America Must Get Back to Work

There's two arguments, right? One argument is we need to keep going, protect the weak, protect the sick, but let's open up the economy. The other argument is stop placing money over human lives and let's shelter in place until we come up with some sort of a decision and let's figure out some way to develop some sort of a universal income, universal basic income plan or something like that to feed people during this time. This notion, though, that you can just sort of send checks out to everybody and things will be fine is not true, obviously. Some people have this absurd view that the economy is like some magic horn of plenty. It just makes stuff. There's a magic horn of plenty, the goods and services, they just come from this magic horn of plenty. If somebody has more stuff than somebody else, it's because they took more from this magic horn of plenty. Now let me just break it to the fools out there. If you don't make stuff, there's no stuff. You can't just legislate money and solve these things. If you don't make stuff, there is no stuff. Now Los Angeles, we have over 50% of the people who live here are now unemployed. Over 50% unemployment, I mean that is ridiculous. How do we fix that? Well, there's no way to fix it by the government doing another round of stimulus. The only way to fix it is getting people back working again. Our economy, our modern day economy, with the amount of leverage we have in the system, that means the amount of debt that we have in our country, can't absorb just everybody sitting idly. And it's very hard to flip the switch back on and have everything resume like it was prior. We have to get back to work. We have to get our economy going.