THE DAY THEY HALTED AMERICA: MARCH 16, 2020: 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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🗓️ 15 December 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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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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| 1:06.3 | I'm John Bachelor. This is the new John Bachelor show on CBS Audio Network and John John Tamning, his new book, when politicians panicked. The new coronavirus, expert opinion, and a tragic lapse of reason. John, two examples you provide about the payroll protection program and the grants to businesses. Sidwell Friends, the Distinguished Private School in Washington, |
| 1:30.4 | with an endowment, I think, more than $50 million, received $5.2 million from the government |
| 1:37.2 | programs, the combination of them. The John Burrough School of St. Louis received another distinguished |
| 1:42.9 | private school, received $ 2.55 million. |
| 1:46.0 | There are many examples of excesses, people who apply. But the payroll protection program, |
| 1:51.9 | did it work, John? Does government have an opinion of it today? Because as we know, they continue |
| 1:57.4 | to vote more and more money to be handed out to their their idea of who |
| 2:03.5 | needs it um it's if something worked because it maybe it saved a few businesses sure perhaps |
| 2:12.1 | but that's not a worthy worthy way of looking at it because we always have to ask what |
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