House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both Democrats, are aggressively pushing the President to enforce the Defense Production Act. Governors Newsom and Cuomo, along with other Democrats, insist they will run out of ventilators and other equipment and want him to invoke the act immediately. Susan Rice claims the President has “screwed this up every step of the way” and must enforce the act right away.
The President is wavering on how much to enforce it. He invoked it but hasn’t fully enforced it. It is an extreme wartime power established during the Korean War.
The act would allow the president to force U.S. manufacturers to build medical equipment for hospitals. It is a take over of industry.
The Washington Post reports that according to a Congressional Research Service report that the law would allow him to:
- Trump could require U.S. manufacturers that already make ventilators to prioritize federal government contracts for supplies over, say, Europe, which is increasing its requests. (The United Kingdom has asked its top private manufacturers to start making ventilators.)
- Trump could require U.S. manufactures to make more face masks and other “critical materials and goods” and offer loans or promises to buy these things. The federal government could then decide which hospitals should get this equipment.
- Trump could block proposed or pending foreign corporate mergers that threaten national security. That seems less of a concern with the coronavirus, where global cooperation is necessary.
- Trump could also have companies “employ persons of outstanding experience and ability and to establish a volunteer pool of industry executives who could be called to government service in the interest of the national defense.” That could turn a company such as, say, Tesla, which primarily makes cars, into one that focuses more on ventilators. CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter his company would be willing to do it. General Motors could also get involved, Politico reports.
Companies usually don’t paid adequately but WaPo promised they will be paid.
The Democrats also want him to deploy the military. Instead of that, why don’t they use their National Guard if that’s what they want? The Defense Production Act isn’t martial law, but bringing in the military is something else.
We are also crashing the economy and this won’t end well if it goes on for any length of time.
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And NOW, Nevada is shutting down all non-essential businesses. Yeah, just keep going. China is now winning.
From the analysis:
Local governments and politicians are inflicting massive harm and disruption with little evidence to support their draconian edicts. Every local government is in a mimetic race to one-up each other in authoritarian city ordinances to show us who has more “abundance of caution”. Politicians are competing, not on more evidence or more COVID-19 cures but more caution. As unemployment rises and families feel unbearably burdened already, they feel pressure to “fix” the situation they created with even more radical and “creative” policy solutions. This only creates more problems and an even larger snowball effect. The first place to start is to stop killing the patient and focus on what works.
Some Statistical analysis.
https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894?_branch_match_id=769678859048766339
Just imagine the potential graft and enrichment! All that power over the serfs err I mean comrades.
The dear leaders are salivating over this crisis that they just can’t let go to waste.
Are they even aware what it takes to startup a production line for ventilators, or Any medical equipment. This is NOT making widgets, nor is it comparable to automakers during WWII gearing up for military hardware. You also have to consider the “supply chain” (Oh, there’s that word again) and what percentage of that if foreign.
Is there ANY Damn common sense anymore.
No common sense went out the window for many with the internet.