“Get America Moving Again: Why Trump Is Right to Re-Open the Economy”

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Sims – Get America Moving Again: Why Trump Is Right to Re-Open the Economy

US President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak during a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire on February 10, 2020.

By: Cliff Sims, Breitbart, March 24, 2020

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President Donald Trump’s economic policies ushered in an economic boom the likes of which we had not seen in decades, if ever. Now, faced with a pandemic that has ground the world’s economy to a halt, the President faces the unenviable task of trying to head off an immediate public health crisis without inducing a long-term economic crisis that could be even more devastating to the well-being of the American people. So while it is important that the President continue receiving advice from medical experts, as he has been with Dr. Anthony Fauci and others, his recent comments make it clear that he is also smartly taking into account the human impact of the economic decisions he is facing.

This type of multivariate analysis is at the heart of every difficult decision a president has to make. While armchair analysts have the luxury of cherry-picking stats and facts to make their points, presidents have to weigh the broad real-world impact of everything they do. And when you’re making decisions that impact all 325 million American citizens–and billions of people all around the world–there are an infinite number of variables to consider.

Making these decisions must start with receiving good information, which he clearly is from the world-class experts he appointed to his coronavirus response team.

Unfortunately, the media has taken the opposite approach, inundating Americans with worst-case scenarios and doomsday predictions, often from people with a political ax to grind. For instance, Andy Slavitt, one of the architects of Obamacare, predicted all the nation’s hospitals would be overrun by March 23. Obviously that turned out to not even be remotely accurate.

New modeling from Oxford University’s Evolutionary Ecology of Infectious Disease group, on the other hand, implies “that fewer than one in a thousand of those infected with Covid-19 become ill enough to need hospital treatment.” Nearly all deaths from the virus are happening to people with multiple morbidity factors.

Rather than shutting down the economy for months on end, these points suggest the government should focus on protecting the most vulnerable among us while empowering most Americans to get back to work, preserve millions of jobs, and jumpstart the economy.

This is exactly what the President was getting at when he tweeted, “the cure cannot be worse than the problem.” The virus has likely caused a recession. The government should not turn it into a depression by making decisions based on fear and panic. A temporary quarantine to protect the public is one thing, but enforcing long-term isolation for the entire country is a recipe for economic destruction from which we may never fully recover.

Just consider the fact that the government is about to inject trillions into an economy that has been on pause for a couple of weeks — and yet we are still facing a significant uptick in unemployment and the closing of thousands of small businesses. Just imagine what many more weeks or even months of this dynamic would look like. No government bailout could ever be enough. Only the reopening of the American free-market–the greatest economic engine the world has ever known–will ensure that we rise from the ashes.

Such moves should obviously be done in the safest way possible. Some recent suggestions have included the continued isolation of older Americans and those with pre-existing conditions that put them at greater risk. The public health impact of every idea should be weighed with the seriousness it deserves. But we must also weigh the human impact of lost jobs, lost homes and lost businesses–the elimination of the pursuit of happiness, as the founders put it. Economists, small business owners, and regular hard-working Americans should not be shouted down for being callous or unreasonable for pointing out the economic impact of the decisions that are being made.

During my time in the White House, I found the President to be extremely adept at listening to diverse opinions, weighing countless variables, and decisively making decisions that he believes are in the best interest of the American people.

He is now facing perhaps the most difficult decision of his presidency–will we accept economic defeat at the hands of this invisible enemy, or will we protect our people while also getting American moving again? I trust the President to make the right call.



Cliff Sims is a former Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy for President Donald J. Trump.

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Anthony Silvio
Anthony Silvio
4 years ago

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Rick Gouveia
Rick Gouveia
4 years ago

The Globalists are winning; some of the bill will be used for development of bioweapon (stage 1). Globalists’ population reduction is paramount for their survival.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Rick Gouveia

Can you do a copy/paste and post it here?

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

The Dem0rats motto seems to be they have to destroy the USA in order to save it, for whom I don’t know? Maybe their muslum paymasters?

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

They want open borders and mass immigration so where ever you go, you can’t escape the craziness. They also want to COLLAPSE our economy. Trump is trying to move away from this global crap and they don’t like this. Everything Trump does is against what they have set up. Muslims are just riding the coat tails of the globalists.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

Funny how she doesn’t mind a shariah compliant city in her own state. When David Woods was imprisoned under false pretenses in Dearbornistan, Michigan a deliberately anonymous police officer indicated to him that honor killings were being actively covered up by the Dearbornistan PD.

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago

I’m sorry… when did the massive lying idiot Trumpo close down the economy? Other than flights from China, Iran and Northern Italy?

Is the airline industry the entire economy? <<< Or is he talking about the Globalist Economy?

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

This lockdown insanity has to end by Easter,April 11,otherwise,we are headed for a Great Depression. The solution is obvious.We know that the death rate among those who are less than 60 years old and in good health is very,very low. Isolate and treat those with medical problems and the elderly and the rest of us go back to work.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Chicago will be another disaster. It’s a sanctuary city run by the FIRST black lesbian, Mayor Lightfoot! She received over 74% of the vote. Here she is with her “spouse” in a “tender moment.” This is her first political position – a major city like Chicago!
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Don39
Don39
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

There are NO MEN left in Chicago! Just leftist idiots! That is not another female it is kissing! Just a skank want-a-be.

Don39
Don39
4 years ago

QUIT WHIMPERING and get back to work America.

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