Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP
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@Catseye3 said in Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP:
@Jolly: "At this point in time, 30-40% of small business may be gone and it might take as long as 10 years to get back to pre-virus days." I do not see how such a prediction is possible, especially this early on.
@Horace: I think you're overthinking this. IMO an observation like this is politicians' gold. It sounds noble as hell, and who's going to argue with it?
@Mik: "Where we go wrong, as usual, is in polarizing the issue instead of finding the balance that works best." Amen, amen.
There is some data floating around, not in the public doman. Not yet. It has to do with the technology sector, the communications sector and the banking sector.
The effect of the shutdown on small business ranges from bad to cataclysmic.
The 5-10 year figure is based mostly on that data.
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Keep you powder dry for the bad times. I'm looking at you national debt.
Work out and clarify what the States' responsibilities vs. the Feds are ahead of time for a disaster.
Work out and clarify what emergency aid legislation looks like ahead of a crisis. It should be triggered, not crafted, under a crisis.
Beyond that - maybe a national stockpile of PPE, but there can be a lot of disasters that don't use the same mechanisms as this one.
I mean - this is literally a once-a-hundred-years event (not saying that's when the next one will be). So anything we do has the chances to be useless in our lifetimes.
EDIT: Don't elect entertainers, but that just may be my bias speaking.
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@xenon said in Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP:
Keep you powder dry for the bad times. I'm looking at you national debt.
Work out and clarify what the States' responsibilities vs. the Feds are ahead of time for a disaster.
Work out and clarify what emergency aid legislation looks like ahead of a crisis. It should be triggered, not crafted, under a crisis.
Beyond that - maybe a national stockpile of PPE, but there can be a lot of disasters that don't use the same mechanisms as this one.
I mean - this is literally a once-a-hundred-years event (not saying that's when the next one will be). So anything we do has the chances to be useless in our lifetimes.
EDIT: Don't elect entertainers, but that just may be my bias speaking.
Just had to go piss in your cornflakes, didn't you?
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It's true though. People want leadership during a time like this. They want to know someone is being thoughtful and deliberate. Well, I know I do.
You don't necessarily have to do anything. Trump had a few examples of this - he got the retail CEOs to speak. I thought that was great.
But then he goes and pisses it all away by spewing verbal diarrhea on an almost daily basis. There's no adults in the room, or rather, the baby is in charge of the adults.
So yeah - next pandemic, I don't want a clown to be the face of this.
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@Mik said in Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP:
Jesus. Can you give that shit a break for one thread? This thread has not a thing to do with Trump.
Your question: given what we have learned from this pandemic, what do we do for the next one?
My answer: don't have clowns in charge.
Pretty simple. Struck a nerve maybe because you know he's a moron.
I also said 7 other things. Jolly and you seem to want to respond to that
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Mindworm.
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@xenon said in Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP:
People want leadership during a time like this.
I dunno about that. I think it's more important that people feel like soldiers, not victims. Give 'em something important to do, and put them in charge of their own destinies. I think that's really what people want.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP:
@xenon said in Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP:
People want leadership during a time like this.
I dunno about that. I think it's more important that people feel like soldiers, not victims. Give 'em something important to do, and put them in charge of their own destinies. I think that's really what people want.
That's fair. I think leaders are usually offered a "call to arms" opportunity. Last time something similar happened was perhaps 9/11. That was a literal call to arms - I guess.
But leaders do have the space for a call to action in these situations .
The other country I'm familiar with is Canada. I don't like Trudeau - most conservatives don't, but he got a pretty sizable sentiment boost out of this with a fairly vanilla response. (And I think that guy is in way over his head as well)
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP:
@xenon said in Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP:
I think it's more important that people feel like soldiers, not victims. Give 'em something important to do, and put them in charge of their own destinies. I think that's really what people want.Also, haircuts and tattoos.
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@Mik said in Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP:
WE KNOW YOU DON'T LIKE TRUMP. WE GET IT.
Sadly, Mr. Trump is probably unaware of his posts.
Knowing this, it is more likely he keeps posting this stuff because he doesn't like us.
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@xenon said in Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP:
It's true though. People want leadership during a time like this. They want to know someone is being thoughtful and deliberate. Well, I know I do.
You don't necessarily have to do anything. Trump had a few examples of this - he got the retail CEOs to speak. I thought that was great.
But then he goes and pisses it all away by spewing verbal diarrhea on an almost daily basis. There's no adults in the room, or rather, the baby is in charge of the adults.
So yeah - next pandemic, I don't want a clown to be the face of this.
The problem as I see it, is that you wouldn't know real leadership if it rode up on a white horse and slapped you in the face.
Trump IS real leadership. Probably the first we've had in the White House in your lifetime.
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@Larry said in Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP:
@xenon said in Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP:
It's true though. People want leadership during a time like this. They want to know someone is being thoughtful and deliberate. Well, I know I do.
You don't necessarily have to do anything. Trump had a few examples of this - he got the retail CEOs to speak. I thought that was great.
But then he goes and pisses it all away by spewing verbal diarrhea on an almost daily basis. There's no adults in the room, or rather, the baby is in charge of the adults.
So yeah - next pandemic, I don't want a clown to be the face of this.
The problem as I see it, is that you wouldn't know real leadership if it rode up on a white horse and slapped you in the face.
No I wouldn’t, that’d just be fuckin weird. I haven’t even seen a regular horse around here.
