{"id":10441,"date":"2020-03-30T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T00:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=10441"},"modified":"2020-04-06T12:05:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T16:05:25","slug":"enough-is-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/30\/enough-is-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough is Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

If living through this nightmare does only one good thing, it\u2019s this.\u00a0 It will give President Trump a mandate to end globalism once and for all.\u00a0 Once we\u2019re finally released from our cells, we\u2019re going to want him to take whatever steps he can to make sure this doesn\u2019t happen again.\u00a0 And that\u2019s quite a laundry list of things.\u00a0 First off, it\u2019s time to close not only the borders but the airline routes too.\u00a0 Apparently Chinese New Year is the occasion for sending millions of Chinese back and forth from there to here just chock full of whatever pathogens have shown up in the wild game markets of China.\u00a0 That must stop.\u00a0 If China refuses to adhere to modern food hygiene then they should be treated like a plague city and kept at arm\u2019s length.\u00a0 Instituting a quarantine for travelers from China and similar places at the border for say, two weeks would go a long way to preventing another horrific outbreak like the one we\u2019re suffering under now.\u00a0 And because there\u2019s no way of telling at the Mexican border where anyone comes from, we\u2019ve got to end all the illegal immigration.\u00a0 Not just sorta\/kinda, but for real.\u00a0 Use the state of emergency to shut down the border and if a judge says no then declare martial law and do it anyway.\u00a0 The people will approve it.\u00a0 And while we’re at it, suspend legal immigration for the time being.\u00a0 It doesn’t make sense to be bringing people into the country during a catastrophe.<\/p>\n

The next thing is to get Congress to declare all sorts of industries critical to Homeland Security and use a carrot and a stick to bring them back on shore.\u00a0 And make it a very heavy stick.\u00a0 Having our pharmaceuticals manufactured in China turns out to be a bad idea.\u00a0 And manufacturing everything else there hasn\u2019t helped either.\u00a0 The President should do himself and us a favor and repatriate pharmaceuticals, automobiles, electronics, chemicals, metals, building supplies and just about everything else.\u00a0 As far as I can tell we\u2019ll need the jobs badly when this is over and the tens of millions of unemployed people are going to want growth in the economy and plenty of it.\u00a0 And one good way to jump start something like that is to rebuild all the infrastructure that has virtually rotted away over the last fifty years of neglect.\u00a0 Infrastructure projects have often in the past been boondoggles but compared to tossing trillions away to keep people sitting in their homes I doubt you could do worse.<\/p>\n

Some will be worried that shifting production here could cause a worldwide depression. \u00a0I find that unconvincing.\u00a0 The East Asian economies have their own domestic demand that is quite mature at this point and not having ten percent growth won\u2019t kill them.\u00a0 As for the rest of the developing world, if it\u2019s not corona virus from China, it\u2019s dengue fever from Guatemala or Ebola from the Congo.\u00a0 We don\u2019t need any more lessons in epidemiology.\u00a0 We can see that plagues don\u2019t mix well with a modern western democracy.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to roll up the welcome mat and tell everyone out there to stay home and fix their own damn problems.\u00a0 And if it\u2019s not too much to ask how about stop eating bats for a start.\u00a0 Try chicken, it tastes the same.<\/p>\n

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