QUESTION: Dear Sir,
Best of health to you and your family.
What i observe and it is amazing is that every-day-ordinary people like me, are very worried but they are underestimating the disaster that will follow.
Everyone says it is gonna be bad but when i am expressing my opinion on how black will be the days to come, they think i am an alien talking nuts.
But my question is the following:
How the system will treat all these people that will starve? Soon, will not be able to pay our rents – including myself. So, in practice, how are they gonna handle it? Give us vouchers? We will start to beat one each other to death for survival while in the queue…
I am very very worried. I got already -25% on my salary and soon it will get to zero. Then what?
What are the governments gonna do?
Thank you from my heart for what you do.
You bring light to our eyes.
SM – from Europe
ANSWER: This is so irrational that it is hard to even speculate. From working with governments for over 40 years, I have come to understand that no politician will ever act for the future. Their incentive is only the next election. With that in mind, I have to assume that they are only looking at the immediate action. I believe they have realized that the ECB is trapped and that Keynesian Economics is dead. They can only be looking at this as a means to default and reshape the monetary system. They are not looking at the economic damage and people think life will return to normal just as soon as this lockdown ends. But the destruction to the economy and wiping out so many small businesses is condemning society to poverty. Economic growth will decline most likely into 2032.
I do not think these people can see beyond this year. Even Gates is obsessed with his climate change and vaccines, yet he has no concept of what he has done to society or how long it takes to build what we had. The average life expectancy was 45 in the middle ages. If the economy collapses, so will the life expectancy. Is that Gates’ goal? Does he think we can have a future with no industry, ZERO CO2, no cars, and still a perfect world? Gates has three children. What kind of future will he leave them? Money cannot buy them a life if society is destroyed. All his money will become worthless.
Society will rise up and we will head into war. What is left might be just a shadow of what it once was. We will have to rebuild again after 2032.
Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the EU and Commissioner for Competition, has spoken out that EU states should now nationalize companies in the fight against China. Accordingly, Vestager has revealed that the justification for now nationalizing industry, which was the goal of the Climate Change contingency, is to prevent domestic companies being bought by the Chinese. This entire coronavirus has been an organized plot to seize control of the economy by the socialists. This is where there has been a direct assault using the media in hopes of defeating Trump, the Netherlands, and Germany.
Marxism was not satisfied with killing 200 million the last time. Here we go again looking to reduce the population by anyone who disagrees with their Climate Change/Communistic agenda.
COMMENT: RE China analysis
Marty,
It is so clear to me that you have not been exposed to the changing workforce and have always worked for yourself.
How did I get laid off so many times? Jobs sent to China. We have been in an economic war with China for at least 2 decades with US corrupt politicians selling out the American people. We have run a huge deficit with China, not good for the US economy. Outsourcing our jobs, how is that good for Americans? Dianne Feinstein had a Chinese spy driver for 20 years !
I have taken the brunt of it being on the front lines of a changing workforce. You have not.
Additionally claiming that somehow the economy of China is not communist is day dreaming. The CCP invests in companies and controls the people and the economy as much as they can. They have long range plans. They also manipulated their currency. They have concentration camps.. come on Marty. Come on… wake up. You cannot go through life saying human rights abuses don’t matter because the numbers using slave labor makes you a profit. Wake up please… you are being to me at least really naive about this topic. I hate to say that because you are brilliant, but for some reason your smarts are compromised on this issue because you are frankly compartmentalizing thing, a very male trait ( sorry ) whereas females tend to think wholistically. We are different that way. Please consider more broadly the entire China situation.
Thanks for the blog
A
REPLY: Communism is where people do not own any property. China is no longer Communist, it is more of what you would define as a managed democracy that is perhaps authoritarian, which seems to be the direction we are heading. You should also point the finger at Washington. Roosevelt installed the payroll tax and Social Security. From the employer’s perspective, whatever tax you paid, they had to match. Then you add regulations for healthcare, etc., and the greater the burden, the more costly American labor became.
With everything government does, the justification for that instant may sound logical, but it never expires. Locking us down for a claimed virus is a new precedent and they will do this from here on out — a new power they get to play with. We are searched, x-rayed, and must remove our shoes to get on a plane since 9/11. With each crisis, we lose more and more civil liberties and human rights.
No Communist country would ever allow their people to be tourists. I had a friend whose family was split by the Berlin Wall. They let a woman go to her mother’s funeral in West Berlin provided they held her children hostage to ensure she would return. That is a communistic state. The people are just slaves and the state comes before everything.
While you may see it only as China, jobs domestically are being replaced by robots for the very same reason — taxes and rising healthcare costs that no politician will address. There is a common thread running through this which is the excessive cost of governments. They need more money so they just raise taxes without any regard for the impact on the people. Often taxes on air travel are equal to 50% of the ticket, which is why a lot of airlines are charging fees to cancel, bring bags, food, etc. for they are not subject to that tax. Above is the breakdown of taxes on your cell phone, which is typically 18% (New Jersey as an example but all states do the same).
It is a complex issue, but it is by no means just China, Germany, or Japan. Much of the problem has been the constant trend of raising taxes on labor which is giving the incentive to replace whatever jobs can be done by robots or self-service. When I park in a garage downtown, I pull in and the machine spits out the ticket. When I leave, the next machine takes the ticket and the credit card and I never see a person. They save that salary and all the costs of mandated healthcare.
Airports are becoming all self-service. In Frankfurt, the machine prints out your ticket. When you go to check your bag, you put it on another machine that then spits out the baggage tag. Then it moves your bag onto a conveyor with nobody there. If you have any problems, you then must go to the customer service counter.
As for human rights, the United States is one of the #1 violators. You have none when you stand before a judge in Federal Court. They have a 98-99% conviction rate that beats even Adolf Hitler’s notorious court that had only a 90% conviction rate. The United States has more people in prison than the rest of the world does – combined.
This anti-liberal attitude in law is a violation of human rights. If you are charged, you are PRESUMED GUILTY! There is no presumption of innocence. That is a lie and propaganda. I disagree with the Republicans on their appointments of judges. You will never imagine how many innocent people are in prison because of this policy.
I was tortured, thrown in a cell so hot your underwear was too much to wear, and then taken to a cell so cold that you could see your breath. As long as they do not leave a mark on your body, it’s not considered torture just like water-boarding. They seek to break people down mentally. They take pleasure in torturing people. You will never know evil until you look into the eyes of such prosecutors.
So do not listen to the propaganda that China violates human rights as if America treats everyone with respect and dignity. America is the biggest hypocrite you will ever encounter when it comes to pointing fingers at others for human rights. The same on trade. China and others have absorbed jobs because the cost of those jobs domestically became too much due to overregulation and taxes. It has never simply been to pay someone else $2 an hour v $10. You have also taxes on the corporations and the drive to increase dividends. It is a multidimensional issue.
If you want to become a doctor right now you can become one without years of training in New York City. Just attribute all deaths to COVID-19 so Governor Cuomo can justify keeping everyone locked down in a desperate attempt to boost Democrats for the 2020 elections. It is astonishing how COVID-19 has become a miracle cure for all diseases. Nobody is dying of even a heart attack for the last two weeks. Just sneeze, and that is good enough to classify you with Coronavirus.
Meanwhile, in Germany, the first real study has revealed that only 0.37% of coronavirus infected people die from it. According to this, the death rate of the novel virus is only around 0.4%. Our sources in Italy were reporting that NOBODY was dying from Coronavirus alone. They typically had some other disease.
The media has threatened our liberty, our livelihood, and the national security of the nation with FAKE NEWS as always. Something as to be done to stop these people from undermining our freedom and civil liberties worldwide.
Violent riots broke out in the Belgian city of Anderlecht last weekend. Violence erupted Saturday afternoon, with groups of migrants throwing rocks and glass at police officers, according to reports. One man is said to have fired three shots in the air from a gun that appeared to have been stolen from the police. All the studies show you cannot lock people down. They will begin to become violent after 4 to 6 weeks. This fake attempt to use a virus that has not proven to be even as lethal as the annual flu will have serious implications in rising civil unrest. You will NOT be able to keep people locked down for 18 months as Bill Gates is insisting.
ANSWER: There is no doubt that Americans have been getting a civics lesson as they turn to Washington for answers to the coronavirus crisis, but discover that their state governors have assumed far more control over what goes on in their daily lives than the constitution allows. It has been State and local authorities making decisions about shutting down businesses and allocating medical equipment to hospitals – not the President. They have merely listened to Bill Gates and the compromised Anthony Fauci whose recommendations are illegal.
This is what the “United States” meant that there was a separation of powers between federal and state. This is the system the founding fathers designed, though it seems anachronistic to many while people like Fauci have been the stooge for Bill Gates claiming this is a deadly disease that warrants we be locked-down as prisoners in our own homes without any legal authority under the Constitution.
It is the Commerce Clause in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause3) that governs this question. The Commerce Clause states that the United States Congress shall have power:
“[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.”
The Supreme Court ruled in Swift and Company v. United States, 196 U.S. 375 (1905), that Congress had the authority to regulate localcommerce, as long as that activity could become part of a continuous “current” of commerce that involved the interstate movement of goods and services.
My interpretation of this is simple. It is unconstitutional for any state to block interstate commerce. Consequently, the President has the executive power to issue a binding order to open up commerce and the states cannot legally resist that order for keeping the economy locked-down violates the Commerce Clause. Over the years, the meaning of the word “commerce” has been a source of controversy. The Constitution did not explicitly define the word. That has led to legal arguments back and forth.
Some argue that the word “Commerce” refers only to trade or exchange. Others counter that claim arguing that the Framers intended to describe more broadly commercial and social connections between citizens of different states. Hence, the interpretation of “Commerce” has been the dividing line between federal and state power. My reading is that they intended to prevent states from discriminating against each other and to ensure the free-flow of both the people with the freedom to travel and commerce in an economic sense.
In Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824), the Supreme Court held back then that intrastate activity could be regulated under the Commerce Clause, provided that the activity is part of a larger interstate commercial scheme. In Swift, as I said, the Supreme Court held that Congress had the authority to regulate local commerce provided it was part of a continuous “current” of commerce that involved the interstate movement of goods and services. Therefore, from 1905 until about 1937, the Supreme Court used this narrow version of the Commerce Clause. However, that changed with Franklin D. Roosevelt who stacked the court to justify his socialism and the New Deal. Beginning with NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp, 301 U.S. 1 (1937), the Supreme Court recognized broader grounds upon which the Commerce Clause could be used to regulate state activity since FDR was seeking more power to dominate the states.
The Supreme Court held in NLRB that activity was commerce if it had a “substantial economic effect” on interstate commerce or if the “cumulative effect” of a single act could have an effect on such commerce. Then in NLRB v. Jones, United States v. Darby, 312 U.S. 100 (1941) and Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), the Supreme Court revealed its socialist interpretation which broadened the scope of the Commerce Clause. Suddenly, what emerged was a highly dynamic and integrated national economy, whereby the Court applied its broad interpretation of the Commerce Clause, reasoning the even local activity will likely affect the larger interstate commercial economic scheme. The limitations between state and federal were no longer so clear.
After 1937 until 1995, the Supreme Court never invalidated a single law on the basis of the Commerce Clause. State’s rights seem to fade into the distant horizon. Then in 1995, the Supreme Court attempted to curtail this expansive interpretation of the Commerce Clause and was returning to a more conservative interpretation. This decision came down in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995). In Lopez, the defendant was charged with carrying a handgun to school in violation of the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. The defendant argued that the federal government had no authority to regulate firearms in local schools, while the government claimed that this fell under the Commerce Clause, arguing that possession of a firearm in a school zone would lead to violent crime, thereby affecting the general economic conditions. The Supreme Court rejected that argument and held that Congress only has the power to regulate the channels of commerce, the instrumentalities of commerce, and action that substantially affects interstate commerce. The Court declined to further expand the Commerce Clause holding:
“To do so would require us to conclude that the Constitution’s enumeration of powers does not presuppose something not enumerated, and that there never will be a distinction between what is truly national and what is truly local. This we are unwilling to do.”
In Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005), the Supreme Court returned to its more liberal construction of the Commerce Clause in relation to intrastate production. In Gonzales, the Court upheld federal regulation of intrastate marijuana production.
Then in 2012, the Supreme Court again dealt with the Commerce Clause in NFIB v. Sebelius, 567 US. 519 (2012) concerning the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act (AFA), which sought to require uninsured individuals to secure health insurance (Obamacare) in an attempt to stabilize the health insurance market. Focusing on Lopez’s requirement that Congress could regulate only commercial activity, the Court held that the individual mandate could not be enacted under the Commerce Clause. The Court stated that requiring the purchase of health insurance under the AFA was not the regulation of commercial activity so much as inactivity and was, accordingly, impermissible under the Commerce Clause.
CONCLUSION
Therefore, relying on these decisions, the attempt by the states to lock-down the economy is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and the President has the power even under National Security to reopen the economy since it has been illegally shut down at the request of Bill Gates and his surrogate Anthony Fauci. This is dealing DIRECTLY with interstate commerce which is no different than protectionism that each state could then impose tariffs on imports from another state, which was the clear intention of the Founding Fathers to prohibit.
New Jersey Democrat Governor Phil Murphy is a member of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s economic task force on the Wuhan Virus. Earlier today Comrade Murphy announced all citizens in the New Jersey Directorate would remain on lock-down, suspending all citizen rights, until the state government declares all signs of the Wuhan Virus are gone.
The North Eastern political ideologues are counting on financing from the Federal government to keep their citizens confined. Essentially the state of New Jersey will remain on perpetual quarantine until politicians determine it is safe to engage in civic society.
Tonight on Tucker Carlson Comrade Murphy defended his decision. Carlson contrast the state allowing liquor stores to remain open but shutting down religious services. All determinations are ideological…
It seemed clear several weeks ago this was going to happen. East coast blue state governors and West coast blue state governors are united to begin the economic civil war planning to block any White House effort to re-open the U.S. economy. The founders planned for this in Article I, Sec 10 (paragraph 3):
“No state shall, without the consent of Congress, … enter into any agreement or compact with another state”..
The three step plan seems predictable: (1) Get out ahead of President Trump. (2) Defy the ‘all clear’ and shape economic benefit to their political allies. (3) Then use Fauci’s upcoming dossier to hit the administration for heartlessly opening the economy too early.
♦ On the East Coast the governors of New York (Cuomo), New Jersey (Murphy), Connecticut (Lamont), Pennsylvania (Wolfe), Delaware (Carney) and Rhode Island (Raimondo) have started assembling their economic war council with the intent to keep the northeast region shut down. Controlling critical ports and infrastructure is a key part of their strategy.
EAST COAST — Six Northeast governors will form a working group to come up with a plan to restart [control] the regional economy, they announced on Monday. (link)
♦ On the West Coast the governors of California (Newsom), Oregon (Brown) and Washington State (Inslee) are also assembling their economic war council for similar intents and purposes. Combined with their political northeastern allies, controlling two-thirds of U.S. ports will give them a strategic advantage to keep choking the economy until after they can install their commanding general in the White House.
WEST COAST – The governors of Washington, California and Oregon on Monday announced they were working on a joint plan for reopening[controlling] their states’ respective economies once it is safe to lift coronavirus-related restrictions.
It appears the Governors rushed to publicity to avoid their enemy, U.S. President Donald Trump, striking strategically against their schemes. As the interview with Governor Murphy highlights, during this economic war residents within the Blue occupied territories will be held captive to the political whims of their regional generals.
The economic freedom and liberty zone will encompass the Red region. The center of the country, mid west, southern region (surrounding the Gulf of Mexico) and south eastern Atlantic region. These areas will be open to commerce and economic freedom.
However, the urban dense populations (Blue pockets within Red zones) will push-back against the efforts of the Red generals in an attempt to retain alignment with their Blue team generals. Depending on the strength of the urban forces there may be roadblocks, sabotage, skirmishes and political violence against the freedom & liberty Red team.
Red captives within the Blue zones will have to be smart and strategic. Big Blue tech will be assisting the totalitarian Blue generals. Direct confrontation against the Blue forces should be avoided, and it will likely be a better strategy to fight stealthily as insurgents.
Any Red team member of the economic freedom alliance, trapped within a Blue region, is warned to evaluate their connection to their electronic devices. Your cell phones could be used as portable transponders expose your movement and your political views.
This is going to be one hell of a battle. A Spring and Summer conflict like we’ve never seen in the history of U.S. politics outside of actual, physical, civil war.
The U.S. economy will reopen sooner rather than later specifically because of non-discussed issues in the total U.S. food supply chain. While government officials have to be very careful in public comments, AG Secretary Sonny Perdue hinted toward the issue today during his remarks at the coronavirus task force briefing. WATCH:
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The issue is slightly complex; and with two months of manufactured food supply-chain stress; it is now becoming increasingly important to re-open consumer access to the fresh-food side of the aggregate supply chain (ie. restaurants, cafe’s, and food away from home).
Most Americans were not aware food consumption in the U.S. was a 55/45 proposition. Approximately 55% of all food was consumed “outside the home” (or food away from home), and 45% of all food consumed was food “inside the home” (grocery shoppers).
Food ‘outside the home’ included: restaurants, fast-food locales, schools, corporate cafeterias, university lunchrooms, manufacturing cafeterias, hotels, food trucks, park and amusement food sellers and many more. Many of those venues are not thought about when people evaluate the overall U.S. food delivery system; however, this network was approximately 55 percent of all food consumption on a daily basis.
The ‘food away from home‘ sector has its own supply chain. Very few restaurants and venues (cited above) purchase food products from retail grocery outlets. As a result of the coronavirus mitigation effort the ‘food away from home’ sector has been reduced by 75% of daily food delivery operations. However, people still need to eat. That means retail food outlets, grocers, are seeing sales increases of 25 to 50 percent, depending on the area.
•Phase One was retail. •Phase two was distribution. •Phase three was the space between processing/manufacturing and distribution. •Phase four was raw material supply to manufacturing. •Phase five is consumer packaging capacity, and bulk storage inventories.
This is the phase where Secretary Sonny Perdue starts getting concerned…
♦ Phase Five – The retail consumer supply chain for manufactured and processed food products includes bulk storage to compensate for seasonality. As Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue recently noted “there are over 800 commercial and public warehouses in the continental 48 states that store frozen products.”
Here is a snapshot of the food we had in storage at the end of February: over 302 million pounds of frozen butter; 1.36 billion pounds of frozen cheese; 925 million pounds of frozen chicken; over 1 billion pounds of frozen fruit; nearly 2.04 billion pounds of frozen vegetables; 491 million pounds of frozen beef; and nearly 662 million pounds of frozen pork.
This bulk food storage is how the total U.S. consumer food supply ensures consistent availability even with weather impacts. As a nation we essentially stay one harvest ahead of demand by storing it and smoothing out any peak/valley shortfalls. There are a total of 175,642 commercial facilities involved in this supply-chain across the country
Few Americans are aware of this. However, that stored-food-supply is the supply-chain for food manufacturers who process the ingredients into a variety of branded food products and distribute to your local supermarket.
That bulk stored food, and the subsequent supply chain, is entirely separate from the commercial fresh food supply chain used by restaurants, hotels, cafeterias etc. For almost 8 weeks the retail consumer supply chain has been operating beyond capacity and the burn rate of raw food products is up a stunning 40 percent.
Those bulk warehouses, the feeder pools for retail/consumer manufactured food products, are starting to run low.
Believe me: (1) we don’t want to find out what happens when those 800 mass storage facilities run out; and (2) the food supply chain will be a big part of President Trump’s decision-making on reopening the economy thereby re-opening restaurants, cafeterias, etc…. and switching consumption back to fresh supply.
This “bigger picture” is not being considered by politically-minded governors, DC politicians, and public health-centric advisors who focus exclusively on the virus.
Additionally, there are very specific issues within each supply chain (commercial and consumer). It is not as easy as people think to move the commercial supply-chain (restaurants etc.) into the consumer supply chain (grocers). First, there are simply packaging capacity issues. Additionally, there’s an entirely different set of regulations on the processing side for the consumer supply chain.
One dairy farmer helps explain:
Are we dumping milk because of greed or low demand, no. It’s the supply chain, there are only so many jug fillers, all were running 24/7 before this cluster you-know-what.
Now demand for jug milk has almost doubled. However, restaurant demand is almost gone; NO ONE is eating out.
Restaurant milk is distributed in 2.5 gal bags or pint chugs; further, almost 75 percent of milk is processed into hard products in this country, cheese and butter. Mozzarella is almost a third of total cheese production; how’s pizza sales going right now??
A bit of history – Years ago (40+) every town had a bottler, they ran one shift a day, could ramp up production easily. Now with all the corporate takeovers (wall street over main street) we are left with regional “high efficiency” milk plants that ran jug lines 24/7 before this mess, no excess capacity.
Jug machines cost millions and are MADE IN CHINA. Only so many jugs can be blown at a jug plant. We farmers don’t make the jugs, damn hard to ramp up production.
I’m a dairy farmer, believe me NO dairyman likes dumping milk; and so far there is NO guarantee they will get paid. Milk must be processed within 48 hours of production and 24 hours of receipt in the plant or it goes bad. Same with making it into cheese and butter, and neither stores well for long.
The same supply line problems exists where restaurants are supplied with bulk 1 pound blocks of butter or single serv packs or pats; and cheese is sold in 10 to 20 pound bags (think shredded Mozzarella for pizza). Furthermore, it is not legal for this end of the supply chain to sell direct to consumers in most states.
Take cheddar cheese for instance; it goes from mild to sharp to crap in storage. Butter, frozen, only stores for so long and then must be slowly thawed and processed into other uses as it gets “strong”. At Organic Valley we cook it down into butter oil or ghee for cooking.
We are headed for the same problem with canned veggies. The vast majority of produce comes off and is processed in season; canned or frozen. The supply is already in cans for the season; restaurants use gallon cans or bulk bags of frozen produce.
At some point we will run out of consumer sized cans in stock because home size sales are up (40%+) and restaurant sales are almost nonexistent. Fresh produce out of U.S. season comes from Mexico (different climate). I’m talking sweet corn, green beans, peas, tomatoes, all veggies are seasonal in the USA. Fresh, out-of-season, row crops are imported. (There are exceptions, like hydroponic grown, but small amount of total).
Someone mentioned “time to raid all those bins of corn”. Those bins on the farm contain yellow corn, cattle feed and totally unfit for human consumption, now or at harvest.
Eggs? Same problem. Bakeries and restaurants of any size use Pullman egg cases, 30 dozen at a pop, 30 eggs to a flat, 12 flats to a case. There are only so many 1 dozen egg cartons available and only so many packing machines.
Industrial bakeries and processors of packaged food buy bulk liquid eggs, no carton at all. Also in many states it is illegal to sell this supply-chain directly to consumers.
On your standard buffet of any size, do you really think they boil eggs and peel them? They come in a bag, boiled and diced; those nice uniform slices of boiled egg you see on your salad, a lot of them come in tubes boiled and extruded at the same time, just unwrap and slice. Your scrambled eggs come in a homogenized bag on most buffets.
Another example of Main Street being gutted and “improved by wall street” NO local egg processors available or many small egg producers either, all corporate and huge, contracted to sell to the corporate masters.
This is a warning the same problems exist in all supply chains.
The supply chain is farked.
David Osterloh, 61-year-old dairy farmer
Most people don’t contemplate the bigger issue within the dynamic of total food distribution in the United States. It is a very complex supply chain that has been reinvented over the past 50 years as more people started eating away from home.
The commercial fresh food supply chain, which is 55 percent of total food consumption, is currently stalled. The retail or manufactured food supply (grocery stores), which was formerly 45 percent of food distribution, cannot reasonably generate enough product to compensate for half of the total food supply chain shutting down without radical adjustments to the operation; and those radical adjustments take time to implement.
There is still plenty of fresh supply foodstuffs, but processed or manufactured food will likely not be able to keep operating at the current capacity much longer.
Traditional emergency food recovery and distribution models (think hurricanes) are designed for short-term disruptions to the restaurant sector that provides 50% of food outside the home; and, as a result, short-term increases to at home food needs. Those emergency and recovery models have contingency plans for short-term regional bursts of specific non perishable products into specific areas. This ain’t that.
The current supply chain disruption is a severe reduction in the availability of ‘food outside the home‘ for a sustained period. Losing the entire sector is very unusual, unprecedented, unforeseen in scale; and there is no national contingency plan for a nationwide demand on all retail supermarket food products simultaneously.
Once these bulk warehouse fulfillment centers run out, every manufacturer and food processor in the country is pulling from the same upstream supplier network. Again, there’s no need to panic, the total food supply is not short, we all just need to adjust our shopping habits and get a little creative.
Unfortunately, with President Trump effectively communicating the latest information on the federal efforts to mitigate COVID-19, more corporate U.S. resistance media have decided not to carry the live broadcasts from the White House task force briefings.
Today at 5:00pm ET the White House will hold a briefing for the public and media on the latest mitigation efforts against the coronavirus. [Livestream Links Below]
If it serves progressives politically to have people out of work, miserable, starving, then they are consciously serving the interests of the country which spawned the virus, Communist China
The Washington Post claims “constitutional experts” have “no idea” where President Trump got the idea that emergency powers give him the total authority to reopen the U.S. economy. It took me less than one minute to find a report from a liberal group, the Brennan Center, which noted that “the president has significant discretion to declare a national emergency” and “there are no statutory limitations, beyond the word ‘emergency’ itself, on what type of event qualifies.”
Does an economic depression constitute a special event requiring emergency action? Do food shortages constitute a special event requiring emergency action? You betcha.
Trump declared a national emergency on March 13, under the National Emergencies Act, relating to the coronavirus. The Brennan Center found 123 statutory powers that are available to the president when he declares a national emergency.
The problem in America is not Trump but outlaw governors and mayors who have, in the case of Greenville, Mississippi, banned drive-in church services.
Critics of Trump who assert his claim of total authority is hogwash are ignoring what scholars call the “Emergency Law Regime.” Trump didn’t make this up. It’s been on the books for decades. Congress gave the president these powers. They are what political science professor Clinton Rossiter called the “Constitutional Dictatorship,” which is also the name of his 1948 book.
Presidents of the past using these powers have been swooned over by the liberals. One was Abraham Lincoln, who didn’t even have emergency powers granted by Congress. He simply exercised raw power. Another was FDR.
Prospect of food shortages, massive unemployment
With the prospect of food shortages, in addition to massive unemployment, it’s very easy to see how President Trump can use these emergency powers to control and expand the national economy, including interstate commerce. On Tuesday, he said he would rather work with the governors than order them around. But he made it clear he has the ultimate authority, and he’s right.
The liberal media are promoting the notion that Trump, if he acts to save jobs and the economy, would be a dictator or King. It seems the Post and its “experts” would rather leave the national economy in the hands of liberal governors who have closed down churches while keeping potheads addicted to marijuana they get from the “essential businesses” selling the dope. Liberal governors want people to remain in a fog, drunk or stoned, and not go to church. That makes them more susceptible to mindlessly accepting anti-Trump propaganda.
President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus without Congressional approval in 1861. But he’s a beloved president because he rescued the nation. Trump can rescue the nation without exercising Lincoln-like powers. He can use the emergency powers Congress gave him. These also include the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.
Trump has not acted like a dictator. He has followed the law.
By contrast, some governors and mayors are acting like tyrants by ordering churches closed down and church members arrested or fined. But the liberal media don’t utter a peep. They would, however, probably scream to high heaven if the governors in their states shut down their pot shops and liquor stores. These journalists, of course, have been designated as employees of “essential businesses” in the states, despite their open disdain for our constitutional system and the legitimate election of Donald J. Trump as president.
Trump has depended on the governors to exercise such power properly. Clearly, however, many governors have gone far beyond what is necessary. Trump can and should assert control over these outlaw governors. Many Americans would welcome federal intervention under these circumstances. They want to get back to work and get back to church.
Congress has never revoked national emergency powers, and it’s unlikely they would intervene, in voting to override an emergency declaration, to stop Trump from getting Americans back to work. Instead, Democrats will obstruct the legislative process of helping those forced out of their jobs through government action. As we have already seen, they are trying to use this crisis to add extreme left-wing agenda items, such as fraudulent mail-in voting, to financial stimulus legislation.
Trump, under current circumstances, is simply contemplating a decision to allow private businesses that have been closed down by government to get back to work. There’s no legal basis on which to challenge his executive authority. In fact, he’s trying to restore a system of free enterprise, one of our birthrights as Americans.
Congress passed the Defense Production Act (DPA), under which Trump has ordered General Motors to make ventilators. This is acceptable, proper, and necessary. Nobody disputes the president’s authority in this case. In fact, Democrats asked for it.
The DPA, according to the Congressional Research Service, “confers upon the President a broad set of authorities to influence domestic industry in the interest of national defense.” Once again, we see wide latitude given to the president. Since the law refers explicitly to “production,” it is easy to see how it could be used to justify a presidential decision to get the United States back to work. Trump would simply have to justify the decision as critical to the national security posture of the United States and in the “national interest.” Various sections of the Defense Production Act, such as “Strengthening domestic capability,” are open-ended.
One of the objectives as mandated by the Congress in the Federal Reserve Act is promoting maximum employment. The president can and should declare that to be his objective as well. It’s difficult to see how the “progressives” would argue with that, unless of course it serves them politically to have people out of work, miserable, and starving. If that’s the case, then they are consciously serving the interests of the country which spawned the virus, Communist China.
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