Better than a laxative.
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View from abroad: https://amgreatness.com/2020/
And:
I warned years ago it was coming but I did not know a pandemic would bring it closer to reality:
Democrats Go All-In on Universal Basic IncomeGovernment is the worst vehicle imaginable to distribute its confiscated assets according to its citizens’ individual needs, so we should certainly limit its ability to continue doing so. More
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Kemp exonerated?
From the consumer and economic standpoint Kemp is on strong ground but from the worker's standpoint that is another issue.
The daughter of dear friends is a nurse, pregnant and will lose her job and benefits if she does not go to work but she also has a young child at home and has been made to act quickly in a difficult situation. There are always two sides.
Trump could also be piling on because Kemp did not go with Rep.Collins for the vacated Senate position.
Piling on Georgia’s Governor
Trump joins the press corps and Democrats in bashing Brian Kemp.
The Editorial Board
Consistency has never been Donald Trump’s strong suit, but during a national calamity it would be terrific if the President would decide what he wants without shifting from day to day. We suspect Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp would agree.
On Monday Gov. Kemp announced that the state would allow certain businesses, forcibly closed since April 3, to reopen on April 24. The businesses covered: fitness centers, bowling alleys, body art studios, barbers, cosmetologists, hair designers, nail-care artists, estheticians and massage therapists. These are the businesses, the Governor explained, that had been subject to full-on shutdowns, not simply restricted service orders, and they are typically populated with lower-income workers.
Mr. Kemp made a good case. Georgia has not seen a devastating outbreak of Covid-19. As of Friday the state has had 22,147 known cases, with 892 deaths related to the virus—a per capita rate far below that of such hard-hit areas as Louisiana, Michigan and New York. Georgia’s hospital system has not been overwhelmed. The number of documented cases appears to be diminishing, with the number of tests concomitantly increasing.
An executive order extending the shelter-in-place requirement for the elderly and immunocompromised residents will continue through at least May 13. Businesses reopening their doors on April 24, meanwhile, will be subject to sanitation and social-distancing restrictions. Nightclubs, bars and live performance venues will remain closed.
Gov. Kemp’s order is no free-for-all, and it conforms to Phase One of the White House’s guidelines for re-establishing economic activity. He rightly assumed he had the blessing of the White House. The President has openly supported people protesting draconian lockdowns in Michigan and elsewhere, and he has generally emphasized the need to let Americans work at the earliest possible date. On Tuesday night Gov. Kemp spoke in separate calls to President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, and those calls went smoothly
Yet the following day, when asked during a briefing about the Georgia Governor’s decision to lift some restrictions, the President remarked, “I want him to do what he thinks is right, but I disagree with him on what he’s doing . . . I think spas and beauty salons and tattoo parlors and barbershops in phase one—we’re going to have phase two very soon—is just too soon. I think it’s too soon.”
The following day President Trump was asked about Georgia again, and his response was even more critical. “I didn’t like to see spas opening, frankly,” he said. “I didn’t like to see a lot of things happening. And I wasn’t happy with it. And I wasn’t happy with Brian Kemp.” Again, just to stress the point: “I want him to open as soon as possible. And I want the state to open. But I wasn’t happy with Brian Kemp.”
Our reporting indicates that the President was “happy” with the Georgia Governor on Tuesday night, but that Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, expressed skepticism about the Georgia policy. That is her right, and it is the President’s right either to heed her advice or reject it. If only he had done one or the other. He might have called the Governor and urged him to alter his order in some way, or he might have heeded his own counsel and let the Governor find the best policy for Georgians. Instead he blathered about how he “wasn’t happy” with Brian Kemp—as if presidential happiness is the relevant policy criterion.
Gov. Kemp is now, thanks to his ally in the White House, getting it from both political directions.
The plain fact is that we don’t know what the perfect policy is in any part of the country. Gov. Kemp is right to believe that the economic well-being of Georgians is at least as important as the public-health dangers posed by the coronavirus, and we applaud his concern for the millions who, unlike the elites who dismiss their worries, can’t earn a living on their laptops. The Governor may be wrong to open gyms and nail salons this early, or he may save the livelihoods of thousands of Georgians without significantly reducing the health risk. We will find out.
That is the value of a federal system. Not every problem has the same solution for every part of the country, and we will learn from both wise and unwise policies. What we could do without are partisan media pile-ons and capricious expressions of presidential pique.
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Schiff is just an unadulterated creep and that seems to be why Pelosi likes and chose him.
Schiff’s Secret Transcripts
Why is he sitting on declassified interviews in the collusion probe?
The Editorial Board
The Trump-Russia collusion narrative collapsed a year ago with the Robert Mueller report, but the story’s not over. Democrats are now trying to suppress details of how the bogus theory was promoted, led by House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff.
Republicans on the Intelligence Committee, under then-chairman Devin Nunes, wrapped up their investigation of election interference in April 2018. They found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians. Mr. Schiff and Democrats objected to that conclusion and accused Republicans of hiding incriminating evidence. GOP Members were therefore only too happy in September 2018 to vote to release the transcripts of the investigation’s 53 witness interviews. The committee vote was unanimous. The documents were sent to the intelligence community in the executive branch for declassification.
Our sources say that process is now complete for 43 interviews, yet Mr. Schiff is refusing to make them public. The Chairman is also blocking declassification of the other 10. In a letter sent more than a year ago to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Mr. Schiff claimed ownership of the transcripts and insisted that “under no circumstances” could they be shared with “any persons associated with the White House or [President Trump].” This makes declassification impossible, as it bars the White House from its necessary role of checking the transcripts for privileged or other sensitive information
Mr. Schiff isn’t explaining his new opposition to transparency, though it seems likely he wants to shield promoters of the collusion theory from scrutiny. Among the transcripts he’s blocking are interviews with former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice and former Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power. Their authority was used to “unmask” the names of Trump campaign officials who talked with foreigners who were wiretapped by U.S. intelligence.
We’re told that another blocked interview is with former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates—who in early 2017 used a wild reading of the Logan Act that helped lead to the ouster of President Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
Mr. Schiff is also sitting on interview transcripts with Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner and former Trump campaign advisers Corey Lewandowski, Sam Clovis and Steve Bannon. Is he worried that the transcripts will highlight how little substance there was to his collusion claims? The interviews would also allow the public to compare the early testimony of former FBI and intelligence officials (James Clapper, Andrew McCabe) against what we now know really happened.
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In the case of most countries contiguous to China they are borrowing from China to build infrastructure at exorbitant interest rates they will not be able to pay back. Thus, they will be in debt to China and that is what China's new Silk Road is all about.
In the case of America, China's pandemic is causing America to bankrupt itself.
It is the same approach with a different twist.
The twist boils down to an economic rope around the neck of what are many of the world's independent nations.
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In the case of most countries contiguous to China they are borrowing from China to build infrastructure at exorbitant interest rates they will not be able to pay back. Thus, they will be in debt to China and that is what China's new Silk Road is all about.
In the case of America, China's pandemic is causing America to bankrupt itself.
It is the same approach with a different twist.
The twist boils down to an economic rope around the neck of what are many of the world's independent nations.
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