Rational decision and you see governors on a regional basis whether its on the west coast or east coast that are going to make those decisions in conjunction with their neighboring government governors and it will be based on both the. Case that load in each of the states as well as their testing capacity. The administration recently tweeted its time to liberate minnesota michigan and virginia what do you make of that i mean this is a problem you know this is a president who a week ago said he had total 30 to make decisions about reopening and then after he received pushback bipartisan pushback from members of congress he sensibly left that decision up to governors in conjunction with Public Health experts laid out a series of guidelines that made sense and then obviously this is a president who wasnt fined leaving things as is and is now apparently encouraging a supporter to rally in state capitals to try to reopen the government reopen that the economies and the problem is there not
Went to some large or Small Businesses and important to understand that in this country a Small Business is to find anything with up to 500. 00 ploy or so thats not necessarily the mom and pop delicatessen or dry cleaner that many of us were hoping that this money would benefit i know personally of a couple of business many businesses that have been left very far back next year and were not able to get this money so hopefully congress provides another tranche of money that will continue to expand the relief to more affected business occurs republicans that were just to democratic effort just money directly to states to mow calories what do you make of that i think its a huge mistake you know. President trump has now shifted the burden of testing potential. Of people infected with cover 19 he shifted that burden now to the state but hes not willing to pay the state or help the space defray the cock we know in new york for instance Governor Cuomo said that he is now running a 15000000000
In Arlington Virginia but course the trumpet administration recently announced the plan to open up america again is that too soon well there they put out a series of guidelines that will leave this up to governors and i think thats the rational decision and you see governors on a regional basis whether its on the west coast or east coast that are going to make those decisions in conjunction with their neighboring government governors and it will be based on both the. Case that load in each of the states as well as their tasking capacity. The administration recently tweeted its time to liberate minnesota michigan and virginia what do you make of that i mean this is a problem you know this is a president who a week ago said he had total 30 to make decisions about reopening and then after he received pushback bipartisan pushback from members of congress he sensibly left that decision up to governors in conjunction with Public Health experts laid out a series of guidelines that made sense
Action to help people who are struggling chris lou joins us for the lead in congress ation on this edition of politicking hes a veteran of the Obama Administration he served as deputy secretary of labor he is in Arlington Virginia but course the trumpet administration recently announced the plan to open up america again is that too soon well there they put out a series of guidelines that will leave that up to governors and i think thats the rational decision and you see governors on a regional basis whether its on the west coast or east coast that are going to make those decisions in conjunction with their neighboring government governors and it will be based on both the. Case that load in each of the states as well as their testing capacity. The administration recently tweeted its time to liberate minnesota michigan and virginia what do you make of that i mean this is troubling you know this is a president who a week ago said he had total 30 to make decisions about reopening and then
Thats going to be necessary. What do we say to people like the guy last night i was debating. He said free market, everything. Free market everything. The fact is the market cant handle this problem. So lets say we just love markets but if we also love planet earth continuing there has to be Government Action. It has to be done well, it has to be done judiciously. There will be massive business opportunities. I myself, my friend are in the business together trying to profit from opportunities for building a clean energy economy. And, of course, that will become the abuses like there always are but theres also a lot of government success, and against the fossil fuel companies that are a massive barrier. If you want to say just leave it to the private market, well then the fossil fuel companies are just going to dominate and we will destroy the planet. My good friend brockton and i discussed this particular question many times and i will answer it as a physicist rather than an economist