FOUR YEARS LATER, EVERYONE LOOKS BAD. 4/4: When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason by John Tamny (Author), George Gilder(Foreword)
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🗓️ 29 July 2024
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When Politicians Panicked tells the tragic story of how, in response to a spreading virus, global politicians mindlessly pursued economic desperation, starvation, and death as the cure.
The global economy was booming as 2020 dawned, but within a few short months wreckage, death, and desperation borne of economic contraction were the new normal. What happened?
In When Politicians Panicked, economic commentator John Tamny tells the heart-wrenching story of a time when politicians were tragically relieved of basic common sense in their response to the new coronavirus.
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:06.0 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent. |
| 0:10.7 | Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you |
| 0:27.1 | travel with us. P. and O'Ferees, there is another way. I'm John Bachelor's |
| 0:40.0 | I'm John Bachelor. This is the new John Bachelor show on CBS Audio Network and John Tamne |
| 0:44.0 | his new book when politicians panicked the new coronavirus expert opinion and a |
| 0:49.9 | tragic lapse of reason. John two examples you provide about the payroll protection program and the grants to businesses. |
| 0:58.2 | Sidwell Friends, the Distinguished Private School in Washington with an endowment, I think more than $50 million, received $5.2 million from |
| 1:09.4 | the government programs, the combination of them. |
| 1:12.3 | The John Borough School of St Louis, received another |
| 1:15.1 | distinguished private school, received 2.55 million. There are many examples of |
| 1:19.6 | excesses, people who applied. But the Payroll Protection Program, did it work, John? Does |
| 1:26.2 | government have an opinion of it today because as we know they continue to vote |
| 1:30.4 | more and more money to be handed out to their idea of who needs it? |
| 1:37.0 | If something worked because maybe it saved a few businesses, sure perhaps. |
| 1:45.7 | But that's not a worthy way of looking at it because we always have to ask what businesses |
| 1:50.2 | died, what businesses never got funding because government was just |
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