The Looting Begins : Media Silent on Cost of Lock-Down

[Crixus]

Shops are being boarded up in California, Philadelphia and across the country as America anticipates widespread social unrest, as the coronavirus lock-down strangles the economy and emboldens sociopathic elements, a little at time. Criminal gangs understand well that police response is slowed or stopped, and can see the street empty of normally vibrant small shop life with normal people milling about and being the eyes and ears of the street.

source: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...-beverly-hills

source: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...-beverly-hills

As always local news affiliates are picking up the slack that national networks will not report.

CBS Philly


Burglaries are exploding. Not hard to see the writing on the wall.

Seattle burglary explodes 87% downtown after coronavirus policy, crisis

Seattle coronavirus crime concerns have become fully realized. Burglary cases have exploded in Seattle’s west precinct since the coronavirus stay-at-home order and a county policy prohibiting most misdemeanor jail bookings went into effect. These cases are also up significantly citywide. A little over a week ago, officers argued the booking policy would result in a criminal “free for all.”

In Fresno.

Looters in broad daylight in California, and that was weeks ago:

Santa Cruz

Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/de...mo-hits-record

In a viral video from Italy a man explains he is out of food. Even with government help many will fall through the "cracks" of the informal economy.



Many people are not taking their meds. Many people have spent their savings. And some, not many, but a dangerous few, are ready to take full advantage of the situation.

What now, Fauci? Trump can still stop the massive outbreaks. By announcing next week we are back in business.

Open season on hood trash. Shoot them!

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

then O came and gave them 8 trillion more and trump has added another 4 trillion. You see how its working? The money will be worthless and soon and a global digital currency will be here just in time to take care of your needs......

I don't think we need to sacrifice our sovereign currency, but we do have to do a better job of ensuring it reaches the productive elements in our society instead of the parasites in the FIRE (Finance, Insurance, and REAL ESTATE) sector.
https://bsahely.com/2018/09/25/mode...-opposing-concepts-of-authority-john-laurits/

"Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) was developed to explain the logic of running government budget deficits to increase demand in the economy’s consumption and capital investment sectors so as to maintain full employment.

"But the enormous U.S. federal budget deficits from the Obama bank bailout after the 2008 crash through the Trump tax cuts and Coronavirus financial bailout have not pumped money into the economy to finance new direct investment, employment, rising wages and living standards.

"Instead, government money creation and Quantitative Easing have been directed to the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sectors.

"The result is a travesty of MMT, not its original aim."

The Use and Abuse of MMT - CounterPunch.org

A little economics 101 for you. We got from the Stone Age to hear because Republican capitalists invented or supplied new products or inventions. It did not happen because a government printed and distributed money. If they had tried that we would be back in the Stone Age still. Now Do you understand that for real sustainable growth you need real sustainable inventions and jobs not artificial make work jobs that quickly disappear having wasted our scarce resources.

 

[Norman]

Time to call the rooftop Koreans.

This is how to deal with the situation.

 

[georgephillip]

A little economics 101 for you. We got from the Stone Age to hear because Republican capitalists invented or supplied new products or inventions. It did not happen because a government printed and distributed money

Ed...

do you believe the following is accurate?

"Markets, money, and corporations are creations of the states. The distribution of income is not determined by an invisible hand's objective appraisal of each worker's and investor's marginal utility but the politically constructed laws and institutions that structure economic activity in a given society."

The Use and Abuse of MMT - CounterPunch.org

 

[eagle1462010]

What now, Fauci? Trump can still stop the massive outbreaks. By announcing next week we are back in business.

How do you get "back in business" without knowing how many Americans are infected?

States aren’t testing uniformly for coronavirus. That’s creating a distorted picture of the outbreak.

Another Fear mongering Coward posting..................

Our deaths are way down........and the left is having trouble keeping the Fear alive as people are getting pissed off over this BS...............will not bode well for the DNC in November............as pissed off people vote in droves against these assholes.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

A little economics 101 for you. We got from the Stone Age to hear because Republican capitalists invented or supplied new products or inventions. It did not happen because a government printed and distributed money

Ed...

do you believe the following is accurate?

"Markets, money, and corporations are creations of the states. The distribution of income is not determined by an invisible hand's objective appraisal of each worker's and investor's marginal utility but the politically constructed laws and institutions that structure economic activity in a given society."

The Use and Abuse of MMT - CounterPunch.org

That’s wrong of course people exchanged with barter and then with money long before government:they worked together in groups long before corporations and traded goods with each other in markets. all right to do these things comes from God or nature and government is only instituted to support our natural rights.

 

[georgephillip]

Our deaths are way down........and the left is having trouble keeping the Fear alive as people are getting pissed off over this BS...............will not bode well for the DNC in November............as pissed off people vote in droves against these assholes.

Our deaths surpass any other state on this planet.
With 4% of the world's population we've had 25% of its deaths, and we haven't seen the end of the first wave yet.

Coronavirus death rate in U.S. more than 17 times higher than in Canada, EU

"Coronavirus-related deaths are more than 17 times higher in the U.S. than in Canada or Europe, when adjusted for population.

"According to data compiled by Our World in Data, an average of three people per million die of COVID-19 each day in the U.S.

"With a population of about 328 million, that figure puts fatalities at a rate 17 times higher than that of the European Union and Canada.

"The death rate in the EU, which has a population of 446 million, averages less than one person (0.18) per day. In Canada, with a population of nearly 38 million, less than one person (0.16) died each day."

 

[eagle1462010]

Our deaths are way down........and the left is having trouble keeping the Fear alive as people are getting pissed off over this BS...............will not bode well for the DNC in November............as pissed off people vote in droves against these assholes.

Our deaths surpass any other state on this planet.
With 4% of the world's population we've had 25% of its deaths, and we haven't seen the end of the first wave yet.

Coronavirus death rate in U.S. more than 17 times higher than in Canada, EU

"Coronavirus-related deaths are more than 17 times higher in the U.S. than in Canada or Europe, when adjusted for population.

"According to data compiled by Our World in Data, an average of three people per million die of COVID-19 each day in the U.S.

"With a population of about 328 million, that figure puts fatalities at a rate 17 times higher than that of the European Union and Canada.

"The death rate in the EU, which has a population of 446 million, averages less than one person (0.18) per day. In Canada, with a population of nearly 38 million, less than one person (0.16) died each day."

Tell me about the definition of the death compared to each other..............then tell me the stats on per capita..............then tell me how many in New York were nursing homes and elderly.........then tell me how they mixed positives with negatives in hospitals................throw out the New York and New Jersey purge of the nursing homes........and what.........

Sweden was right............we are now moving to herd immunity..........and now T cell studies are showing immunity already from the 6th other forms of corona have made many basically immune from strains even in the common cold.

The globalist FEAR MONGERING is coming to an end.............but the damage to small business...........is MASSIVE.

 

[georgephillip]

That’s wrong of course people exchanged with barter and then with money long before government:they worked together in groups long before corporations and traded goods with each other in markets. all right to do these things comes from God or nature and government is only instituted to support our natural rights.

Michael Hudson: Origins of Money and Interest: Palatial Credit, Not Barter | naked capitalism

Neolithic and bronze age economies functioned mainly on credit due to the time gap between planting and harvesting. When Babylonians went to the local ale house, they didn't dip into a bag of barley to pay for their brew. These payments were financial in character, and not on-the-spot barter-type exchanges.

The origins of monetary debts and means of payments are grounded in accounting practices innovated by Sumerian temples and palaces c. 3000 BCE. These institutions functioned as governmental authorities regulating weights, measures, and purity standards necessary for money to come into existence.

 

[georgephillip]

Tell me about the definition of the death compared to each other..............then tell me the stats on per capita..............then tell me how many in New York were nursing homes and elderly.........then tell me how they mixed positives with negatives in hospitals................throw out the New York and New Jersey purge of the nursing homes........and what.........

The US MAGA-virus death toll is the most in the world.
It exceeds the levy exacted on the next three countries combined.

Fish rot from the head down, and the rotten Head Fish in this country is too fucking stupid to deal with this pandemic.

Coronavirus death rate in U.S. more than 17 times higher than in Canada, EU

"The U.S. ranks number fourth in mortality rate, with 45.62 deaths per 100,000 population, despite recent claims made by President Trump.

"During an interview with Fox News last week, Trump falsely claimed that the U.S. had 'one of the lowest mortality rates' in the world.

"According to Johns Hopkins University, on Wednesday the country reached another grim milestone, topping 150,000 coronavirus-related deaths.

"Overall, there are more than 4.3 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S."

 

[bripat9643]

You quit cowering in fear. Thats how.

Individuals who spread a deadly virus are risking their own lives and the lives of others.

Where's the heroism in that?

Does that include HIV?

 

[bripat9643]

That’s wrong of course people exchanged with barter and then with money long before government:they worked together in groups long before corporations and traded goods with each other in markets. all right to do these things comes from God or nature and government is only instituted to support our natural rights.

Michael Hudson: Origins of Money and Interest: Palatial Credit, Not Barter | naked capitalism

Neolithic and bronze age economies functioned mainly on credit due to the time gap between planting and harvesting. When Babylonians went to the local ale house, they didn't dip into a bag of barley to pay for their brew. These payments were financial in character, and not on-the-spot barter-type exchanges.

The origins of monetary debts and means of payments are grounded in accounting practices innovated by Sumerian temples and palaces c. 3000 BCE. These institutions functioned as governmental authorities regulating weights, measures, and purity standards necessary for money to come into existence.

What makes you believe there were ale houses in ancient Babylon?

Your post is total horseshit. You don't even know what money is.

 

[georgephillip]

Does that include HIV?

Trump would know more about that than I do.
How many abortions has he paid for?

 

[bripat9643]

Where's the heroism in a country in ice age depression? There was never a need for an either/or proposition in regards to shutting down the economy. It never should have fully shutdown. Whats happening right now is beyond ludicrous

You can't ignore a pandemic.
If the US had not shutdown, the virus would have swamped hospitals and hundreds of thousands of Americans would have died.
That would have had economic effects that dwarf what we are currently experiencing.
If Trump listens to the bean counters and reopens the US economy too early, we could easily see a rerun of our current death rate next Fall

Why didn't that happen in Sweden?

 

[bripat9643]

Does that include HIV?

Trump would know more about that than I do.
How many abortions has he paid for?

Quit dodging and answer the question. Does that include HIV?

 

[Shawnee_b]

Remember when President Trump said "We can't have a cure that is worse the disease"? Well guys and girls, if we aren't there already we are really close.

We already have something worse than the disease. Dems.

 

[jc456]

What now, Fauci? Trump can still stop the massive outbreaks. By announcing next week we are back in business.

How do you get "back in business" without knowing how many Americans are infected?

States aren’t testing uniformly for coronavirus. That’s creating a distorted picture of the outbreak.

Another Fear mongering Coward posting..................

Our deaths are way down........and the left is having trouble keeping the Fear alive as people are getting pissed off over this BS...............will not bode well for the DNC in November............as pissed off people vote in droves against these assholes.

176k dead now they claim, can’t fking prove one! Know that

 

[bripat9643]

A little economics 101 for you. We got from the Stone Age to hear because Republican capitalists invented or supplied new products or inventions. It did not happen because a government printed and distributed money

Ed...

do you believe the following is accurate?

"Markets, money, and corporations are creations of the states. The distribution of income is not determined by an invisible hand's objective appraisal of each worker's and investor's marginal utility but the politically constructed laws and institutions that structure economic activity in a given society."

The Use and Abuse of MMT - CounterPunch.org

No mainstream economist believes that, moron.

 

[georgephillip]

What makes you believe there were ale houses in ancient Babylon?

History of alcoholic drinks - Wikipedia

"Beer was the major beverage among the Babylonians, and as early as 2700 BC they worshiped a wine goddess and other wine deities.

"Babylonians regularly used both beer and wine as offerings to their gods.

"Around 1750 BC, the famous Code of Hammurabi devoted attention to alcohol. However, there were no penalties for drunkenness; in fact, it was not even mentioned.

"The concern was fair commerce in alcohol.

"Although it was not a crime, the Babylonians were critical of drunkenness."

 

[georgephillip]

Your post is total horseshit. You don't even know what money is.

Money comes from credit, not barter.

Michael Hudson: Origins of Money and Interest: Palatial Credit, Not Barter | naked capitalism

"Silver served as the money-of-account and also as the means of payment for trade and mercantile enterprise.

"A bimonetary system was created for paying the palace and temples and for valuing disparate commodities and functions, by setting the shekel-weight of silver (8 grams) as equal to a gur“quart” of grain or 300 sila.

"Acceptability of grain and silver for settling official debt balances catalyzed their usage as money throughout the economy."