Posted on 03/25/2020 8:22:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
I quoted Maj. Gen. George S. Patton in my column last week: "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."
I'm repeating it because it is so relevant to the coronavirus crisis.
No one thinks the stimulus bill the Senate is trying to pass, which Democrats have sabotaged, is a perfect plan. There is something in it for everyone to criticize. But when the house is burning down, the job is to put the fire out as quickly as possible. A moment delay to look for a better way to do it can result in absolute destruction.
As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put it: "This is not a political opportunity. It's a national emergency."
Even calling this a stimulus bill is a misnomer.
It is more accurate to call this a bridge loan to ourselves.
Anyone who has operated a business understands that a bridge loan makes it possible for you to cross a valley between a difficult situation you are in, providing an opportunity to work through difficulties so you can get to the other side and once again function in a healthy way.
The assumption of a bridge loan is that you are, at the core, OK. Once you get through the storm, you will be OK again.
Bridge loans are not given to businesses that are deemed failing to begin with.
Before this health crisis hit, our economy was strong. Our country is fundamentally strong. But we've taken an unusual and hard physical blow.
This is not like other economic crises, where the collapse was the result of some major flaw in our existing institutions or the way we are managing our affairs.
This crisis is the result of shutting down our economy because of an immediate health threat.
Economies function as buyers and sellers meet in the marketplace. If you tell buyers and sellers they are prohibited from showing up in the marketplace, everything will collapse.
This is where we are.
We need financing so businesses, particularly small businesses, can get to the other side, so that when we stop this scourge, hopefully sooner rather than later, they will not be wiped out, and will be able to get going again and pick up where they were before.
We also need to provide cash flow to individuals so those whose livelihood is cut off or limited can pay their bills and make it to the other side.
This is what this legislation is about. Period.
It's hard to believe that as we try to throw a lifeline to our economy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and their Democrats want to condition it on signing off on their left-wing agenda: the Green New Deal; tests on gender, race and ethnicity for business; government dictates on how businesses manage their financial affairs and how much they pay their executives. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has never run a business or met a payroll, wants to force minimum wage when companies are shedding their workforce in order to stay afloat.
It's like telling a patient on life support that he must sign off on gender-neutral restrooms before we agree to connect his ventilator.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who called this bill a "crony capitalist slush fund," recently helped kill the deal that would have brought a new Amazon headquarters to New York -- the same Amazon that is now adding 100,000 new workers.
I don't like companies turning to Washington as the first reaction to a crisis. But it's Democrats who have played a central role in creating the welfare-state culture that has debilitated the nation.
But this isn't time for this discussion. This is a time for immediate action to save ourselves before mortal damage is inflicted, so we can live to see a better day.
That is exactly what they’re doing. Blackmail.
The Dems have failed the nation, two of the most prominent are from New York, Schumer and Cuomo.
NANCY PELOSI dissed We the People again with a delay on the Coronavirus aid package...
Shameful: Nancy Pelosi Just Delayed Another Vote on the Wuhan Coronavirus Relief Bill (Posted: Mar 25, 2020 10:37 AM)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3828159/posts
Scumbag Democrat Party - bump for later....
Because it is their nature, as the scorpion said.
The President has declared himself a wartime President, due to financial and medical crisis.
Blackmail during a crisis, or during a war, is called sabotage
The penalty for sabotage during wartime already has an already known penalty .
Because it is their nature, as the scorpion said.
We tend to base our thoughts on the assumption that Pelosi/Schumer give a damn about the American people. I think their actions, plus that of other Democrats, proves otherwise.
Very perceptive.
Thanks for posting.
Nancy F THEM. I’ll cut your head of and you won’t even know you are bleeding.
TOTALITARIANISM 101...US v THEM...330 MILLION v 535 +++++++
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDbeqj-1XOo
Us and Them
And after all we’re only ordinary men
Me, and you
God only knows it’s not what we would choose to do
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died
And the General sat, as the lines on the map
moved from side to side
Black and Blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and Down
And in the end it’s only round and round and round
Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There’s room for you inside
Down and Out
It can’t be helped but there’s a lot of it about
With, without
And who’ll deny that’s what the fightings all about
Get out of the way, it’s a busy day
And I’ve got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died
What Pelosi and Schumer tried to do essentially caused the Democratic Party to step on a political land mine.
This little stunt after the Impeachment BS stunt should cook Nancy’s goose of being speaker again. Trump wins and we hold the Senate. Then pass everything we can before 2022 and confirm every Judge you see especially SCOTUS ones hopefully replacing RBG and maybe we will have saved America for another 10-20 years
My congressman was here at my radio station today for an interview, and off-air he told me Pelosi got her backside handed to her over this. She said even the Dims were freaking out, since they could see it backfiring.
November is a long way off, but I hope President Trump reminds the American people - often - about what the Dims attempted to do during a time of national crisis.
Nancy’s trying for quid pro quo.
How is it that this ONE wan has COMPLETE power over all of this??
I don’t remember her being named supreme ruler over the USA.
Our elected Republicans need to grow some STONES.
Pray that justice is served on these people.
She’s (normally) not stupid, so one has to wonder if she’s losing it as she ages, as this makes zero political sense for them. Perhaps she and Joe could get together in a home somewhere and play checkers...
Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!
"It's hard to believe that as we try to throw a lifeline to our economy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and their Democrats want to condition it on signing off on their left-wing agenda ..."
Not really!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.