.
what would have been the right path?
if no shutdown.. there would have been deaths.. there were with a shutdown.. in other words.. there would have been people dying.. and just what would the dems and media have dine with that and Pres Trump.
it was a no win... so china has to make up what we lost.. we did owe china money.. erase that debt and we are not in as big a hole....
Trump just may be the man who will go after it.
The left has many smart shrewd people in their fold who operate with deception and without ethics. They want power and authority above all else.
““almost overnight, we have wiped out all the net job gains of the past 14 years.” He made that comment on April 12 and the losses aren’t over yet. Grannis bluntly concluded that, “The shutdown of the U.S. economy will prove to be the most expensive self-inflicted injury in the history of mankind.”
“The loss of liberty incurred as a result of shutdown is not as easily quantifiable, but is no less significant.”
This must never happen again. Those who voluntarily want to hunker down in their caves should do so, but if we are to be a free people it must never be mandated again.
Trump must now demonstrate his genius by cutting the Gordian Knot he has been instrumental in creating. If he cannot return us to normalcy by the end of the summer he is toast, burnt toast.
I do not like this entire mess. My life and the lives of every other sickly octogenarian are not ennobled by the poverty of the nation.
The problem with this November’s election that I see is if the electorate go to the polls angry because the situation has not changed much from today ... it is almost always the incumbent party that takes the brunt of the people’s wrath.
As irrational as that might be, the “throw the bums out” mentality is very strong when people are desperate and poor.
This does not bode well for Trump and Repubs ... which is exactly why we are in the situation we are in now ... created mainly by the fake neo-marxist “media” and Dem governors.
The shut down did not help isolate those truly at risk. It is an ongoing economic disaster for no good reason. It is the 21st century equivalent of bleeding the patient in lieu of an known protocol. Witch doctory.
The Monday Morning Water boy has deserted the President and declared himself to be the intellectual superior
Trump needs his true friends to tell him the truth. Nobody is perfect. Go away gnat.
It would be nice if the skepticism we are seeing now around plague pseudoscience would be applied to global warming pseudoscience when this nonsense passes.
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