It's the Liberal State Governor's who've decided to scrap the U.S. Constitution, exert executive privilege and nuke their local economies with just a wave of the hand. These acts should not expect a reward.
Corporations big and small are receiving federal funds. The hospitals and state unemployment offices are also receiving federal funds...until July. But unemployment insurance funds won't cover the damage being wrought by these illegal shutdowns. Independent enterprise is being destroyed. If you are drawing a paycheck, your views are vastly different from those people who are NOT drawing a paycheck.
Bloated State Pension Contracts
It's a well known secret that many states, the Liberal States, have sold the taxpayer down the river with their incredible benefits hand-outs to their state workers. Over the years, due to declining tax revenues, the states have not kept up with their funding obligations, sending less money than required to fund the retirement funds these contracts require. Subsequently, most, if not all of these pension funds are WAY in the red.
The Federal Government is not and should not be responsible for this lack of fiscal responsibility. It's all fun and games in "Other People's Money-Land" until the well runs dry.
And here we are.
It's not like the Feds don't have a few fiscal responsibility issues of their own. Our future generations will pay dearly if this problem isn't addressed.
A Great Opportunity
This is a great opportunity to actually rectify the situation. It has been suggested by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to allow the states to file for bankruptcy. This will force them to go back and either re-negotiate these pension deals or render them void. There will be much political fallout to be sure but the problem will no longer be ignored.
If the states, in what increasing looks to be like less concerned with public health and more concerned with politics, want to crash their economies then the responsibility for repair falls to them.
Unsustainable Lock-down
I live in Massachusetts and our Liberal Governor, Charlie Baker, has determined that the lock-down will continue until May 18th. If Mr. Baker thinks he will reap political hay by crushing the livelihoods along with their Constitutional rights, he should think again. The consequences or his criminal acts will reverberate long after November. It'll take years to recover for some, never for others.
How the American people will view one of the major players in destroying the national economy is open to interpretation but I'm going to guess it won't be viewed favorably. I could be wrong since I'm mostly appalled by how my local town's citizenry have taken this all lying down.
Living in Fear
I'm here to tell you, you are going to DIE! As Hank Williams once sang, "No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive." And he should know, he died at age 27. So we're all gonna DIE!
But not today and not tomorrow. Please try to stay optimistic about that. Staying shut in the house, not going anywhere and jumping out of the way of people on the sidewalk IS NOT LIVING.
Right now, statistically, you have better odds of dying from the regular flu. That's right. You are not getting access to all the information. And if it wasn't for NYC's numbers, one would be hard pressed to say this Virus has had a more than average impact upon the nations annual flu-related mortality rate of 35,000 to 60,000 deaths per year. That's right.
Which leads me to another issue I have with all of this fear-mongering. Every year in this country approximately 35,000 people are killed in motor vehicle accidents, many horribly, and the multitudes horrendously injured defy description. Yet nobody seems compelled to slow down. They fearlessly barrel down the local streets and highways 20 mph over the speed limit. And when they callously and fatally run someone down, there they are crying in court "I didn't mean to do it!".
So why all of a sudden are people wearing masks outside (useless), treating people around them like Lepers and believing what the Governor says is the Law and Gospel?
I swear I don't recognize this place anymore.
The Truth About NYC
New York City is the biggest Welfare State in these United States. Their Elderly Services programs are the biggest and costliest in the nation. They offer extensive services to the elderly of low-means such as free housing, free food, assistance accessing Federal and State service health programs like Medicare, Medicaid and PACE. There are also numerous non-profit and faith-based organizations there that also provide assistance. New York City is sort of a Welfare Magnet for the elderly. So they have a boat-load of really old people not in very good shape, to be frank. A walk through the city will reveal the extent of it. There are huge high-rise elderly housing complexes and people brandishing their walkers dominate the sidewalks, everyone is living on top of each other.
The nursing home system in NYC, in accordance with it's size, is equally extensive and have turned out to be the flash point for the city's disproportionate Virus mortality rate, now up to 17,638 as of this writing.
So what does NY Governor Mario Cuomo do? Knowing that the elderly are the most susceptible to the Virus, he personally mandated the state nursing homes accept elderly applicants that are confirmed Corona Virus positive! Still wondering why the numbers are high there?
You will think I've made this up and I don't blame you.
The Politics of it All
It is unbelievably extreme to lock down the country for the flu. Listening to the Media go after President Trump during his press updates tells a tail of their concerted efforts to blame him for the Virus response. Add to it the new lock-down extensions of the state Governors where even the state of Maine, with only 1,040 cases in total and 51 deaths, is now locked down into May.
This is crazy. Our nation is currently $23 Trillion (I've also seen $ 26 T) so writing more checks isn't going to improve things. We're just printing money with no production behind it so throwing more paper at the states, especially since they're doing this on purpose, makes no sense. If the states continue receiving federal funds, they'll never open up.
Let the chips fall for the lock-down states. It'll be open up or crash and burn. I also hope that all these businesses sue the state once the courts are re-opened.
Judgement awaits.
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