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Nobody knows, from an economic view point, what type of tourniquet must be applied to our hemorrhaging. However, it is obvious to all, this is not the time to load the tree with petty Christmas baubles like Senate Democrats are attempting. Do they want the economy to sink just to defeat Trump? Seems that is their demoniacal/petulant goal.
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I hope and pray everyone who gets my memos stay well and safe and do what they are being told.
Last night, I was watching TV and asked Lynn did we have any Milk Duds and she said yes. Bit down on one and pulled my gold cap off a back tooth. I am keeping the cap in a plastic bag because it might become an item I need as a medium of exchange and more valuable than a sheet of toilet paper.
I also canceled an appointment for a retina exam. May let the retina doctor put my cap back since it was an eye tooth.
You have to be creative and inventive when it rains. Me
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This from an old friend, very bright analyst and fellow memo reader. I replied and reminded him I am not the Rant author. I just post them.
"Thanks and same to you and yours. These Rants are written by someone else. I just post them. Think some of your ideas are rational because technology, while bringing us closer, in some ways, distances us in others. Me"
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You have to be creative and inventive when it rains. Me
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This from an old friend, very bright analyst and fellow memo reader. I replied and reminded him I am not the Rant author. I just post them.
"Just a thought on your rant…
Commercial real estate (offices) may see a hit in the not too distant future. IF (BIG IF) companies realize employees can effectively function remotely, the need for office space and conference rooms decreases. While “face time” is still important, and “water cooler conversations” about what goes on at an organization still fuel the rumor mill, the fact is, companies can downsize their footprints to reflect new realities. Maybe some employees go full time at home, some one or two days a week and everything in between. Fact is, there is likely to be a decrease in demand for office space in the relatively near future. Then think through the implications on that….janitors, security, parking, office building coffee shops, etc.
Go a step further – telemedicine. Again, if this becomes more widely accepted, demand for medical office space also declines, as there is less need for examination rooms. Then the demand for masks, gowns, paper on the exam table, cleaning of instruments, etc. all declines.
A look at various aspects of the economy as you and I once knew it, reveals a number of instances where there is potential for significant change that we see very infrequently. But once it starts, and people/companies start adapting it can transform rather quickly. Think how quickly the internet brought us from shopping in stores to shopping online.
Hope you, Lynn, kids and grand kids are all well! D----"
My Reply:
Getting Israel to form a government will take longer than finding a vaccine for the Coronavirus.
Rabbi Dov Fischer
Rabbi Dov Fischer, a law professor and senior rabbinic fellow at the Coalition for Jewish Values, is a senior contributing editor at The American Spectator.
A minority government will unravel Blue and White
Having experienced the revelation that Blue and White reneged on the core promise not to form a government with Arab parties that would destroy Israel, those chastened voters will have to draw conclusions.
Inevitably there will be fourth elections. I never doubted it. I called it before the third round, and I wrote then that the fourth ultimately will be coming and will be deciding.
By then, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will have been more-or-less acquitted or convicted. If justly acquitted, he and Likud will do very well at the polls, and the religious-Right coalition will govern without Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beytenu party.
If Netanyahu is convicted and steps down, Lieberman may be expected to discover a reason to drop his religious war and will join a Likud-led coalition because he will have achieved his primary purpose – the displacement of Netanyahu.
President Reuven Rivlin meanwhile was presented with 61 members of the recently elected Knesset endorsing Blue and White leader Benny Gantz to try forming a government.
Gantz has only 46 "Jewish party" seats among his endorsements. His Blue and White have 33, the hard-left Labor-Meretz have six, and "Never Bibi" Yisrael Beytenu has seven.
That is all Gantz has from parties rooted in the Jewish sector; in that way, he is not even close to the 58 seats garnered by Likud (36), Ashkenazi-haredi United Torah Judaism (7), Sephardi-haredi Shas (9), and the national-religious Yemina (6).
In Jewish-sector terms, it is not even close: 58-46. Therefore, in his desperate grab to attain power in the face of horrible numbers, Gantz reneged on his solemn campaign assurances and promises to Blue and White voters and went to bed with the 15 Knesset members from the anti-Zionist Joint Arab List.
In his desperation, he was joined by two other former Israel Defense Forces chiefs of staff, his colleagues in the "cockpit" of Blue and White, Moshe Ya'alon and Gabi Ashkenazi.
Together they all seem equally mesmerized by their proximity to power and their hatred of Netanyahu. So, for the present fleeting moment, the Left of 46 seems by mirage to be 61.
But it is all mirage, temporarily legitimizing the Joint Arab List of anti-Zionists. If Gantz, Ya'alon, or Ashkenazi were ever mighty, then how the mighty have fallen!
No "minority government" comprising such a cacophony can last long. Reality clearly portends what lies in store.
Arabs in Judea and Samaria, areas within the Palestinian Authority, and in Gaza will be emboldened in their beliefs that time is on their side in taking down Israel.
Hamas will rain rockets, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza will compete with them to see who launches more.
Sooner or later the "Grand Blue and White Minority Government" will have to respond militarily. They will not have a choice, just as prior generations of Israeli governments of the Left, ultimately had to go to war and battle fiercely when others who sought to destroy Israel mistakenly construed leftist offers of land concessions as signs of Jewish weakness.
The rockets will come. The response will come. And then the 15 Arab MKs elected on the Joint Arab List platform will have to withdraw support from a Gantz government and vote to bring down the Blue and White minority coalition.
Such a government would fall either mid-battle, or Likud MKs would save the day by offering a temporary "unity government" until the fighting ends. And then Israel will go to the polls. Again.
In any subsequent election, those who have continually backed Likud and the religious parties will remain fervent as ever. Those on the Left will not change, nor will the Arab voters.
The dynamic shifting of ground will take place among Blue and White voters who choose to undertake a "cheshbon nefesh" – a self-accounting.
Having experienced the revelation that Blue and White reneged on the core promise not to form a government with Arab parties that would destroy Israel, those chastened voters will have to draw conclusions.
Even some of Lieberman's voters may find themselves asking whether they share his hate for Netanyahu so deeply that they are satisfied that their votes were leveraged, however briefly, to form a government that relied on the sort of Joint Arab List MKs associated with the Arab coalition's Hadash and Balad factions.
For Lieberman, the hate is personal, perhaps because he believes that Netanyahu was involved in bringing down his party from its prior heights when prosecutors investigated Yisrael Beytenu, ultimately gaining severe convictions against several of the party's prominent players.
Lieberman has his loyal following of ever-aging anti-Arab right-wing immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
Many of them have remained loyal to him for ethnic reasons, much as African-Americans voters largely stood by Barack Obama for eight years no matter how grievously his policies injured them economically and contributed to increasing crime and murder in inner cities.
However, the children of Lieberman's constituents see themselves as Israelis, not as "Russians," and do not vote for Lieberman. His influence will wane.
Will Israel's voters remember Blue and White's perfidy to them? The inevitable fourth election will settle this matter, finally.
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