American Thinker:
My online friend Jeffrey Satinover compared the President to an ultrasonic whistle “that cause all of the vermin to rush frantically out of their hiding holes, and you suddenly realize how infested the place is.” This week’s presser was a masterstroke that exposed the lie of socialism versus capitalism, central power versus federal systems with its diffusion of power and responsibility, and the effects of a dynamic leader versus conventional ones. In the process, we can see how Trump’s fight against open borders, bureaucratic red tape, and globalized production is a critical part of national health and security.
Open Borders
Porous national borders aid the spread of infectious disease and given China’s mendacious two-month secrecy about the Wuhan virus outbreak, the President’s shutting down travel from China gave us a bit more time to cope with its spread despite the Chinese-created lag. Europe’s EU mandated open borders policy, in contrast, has made the continent the new epicenter of the pandemic. Banning all flights of non-U.S. citizens and permanent residents from Europe as the President has done also gives us more time to respond. Today all of Spain shut down. Poland, defying the EU, has closed its borders. Italy with hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers is a sad case where the medical facilities are so overwhelmed that doctors, suffering great emotional pain in the process, must remove life-saving equipment from the old and infirm to save younger patients. Italy is a country that highly values its elders. As American Thinker reported, “The central planners don’t have enough beds. There’s not enough staff. There’s no free market to step in and pick up the slack. It’s not allowed.”
Adding insult to injury, the EU requires open borders of its member states yet has refused Italy any help. Consider this a lesson to remember: In a pinch, no matter how much one-world blather national leaders mouth, they look after their own interests first (expecting us, of course, to be the exception).
Congress is late getting this first principle. It took the House Democrats until Thursday to finally withdraw from the calendar a vote on the bill to severely limit the President’s right to impose travel restrictions, and it fought bitterly to prevent the construction of the wall, which, along with other measures by the administration, has largely stemmed illegal entry into the country.
Joe Biden this week tweeted “A wall will not stop the coronavirus. Banning all travel from Europe — or any other part of the world — will not stop it.” True enough, but it will and already has slowed down the transmission enough to give us breathing room to take action.
Socialism Versus Free Markets
As he’s learned nothing over his many decades on earth, Bernie Sanders cites the virus as proof we need socialized medicine. In fact, socialized medicine is killing people and free markets are saving them.
While countries like Italy are hamstrung by government controls in dealing with it, America’s biggest companies have stepped up to the plate offering space in their facilities for drive-in testing, speeding up the production and development of test kits, vaccines, information technology, and providing assistance to the homebound. Vice President Mike Pence tapped into the broad private sector to battle the virus. And these companies promptly and significantly responded — Roche, Google, Walmart, Target, Walgreens, CVS, Quest Diagnostics, Signify, Lab Corps, and LHC! I couldn’t help comparing Pence’s creativity and executive skills with Joe Biden’s when as the vice president he said his job was to “focus like a laser on a three-letter word [sic] J.O.B.S.” more
His instinct is remarkable and his timing even better
Of all the speeches and bios of our president, the one that will forever stick in my mind is the description of him made by his long-time friend and real estate investor, Tom Barrack:
““His motto is that a lion wakes up every morning and knows one thing — that it has to run faster than the fastest gazelle, and a gazelle wakes up and she knows that she needs to run faster than the fastest lion, but whether you’re a gazelle or a lion, you get up in the morning and you get the hell going and that is Donald,” he said.” ~2016 Republican National Convention
I can only imagine what a catastrophe we’d be living during this pandemic if we were in the hands of the idiotic democrats instead of a steady hand at the helm.
@ gin blossom
I fully believe we would also be fighting for our Constitutional rights on top of fighting the spread of this virus as the Dems systematically attempted to take them away one by one.
I love & respect President Trump more every day. May God bless and protect him.
@ Peter the Bubblehead
They’d drool at the thought of declaring martial law.