DGS49
Diamond Member
I heard Gov. Cuomo (D-NY) telling reporters yesterday that, in effect, no cost is too great to save a couple thousand lives.
Seriously? It's OK to throw the entire country into a recession, to lose trillions of dollars in investment value, to throw our most vulnerable workers out of work for a couple months, to bankrupt thousands of micro-businesses (and I won't even mention gross inconvenience to everyone in the country)...
...if those measures will help to prolong the lives of a few thousand sickly, elderly people for a few more months or years?
I have often said that the best illustrations of bi-partisanship occur when our political leaders unite to do stupid things in the face of a real or imaginary crisis.
Exhibit A is what we are seeing now.
Seriously? It's OK to throw the entire country into a recession, to lose trillions of dollars in investment value, to throw our most vulnerable workers out of work for a couple months, to bankrupt thousands of micro-businesses (and I won't even mention gross inconvenience to everyone in the country)...
...if those measures will help to prolong the lives of a few thousand sickly, elderly people for a few more months or years?
I have often said that the best illustrations of bi-partisanship occur when our political leaders unite to do stupid things in the face of a real or imaginary crisis.
Exhibit A is what we are seeing now.