The Economic Devastation Breaks My Heart
Apr 14, 2020
RUSH: As I said yesterday, I am so happy to hear more and more people talking about reopening the U.S. economy. I was talking to some people last night — Kathryn and some friends, my brother — and I said, “You know, my heart literally is breaking for people.†I drive around various places. I mean, I have to go to the doctor.
I see all these businesses that are closed, and as I drive by them and look at them, I wonder: How many of these businesses were people’s life’s work? How many of these businesses? Be they restaurants or whatever, how many of them represent boarded-up, closed life’s dream?
They saved up money, worked hard, did everything possible, and may now be ruined. We won’t know until the reopening happens. And realize that we’ve done this to ourselves. This is not the result of market activity. This is not… These people have not lost because of the competitiveness of the market.
They’ve lost because they were ordered to shut down. Now, I’m not debating the merits of that. But the reality after that is that there’s a lot of people. I don’t know them, but I drive around, I see a face behind every window — and literally it breaks my heart thinking about this. So reopening has got to happen.
