Last night on Hannity’s TV show, Mark Levin called for both the president and governors to loosen up restrictions on people and businesses that haven’t been affected as much by the coronavirus, warning them that if they don’t they’re going to destroy what’s left of the economy:
Here’s more from Fox News:
“Life, Liberty & Levin” host Mark Levin called on President Trump Thursday to reexamine his earlier goal of re-opening parts of the U.S. economy by Easter Sunday, an option which has since been taken off the table.
“I’m hoping people in Washington are listening,” Levin told “Hannity.” “You cannot deficit spend your way into prosperity. If you could, Venezuela would be the richest nation on the face of the Earth.”
Levin said that Trump had a great idea the other day when he discussed opening up parts of the economy, but that he was then creamed by the media and even people around him:
“The media and the Democrats and some of his advisors, I fear, are boxing the president in,” Levin said. “The president a few weeks ago, I thought had a very good idea: Let’s look at the areas of the economy that we can open up.”
“I’ll give you a perfect example. We have food, we have heat, we have clean water. Who you think is giving that to us? Other citizens. Electricity, gasoline for our cars. Truckers, we have a mail service, UPS, FedEx, grocery stores, fast-food drive-throughs, all open, all functioning. We get soap and diapers and toilet paper, prescription drugs, 7-Elevens are open. Doctors, nurses, cops, firefighters, more, going into these hot zones despite the fact that they are exposed,” Levin said.
“I’m not saying drop all the conditions. I’m saying let’s get a little smarter about this. We don’t ask these businesses ‘Can you adjust to the virus? [Are there] things you can do?'”
There is no reason a small restaurant can’t be asked, ‘How would you adjust to this?’ Maybe they say, ‘We’ll take a few people, separate them out.’ There are certain things we can do. The American people and the American entrepreneur — and by the way, that includes small companies, not just GM and 3M, they are innovative. They are not asked ‘What can you do to stay open?'” he went on.
Levin warned of massive inflation and said these policies will destroy what’s left of the economy:
“Washington, stop,” he said. “You’re going to destroy the economy, what’s left of it. They’re going to create massive inflation. You’re going to be creating jobs that don’t exist and most of what you’re spending money on, by the way, does not create jobs…there’s a lot of real stupidity in these bills,” Levin continued.
“Don’t pass another bill. Open up parts of the economy. Ask these businesses what they want and tell these governors to cut it out.”
He’s not wrong and neither was the president when he discussed doing this. Trump needs to follow through and push these governors to start loosening their grip on the economy in their states. It’s so tight that I can’t even get haircut in North Carolina right now.