By Kelly Sadler for RealClearPolitics
How do we reignite our economy while schools, many places of employment, and some states remain shut down?
This is the simple question Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden refuses to answer.
He’s touting his “Build Back Better” plan, which he ripped off of Donald J. Trump’s economic populism, promising workers in Ohio this week he’ll bring their jobs back.
Biden blasted the president for high unemployment numbers – while conveniently ignoring his own stance that COVID recovery comes before economic recovery.
Jobs be damned.
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In the first presidential debate, Biden stated: “You can’t fix the economy until you fix the COVID crisis.”
His comments echoed remarks he made in an ABC News interview in August, where he said he would follow the science in regard to further shutdowns.
“I would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives. We cannot get the country moving until we control the virus,” Biden said.
Asked specifically whether he’d push to shutter economic activity if public health officials said it was necessary, Biden replied: “I would shut it down.”
As new COVID cases fluctuate after this summer’s spikes, the U.S. can’t afford another national shutdown.
Knowing what we know now about the virus – low mortality rates, vulnerable populations and preventative measures — Democratic governors in blue states should be encouraged to open up safely.
Government can’t replace a thriving private sector, nor should it be encouraged to.
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While the Trump administration issued science-based guidelines and worked with governors of both parties to safely reopen their economies, Biden ignored the experts and refused to voice support for any state reopening.
The initial two-month national shutdown was so the federal government could ramp up on testing, PPE and hospital capacity.
Now that we have done those things, many Democratic-run cities and states refuse to reopen, furthering our economic decline.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the states with the highest unemployment rates are run by Democrats who were slow to take steps to reopen.
“Nine of the 10 states with the highest jobless rates are run by Democrats, who have tended to demand that the economy should stay locked down and in some cases are still resisting opening,” the Journal reported.
“States that are reopening faster are recovering faster and easing more economic suffering. The states that put a premium on trying to reduce the spread beyond the original purpose of protecting hospitals and the health-care system are lagging.”
The COVID pandemic will likely cost the American people a staggering $16 trillion, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Monday.
The study doesn’t include the damage done to our youth by schools being shuttered, or other health conditions being ignored because of the pandemic.
It’s time for Democrats to stop politicizing coronavirus and admit there are real negative consequences on people’s livelihoods from continued shutdowns.
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Even the World Health Organization is now warning leaders against shutdowns as means to tackle outbreaks of the virus.
“We really do appeal to all world leaders: stop using lockdown as your primary control method,” Dr. David Nabarro, WHO’s special envoy on COVID-19, told the U.K.’s Spectator this week.
“The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.”
“Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never, ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer,” he said.
Indeed. A report this summer found a 41% decline among Black-owned businesses in the U.S. since the lockdowns began.
For those residents, the recovery will be “especially painful,” the report found.
It’s time for Biden to square the circle on shutdowns. The economy simply can’t recover – and the wealth divide between the rich and poor will be further exacerbated if more shutdowns take place.
Reopening safely and securely is the only path forward, and it’s one backed by science.
Before the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump’s pro-growth policies created millions of good-paying jobs and saw historically low unemployment rates.
Now he’s advocating reopening, while Biden touts lockdowns and tax increases, which economists predict will lead to 585,000 more jobs losses.
If Biden had been in charge of leading America’s economy through the global pandemic, Americans would be reading headlines about more lost jobs and economic damage instead of record-breaking jobs reports.
President Trump built the greatest economy in the world.
He did it once and he will do it again.
Syndicated with permission from RealClearWire.
ST, what are you trying to do here? Apply LOGIC? You know good and well that is not spoken here. Not on the left side, anyway.
Amazing, EVERYTHING that comes out of you is anti-Trump, anti-Trump, anti-Trump, anti-Trump. It's like you are fixated on Trump, 24/7. You go on and on and on, with one paragraph after another paragraph excoriating Trump. You should stand outside yourself, and see how you come across to "regular" people…you appear as a very scary, obsessed person.
What do ya know! Yet another anti-Trump Hollywood celebrity…..what a shock.
Fortunately for you (I suppose), I never had kids. But think what you will. I did enjoy a marriage of almost 45 years, so someone loved my face…
That's all you can do is make up garbage about our president, you got nothing. Although, it is so rewarding to see how he lives in your mind, he is there always
That's all you can do is make up garbage about our president, you got nothing. Although, it is so rewarding to see how he lives in your mind, he is there always
Do some research instead of parroting one-world-socialist agenda BS.
THIS coming from a man who wears tights? LMFAO!!!!!!!!!
PL has a face only a mother could love! Bless her heart!
Inbreeding might be one answer. :>)
Yeah, that's quite possible…
Had a horse thief in your family..hum should I work for the left? ; ) Nah! Keep your genes to yourself.
Had a horse thief in your family..hum should I work for the left? ; ) Nah! Keep your genes to yourself.
Speaking of dementia:
Trump invited a waiter into a top secret intelligence briefing room to order a milkshake
President Trump brought such a huddle to a halt a few months after he took office in 2017, Politico reports. "Does anyone want a malt?" the commander-in-chief supposedly asked the top-ranking officials who'd assembled for the briefing at his New Jersey golf club, including the head of the CIA's Special Activities Center, "a little known unit" that is "responsible for operations that include clandestine or covert operations with which the U.S. government does not want to be overtly associated," Spec Ops Magazine explains.
Trump urged, "We have the best malts, you have to try them," before inviting a waiter into the code-word-secure briefing room to satisfy his sweet tooth. "The malt episode … became legendary inside the CIA, said three former officials," Politico writes, explaining that "it was seen as an early harbinger of Trump's disinterest in intelligence, which would later be borne out by the new president's notorious resistance to reading his classified daily briefing."
To paraphrase a queen of France who was similarly burdened with the trivialities of running a country when there were sweets to consume, let them drink milkshakes.
Speaking of dementia:
Trump invited a waiter into a top secret intelligence briefing room to order a milkshake
President Trump brought such a huddle to a halt a few months after he took office in 2017, Politico reports. "Does anyone want a malt?" the commander-in-chief supposedly asked the top-ranking officials who'd assembled for the briefing at his New Jersey golf club, including the head of the CIA's Special Activities Center, "a little known unit" that is "responsible for operations that include clandestine or covert operations with which the U.S. government does not want to be overtly associated," Spec Ops Magazine explains.
Trump urged, "We have the best malts, you have to try them," before inviting a waiter into the code-word-secure briefing room to satisfy his sweet tooth. "The malt episode … became legendary inside the CIA, said three former officials," Politico writes, explaining that "it was seen as an early harbinger of Trump's disinterest in intelligence, which would later be borne out by the new president's notorious resistance to reading his classified daily briefing."
To paraphrase a queen of France who was similarly burdened with the trivialities of running a country when there were sweets to consume, let them drink milkshakes.
I have no knowledge of what you posted. However I know that most Federal Judges appointed by Obama and some appointed by Bush have adopted the globalist socialist agenda. Marxist will tell any lie with a straight face to further the advancement of a one-world-socialist agenda. Since I know of no one either in my community who could vouch for your opinion of the proposed rule change and have no knowledge of prior rulings by the Judge you named, I must conclude that this is one of the social media smears out of desperation as they see the mounting wave that will forever sweep the Democrat-Socialist into the dust bin of history.
“Arbitrary and capricious.” That’s how a federal judge described the Trump administration’s plan to deny food stamps to some 700,000 out-of-work Americans in the middle of a pandemic. Nineteen states sued to block a rule change that would have stripped them of the ability to extend Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to people who were not working. In striking down the rule in a blistering opinion, Judge Beryl Howell said it “radically and abruptly alters decades of regulatory practice, leaving States scrambling and exponentially increasing food insecurity for tens of thousands of Americans.” The Agriculture Department had no immediate comment.
What taxes? Under dementia lying crook Joe, nobody will have a job so there won't be taxes available. America will be owned by the Chinks.
Sure Biden will create jobs, in China and Mexico.
Meanwhile, he will most likely remove kiosks from fast food restaurants and require the hiring of people to replace them. Voila, creating jobs…
Not that they will last for long, because it is going to do two things, Joe's minimum wage ($15/hr) has already been shown to cost jobs and businesses and because these jobs don't put enough cash in circulation, it will not help the economy to rebound.
Don't know, and it's highly unlikely they'll tell us. The Bush family has apparently had ties to Hitler, if I remember some of the conspiracy theories. Certainly the elder Bush was head of CIA before becoming VP for Reagan. I remember that much (having lived through that time period).
Ultimately, the question isn't so much who someone is descended from as whether that person ever decided at some point that being a crybaby (a toddler in a grownup body) was counterproductive or not, and made the effort to accept Reality and his/her place in it.
My family tree has links to Charlemagne, for what it's worth, as well as a couple of other kings in that time frame, but I have no interest in trying to "rule" others when I can barely rule myself.
Very interesting analogy. I wonder what monarch Bill Gates is descended from. Not to mention the Bush family or Dick Cheyney . . . food for thought.
So how many Democrats don't contradict themselves like Quid Pro Quo Joe? They all do this.
Guess I can't be a dem..I don't act like a baby. The song below should be the theme song for the dems.
Act Your Age, Not Your Shoe Size
Guess I can't be a dem..I don't act like a baby. The song below should be the theme song for the dems.
Act Your Age, Not Your Shoe Size
Good question. The answer is whether you can stand to act like a toddler, screaming, stomping your feet, and lashing out at all the adults in the room with all the flaming self-hatred in you because they're not giving you power over them. If you can't, because you're an adult, then it doesn't matter what your family tree looks like.
Good question. The answer is whether you can stand to act like a toddler, screaming, stomping your feet, and lashing out at all the adults in the room with all the flaming self-hatred in you because they're not giving you power over them. If you can't, because you're an adult, then it doesn't matter what your family tree looks like.
He should throw in FREE rides into outter space, while he's at it! lolol
Biden: I will tell you anything you want to hear. Vote for me.
That you Harry Reid?
That you Harry Reid?
Any jobs Dementia Joe might create would be government jobs and salaries paid for by the tax payers! Wake up folks, he is a LOSER!
There is the dementia aspect that JB has told so many lies in his life he relies on ideology more than common sense and the facts which he believes may be molded into anything he fashions as truth. That is the nature of modern political ideologues. Then there is the possibility that he is sincere, PRIVATE SECTOR jobs which he may consider to be of lesser value will give way to more Government jobs, of course those jobs are for political favors and fit the ideological mold therefore they are jobs not the private sector.
The ideology is the dementia. These people think people can live off their promises and they will promise anything for power and JB also has to face the future if he does not have its protection.
And there are people out there who will vote for him, JUST because he's a Democrat…
And there are people out there who will vote for him, JUST because he's a Democrat…
had a horse thief in my family..hum should I work for the left? ; )
"Build Back Better" is the new version of "Shovel Ready Jobs". Remember that? Obama and Biden promised shovel-ready jobs back during the recession the Democrat Party caused, but—guess what? There weren't any jobs. Remember that? And then they borrowed $5 Trillion to throw at the problem, like they always do, and we had the weakest economic recovery since THE GREAT DEPRESSION. OMG—- You don't want these people any where near the economy!
"Build Back Better" is the new version of "Shovel Ready Jobs". Remember that? Obama and Biden promised shovel-ready jobs back during the recession the Democrat Party caused, but—guess what? There weren't any jobs. Remember that? And then they borrowed $5 Trillion to throw at the problem, like they always do, and we had the weakest economic recovery since THE GREAT DEPRESSION. OMG—- You don't want these people any where near the economy!
Joe is lost — brain cells are dying. I now expect no clear thinking from him. The left propagandist media protect him and his campaign staff ignore his mental state. Joe cries "Jill help!"
You have to hand it to the left the Harris-Biden ticket biggest con job sold to those who think they are the masters of smarts, the arrogant progressives.
(Sing to the tune of YMCA) MAGA, MAGA!
It's an Oxymoron to say Democratic Democrat…..
Yeah, that's quite possible…
Inbreeding might be one answer. :>)
Inbreeding might be one answer. :>)
To turn us "little" people back into the serfs we used to be back during the Medieval Period. Too many of those crybabies (toddlers in grownup bodies) think they're so much better than us because they've got kings, queens, even emperors in their family trees and we don't.
To turn us "little" people back into the serfs we used to be back during the Medieval Period. Too many of those crybabies (toddlers in grownup bodies) think they're so much better than us because they've got kings, queens, even emperors in their family trees and we don't.
Stop using the word Democratic when talking about the left. They are Democrats but not Democratic. They are Democrat Socialists.
Stop using the word Democratic when talking about the left. They are Democrats but not Democratic. They are Democrat Socialists.
I'm puzzled as to why so many of us little people can see and understand this, yet the Tech heads and all of media tell us they are so much smarter than we are. What's their end game?
I'm puzzled as to why so many of us little people can see and understand this, yet the Tech heads and all of media tell us they are so much smarter than we are. What's their end game?
That's part of Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals". Completely eliminate the middle class because poor people are easier to persuade and manipulate.
That's part of Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals". Completely eliminate the middle class because poor people are easier to persuade and manipulate.
The poorer the politicians make people, the more likely they are to vote to replace the Republic.