You really are delusional

 

Josh Hawley: Bring U.S. Manufacturing Back to Facilitate ‘American Comeback’

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) proposed his phase four coronavirus plan on Friday that would put Americans back to work and bring back American manufacturing to the United States.

Hawley released a proposal that would serve as the outline for a phase four coronavirus bill that would halt the economic damage of the coronavirus outbreak and to revitalize the economy by bringing back the American supply chain to the United States.

The Missouri senator’s legislation would also promote long-term growth by bringing back crucial supply chains from China. The proposal would:

• Secure medical supply chains by requiring local content provisions for essential industries such as medical supplies and crisis export controls for medical equipment.
• Promote onshoring by providing federally backed, low-interest financing for capital expenditures for firms that bring production back to the United States in 2020.

The Missouri senator wrote that the country should be held hostage by China for its supply of medical equipment and pharmaceuticals. He wrote:

Never again should the American people find themselves vulnerable to the Chinese Communist Party for critical medical supplies and industrial components in a moment of crisis. Congress must immediately enact new local content requirement rules, requiring that manufacturers of finished products procure higher percentages of their inputs over time from domestic suppliers, for all industries essential to crisis response, chief among them medicine and medical equipment. Such requirements should be coupled with crisis export controls that prevent American firms from sending equipment like ventilators overseas just as they are most needed here at home, as well as generous investment subsidies to assist firms struggling to source domestically from third parties but willing to build out input production themselves.

Hawley explained the need for domestic production, writing:

Firms across a wide range of industries have learned from the recent global supply chain disruptions that their operations are hostage to events far beyond their control so long as they rely on foreign countries for the production of critical inputs. As capital floods to the United States, federal policy should direct that investment toward rewarding firms that take this moment as an opportunity to invest in capital expenditure for new domestic production facilities with federally-backed, low-interest capex financing.

 

tRump did not inherit the Covid 19 issue, he did not inherit a shortage of tests, lack of masks, ventilators, or PPE, not even close. He created it all.
https://www.propublica.org/article/...e-company-is-selling-versions-of-it-overseas-
People need to read up on REAL facts and what was and was not done.
To make himself seem like he was working on the issue he sent millions of tons of medical goods to China even when it was known that the US had their own cases that had been diagnosed. He fired a Naval Captain for writing a letter saying that the ship was infected, and he has stopped every early effort to get in front of the pandemic that was offered. The "man" is psychopath" and a narcissist that only cares about how things make him look to the world. He is killing the US economy and the people of the nation that pay for his lavish lifestyle just to sate his own ego.

 

He contributed to the covid-19 issue by systematically devalueing and destroying the US scientific base and there are people even on xnxx that applauded him for it!

Thinskin

 

Here are the government's biggest failures in the coronavirus response

WASHINGTON — We’ve seen the U.S. government fail several times over the last 20 years – the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, the debt-ceiling debacle, the government shutdowns.

But history will likely be most unkind of all to the federal government’s initial response to the novel coronavirus over the last two months.

Let’s count the ways the whole federal government has failed to date, starting at the very top.

1. President Trump at first downplayed the coronavirus, and then he later sent mixed messages about it.

2. Trump and his administration saw the virus – and initially reacted to it – primarily as an immigration/travel/border issuerather than a health one.

3. Trump consistently attacked critical Democrats (like Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and most recently Sen. Chuck Schumer), while he singled out Republicans for praise.

4. The administration didn’t heed classified warnings from the intelligence community -- back in January and February -- about the dangers the coronavirus posed for the global community.

5. The administration, in 2018, disbanded its National Security Council pandemic team.

6. The administration eliminated a CDC job dedicated to detecting outbreaks in China.

7. The Department of Homeland Security, which plays a vital role in responding to disasters, remains staffed with an acting secretary, an acting chief of staff, an acting general counsel and a vacancy at deputy secretary.

8. The Centers for Disease Control’s initial coronavirus test failed, resulting in a lost month to combat the virus.

9. The Food and Drug Administration’s requirements stymied university labs from conducting tests

10. The government’s emergency stockpile of respirator masks, gloves and other medical supplies is nearly depleted.

And in just the past day, we learned…

11. Rear Adm. John Polowczyk, who is helping to lead the effort to replenish supplies of personal protective equipment, admitted that the administration is delivering products it acquires to medical supply companies – rather than delivering them directly to the hospitals in need, per NBC’s Geoff Bennett. (Bottom line: The federal government is not taking over the supply chain.)

12. The U.S. Navy relieved the captain who sounded the alarm about an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

13. The Federal Emergency Management Agency officials told Congress that the projected demand for ventilators required for coronavirus-stricken patients "outstrips the capacity" of the Strategic National Stockpile.

14. And as NBC News has reported, it wasn't until Thursday night that banks received their 31 pages of guidance from the Treasury Department on how to lend the money in the $350 billion small-business relief program — and some banks haven't even decided whether they can participate on the opening day.

Many of these failures — see the Top 4 on this list — can be traced directly to the president, but the rest have so many other fingerprints on them.

How many of those failures were due to poor leadership at the very top? How many were systemic? A combination of the two?

Americans 40 years and older have seen this country’s government do big things — go to the moon, expand civil rights, end the Cold War, help build the internet, combat AIDS.

But if you’re in your 20s or 30s, you’ve mostly seen the government fail again and again.

And the government’s response to the coronavirus – just two months into the crisis — is the biggest failure of all.

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Data Download: The numbers you need to know today
245,135: The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States, per the most recent data from NBC News and health officials. (That’s 28,907 more than yesterday morning.)

5,916: The number of deaths in the United States from the virus so far. (That’s 1,082 more than yesterday morning).

1.29 million: The number of coronavirus TESTS that have been administered in the United States so far, according to researchers at The COVID Tracking Project.

701,000: That’s the number of jobs the U.S. economy lost in March, according to the Labor Department’s latest report.

3.5 million: The number of Americans who have likely lost employer-based health insurance, according to a study from the Economic Policy Institute.

75: The number of inmates at facilities run by the Bureau of Prisons who have tested positive for the virus

31: The number of pages of guidance that lenders received last night from the Treasury Department on how to administer small business aid, leading some to say they aren’t ready to start accepting applications

Nearly half: The number of states that currently lack funds to pay out unemployment claims.

About 13 percent: A guess at the current unemployment rate, according to one new estimate.

Another week and a half: How long it will take the first Americans to start receiving stimulus checks, which are now expected to start rolling out the week of April 13.

Democrats postpone their convention to August. What else will they change?
“The Democratic National Committee is postponing its summer convention in Milwaukee over concerns about the coronavirus pandemic,” per NBC News.

More: “The four-day convention, set to take place in Milwaukee beginning July 13, will now take place the week of August 17.”

Our question: What ELSE might Democratic convention planners change? Will there be an arena of packed delegates? Or will it be held virtually?

2020 Vision: Judge keeps Wisconsin’s election on track for April 7 — but with some changes
“A federal judge Thursday kept next week's presidential primary on track but allowed more time to count absentee ballots after excoriating Wisconsin officials for not doing more to protect voters during the coronavirus pandemic,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writes.

“The ruling — which was immediately appealed — will allow absentee ballots to be counted if they arrive by April 13, six days after election day. U.S. District Judge William Conley also gave people until Friday to request absentee ballots and loosened a rule requiring absentee voters to get the signature of a witness.”

Ad watch from NBC’s Ben Kamisar
Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines is up with a new ad playing up his role in the congressional coronavirus response, employing a strategy to similar other incumbents who are leaning on their official work to prove to their constituents that they deserve to stay in office.

But Daines has to contend with a dynamic that many incumbents facing reelection do not — his opponent, Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock, is at the helm of the state’s closely-watched response.

And while Bullock certainly faces political pressure to deliver (to say nothing about the more important issue of doing right by his state during a pivotal time), governors often see their favorability rating skyrocket during crises, as long as their constituents believe they’re responding well.

So with Daines’ campaign having already booked more than $100,000 in broadcast time through the end of the month, according to Advertising Analytics, Montanans may be seeing a lot more of that message —centered on Daines’ push for things like paid leave, financial relief and expanding testing — as the nation continues to confront the virus, and as Democrats have hit him on health care in their own ads.

Oversight this
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Thursday the creation of a House Select Committee on the coronavirus crisis chaired by Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn. According to Pelosi, the panel will provide oversight on the coronavirus relief legislation and it will have subpoena.

“It would have subpoena power that’s for sure, it is no use having a committee unless you have subpoena power. We would hope that there would be cooperation because this is not an investigation of the administration – it is about the whole – there are things that are so new and the rest and we want to make sure there are not exploiters out there,” Pelosi said on Thursday.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy responded to the committee creation saying that he thinks it isn’t the time to create new committees.

“I have a couple of concerns about this. One who she is naming: Clyburn is concerning to me because Congressman Clyburn is the one who thought this crisis was an opportune time to restructure government. That's not what we should be doing. We should be taking care of the American public keeping our economy strong and moving forward. The other concern that I have the standpoint is inside the bills that we passed we did put in oversight and this seems really redundant,” McCarthy said.

The Lid: What’s up, Wisconsin?
Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we explained the big controversy over Wisconsin’s not-budging primary date.

ICYMI: What ELSE is happening in the world
Politico reports on how Bernie Sanders’ fortunes have been reversed in Wisconsin.

Jonathan Allen looks at how Joe Biden is avoiding a bombastic approach in attacking Trump during the crisis.

A Senate committee’s probe into Hunter Biden is still moving forward.

Problems with Florida’s unemployment system are making Republicans jittery about Trump’s ability to hold the state in November.

 

I wasn't bashing Trump. I wanted him to run for the Republican nomination for presidency. I did not want him to run because I thought he would be easy to defeat in the general election. I wanted him to run because he seemed to care about Americans who had been left behind because of economic changes. He pledged himself to protect Social Security and Medicare at existing levels of support. He even said that he would be open to raising taxes on the rich. He did not pretend that ex factory workers and miners getting by on low wage service industry jobs - if they could find jobs at all - would benefit from "lower taxes, less government." He promised to use the power of the government to help those people.

Then what did Trump do as president? He cut taxes for rich people and corporations. Then he took credit for an economic expansion that began when President Obama prevented George the Lesser's Great Recession from becoming the Republican Party's Second Depression. Now the "roaring economy" shootersa has been raving about has become the shrinking economy. It has been awhile since shootersa has been bragging about growth in his stock portfolio. I dare say it will be awhile before it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, if it ever does.

Trump cannot be blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic. He deserves to be blamed for his incompetent response. Those who like to shout "USA! USA! We're number one! We're number one!" should be asked how it feels now that the USA is number one in confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Presidents are evaluated by how well they respond to problems that are not their fault. Abraham Lincoln responded well to the secession of slave states. Franklin Roosevelt responded well to the Great Depression and the aggression of the Axis countries. Trump has not responded well to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

After reading these simple facts, it is very clear, that the rhetoric and the propaganda lead leftist horseshit is just that....standard leftist horseshit...

7 Myths and facts about China and COVID-19

Myth 1: This is a Chinese virus, and China and its people are to blame.

Fact: This is racist and a diversion from fighting the virus.

A corollary myth is that the virus spread from bats to humans because some people in China eat bats. The fact is that worldwide destruction of habitat created pathways for the viruses like COVID-19 to infect humans.

This is not about eating bats, and it has not been proven that the virus originated in the market in question, or even in Wuhan. There was a cluster of cases around a wet seafood market in Wuhan, however. To be safe, the market was closed on Jan. 1, and all wildlife trade was banned Jan. 26.

Myth 2: COVID-19 is a biological weapon developed in a Chinese lab.

Truth: The virus originated in nature.

Gene sequencing reveals COVID-19 to be of natural rather than man-made origin, related to other viruses found in in nature, and too complex to have been produced in a lab.

Myth 3: China kept U.S. experts from entering the country to help

Fact: Trump pulled U.S. health experts from China before the epidemic.

In 2018, Trump eliminated the Pandemic Response Team connected to the National Security Council, citing costs. The purpose of the team was to monitor pandemics and how they would impact the U.S. This cut was made against the better judgment of scientists, who pointed to the rise in new viruses like MERs, Ebola and SARs, and explained that more could be expected.

Myth 4: China initially covered up the virus. A doctor who was the first to sound the alarm about the virus was arrested and silenced.

Fact: The doctor was neither arrested, nor did he deliver a warning on the virus ahead of the government. But in the U.S., hospitals are threatening to fire medical workers who share with the media their concerns about the treatment of COVID-19 patients.

All the patients were quarantined. Dr. Li was not ahead of the government in delivering a warning, as the government delivered its own public warning the same day as Dr. Li’s posting.

Here in the U.S., however, some medical personnel have reported that hospitals are threatening to fire them for speaking to the media, or posting on social media, their concerns about the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Ming Lin, an emergency-room doctor at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, WA, already lost his job. He was fired, for speaking to a newspaper about the lack of testing and protective equipment.

Myth 5: China’s incompetence, delays, and lack of transparency caused the virus to spread.

Truth: China’s rapid response held back the virus and saved lives.

With full transparency, China notified the World Health Organization on Dec. 31 of an “cases of a pneumonia of unknown etiology” in Wuhan even before the virus was fully identified. China quickly shared the genetic sequencing of the new coronavirus worldwide once it was discovered on Jan. 7, so many teams could work on developing an immunization. Government leaders were notified including Donald Trump. On Jan. 23, less than three days after the first human-to-human transmission was known, the 14 million people in Wuhan were quarantined. This stopping of movement was put in place right before the Chinese New Year, when the world’s largest annual migration takes place. Two days later, the limitation of activity was extended to over 50 million Chinese.


The WHO, and other public health agencies and experts, describe China’s response as setting new, groundbreaking standards and practices in outbreak detection and response. WHO officials said China’s quick response helped contain the spread and saved lives around the world.

https://www.liberationnews.org/8-myths-and-facts-about-china-and-covid-19/

 

Facts sited by habitual Trump haters are automatically discounted as biased because of the reputation of the messenger

 

The entire purpose of the post #67, was to relay the fact that Trumps eliminated the Pandemic Response Team was moot and extremely irrelevant as a negative and irresponsible effort towards Trump.

Sometimes, one needs to go the extra inch to show the leftists just how pathetic they actually are.

 

The Trump administration issued a new rule that blocks guaranteed paid sick leave for 75% of American workers
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Business InsiderApril 3, 2020, 1:00 PM CDT


A Long Beach Transit worker disinfects a bus in Long Beach, California, April 2.

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• The Trump administration diminished the scope of a coronavirus aid law that went into effect Wednesday.
  
  
• The law, which guarantees paid leave, ensures coverage for 25% of the workforce, according to Department of Labor guidelines published Wednesday.
  
  
• Lawmakers criticized the Labor Department guidelines, saying they "violate congressional intent" and "contradict the plain language" of the law.
  
  
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The Trump administration issued a new rule this week that lets small businesses choose whether to give workers paid sick leave, undercutting Congress's new law that sought to guarantee it.

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act sought to protect workers and families from losing income if they fell sick with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. It gives workers two weeks of paid leave, 12 weeks if their children are home from school or require child care, and reimburses employers with tax credits.

It came with some carveouts, though: The law exempts businesses with over 500 employees, and companies with fewer than 50 employees could ask the Department of Labor for an exemption if they believed the rule could bankrupt them. Nearly 75% of workers are employed by companies with under 50 employees or over 500, according to the New York Times.

Now, the Department of Labor has issued a rule that lets small businesses choose whether to give workers paid sick leave, rather than apply for a waiver.

Businesses with fewer than 50 employees, according to the guidance, do not need to pay workers for child-related leave if the worker's absence would "cause the small business to cease operating," if it would create "a substantial risk" to the business, or if the company cannot find a replacement "able, willing and qualified" to work.

The exemptions 'violate congressional intent,' lawmakers say
The exemptions even apply to medical workers, first responders, and some government employees, some of whom are already facing layoffs.

Some lawmakers rebuked some Labor Department guidelines, they "violate congressional intent" and "contradict the plain language" of the law.

In a letter to Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, of Washington, and Rep. Rosa Delauro, of Connecticut, urged the Labor Department "to provide the maximum flexibility for workers during this crisis — not restricting their leave to when employers grant their consent."

On Wednesday, Scalia praised the legislation, which he said included "unprecedented paid leave benefits to American workers affected by the virus, while ensuring that businesses are reimbursed."

 

That's the way it should be.

The Executive is barred from creating legislation, however the Executive is not barred to block any legislation.

The so called ''protections'' are nothing more than intended incentives to allow folks not to become useful members of society and not work.

You yo-yo leftists are so hip on criticizing big business at every turn, now you want to claim that small business is not capable of operating their own business at their own discretion, and only Big Government has the answers.

Pathetic.

 

I think this is one of the most important.

9. The Food and Drug Administration’s requirements stymied university labs from conducting tests

While Trump was ignoring his own intelligence community's warnings and lying to the nation the delay in testing allowed the virus to spread all over the country. And there was no reason for it. WHO already had a test that worked and we could have been using that.

And yes Trump did that to us.

 

The poorly educated people Trump pretends to love lack the intelligence to understand economic issues. They vote for Trump because he hates the same people they do.​

Distant Lover, Today at 6:57 AM​

Yessir!
Those truck driving, beer drinking, gun toting, uneducated, unwashed, trailer dwelling, genetically ambiguous, redneck gaping hinds in flyover country are too fucking stupid to understand economics, and only voted for Trump cause he hates the same people they do.
huh.
Meanwhile
The BMW driving, wine sipping, unarmed, humanities educated, rose scented, condo dwelling, pure white, bleeding heart, uptight assholes on the coasts are convinced, cause MSNBC and Bill Gates said so, "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE AND IT'S TRUMPS FAULT!!" And they're all hoping against all reason that Trump will be impeached or thrown from office this year, and a despicable will win the oval office, and we'll all live happily ever after with our endless government handouts.

The reality is, we're probably all fucked with the $2.2 TRILLION pork handout the government is doling out. It no longer matters who the president is, or who controls Congress. The debt we've been handed is no longer sustainable, and it's only a matter of when, not if, the United States will go the way of Venezuela.

*Shooter contemplates packing his bags and moving to, say, New Zealand.​

 

subby dismissed as irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

 

I think Ja'cinda is right now drafting new immigration status for A Maori can trumpet supporters , to afford them refugee status on the same level as Myanmar politicians ,

with special 25 year isolation plans ,
to be followed by ten year residential rockbreaking instruction.

She is determined the only major division in NZ will remain Cook Straight

 

LOLOL! Coming from a dishonest, bigotted, grifter who is sadly delusional as to his own importance now that everyone knows that irrelevance has a name and it is shitter!

Thinskin

 

thinskin post dismissed
thinskin dismissed

 

‘Confusion, fear, distrust’: Shocking IG report details Trump administration’s ‘unprecedented’ COVID-19 failures

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/co...inistrations-unprecedented-covid-19-failures/

 

I'm laughing at the ridiculous obsessiveness of Lefties, they cant let an opposing statement stand, all the phony outrage is just an excuse to insult and degrade,

and guess which side screams and cry's more...lefties need some Valium and calm the fuck down