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As Americans lose their jobs and a collective anxiety grips the nation amid a global pandemic, Democrats have taken their politicization of the coronavirus to a level that is now endangering American life as we know it.
Americans have either died or are fighting for their lives in all 50 states after becoming infected with the coronavirus. While there are varying opinions as to the severity of the illness itself, its impact is being felt by every American.
Many of the country’s small, vulnerable businesses are shuttered.
Shoppers in grocery store aisles are visibly stirred.
James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, has predicted the U.S. unemployment rate might hit 30 percent by summer due to shutdowns to combat the coronavirus, Bloomberg reported.
Some of us were fooled into thinking congressional Democrats were capable of prioritizing lives during a crisis. We were wrong.
Introducing the “Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act” on Monday afternoon, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took what was a bipartisan effort in the Senate to help desperate workers and small businesses and turned it into a ransom demand that seeks to force the left’s radical agenda on a country in a state of emergency.
It might be the most despicable display of partisanship and abuse of power ever witnessed.
Her 1,119-page bill, which is now at 1,400 pages and counting, includes a liberal wish list of Green New Deal proposals, racial and gender demands for employers, carbon taxes and a suspension of some of the country’s immigration laws, among other absurdities.
Breitbart reported Democrats are also demanding payment for up to $10,000 in student loans to borrowers, expanding wind and solar tax credits, funds for Planned Parenthood, extension of nonimmigrant visas and provisions that would prevent colleges and universities from reporting the immigration status of any individual to the federal government.
Democrats have essentially made it clear that until these demands are met, our vulnerable family members can wait and our jobs and our homes are inconsequential.
It is barbarism. There are not enough adjectives in the English language to describe the political game being played by Democrats.
A number of Senate and House Republicans reacted to the Democrats’ list of demands on Twitter.
These are just some of the unrelated demands Senate Democrats have used to slow relief for workers and families:
✖️ Tax credits for solar and wind energy ✖️ Special treatment for Big Labor ✖️ Airlines’ emissions standards
If you watch one thing on Dems blocking coronavirus relief, make it this. The American people are losing their jobs left and right and Pelosi is holding them hostage with partisan demands.
Democrats’ behavior is a national disgrace. They are blocking aid for sick people and unemployed workers over Pelosi’s 𝒕𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒖𝒏𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 demands: • Limits on ICE and Border Patrol • Regulations from Green New Deal • Disclosures for “corporate board diversity”
This report is correct. Pelosi & Schumer are willing to risk your life, your job, your retirement savings for a radical, left-wing wish list that has nothing to do with this virus. Disgraceful. https://t.co/le9jlTB4KH
Let’s be clear about what’s happening right now: We had a bipartisan deal to deliver critical relief to hardworking families until Nancy Pelosi blew it up so she could play politics.
Enough already! We’re in the middle of a national emergency. Drop the partisan demands.
The Senate was on the brink of passing bipartisan legislation to lend a hand to Americans in desperate need of a response from their leaders in government during this unprecedented crisis — until Pelosi strolled into Washington and tore it apart.
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The Senate relief package would have thrown a nearly $2-trillion lifeline to small businesses and major corporations alike, and offered $250 billion directly to Americans.
Now, a country in need of economic relief is being held captive to Nancy Pelosi’s demands for a bankrupt liberal utopia that prioritizes racial diversity, newspaper retirement plans, Planned Parenthood and foreign workers and illegal immigrants over Americans who are currently in jeopardy of losing everything.
What a spectacle Democrats have made during such a dark time in American history.
The Democrats never let a crisis go to waste, but holding desperate American families hostage is a new low, even for them.
The far-left wants so badly to destroy President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans that they are willing to play with millions of lives.
We are all little more than collateral damage.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a bill on Monday to combat the economic fallout from coronavirus, and it’s loaded with money destined for federal agencies and the favorite causes of liberal elites.
On page 127, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which produces PBS, is handed an additional $300,000,000 “to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus”. Of that amount, $50,000,000 “shall be used to support the public television system”.
On page 39, the Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, is given an additional $278,000,000 under the Pelosi bill.
Designated to the vague “Taxpayer Services,” the legislation gives $236,000,000 to the IRS to “prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus”.
The bill gives another $42,000,000 to an “Enforcement” category.
On page 150, the Department of State Migration and Refugee Assistance program is allotted $300,000,000 for “migration and refugee assistance”.
On page 127, the Institute for Museum and Library Services is given $500,000,000 “respond to coronavirus” by granting States, museums, territories and tribes “to expand digital network access, purchase tablets and other internet-enabled devices, for operational expenses, and provide technical support”.
On page 15, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, is granted an additional $33,200,000 “for necessary expenses to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus…”
Listed under a “Safety, Security and Mission Services” category, on page 17, Pelosi gives the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, an additional $100,000,000 “to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus”.
Earmarked for an ambiguous “Construction and Environmental Compliance and Restoration,” the bill grants $100,000,000 “to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus” on page 18.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts isn’t left out. On page 77, it is given $35,000,000 “for operations and maintenance requirements related to the consequences of coronavirus”.
On page 88, the “Ryan White HIV/AIDS program” receives an additional $90,000,000, according to language in the bill.
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences is allotted an extra $36,000,000 on page 94 of the legislation.
Two Washington, DC, universities get in on the action.
On page 119, Gallaudet University is granted $7,000,000 “to help defray expenses (which may include lost revenue, reimbursement for expenses already incurred, technology costs associated with a transition to distance learning, faculty and staff trainings and payroll)”.
Howard University receives $13,000,000 for similar open-ended expenses on page 123. Howard’s endowment fund currently stands at $692,800,000.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is unquestionably an expert on infectious diseases, serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. He has presided over emerging viruses such as H.I.V., SARS, Swine Flu, MERS, Ebola and others. In every case, the rhetoric that emerged sought to force social and political behavior by suggesting a pandemic and prescribing radical action to combat the threat. Where those other efforts failed to gain traction, the coronavirus COVID-19 has succeeded.
Dr. William Haseltine is a former Harvard Medical School professor and founder of the university’s cancer and HIV/AIDS research departments who helped the U.S. respond to the HIV/AIDS and anthrax crises. He also recently returned from Wuhan, China – ground zero for the coronavirus – where he chaired the 9th U.S.-China Health Summit.
In a piece published by Fox News on Sunday, Haseltine lays out four scenarios for how the pandemic could could end.
1) Maybe the coronavirus COVID-19 will simply peter out.
“If the coronavirus proves to be seasonal in temperate climates, [that means] that new infections eventually decline on their own as the weather warms,” Haseltine writes.
The annual flu bug does that. Influenza lives longer indoors during the wintertime because the air is less humid. Plus, people spend more time indoors and usually have closer contact with people than during the summertime, meaning the bug can spread quickly as people pick up germs and touch their eyes, nose, or mouth.
But the doctor warned that even if COVID-19 ebbs as we move into the warmer months, it could still return when it gets cold again – although, he said, “we hope that by then our health system is better prepared to help those who fall severely ill to recover.”
2) Lots of people will get it, recover, and then be immune.
The virus could be muted “through herd immunity, where a significant percentage of the population becomes infected, recovers, and develops a natural immunity. The challenge is that reaching herd immunity will take a significant amount of time,” Haseltine writes.
The “herd immunity” theory has been popping up of late. Patrick Vallance, the chief science adviser to the British government, said last week that the country needed to “build up some kind of herd immunity so more people are immune to this disease and we reduce the transmission.”
The process has been demonstrated to work. “Consider the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne illness that caused an epidemic panic in 2015 because of a link to birth abnormalities,” Technology Review wrote on Tuesday. “Two years later, in 2017, there was no longer nearly so much to worry about. A Brazilian study found by checking blood samples that 63% of the population in the northeastern beach city of Salvador had already had exposure to Zika; the researchers speculated that herd immunity had broken that outbreak.”
3) A vaccine could be discovered and deployed quickly.
“There are at least five vaccines currently in some phase of development, with one starting clinical trials just this week. That’s a promising development, but just the first phase of a lengthy process,” Hazeltine writes. “Even in the best-case scenario, it will still be many months before a successful vaccine is available to the general public.”
Vaccines usually take months to test and the Food and Drug Administration often takes even more time evaluating an experimental vaccine.
4) Development of therapeutic drugs that can treat the coronavirus.
“One option in this scenario is an antiviral drug combination that targets the RNA at the center of the coronavirus responsible for the pandemic sweeping across the world today,” Haseltine writes. “In the midst of the SARS and MERS outbreaks, a number of drug candidates that target key proteins in coronaviruses underwent lengthy laboratory and preclinical study. But the drugs were never advanced to clinical trials. That’s because there was no market for them and no government was willing to step in to guarantee the market with a commitment to stockpile the drugs.”
President Trump on Saturday expressed optimism about two drugs that he said could be “one of the biggest game changers” in medicine – hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. Hydroxychloroquine is a drug used in the treatment and prevention of malaria. Azithromycin is an antibiotic that is used to treat many different types of infections in the respiratory system, eyes, ears, and skin, as well as sexually transmitted diseases.
“With the right leadership and opportunity on our side, we may be able to begin moving toward the end of the current pandemic,” Haseltine writes. “But when this happens, we shouldn’t turn away from the lessons we are learning today.
Blankfein Slammed For Tweeting It May Soon Be Time To Consider Reopening The Economy
Is this the final straw that will push "life-long Democrat" Lloyd Blankfein to finally cross the aisle?
In addition to enjoying retirement (especially now that the Feds appear to have reached a settlement with his former employer that doesn’t involve clawing back millions of dollars in Blankfein comp), the former Goldman CEO has occasionally chimed in on twitter to offer his two cents on contemporary politics and other issues.
On Sunday night, Blankfein chimed in again, opining on an issue of great sensitivity: when will it be appropriate for the healthy to start venturing back out to their jobs?
While politicians like Andrew Cuomo and subject-matter experts like Dr. Fauci warn that this is going to be a lengthy shutdown, and the White House scrambles to push through the second part of an economic aide package that will compensate those who can’t work during this period, Democrats have, interestingly enough, emerged as the obstructionists blocking the Trump Administration from handing out checks to working Americans.
It’s become a political consensus view that the federal government must step in with a massive fiscal package, far eclipsing anything that took place during the response to the financial crisis, to stop a twin economic and financial shock from driving the world into a global recession.
But the length of that support, given the damage the Trump Administration has already done to the federal deficit, is quickly becoming a subject of debate.
And – surprise, surprise – the progressive Democrats on the far left believe the federal government should place the public welfare above all else and keep cutting checks to out-of-work Americans until the end of the year – GDP figures be damned.
Others believe the healthy among us should be comfortable with returning to work after a few weeks, even as Andrew Cuomo warns that this could last until the end of the year, perhaps even longer.
Unsurprisingly, Blankfein falls into this latter category:
Extreme measures to flatten the virus “curve” is sensible-for a time-to stretch out the strain on health infrastructure. But crushing the economy, jobs and morale is also a health issue-and beyond. Within a very few weeks let those with a lower risk to the disease return to work.
The response was swift, and overwhelmingly negative, as Democrats slammed the arch-capitalist for having the audacity to worry about the economy at a time like this:
christ, look at yourself. the casual, 10,000 foot view of this tweet. analytical hem hawing while people’s lives are at stake and you’ve got hundreds of millions of dollars to spare
The real hard-core lefties refuse to acknowledge that communism even happened, while using Blankfein and examples like this to denigrate the economic system that brought them everything. Really makes ya think.
Capitalism is a death cult
— The Guillotine Shouter (@guillotineshout) March 23, 2020
Trump Weighs Easing Stay-At-Home Restrictions To Curb Economic Chaos
President Trump is weighing whether or not to ease restrictions on self-quarantine in order to avoid economic chaos – tweeting on Sunday about reassessing the nation’s course on total lockdown to halt the spread of coronavirus.
WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!
The fear over COVID-19 has gone ballistic. We have moved from rational precaution to mass insanity in a matter of days. The speed with which those seeking power are moving is astounding.
With each passing day another person is jumping up, Alexander Haig like, to assume powers they do not have to demand control over the population they legally govern.
And it always seems to be in places with a particular type of government. They are the ones with the most advanced social safety nets, most outwardly compassionate policies and the ones with the most corrupt and failing infrastructures.
They are the ones that have squandered the hard-earned wealth of generations while trumpeting their own wisdom and foresight. And now that they are facing threats they cannot possibly manage, they expect to arrogate even more power to obfuscate the fact that they have failed to provide even the most basic services for the trillions wasted.
You might think I’m talking about California or New York, and in some ways I am. But, in reality, I’m talking about Europe.
Europe stands at the brink of monetary and economic collapse. Its rot is far more advanced than that of the U.S. and China. And because of that the spread of COVID-19 there can have the most devastating effects. Therefore they are justified in shutting down whole countries.
But the counter argument is also valid, if not more valid. It says quite clearly that by keeping the economy flowing, by keeping people productive and working you retain the infrastructure necessary to save more people than would die otherwise, despite the threat of transmission.
We are living through a time when the democratic socialist nation state, a concept less than three hundred years old, is on trial. How countries respond to COVID-19 will be a litmus test. And I can assure you that anyone not openly embracing full on Fascistic control over their countries will be lambasted as heartless do-nothings.
Why? Because we’re already there.
Any temperance exhibited by local leadership is met with hysterical cries of murder. We’re seeing it here in the U.S. President Trump, rightly, didn’t order a national top-down approach to COVID-19, he left it up to the states to handle.
Some have reacted like Europe. Others not. And the amount of vitriol and political axe grinding going on in the U.S. to this point is ridiculous. And again, I’m seeing it quickly becoming a cudgel to bludgeon skeptics by all-knowing, smug authoritarians seeing the opportunity to justify their worldview.
In Europe, for the past seventy years or so The Davos Crowd have been obsessed with creating a European superstate to entrench their own power at the top of an unelected bureaucracy.
But they have failed.
Their political union is failing. The economy of Europe is quickly imploding into something only seen in a dystopian science fiction movie. And they need something to keep the dream alive. From their perspective COVID-19 is the kind of deus ex machina that can save that dream.
Whole countries are being put on lock down, nominally, to stem the spread of a disease whose biggest threat is overwhelming a woefully prepared medical infrastructure not killing a large swath of the population.
But it’s not about compassion. Every dead Italian or German is grist for the mill of saving socialism from itself. The EU leadership is using this crisis right now to set up centralizing economic control over the whole of Europe by breaking the will of the German people in the face of a civilization-ending pandemic that, to date, hasn’t killed more people worldwide than the flu does in the U.S. annually.
By setting the wheels in motion to cancel cash, outlaw gold buying and digitize the entire money supply. How again is this part of saving lives afflicted with COVID-19?
Oh right, it doesn’t.
Congress is paralyzed by partisan bickering seeing this opportunity. They’ve overwhelmed social media with patent nonsense on both sides. The Republicans are wrapping themselves in the moral high ground of sending out UBI checks and the Democrats decry corporate handouts.
And guess what? Not one bit of the spending is necessary. It’s just more socialist destruction of wealth through debt issuance while we all go broke sitting in our homes in fear of a bug.
Whatever happens, you can bet that whatever form of the bill passes, and one will pass, it will be materially worse than the one just shot down. Such is the way of ‘bipartisanship’ in D.C.
In the U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s response has been the most reasonable, refusing to shut the country down. But he may soon succumb to the insanity of newly-minted virologists on Twitter screaming ‘flatten the curve!’
It’s so painfully obvious that this is now a crisis actively being made worse to distract us from the root cause of the economic meltdown that was already here.
Our near completely socialized capital markets, the furthest things from free markets, are imploding because their multiple layers of Ponzi scheme have been revealed as fictions. COVID-19 just blew up their false assumptions.
They exist to support through bureaucracy and taxation the desperate promises of governments acting like absentee parents buying their children presents instead of being proper role models and leaders.
That’s what these ‘aid’ packages being discussed in capitols around the world right now are, just more unpaid-for promises of dysfunctional absentee Boomers, trying to buy our love for another day.
But, the truth is staring us in the face. The institutions of socialism are revealed to be inadequate. Make no mistake, as I said in my last article, that’s no reason to suppress your humanity. The threat of COVID-19 is real, but it isn’t existential.
And I applaud the diversion of our economic output to support fighting this disease and helping as many people survive it as possible. And that means not locking everyone indoors and shutting down their lives.
By turning the amp up to eleven on fears of a biblical plague they are doing what all good screenwriters do as the movie goes along. They raise the stakes. COVID-19, while by all reports is a tough virus to beat, isn’t world ending. But it’s being treated as such.
This isn’t The Stand, folks. It’s not the Simian Flu from Planet of the Apes. Yes, the hospitals and medical community will be overworked. They will need help. And we need to be able to provide that help however we can.
In some cases it means staying at home if you can. In others it means donating your time, money, energy to help your community get through this. And in still others it means being brave enough to show up for work.
But it doesn’t mean allowing power-hungry maniacs to run roughshod over us because we’re fearful of a plague we can name rather than the ones that dog us every year.
But to sell this fear to us and save themselves, they keep telling us that markets don’t work. That individuals cannot be trusted. And that only the State can coordinate such a monumental task such as saving humanity from nature.
Because without the State we would be left in a Hobbesian state of ‘war of all against all.’
If you listen very closely to their carefully prepared hysterics you’ll hear the echoes of Agent Smith telling Morpheus that the real virus we are fighting here is humanity itself.
And that a little culling of the bad people who won’t get with their Brave New World is what we have to accept to survive.
In Europe they are cynically using this pandemic to lock down countries where the civil unrest was already at the breaking point — France, Spain, Italy.
The stories coming out of Germany now are designed for maximum fear. Chancellor Angela Merkel shook hands with the wrong person, she’s in quarantine. Germany has knuckled under, finally, to new fiscal rules. The EU commission is finally allowing massive government spending. The U.S. will authorize, in the end, tens of trillions in new loans, handouts, bailouts and bribes.
All to try one last time to paper over the broken promises and false hope of socialized markets to maintain the one-way trades of a few thousand oligarchs.
Because some pigs are more equal than others.
And when the worst of the COVID-19 spread is over. When the hospitals finally see fewer cases we will be looking at a much different world. The decisions we allow our governments to take now will determine what that world looks like then
On Sunday night President Donald Trump posted this tweet:
President Trump: WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!
WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!
This is the first signal that President Trump is not willing to force the US into a depression over the COVID-19 outbreak.
The US coronavirus mortality rate dipped to 1.25% on Sunday using deaths (396) divided by confirmed cases (38,167).
That number is actually SIGNIFICANTLY lower if you factor in ALL OF THE CASES that are not being reported, where people are not feeling sick enough to be tested.
That number could be 6-7 times higher than the current number of 35,070.
This means the current mortality rate could be as low as 0.2% or about like a harsh flu.
President Trump went on tweeting several patriots who back him up on this.
Trump hinted he will not allow the US into a COVID-19 depression.
President Donald Trump did something difficult and remarkable during the White House press briefing on Sunday: he stood up for the free market in a moment of crisis, when at least half the country is pushing him to abandon it.
A reporter asked the president why he was not using the Defense Production Act to nationalize industries to take control of companies and force them to produce needed health care equipment for treating coronavirus patients.
Trump’s answer was that the United States does not believe in nationalization, and does not need it, either:
Q: Mr. President, when it comes to the Defense Production Act. We know that governments across the country all day today were pleading with you to utilize. the DPA, to us it —
Trump: Well, it depends which governments you’re talking about.
Q: — specifically for that allocation piece that you mentioned, Mr. [Peter] Navarro. Why not use it now, if that would answer their pleas for help?
Trump: Well, we are using it now. The fact that I signed it, it’s in effect. But you know, we’re a country not based on nationalizing our business. Call a person over in Venezuela. Ask them: how did nationalization of their businesses work out? Not too well. The concept of nationalizing our business is not a good concept.
The president continued by explaining that the private sector knew better than the government how to produce needed commodities — and which companies should produce them:
Trump: Here’s the beauty of it. If we go out and we want, let’s say, masks, we don’t know who to call. But Hanes, who makes things of cotton, various elements, lots of things, it’s a great company. They called us, and they said, “We’re going to make millions of masks.” We got a call today from 3M…
The president went on to explain that sometimes a company that government might think was best to produce a needed commodity might not actually be able to do it:
Trump: If you go the national route, nationalization route. We’re gonna tell a company to make a ventilator? They don’t even know what a ventilator is! In the case of one company, they used to make them, years ago, and they know how to make them. You know, it’s a very complex piece of equipment, frankly.
The president added that while nationalization was useful as a threat, it could also be damaging as a threat, because of negative signals it sent about the economy — and he reiterated that companies were stepping forward without the threat even being necessary:
Trump: We have the threat of doing it if we need it. We may have to use of somewhere along the supply chain in a minor way. But we have millions of masks being done. We have respirators, we have ventilators…
When this was announced, it sent tremors through our business community, and through our country, because basically what are you doing? You’re talking about — you’re going to nationalize an industry, or you’re going to nationalize? You’re going to take away companies? You’re going to tell companies what to do? The truth is most people — nobody would know where to start. There are companies out there that you wouldn’t think of that have called us …
It is impossible to overstate the courage of this stance.
During the 2008 financial crisis, the Bush administration rushed to bail out Wall Street — thereby destroying the incentives of the market, creating new moral hazards. Companies that had made risky bets were insulated from the actual consequences of those bets. Wall Street recovered; Main Street did not — at least, not until much later.
Bush gave an address in November 2008, after Congress had passed the bailouts, and Barack Obama had won the election. “I’m a market-oriented guy, but not when I’m faced with the prospect of a global meltdown,” Bush said.
He added: “[T]he long-term solution to today’s problems is sustained economic growth. And the surest path to that growth is free markets and free people.”
But it was far too late for that.
Bush threw free market principles overboard to bail out Wall Street. Trump, in contrast, is sticking to free market principles while coming to the aid of Main Street.
No one would confuse Trump’s philosophy with a minimalist, purely libertarian approach. He is about to pump trillions of dollars of emergency stimulus into the economy — if all goes well.
But he is not doing what the media, and the left, want him to do: to set the dangerous precedent of state control of the economy, when he can still do otherwise.
He is standing up for freedom during a crisis, not after a crisis — because he knows the private sector works best.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
