[BenLurkin]

America calls for return to 'the way it was' as coronavirus crisis crashes economy

[madprof98]

My Democrat neighbors want to see many months of lockdown ahead. They get angry at the thought of being allowed to walk thru the local park.

[bray]

The actual data is showing this virus was overestimated in monumental numbers. Time to go back to shaking hands and opening stadiums.

[no-to-illegals]

If someone decides to shelter in place .... Fine .... open America and let the naysayers stay home ..... their decision and everyone should be allowed their decision ......

[lakecumberlandvet]

Trump unwittingly opened a can of worms (governors) and it ain’t going to be easy to get those worms back in the can.

[truthkeeper]

Hurray. This is exactly the drum he should be beating, and beating hard.

[pnut22]

Thank goodness. I don’t know how they pulled it off but this was the biggest farce ever pulled on the American people. It’s dead Jim.

[SmokingJoe]

“We want it to be the way it was,” Mr. Trump said during a meeting with business leaders at the White House. “We can’t have somebody with half a restaurant. That’s not going to pay the rent.”

It's taken him this long to see that?
We have been saying that on Freerepublic for months.
So why the f*ck was Trump attacking Kemp when Kemp did exactly what Trump is now finally proposing?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Let the thing be pressed.

[Mr. Rabbit]

Good! Enough of this “new normal” BS. There is nothing “new” about Normal.

[Jane Long]

Put us back!
The way we was! 🎶

[SmokingJoe]

No more daily coronavirus press conferences. Let Pence handle all that malarkey.
President Trump should focus like a laser beam on engineering the fastest, the biggest and the greatest economic comeback in American history. Daily meetings with small and big business leaders followed by press conferences focused entirely on the economy.

[867V309]

coronavirus crisis crashes economy

get real:       THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN crashed the economy. nothing else

[Lurker]

“We can’t have somebody with half a restaurant. That’s not going to pay the rent.”

Can you imagine Biden saying something like this?

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[Varsity Flight]

Actually, the recession is currently not as low as with G.B II and the Illegal.
As Varsity Flight predicted d. hygienists now concerned.
Next up.... mosquitoes

[minnesota_bound]

Trump went along with this madness.
When 1 republican in Georgia wanted to return to ‘the way it was’ Trump publicly criticized him.

None for the democrat NY governor and mayor and all the others restricting vital medicine that would save lives.

[9YearLurker]

Ugh, read this and weep. Trump seems fully captured to the Gates/Fauci mafia:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-29/trump-s-operation-warp-speed-aims-to-rush-coronavirus-vaccine?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=politics&utm_source=twitter&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics&utm_medium=social&sref=V7uxlNge

[glennaro]

The President needs to take control of this America-destroying debacle without further delay. As it becomes clearer with each passing day, the true threat of this Chinese Virus, far weaker than anticipated at its outset last fall, has been demonstrated through data to be no more a threat to health and significantly less lethal than is the seasonal flu. However, and much to my disappointment and, frankly, to my surprise, unlike 9/11 where America came together to fight a common enemy, the once optimistic, independent and proud American public has devolved into a pathetic, whimpering mass ... crying out for even more restrictions, more wearing of those digusting, dehumanizing and ineffective masks, and even more human spirit-crushing control by state and local politicians despite clear evidence that the Chinese Virus has and continues to wane significantly (that is, as it runs its course like any other virus ... except where we have interfered with that natural process of immunity).

The President's primary responsibility which he swore to uphold in his oath of office is "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America". Well, leaving this responsibility to the Divided States of America is an unmitigated and ongoing disaster of epic proportions as our Constitution and our Bill of Rights have been suspended by the unchecked and unchallengable orders of governors and lower level politicians to the point that our "unalienable rights" are no longer "unalienable" ... they instead are rights to be taken from us when there's a "good reason" (and there is always a "good reason" to justify tyranny), and are no longer "rights" but nothing more than "privileges" to be restored only when a governor says they will be restored.

The crash of the U.S. economy and the dissolution of our social fabric is happening in "real time" and, instead of incremental improvements as the virus wanes, these conditions are getting worse at an accelerating pace. I understand that we live in a Republic and as provided by the 9th and 10th amendments (it seems these are the only two of the first ten amendments that remain active and intact), powers not specifically enumerated for the federal government are reserved for the states. However, the destruction of our country is occurring on a national level ... with no end in sight as the timelines for "recovery" continue to be extended or remain undefined and are highly inconsistent between the states; a direct result of the politicization of the lockdown and recovery process.

Should peaceful protests against this state-level tyranny (although in some states, such as California, the governor has suspended the 1st amendment and has disallowed such protests (for a "good reason", of course), as he has nullified through "executive orders" other portions of the first ten amendments contained in the Bill of Rights), fail to move the governors to positive, legal action, I fear these protests may turn violent as citizens recover from their fear-induced paralysis and awaken to the much greater horrors of totalitarianism.

Now is the time for national leadership that can only be performed at the federal level or I expect we'll see little real recovery (in fact, maybe even "reverse recovery") across the United States over the next six months (i.e., up to the time of the 2020 election in November). By then, recovery won't take months ... it will take years. And all Americans will suffer greatly throughout that long time.

President Trump, do your duty and abide by your oath. Now.