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COVID-19: How to Keep Your Head When All About You Are Losing Theirs

COVID-19: How to Keep Your Head When All About You Are Losing Theirs

With panic sweeping the news media, social media, official Washington D.C., and the toilet paper aisle at the local grocery store, Bill Whittle deals with the taproot of fear. He explodes in righteous indignation against the craven acts of opportunistic politicians. Among Bill’s common sense concepts for escaping bad crisis advice:

  • It’s not a financial issue, it’s a health care issue.
  • Wait until we understand the financial impact before we make irreversible national policy with massive impact on our debt.
  • Make any relief bill directly related to the pandemic and it’s economic impact, rather than passing catch-all legislation that would use the crisis to accomplish redistributive measures Democrats have failed to accomplish to date.
  • Compensate industries for actual losses caused by government action, based on actual accounting. Don’t just hand out money.
  • Vote out politicians who will do anything, anything, anything for power.

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31 replies on “COVID-19: How to Keep Your Head When All About You Are Losing Theirs”

This corona-phobia has got to stop!

$1000 in every pocket just raises the cost of living by $1000 for every body, all these inflationary proposals are getting my dander up!

Maybe what people really needed is this wake up call. Whatever happened to setting aside a bit for a rainy day? Stocking up on supplies so you can ride out stuff like this. The power hasn’t gone out. The water’s still running. The grocery stores are still being stocked. Count your blessings; name them one by one… This probably isn’t going to kill ya, so let it make you stronger!

I give this national shutdown about two weeks before the populace collectively gets cabin fever, looks around, and sees that the zombie apocalypse hasn’t arrived, and isn’t going to. Maybe then sanity can be restored.

I think the thing we should seriously consider is the same thing we did back during Funemployment. The Feds should back states unemployment bennies ensure everyone who’s needs it can get it till… Sept(?). Then revisit if the bennies need to be maintained.

Lizzie Warren’s idea that since the last bailout bill helped the wrong people we should pork this one up for the “right people. Too bad the last one was passed by her party, unless she’s talking about the 2007 bill from Bush in which case we still need to pay off the 09 bill full of “shovel ready jobs” that her side shoved through.

I’m as pissed off as you Bill. What a nightmare. I’m fine and working and don’t need a bailout. I’ll donate my govt “gift” to those that really need it. Just renewed my membership last week and glad to be back in the fold of truly great Americans. I got a little complacent but now is the time to get back in the fight. Thanks to you, Scott, and Steve for the leadership. MAGA! And prayers for Rush be able to continue to add his wisdom and sensibility. We can do this!

The Dems would like us to believe that Trump woke up and said,”Hey, Gov’t science guy… Make COVID-19″ – Science guy has it done by noon.. Trump says,”hey gov’t pilot guy, get my Air Force 1 spray plane and lets fly over America and spray ’em all… ” and that’s the story of how 1/2 of America died because of Trump…The End (as told by Nancy P) —- Also… TRUMP: Covid-19 – 5,894 confirmed cases – 97 dead – Media push?: Total insane panic —– OBAMA – H1N1 — 80.1 million cases – (approx) 22,000 dead – Media Push: Crickets— Go figure …

Thank you Bill. I had the same vent just today. This whole thing is a media contrived panic with only one purpose. It is so sad to see how easy it was and how stupid we were to follow it. Sanity is difficult to maintain when you can’t get out of the asylum and the doctors are crazy.

Isn’t it funny how the media is telling everyone they aren’t allowed to go to work, shaming young people enjoying the beach and cheap travel and threatening to never hire them, and yet they are still going to their jobs every day and probably making more money then ever before. The only people not hurting right now are the media and gov’t workers and yet they are the ones shutting down the whole nation.

Bill, while I like your idea about the relief bill only having direct relief wording, how about if we do one better? In addition to stripping out any garbage that Pelosi tries to slip in, how about burying one simple line deep in the bill?
This bill shall completely and immediately repeal all elements of The Affordable Cae Act of 2010
Damned shame we don’t have the Senators as ruthless as Pelosi on our side

I feel the frustration you express Bill. I can only say that you are not alone. It is why I do just a little bit by supporting this this program.

Just got this from a friend who uses Facebook. Rather puts things into perspective. “Previous generations were asked to go to war. We just have to sit on the couch.”

Hello Bill, your content is better than seeing a therapist. Like you, I love reading history, and also like you, I can only conclude that what little support Bernie does have, comes from people who have never opened a history book. The child like “give me that I want it” mentality is infuriating. Keep up the good work. Thanks again.

I fail to understand why there needs to be any bailout at all. Every business has to pay taxes, even estimated, quarterly. We just ended the first quarter of the year. Any losses that a business incurs for whatever reason is often factored into that voodoo calculus submitted to the IRS. So if the airline industry suffered (making up a number) $20 billion dollars in losses in the last quarter, that’s already baked into the IRS’ cake. Why does Congress need to write a check to them directly for anything? There is a point that the loss was incurred directly to a mandate to shut down by the government, got that, but I’m sure there are already provisions in the tax code for that: terrorist threats, weather-related shutdowns, supply chain/labor disruptions, heck if President Trump lands in an airport it’s locked down for hours. Why again do we even need a bailout?

I don’t think income tax is the main problem. Operating expenses would be. If your income disappears then you can’t pay for employees, insurance, property taxes, fuel, tools and parts, etc. You could lay off employees to reduce variable expenses, but if you’re worried about the economy as a whole rather than just one or two companies you have to consider the knock-on effects of those laid-off employees not having money to spend. Everyone, including businesses, should have enough savings to be a cushion for events like this. Unfortunately, if your savings are in the stock market you can wind up taking a significant loss if you need to sell for cash to cover an emergency.

Well that is the thing, should the airline companies have that cushion, and if they don’t what’s their responsibility in that? If my own house catches fire, my responsibility afterward is to have insurance, enough savings to cover the temporary living expenses above-and-beyond my monthly bills, etc. A major industry such as the airlines should always have a cushion, even amongst themselves, during lean times. If anything, 9/11 should have taught the airlines this same lesson they’re undergoing: keep a cushion, don’t have it in the stock market in case it crashes, perception is reality especially among the passengers, so plan for it.

As far as I’m concerned they should. The trick is figuring out how to let them fall without crushing the innocents in their shadow or how to bail them out without encouraging the short-term thinking that leads to this kind of mess.

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