Reopen the Economy, Mr. President — No Matter What Attacks Come

RUSH: So we have 16 million people out of work and 14,800 coronavirus deaths. Is that a wrong way to characterize it? Is that bad? (interruption) Is that insensitive to juxtapose? (interruption) It’s factual, it’s factual, but is it purposely, uh, inflammatory? Is it intentionally inflammatory, unnecessarily provocative to say that there are 14,800 COVID-19 deaths and now 16 million Americans have lost their jobs?Well, here’s CNN’s answer. Here is CNN’s solution to the problem.CHATTERLEY: The bottom line is, we can’t jump ahead of the science. The safety net, the cushion, the need to keep as many people in their jobs — remember small- and medium-size businesses represent about 80% of employment in this country. The need to get money flowing to them and then to the states. You can’t choose between them, but the cushion over the next four to six weeks is so important to enable us to recover more strongly off the back of it.

RUSH: So that’s Julia Chatterley, who is an economics correspondent. Basically, the solution is the government needs to keep sending out money. That’s the answer to… (interruption) We don’t have the money we’re sending out. (laughing) The answer is to open up. The answer is… You got 16.6 million people out of work, the answer is to open up. Is that unnecessarily provocative to point that out?

Is it unnecessarily insensitive to point that out?

Reopen the Economy, Mr. President — No Matter What Attacks Come

… “We’ve got a week. We need somebody to tell us in one week how this is all gonna start revving up again. We can’t wait until June. We can’t wait ’til July. We’re talking Great Depression time if we do that. We’re talking more federal spending if we do that.

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