Seizing private property is always wrong. Even these rumors about the government seizing medical supplies makes me squirm a little.
Let the free market work. Prices will go up for high demand goods. Production will ramp up due to high profits. Prices come back down as supply increases. Within a few weeks/months we have normal prices AND higher production and more jobs here in the US.
Either nationalize the medical industry and have the government run it (pretty much exactly what every Conservative is trying to avoid), or leave it to the markets to adjust and compensate. Doing a half-assed version of either of those is bound to fail.
is there a right direction to go through a grocery aisle? Maybe I've been doing it wrong all these years, haha.
A lot of people don't have that choice. I have a family member in the military. I'm proud as hell of him, but I'm scared as hell for him too.
One of the guys living across the hall from him in the barracks already tested positive so he had to get tested and is in quarantine. Nobody is talking about it, but Covid-19 is sweeping through our armed forces like wildfire. Luckily he is young, and would survive even if he gets infected. But if the restrictions are lifted, he won't have the choice to stay home. He is forced to go to work. Unlike private citizens who at least have the worst-case option to quit their job to protect their health, he's stuck in there whether he likes it or not. Not to mention, all those soldiers who were exposed to the disease are going to go off-base and spread it to the communities around the bases.
And its not just the military, some other family members live in a rural county that just lifted restrictions. That means their places of work will open next week. One of them is a public servant. She can't work remotely, she can only chose to quit her career to protect her health, or go to work and risk getting sick or dying. For her age group its about 5% chance of death if she catches it. That is hundreds of times worse than the flu or any other normal contagious disease. Where is her choice to stay home?
Another one works for a private company, but is in the same boat. Company has said come back to the office or you won't have a job. Where is his choice to stay home? If he gets sick for 2 weeks the company won't pay his wages or his hospital bills. If he dies the company won't pay workers comp to support his wife and kids for the next 20 years. Where is his choice to stay at home?
The problem isn't with total food supply, it is with the supply chain.
It was designed to serve people getting what they need for 2-5 days of groceries, and even then only cooking one meal per day. Instead people suddenly need 5-10 days of groceries, and they are cooking 2-3 meals per day. Those extra shipments don't just appear out of thin air.
Shipping logistics is an extremely thin margin industry. Lots of automation. Google "Just in Time" logisitics model. A Shipment of eggs leaves the farm one day and arrives at refrigerated warehouse the same day. A few hours later it is already broken up into individual store bundles and loaded up to ship out. Within 24 hours it is on the store shelf. Within 48 hours its on your pantry shelf at home.
Its good for a lot of reasons, but it has its weaknesses. There is almost no storage capacity in the system since things move out as quickly as they come in. Which means the volume is limited to the trucks and drivers on-hand. And you can't go from 100 trucks and 200 drivers to 200 trucks and 400 drivers overnight. There is already a shortage of truckers, and they are in higher demand than ever now.
A system designed to transport 10,000 eggs a day to a small number of restaurants in bulk cannot be converted to 10,000 eggs a day to a large number of consumers in individual packages. Especially since that conversion costs a lot of money, will probably take a month or more, and in another month it will just have to be converted back.
This is why we have stimulus. The system is good and efficient in the long term, but its messy in the short term, and in times of crisis it makes losers out of a lot of people. Government should be insurance against those times.
Anybody who works for the government and openly violates these orders, States, Local, Federal, Whatever, should be fined or thrown in jail.
They are all accountable.
Seems dumb. If they have employees who are out of work (not just cooky overpaid professors, I'm talking about janitors, maintenance staff, etc.), or students who are missing out on the education they paid for, then they should be getting help just like any other business.
Capitalism is about rewarding successful ventures so they continue to thrive. If we limit stimulus to only companies who are bankrupt and would otherwise fail, then we are allowing the worst-managed companies in the country to continue. That is a terrible idea to prop up bad businesses like that.
If you failed at business and went bankrupt, then too bad, you shouldn't get a free pass from the government to fail again.
I thought MAGA was pro-Cryptocurrency?
haha whatever its funny
A lot of these successful guys with their names on University buildings (who funded those endowments), are the same ones contributing to DJT campaign because he fights hard to protect their businesses and wealth.
Non-profit Schools and Churches should have tax-exempt status because of the services they provide to society.