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In New York, the government decreed which business are essential and which are not. Now that the non essential businesses are going out of business, and draggin
by yostrovs 6y ago
In New York, the government decreed which business are essential and which are not. Now that the non essential businesses are going out of business, and dragging the rest of economy down with them, they're now a source of sorrow.
In Florida, the government, recognizing that all businesses are essential for their owners and employees, has helped sustain the local economy and therefore the essential living funds for its citizenry.
Just a contrast in management and long term thinking.
Good luck to all the nail salons and sushi restaurants of New York City.
- engineer_22 6y agoRight. The problem is the Governor is still executing emergency power. The Legislature needs to get back to work and figure out a system we can live with (this is their job), instead of abdicating power to a dictator.
- nemothekid 6y agoComparing Florida to New York City isn’t helpful. Florida is yet to be as impacted as New York. If you recall, nurses in New York were wearing trash bags due to the federal government still playing politics with COVID response. New York was faced with a fundementally different problem. Due to how publicly bad the response was being handled it’s likely that the economy still would have been depressed regardless if there was a state decree to shutdown. What should have been done, a long time ago at this point, was to pay businesses to shutdown as was done in almost every other comparable nation on the planet. Unfortunately the Senate has become completely inert for the past 10 years