Current Events > Trump is committed to restarting the economy in May come what may

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I'd rather keep it closed and watch the economy go down in flames than restart the economy without a vaccine.

Corporate America is just gonna have to deal with the facts that human lives are more important than any amount of money.

I'm sorry, but Wall Street can die a thousand deaths before I'd be willing to lose somebody's mother, somebody's father, somebody's grand mother or grandfather, etc..

They're irreplaceable .

come what MAY LMFAO HAHAHAHAHAHA

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Get a better gimmick Stevie

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Saxon speaking truths

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So, here's the thing. Trump doesn't have a say. Because the federal government did such a shitty job the Governors and Mayors all issued the shelter in place orders. Which means Trump has no say in rescinding them. I expect the states will keep things shut down so long as it's deemed necessary by medical personnel.

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ScazarMeltex posted...

So, here's the thing. Trump doesn't have a say. Because the federal government did such a shitty job the Governors and Mayors all issued the shelter in place orders. Which means Trump has no say in rescinding them. I expect the states will keep things shut down so long as it's deemed necessary by medical personnel.

Except Trump ones

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Any politician who supports opening back up the economy should be forced to contract the virus

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I agree tc. Wall Street and the greedy elite can suck my bbc jr. I dont indict all the rich, but families and lives are more important than money and stock portfolios. They wont be able to buy their way out of Hell when they are dead anyways. That Bezos dude just gave like 100 million for food relief during this corona outbreak, thats admirable and more than your average internet troll would contribute in 9,000 years. I dont care he could do much more, hes doing something. Actions matter.

Irony posted...

Except Trump ones

Most of those haven't issued stay at home orders. Missouri's governor finally did after every single major population center had already issue done. So again, even where the Governor to rescind his order the cities and counties can keep theirs in place.

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What I bet will happen is May will get here and all of sudden it will be pushed back to June.

We're nowhere near ready to restart anything and we won't be for another 18-24 months when and if a viable vaccine is found to wipe it out completely from the population like small pox in the 80's and polio in the 50s..

Those viruses have been eradicated, which is why you're alive today.

This is just the sequel to "build the wall". He just says things and knows he'll make an excuse when the time actually comes around. Probably blame it on everything besides himself.

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I don't think it's binary.

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Everyone needs to stay home for at least the next year. Anyone who doesn't is guilty of murder.

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We CAN NOT keep our economy shut down for much longer. Things will start to look pretty damn bad. It needs to open as quickly and feasibly as possible

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time to change economic measures to more what Andrew Yang wanted to do?

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mrgoatthief posted...

D-did Keith switch gimmicks while I was at work kyogre

No one has ever seen me support Wall Street dude. Im a moderate conservative and a patriot, not a fucking drone. I dont give a shit about smart, immoral money switchers, i care about American jobs and working class citizens and professionals. Goldman Sachs can kiss my ass, id tax the shit out of them and send poor, gifted kids to college with the revenue.

Touch posted...

come what MAY LMFAO HAHAHAHAHAHA

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The 1% could help the economy, but they're much more inclined to let others die to protect it. The ones that benefit off it the least are expected to die for it first. Maybe the guys who finessed the economy the last few decades, help revive it so they can keep finessing it. But no no, leave it to the people on their last dollar that are desperate and starved. Not the ones that would see the most returns from it up and running again.

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Houston posted...

We CAN NOT keep our economy shut down for much longer. Things will start to look pretty damn bad. It needs to open as quickly and feasibly as possible

We can and will. If the economy can't handle it, then we can start to talk to the local farmers about procuring some implements.

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Houston posted...

We CAN NOT keep our economy shut down for much longer. Things will start to look pretty damn bad. It needs to open as quickly and feasibly as possible

yes it can. Just put everyone on temporary unemployment and give everyone maybe like 1,000 each week (maybe a lil bit more for families) to get by. Keep everyone at home til the virus goes away. Its just that simple.

Bleuets posted...

yes it can. Just put everyone on temporary unemployment and give everyone maybe like 1,000 each week (maybe a lil bit more for families) to get by. Keep everyone at home til the virus goes away. Its just that simple.

BUT MUH DOW JONES!!!

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Saxon posted...

I'm sorry, but Wall Street can die a thousand deaths

Yes, because the economy only affects bankers. No way you don't suffer from the economy being down. Just ask everyone in the 30s how great things were for them while all the stockbrokers and bankers suffered.
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Bleuets posted...

yes it can. Just put everyone on temporary unemployment and give everyone maybe like 1,000 each week (maybe a lil bit more for families) to get by. Keep everyone at home til the virus goes away. Its just that simple.

Uh huh, and tell me, where do we get the money for that if no one is fucking working to pay taxes?

Do you people actually think through your stupid ideas or just stop at "Hey this seems like it would work!" without actually thinking about the cause and effect.
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Crazyman93 posted...

Yes, because the economy only affects bankers. No way you don't suffer from the economy being down. Just ask everyone in the 30s how great things were for them while all the stockbrokers and bankers suffered.

It's difficult to see us benefit from the economy being up unless we have enough money to invest in it.

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The government is just gonna have to keep paying our way by depositing 1200 bucks into our accounts every month from here on out.

Sure, that's gonna make inflation explode when products are in short supply yet the free money keeps flowing into everyone's bank account in order to survive.

You see, the whole idea of money is that it's hard to come by because it requires work and sacrifice to attain and thus has sufficient buying power for the items you need/want in everyday life.

That no longer exists if everybody has money to spend.

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Crazyman93 posted...

Yes, because the economy only affects bankers. No way you don't suffer from the economy being down. Just ask everyone in the 30s how great things were for them while all the stockbrokers and bankers suffered.

wall street isn't the economy, genius
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Sounds like Trump hasn't figured out how to mod the golf simulator that was set up in the White House, and he wants to get to one of his golf courses so he can cheat properly.

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Come what may...

Come what may?

Come what May?

What May?

He's going to say May never existed, expect a June grand opening

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Bleuets posted...

yes it can. Just put everyone on temporary unemployment and give everyone maybe like 1,000 each week (maybe a lil bit more for families) to get by. Keep everyone at home til the virus goes away. Its just that simple.

$1,000 a week? Cmon bro, the government should maybe help you survive. If you have to cancel your internet and eat ramen, cry somewhere far from me.

Problem is, they just pumped money into the stock market without letting it correct itself which us why the next recession will be very bad.

The23rdMagus posted...

It's difficult to see us benefit from the economy being up unless we have enough money to invest in it.

Low economy means layoffs. Do you see a benefit in getting a paycheck? We've been through this, or did you forget 2008 happened?
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I can't be the only one who immediately thought of Moulin Rouge

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You can't just reopen the economy when the lava is still pouring down the mountain.

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It goes to show how much our country is built on frivolous spending. Close down non-essential businesses for a month and apparently our country begins knocking on death's door.

Woo consumer economy.

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BettyWhite posted...

It goes to show how much our country is built on frivolous spending. Close down non-essential businesses for a month and apparently our country begins knocking on death's door.

Woo consumer economy.

honestly, this whole thing has exposed how weak our economy really is after all.
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BettyWhite posted...

It goes to show how much our country is built on frivolous spending. Close down non-essential businesses for a month and apparently our country begins knocking on death's door.

Woo consumer economy.

There are plenty of other businesses that are closed or working from home at reduced capacity right now, like the insurance industry
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E32005 posted...

honestly, this whole thing has exposed how weak our economy really is after all.

Job growth in the last decade has pretty much been entirely in the service industry. So lots of non-essential jobs that don't necessarily pay well.

Even lots of bull shit high end jobs really aren't necessary because they purely exist to drive profit and nothing else.


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Crazyman93 posted...

There are plenty of other businesses that are closed or working from home at reduced capacity right now, like the insurance industry

People that are going to easily be replaced by a computer algorithm down the road.

I mean, they're very necessary for now,but anyone that looks at our country and thinks we're not a morbidly obese dude with knocked knees threatening to collapse at any moment is lying to themselves.

Reagan's Laissez-faire economics gutted our country of any proper industry and even so, automation threatens to replace humans in even the most skilled of workforces. But we're certainly not going to be leading at the forefront of the robotics industry, so I would be prepared to see our country crumble unless we admit that pure capitalism can't exist in an automated future.


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Because all we need is grocery stores and pharmacies. Just like the old soviet union.

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REMercsChamp posted...

Because all we need is grocery stores and pharmacies. Just like the old soviet union.

With every passing day I get more serious about how everyone that goes "lives over economy at all costs" should have all entertainment internet services blocked. See how well their resolve lasts when quarantine doesn't involve infinte entertianment beamed into your home.

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lightwarrior78 posted...

should have all entertainment internet services blocked

we're already going nuts :(. fucking bitch took away the beach because the tourists wouldn't listen
they roped off all access points due to breaking the rules. have to wait longer due to them.
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lightwarrior78 posted...

With every passing day I get more serious about how everyone that goes "lives over economy at all costs" should have all entertainment internet services blocked. See how well their resolve lasts when quarantine doesn't involve infinte entertianment beamed into your home.

Well, they have a point while things are ballooning out of control and the health care system is being overwhelmed and mass deaths, we should keep the restrictions.

However, when it's brought under control we should definitely find more intelligent ways of dealing with it than just closing down the entire world. We can't wait 3 years for a vaccine before we can do anything other than grocery shop and go for a 20 minute walk around the block. We're going to need to get intelligent about this as a society and I guess it's up to the top medical professionals to come up with an answer for this.

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REMercsChamp posted...

We're going to need to get intelligent about this as a society

We're doomed.
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Crazyman93 posted...

We're doomed.

yes. he's right.
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lightwarrior78 posted...

With every passing day I get more serious about how everyone that goes "lives over economy at all costs" should have all entertainment internet services blocked. See how well their resolve lasts when quarantine doesn't involve infinte entertianment beamed into your home.

I don't think most of the experts recommending social distancing are thinking "lives over economy at all costs". They're thinking that we can try to minimize the loss of lives, which unfortunately damages the economy, or we can not do anything and have massive amounts of illness and loss of lives which also damages the economy.

I agree we can't stay this way forever, but the choice is not simply lives vs. economy.

lightwarrior78 posted...

With every passing day I get more serious about how everyone that goes "lives over economy at all costs" should have all entertainment internet services blocked. See how well their resolve lasts when quarantine doesn't involve infinte entertianment beamed into your home.

if anything they should give us a couple months of free streaming services because we are staying home and flattening the curve.

Bleuets posted...

if anything they should give us a couple months of free streaming services because we are staying home and flattening the curve.

they're going to offer nothing. except for rate hikes.
my bill went up 15$.

could be worse. paid 100$ for centurylink.
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