During COVID, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick asked us old folks to sacrifice ourselves to keep the economy going. Now he wants to spend billions of our dollars to try to keep our brains functioning for longer. As a Republican once said about a Democrat, it is easy to spend other people’s money.
According to Dan Patrick, “lots of grandparents” are willing to die for the economy.
Texas Lt. Governor: Old People Should Volunteer to Die to Save the Economy
After doing a brief, weeklong impression of a semiresponsible human being, on Monday, Donald Trump got back to the business of being a reckless, anti-science moron, floating the idea that we should end this social-distancing business sooner rather than later in order to “save” the economy from the coronavirus. (We’re using scare quotes here because apparently the president hasn’t considered the fact that if hundreds of thousands or even millions of Americans die, the economy will be in worse shape than it is now.) Following his National Economic Council chairman’s declaration that “we’re gonna have to make some difficult trade-offs,” i.e. we’re going to have to let some people die so the stock market can live, Trump told reporters during an evening press conference that while the death toll is “bad,” and “the numbers are going to increase with time,” we’re “going to be opening our country up for business, because our country was meant to be open.“ That suggestion was obviously horrifying to people who still take the word of health experts over that of a brainless carnival barker and who understand that extreme social distancing needs to last for at least several months if not longer. One person who thought it was downright inspired? Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who is of the opinion that old people, i.e. those most at risk, should volunteer to die to save the economy.
What is it, Dan? Does Dementia run in your family, and do you want to use our tax dollars to help you out?
How about lowering the sales tax that the state collects, which allows your wasteful spending?
