And Texas Caves In

Lantley wrote:

bid_time wrote:

Lantley wrote:

bid_time wrote:
x20 - We've already screwed our kids and grandkids. Our generation should be real ashamed of the mess we have left them with. They'd be better off if the coronavirus took our whole generation out.

So tell me how you know we are totally screwed. Honestly much in the way we have never quarantined the entire country. We have never deliberately created a financial crisis.
How long will it take to recover financially? What will the financial recovery entail. From a financial perspective we are also in uncharted territory.
Similar to the health aspects. We truly don't fully know how this plays out. I don't mean to imply there will no hardships. But we don't need to be ashamed that there was a pandemic.
Pandemic was not a word the we created. Pandemic have happened before and I imagine they will happen again.
One day when the dust settles the grand kids maybe grateful that we survived as well as we did!

Oh Yes Indeed! Our grandkids are going to be oh so proud of us leaving them $24 TRILLION dollars in debt; they'll be dancing in the streets. And you being one that advocates for paying cash or doing without. My how the worm doth turn. (And we're about to slather that $24T with a bunch of chocolate frosting with this recession/depression and forthcoming bailouts)

As if the budget was balanced before this all started.

So how many lives you think all this save? Let’s be really generous and say 1 Million. Now a real conservative estimate of what this is going to cost is $3 Trillion. Of course if we don’t get the fast turnaround of the economy that number could easily double or triple real fast, but lets go with $3 Trillion. Now do the math, that’s $3 million dollars per life. So now you may say $3 M, saving a human life is worth that. No problem, that’s the right thing to do. The thing is, we spend $3 M dollars to save a life, but do we pay the bill, no we give the bill to our grandkids; just like we been doing for the last 50 years.
Then we walk away all proud of how noble we’ve been.
You want to be noble and save lives, pay the bill!
Don't buy what you can’t pay cash for, right Lantley.