A premature reopening of businesses and a relaxing of social distancing may very well result in a surge of infections, and subsequently more deaths. Trump has conveniently shifted these decisions to the states, even though he very much wants the reopening. Now, when the virus deaths do increase, he can blame the states for not adhering to his guidelines. He is a man without realistic solutions, but will be quick to seize the opportunity to blame others, shirking all responsibilities of his office.
At this tragic time, it is a shame we don’t have a leader with an effective plan.

No my friend, not true at all. I do like much about what is happening in America especially before the virus started. I just know there is plenty of blame to throw around. But from your side of the aisle it ONLY gets directed toward Trump. Should a Trump have replenished the supplies that OBAMA failed to replenish? Of course he should have. I suspect had someone in charge of that department let him know about the shortage he would have had that person order some. Let’s be honest. You don’t really think Trump should have wandered around counting ventilators and masks do you? He has people that are paid to do that. Yes so did OBAMA but the minuscule difference is OBAMA had used them on his watch. Shouldn’t he have known of the shortage?

But let’s not forget Cuomo of NYS. He knew of his shortage but spent the money on something else. Isn’t it his fault? But my point again is all this blame to go around but tell me of a Liberal who blames anyone but Trump.

But let’s give Trump credit for the low percentage of deaths compared to other countries. Any takers? Nope, not from the Left. That is my point.

Of course a Trump is fallible and capable of failing. Who wouldn’t know that. Since before his inauguration the Left has beaten that fact into the minds of the world population. With every single thing Trump has done there were your friends telling us this won’t work, people will starve, NK will nuke us, the economy will fail, war will break out, no wall will be built. And YET not one of those predictions has come close to being true. The American Liberals have beaten the failure drum for so long that it is true Trump may not get a lot of respect from other countries. But of course other countries are now benefiting from Trump’s policies.

Perhaps my friend it is every Liberal in America who just doesn’t get it.

Dennis

My friend just sent me the posting that I copied and pasted. Believe me I am capable of agreeing with the post and have an idea but of course you will disagree because you are a Liberal.

I think for many Liberals, not all of course. Nothing is ever ALL. But in my opinion it is about controlling the citizens, you and me. Read what the post says. Are you not able to ask yourself, Hey, what IS it about opening up Home Depot but ONLY to purchase specific items? Why can't paint be sold, why not flower and vegetable seeds and plants? Do you have an answer for that? If Home Depot is open to sell some items then please tell me why it is not open to sell every item offered on their shelves?

I know you will not agree with me but my opinion is the Democrats have to do something to show that President Trump is not able to keep America economically sound. Can we at least agree that before the virus America was quite economically sound? Then by keeping businesses closed, by having a great many small and medium businesses fail completely the economy most likely will not recover until after the election. That has to make President Trump and his policies somewhat suspect doesn't it? Now who does it benefit that America's economy fails right before the election. C'mon now, only two choices.

The State shut down the government for our health to begin with but let's face it there are many places in America where there is no virus. I live in Southern CA and I don't even know of anyone who suffered from the virus. My wife is the same, nobody she knows has become infected. I have cousins in upstate NY where I was born. Nobody there either. Why not let businesses in areas that are basically unaffected get back to work? Do we wait until America has no economy at all and then try to start up again?

I just heard on the radio news this morning that the state of Illinois, mostly Chicago wanted the federal government to use Billions of dollars in stimulus money to bail out the city of Chicago because it was over extended with regard to unions and retirement benefits. Now this has been going on for years because of the LIBERAL corrupt government in Chicago where the unions basically run the city. But now they are over extended and cannot pay retirees the money coming to them. They want you and me to give them our tax money to bail them out. I am totally against this. Chicago and other LIBERAL cities saw this coming 20 years or more ago and yet continued to knuckle under to the unions rather than just say NO. But what about in 20 more years. This BS will continue and you know it will. Why do taxpayers continue to bail out corrupt cities and politicians?

Having said that you know as well as I do that when election time comes up you Liberals will be blaming Trump for putting debt on our children and grandchildren to the tune of Trillions of dollars that were paid to Chicago and other corrupt cities. Once again it will be President Trump who gets blamed for the antics of corrupt Liberals. Sound fair?

Dennis

My friend just sent me the posting that I copied and pasted. Believe me I am capable of agreeing with the post and have an idea but of course you will disagree because you are a Liberal.

I think for many Liberals, not all of course. Nothing is ever ALL. But in my opinion it is about controlling the citizens, you and me. Read what the post says. Are you not able to ask yourself, Hey, what IS it about opening up Home Depot but ONLY to purchase specific items? Why can't paint be sold, why not flower and vegetable seeds and plants? Do you have an answer for that? If Home Depot is open to sell some items then please tell me why it is not open to sell every item offered on their shelves?

I know you will not agree with me but my opinion is the Democrats have to do something to show that President Trump is not able to keep America economically sound. Can we at least agree that before the virus America was quite economically sound? Then by keeping businesses closed, by having a great many small and medium businesses fail completely the economy most likely will not recover until after the election. That has to make President Trump and his policies somewhat suspect doesn't it? Now who does it benefit that America's economy fails right before the election. C'mon now, only two choices.

The State shut down the government for our health to begin with but let's face it there are many places in America where there is no virus. I live in Southern CA and I don't even know of anyone who suffered from the virus. My wife is the same, nobody she knows has become infected. I have cousins in upstate NY where I was born. Nobody there either. Why not let businesses in areas that are basically unaffected get back to work? Do we wait until America has no economy at all and then try to start up again?

I just heard on the radio news this morning that the state of Illinois, mostly Chicago wanted the federal government to use Billions of dollars in stimulus money to bail out the city of Chicago because it was over extended with regard to unions and retirement benefits. Now this has been going on for years because of the LIBERAL corrupt government in Chicago where the unions basically run the city. But now they are over extended and cannot pay retirees the money coming to them. They want you and me to give them our tax money to bail them out. I am totally against this. Chicago and other LIBERAL cities saw this coming 20 years or more ago and yet continued to knuckle under to the unions rather than just say NO. But what about in 20 more years. This BS will continue and you know it will. Why do taxpayers continue to bail out corrupt cities and politicians?

Having said that you know as well as I do that when election time comes up you Liberals will be blaming Trump for putting debt on our children and grandchildren to the tune of Trillions of dollars that were paid to Chicago and other corrupt cities. Once again it will be President Trump who gets blamed for the antics of corrupt Liberals. Sound fair?

Dennis

You live in SoCal and don't know anyone affected by COVID. Have you considered the possibility that CA was early and aggressive in its shut down policies? After all, we now we know that the virus first showed up Santa Clara county and yet CA has the lowest per capita death raye than any other large population state. CA "flattened the curve" early, and did not have its health care infrastructure overwhelmed. That was no accident.

The last time I looked, CA had a lower death rate than FL and GA (check me on this--the last I looked was a week ago so my data may be old)--two States that are moving quickly to "not control" their citizens. Watch this data point as this plays out over the next couple of weeks. That will tell the story.

One more thing: Why would a state (even evil CA) shut down its own economy in order to "control" the citizenry? To what end? Even if you believe the fringe theory that liberals did this to harm Trump, do do you actually think that the evil libs in CA would be reelected if they shut down their own economy for a fatuous reason like this? That would flip CA (the state that gave us St. Ronald) back to red pretty fast, wouldn't it? Unless. of course, you think that Californians enjoy poverty more than the rest of the country. I do not think Californians like this recession any more than Georgians or Floridians.

OMG, an owl and nobody has a camera. Darn it.

You know as well as I do that it is the individual states which have closed down the states, that have limited shopping to specific items in stores such as Home Depot. Some states are arresting citizens for sitting all alone on a beach, for playing frisbee in a park with their daughter. Now you know this is not Trump's doing and you and your Liberal friends will continue to assign blame to Trump. Now you can deny that all you want but surely you do know the reality.

Dennis