4.4 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, we're here. We'll be here with you every day throughout today, keeping your company, giving you all the latest information in a nice, calm, cool way. Just stay calm. If you're healthy, be very grateful. If you're still, you know, financially okay, employed, you got your job. Be very grateful. They say, |
0:21.0 | crisis brings out everybody's true character. You see some companies, look at the Sheldon |
0:26.5 | Adelson, runs all those big casinos. He announced all workers will be paid. He'll take care of |
0:32.5 | everybody. Macy's just laid off 130,000 people. They call it a furlough now when you talk to all |
0:40.6 | these companies off the record uh what they're doing is they just don't want to pay for the |
0:45.0 | next couple of months furlough means they can bring everybody back in a couple of months very |
0:50.2 | tough on a lot of companies you know some companies split the, they split the, you know, split the difference. |
0:55.9 | They lay off a few people and try to keep everybody. |
0:59.9 | We realize how many heroes are out there. |
1:02.2 | Obviously, the health care workers, obviously, you know, law enforcement, firefighters, |
1:06.5 | hospital, all that stuff. |
1:08.1 | But the food workers are heroes here, the farmers, all the people in the supply chain. Don't forget the drugstores, the pharmacists, all those people heroic. And then you got all these great companies that are converting their factories and going to work. You know, this is what happened in World War II. All these factories converted to make uniforms, to make |
1:27.8 | weapons. And, hey, Lionel made a great point. You couldn't have a president with better |
1:34.3 | qualifications right now at this moment, you know, what you need from Washington right now. First |
1:40.3 | of all, it's not the job of Washington to supply ventilators or masks or everything. That's up to the local governors and mayors and hospitals to go buy that stuff. |
1:48.1 | But in an emergency, federal government will pitch in. |
1:50.8 | They'll try to do it for you. |
1:51.9 | But what you need right now is a logistics expert. |
1:56.1 | And a guy who builds 100-story skyscrapers is a logistics expert. |
2:00.6 | He knows how to get things built, buy in bulk, do all that stuff. |
2:04.1 | You know, people don't realize, you know when you buy a television set, what you go |
2:07.8 | through, look in, go to Best Buy, I'll go to PC Richards, I'll go look here, I'll go. |
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