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The U.S. has a huge problem. COVID has not gone away, and is not going to go
away. The issue is you cannot go to work and get COVID, and you cannot stay at
home without an income and a forbearance on rent and debt. And 60% of businesses
will fail if there is not a forbearance on debt and rents. Letting businesses
fail due to COVID is not the free market. It is madness. For this ought to be an
"Economic Pause," and not a "Great Depression."
It's time for Congress to step in and enact the following plan:
1. $1,250 per month for every man woman and child, until COVID is over, + one year
past the end of COVID, so they do not have to work, and are only working for extra
money. Not because they could otherwise die without money/starve/be without
housing, and can thereby be exploited by employers. Dependents ought to get their
payments directly, akin to child support.
We can't keep from going to work indefinitely without incomes, but if we go to
work we will die, and the healthcare costs will be enormous. The cost of COVID
should go all into the National Debt. $1,250 per month for every man woman and
child should be paid out for starters. $15,000 per person per year. $416 Billion
per month, $5 Trillion per year. The Fed will buy the bonds. Congress can go
into debt indefinitely it's just fiat money at the top, the Fed prints money and
buys the Bonds for Congress to spend. Inflation is the other side of the coin,
and not our concern here. We need a fiscal stimulus.
There will not automatically be revenues and employment the day COVID is over, and
so the protectionism must continue for 1 year after.
It's what we buy as a society, that we purchase what we need at the bottom and
thereby build the bottom. If supermarkets and take-out have inflation, then maybe
people will open more supermarkets and take-out?
A forbearance on rent and debt, except new rent and new debt. New lending, debt,
and renting ought _not_ be subject to this provision.
Non-payment of credit card debt acquired before the provision date, ought to still
say "OK" or "PAID AS AGREED" during COVID, and for one year following COVID, and
no lawsuits ought be allowed to ensue. Likewise, landlords ought not be allowed
to give bad references regarding nonpayment of rent during COVID, or be reported
to a government agency which will handle it, and no lawsuits in favor of landlords
for back payments or non payments during COVID and for one year following COVID
ought to be allowed - while the same landlords will have no obligations to bank
mortgages. But new rentals and new debt ought not be subject to this provision.
Forbearance is for all non-new debt and rent, such as student loans, car loans,
corporate loans and bonds, and debt, and any other loans.
New lending, new debt, new mortgages, and new renting ought not be subject to this
provision.
The forbearance means the banks will not be getting any mortgage or credit card
payments at all, and the Fed may temporarily have to lend more to banks. This is
an "Economic Pause," the banks aren't holding troubled assets.
2. Employee protections. Employees must be able to quit and come back at any time
before or after COVID is over, and with no penalty. As the landscape may change
and they assess the danger in their County/community. Employees must be fully
advised as to this right, and continue to be warned as to the dangers of working,
at the office entrance. Employing someone to commit self-harm is the issue, but
at least with the $1,250 and forbearance they are not forced to work or die
without money.
3. Consumers must be protected from sale, and fully know and continue to be warned
by advisement at any opening store entrances, about COVID. Consumer protections -
Advisement, Marketing, Advertising, as well as not creating crowds for economic
profit, as this is harder to regulate if it is not persistent. The thing is, we
really should study what advisements ought to be to regulate. For instance, the
grievance is addressed in that we can put labeling on Cigarettes, but Cigarettes
have insufficient labeling. Good advisement regulation deserves attention. But
restrictions ought to be between the government and the commercial entity, and
between the commercial entity and its patrons. Regulation of commerce, and
trespassing. Not crimes between citizens and the government.
4. a) Stay-at-home-from-work - Willfully. This should still be advice, but up to
the employee. The Employer does not have to be prohibited if the people are not
forced into work, as they have a forbearance and $1,250. Businesses can exercise
corporate responsibility and stay closed if they do not have to pay debt and rent.
No more demonstrators to open the economy. Employees merely need advice like
Consumers do.
b) Respect for other's personal space. Social Distancing, based on protecting and
respecting another person's personal space, not for violating the government.
While your right to use public property without violating others is sacrosanct,
you cannot come within the determined number of feet of someone without _that_
person's permission. 6 feet while moving normally, and 10-15 feet while
stationary where crowds are not a potential. Where crowds are a potential, 10-15
feet while moving, and 20-30 feet while stationary may be better, as this social
distancing is more likely to be broken.
Negligence may be rebuked and shall be excused, intentionally violating someone's
personal space is potentially criminal, though two wrongs do not make a right, any
more than three do, and three don't, and especially in this confusing evolving
environment, as always, forgiveness is in order for the repentant. People really
ought to be more tolerant, and love one another more, during COVID. It's your
personal bubble, why not keep it a good one.
c) Keeping a distance for your own safety. While you absolutely have a right to
come within the determined number of feet of someone who consents, during COVID it
is *strongly* suggested you do not associate with strangers at all, and you limit
the number of people you associate with entirely. It would be entirely stupid to
be at a party with people you do not even meet, but putting yourself at greater
danger. If you can't work miracles, or meet with someone who does, this covers
Church. While you always 100% have every right to go to Church, according to the
First Amendment, Human Rights, and _God_. As leaders, Congress ought to advise
Church leaders, of their right, while strongly suggesting and imploring them not
to encourage congregations, until COVID is more certainly passed.
No Stay-At-Home orders ought ensue. Just advice. Even non-commercial public
parties are technically legal, if a perimeter is set up around them to protect
other's desires to social-distance. Congress just advises against this general
notion if you don't know all the people in your group and who they associate with.
The less risk you take, the less danger you're in. Commercial public assembly
is the only prohibition for the sake of Consumers, that Congress ought sanction
the Governors, Mayors, and Counties prohibit. For the sake of employees,
Congress' economic plan allows employees to make their own decisions while
assessing the existent landscape, and not having to work for food and housing to
stay alive.
We can't pin our hopes on a Vaccine. We want to buy no more COVID. We don't want
to be Totalitarian, yet unless all the States do it as good as New York State, and
New Jersey State have been doing it, it may cost way more, and if COVID has not
gone away in 4 months to 1 year, what purchase will we have to show for all our money?