https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/496586-the-burden-of-proof-lies-with-economic-lockdown-proponents The public health establishment, the mainstream media and most Democratic politicians assume that the burden of proof lies with the lockdown opponents. Advocates of reopening must show that any change to the current status quo will be “safe.” If the reopeners fail to make that showing, the lockdowns remain in place. With the burden…

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/the_freesistance_can_prevent_dems_from_prolonging_the_shutdown.html Keeping America closed for business, however, will not only hurt Trump’s election prospects, it will take down the rest of the world’s economies as well. America is 16% of the world economy and China is 9%. With the American economy closed, China loses its biggest customer. The result will be a worldwide depression that…

https://reason.com/2020/05/06/federal-red-tape-is-keeping-local-meat-processors-from-helping-fix-our-supply-problem/ The PRIME Act dates back to 2015. Long before the pandemic forced big meat processing plants to shut down, America had a massive shortage of slaughterhouses that could sell to consumers. When Linnekin wrote about the PRIME Act in 2017, Wyoming had just opened one (in a state with more than 1 million heads of cattle). This is…

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/opinion/admit-the-shutdown-was-a-colossal-mistake/article_c15021fa-90eb-11ea-a51d-c7a66a7106b8.html Second, limit the emergency powers of the executive branch in Colorado through a state constitutional amendment. Former Gov. Ritter said the use of emergency powers by Gov. Polis was “unprecedented.” Initially, we were told that the extraordinary intervention would be limited to “buy some time to fix the supply chain,” but it kept expanding,…

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/the_coming_great_depression_need_not_come_comments.html Trump needs an angel on his shoulder who really is an angel.  The lesson from the Great Depression is to do the opposite of what Hoover and Roosevelt did.  They spent money just to spend it, set wages and prices as they saw fit, started the Social Security Ponzi scheme, and set up a vast Executive…