To My Readers:
I have sent the following note to Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Holman Jenkins of the WSJ Journal. It is a MUCH better idea than squandering $2 trillion sending out checks to…EVERYBODY. Here is what the President needs to do. Forward this to your Congressman if you agree:
President Trump needs to mobilize the Army to set up Civil Conservation Corps/WPA-type work camps to rebuild America. Virus-test each recruit who shows up, train them, then put them to work. The mobilization would be similar to the WWII effort, when crash courses turned no-nothings into navigators, bombardiers and radiomen in mere weeks/months.
Taxpayers would be getting a much better value for their $2 Tr than sending checks/debit cards out to every household.
This would be a huge political winner for the President, but also for America. Everyone has talked about rebuilding America’s infrastructure, but this is a great opportunity to actually do it.
Sincerely,
Rick Ackerman
I want to like this idea, *but* there are hurdles I don’t see ways around.
First, there aren’t enough tests. There won’t be enough tests for a couple months at least, nor are there enough personnel and spaces to do the testing.
Secondly, testing negative does not mean they won’t get it later. Large groups of people that test negative (the result of this work corps) are what we had 6 weeks ago… all this would do is re-congregate future victims.
There are other hurdles… management, manpower, and logistics – are these folks now in the Army? Anyone currently in government/military is working 18 hour days right now just to deal with this.
Anyway, those are my thoughts.