"Those Who Would Give Up Essential Liberty, to Purchase a Little Temporary Safety, Deserve Neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today, we explore why most Americans are willing to put 100% of the population at financial risk with a government shutdown to potentially save .06% of the population from the Coronavirus.
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| 0:00.0 | Benjamin Franklin, who was one of our founding fathers of these great United States, once wrote, |
| 0:07.0 | those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
| 0:16.5 | Think about that for a second. |
| 0:18.3 | Benjamin Franklin once wrote, those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety |
| 0:27.4 | deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
| 0:31.5 | However, when Neil Ferguson, the director of the Abdul Latif-Jameel Institute |
| 0:36.4 | for Disease and Emergency Analytics reported that 2.2 million Americans might die from |
| 0:42.3 | the coronavirus and 500,000 British people might die from the |
| 0:45.8 | coronavirus, Americans were willing to give up their essential liberty to purchase a little |
| 0:51.4 | temporary safety. |
| 0:52.4 | Four weeks ago we had to purchase a little temporary safety. |
| 0:53.0 | Four weeks ago, we had the greatest economy in the history of the world, the greatest in the world, |
| 0:58.0 | greatest in the history of the world. |
| 1:00.0 | We had the most jobs ever in the history of the United States, almost 160 million jobs, right? |
| 1:06.0 | And then one day I get a call from Deborah, who's fantastic, and from Dr. Fauchy and he said and she said we have a problem. |
| 1:19.4 | I said what's the problem and they said we may have to close it up I said close what up they |
| 1:27.4 | said close up the country I said what's that all about? And we all believe that their motives were pure. |
| 1:35.0 | Although we've never heard the name Neil Ferguson previous to this show or maybe in recent history, |
| 1:41.0 | we all believe that the director of the Abdul Latif- Jamil Institute |
| 1:45.5 | for Disease and Emergency Analytics is pro-USA. |
| 1:49.9 | We all believe that he has the best motives possible. |
| 1:53.9 | He who we've never met before. |
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