| Unleash Prosperity Hotline Issue #51 Written by Stephen Moore WARNING: Today’s Hotline contains mild adult content in item #5. 1) Elizabeth Warren for President…of CHAZ! The erstwhile presidential candidate took a shot at us for organizing opposition to Nancy Pelosi’s obscene blue state bailout… here was our reply. Notice how charitable Warren is…in spending other people’s money. Feel free to retweet!  https://twitter.com/Comm4Prosperity/status/1271922860685242368 2) Best Headline of the Weekend!  “The $600 plus-up that’s above the state unemployment benefits they will continue to receive is in effect a disincentive. I mean, we’re paying people not to work. It’s better than their salaries would get,” Kudlow said on CNN’s State of the Union.“That might have worked for the first of couple months. It will end in late July.” Thank you Larry! https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/502642-kudlow-calls-600-unemployment-checks-a-disincentive-expects-them-to 3) Keep the Elderly Safe, Let the Young Go Back to Work and Kids Go Back to School Median age of Covid-19 deaths per countryCountryMedian ageSourceAustria80+ yearsEMSEngland80+ yearsNHSFrance84 yearsSPFGermany82 yearsRKIItaly81 yearsISSSpain~82 yearsMDSSweden86 yearsFOHMSwitzerland84 yearsBAGUSA~80 yearsCDC 4) California Health Official Explains if You Test More You Find More The LA Times of all places explodes the hype about a supposed new wave in California: “We’ve ramped up testing in an extraordinary way, nearly hitting our goal that was set for August — not June, not July, but August — of getting to 60,000 to 80,000 tests a day,” Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s secretary of Health and Human Services said. “We’re already knocking on that door, averaging in the mid- to high 50s over the past few days across the state.” So far, California’s positivity rate has continued to trend downward, and hospitalizations have remained within the range of stability, Ghaly said Friday. L.A. County has seen similar trends, with slight declines in both the positivity rate and number of hospitalizations, Barbara Ferrer, the county health director, said Friday. “I think it’s natural, that it’s easy to just focus on the number of new cases. But I think that’s really anchored — if you’re not seeing a tremendous uptick in the number of hospitalizations in the right timeline or … ICU cases, that’s really connected at least in California’s case to an increase in testing. So I think it’s always important to kind of have that in the context.” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-13/california-coronavirus-surge-tied-to-testing-not-reopening-businesses-officials-say 5) In Portlandia: Graffiti Is a Form of Art It’s not just Seattle on the west coast that has gone stark mad. Last week the City of Portland put up $30,000 worth of plywood enclosures and fences to protect City Hall and other buildings from graffiti to “protect the iconic buildings and minimize expenses” from the damage by protesters. But the buildings continued to be vandalized and graffiti was spray painted all over the plywood. Chief Administrative Officer Tom Rinehart decided not to remove the vandals but the barriers. Here’s his explanation: “We need to put our relationship with the community first. The City of Portland is open for civic engagement – especially now. We need to hear our community’s demands for racial justice, even when those demands take the form of spray paint.”  This is the new modern art. (Ted Wheeler is the Portland mayor.)https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/06/10/the-plywood-wall-protecting-city-hall-from-protesters-is-coming-down-only-a-day-after-it-was-built/6) Released Riker’s Prisoners Go on Crime Spree From NBC4 New York: Hundreds of prisoners released early from Rikers due to COVID concerns are being enabled to re-offend again and again without consequences, law enforcement leaders say. “We’re continuing to see people get arrested over and over and let right back out. And it really defies common sense,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said in an interview with NBC New York. Of approximately 2,500 defendants sprung from Rikers early because of COVID safety planning, at least 250 have been arrested again since, according to Michael LiPetri, chief of Crime Control Strategies for the NYPD. Chief LiPetri tells NBC New York the NYPD did not object to releasing older defendants, nor those with underlying medical conditions. But he says the consequences of the larger-scale release of prisoners are now showing up in the arrest data, with those 250 re-offenders being arrested 450 times so far during the pandemic. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/released-from-rikers-in-covid-measure-man-arrested-4-times-in-3-months/2460035/ 7) Illinois Is Going Up in Smoke Illinois’s economy has been badly hurt by the virus lockdowns. Its feckless Governor J.W. Pritzker has been slapped down by judges for his arbitrary rulings on business closings. But while many Illinois businesses are still struggling to win permission to open up, some sectors of the economy are booming. Marijuana stores — designated essential, apparently — had $44 million in recreational sales last month. The previous record earlier this year was $36 million. Illinois’s economy may be going to pot, but at least people who want to forget about that will find plenty of it available to distract them from worrying about their jobs. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/12/illinois-shatters-state-record-for-monthly-recreat/ 8) Hero of the Day – Egard Watches It’s a crazy time. Corporations are firing or silencing employees who deviate from the Left’s party line on violent protests. Microsoft will no longer allow police to use their facial recognition technology. Fuji Bikes won’t sell its product to police forces now. That’s why it was such a relief to see an international company called Egard Watches launch YouTube video on Friday that takes a different tack. Egard’s CEO Ilan Srulovicz wrote in an accompanying message “At a time when we should be humanizing each other… we are vilifying each other, At a time when we should be unified with each other… we are segregating each other. Our great country is at a time of crisis and yet we are frozen with fear to even express ourselves.” Egard’s video is called “Speak truth – A message that needs to be heard.” is two minutes and 12 seconds long. It speaks directly to police officers, who have come under such bitter criticism these days. “We know how much of your sacrifice goes unnoticed, and we know that the worst of you get the spotlight instead of the best,” the ad says. “So many of you have given your lives to protect ours, to keep us safe. We will not stand by and let your work go unnoticed. We will speak truth.” The video concludes with a black screen and the following words in white: “Over 60 million Americans have police interactions per year. Many of which result in lives being saved. #speaktruth.” https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/watch-advertisement-police-cancel-culture 9) Anti-Hero Of the Day California Governor Gavin Newsom has acted almost like a king during the virus crisis broadly using executive orders to shut down the state and its economy. Judges have so far been complicit, silent, or unwilling to act on challenges to his authority. That changed Friday, when a superior court judge ruled he has overstepped his powers by dictating everything from how public meetings are conducted to when tenants can be evicted to which weddings are valid. Judge Perry Parker of Sutter County only halted one Newsom edict for now, one in which the governor had specified how the November election would be run. But he also directed Newsom not to issue further orders that could be viewed as usurping the Legislature’s responsibilities. GOP Assemblymen James Gallagher and Kevin Kiley, who had challenged some of the orders in court, called the judge’s decision a “victory for separation of powers,….Today the judicial branch finally gave him the check that was needed and that the Constitution requires.” Separately, the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch is seeking a preliminary injunction challenging Newsom’s order that absentee ballots be sent to every registered voter. California’s voter registration rolls are so notoriously inaccurate it’s estimated that about one in seven are inaccurate or invalid. https://ktla.com/news/california/judge-limits-gov-newsoms-emergency-rule-making-powers/ 10) Quote of the Day – So Much for the Experts “I have seen something of government, having served in capacities from speech writer to Cabinet member, on levels from Manhattan’s First Assembly District Middle to the United Nations. I would be hard put to recount a half dozen instances in which ‘experts’ have come forth with confident advice as to the course social or economic policies should take. “Indeed, an increasingly common source of failure in social policy derives not from ignorance as such, but from the failure to recognize and acknowledge it. I have suggested that in this respect it is crucial to distinguish between political problems and knowledge problems.” –Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in his book Coping: Essays on the Practice of Government 11) What liberals mean they scream “science”! |
