Hosing the Economy

One of LRC’s astute readers writes, 

We need to change the wording used in the matter of “re-starting” the economy.  Right now, we keep hearing “open the economy” or “re-open the economy,” as though it’s a garden hose that’s been bent … to stop the flow of water temporarily and will resume full flow when we unbend the hose. …

Allowing “them” to use the words they want in this matter plays into the hands of those who are damaging the economy …

Please, let us speak in the terms we know to use:  the economy will be liberated from those who squelched the free-market by diminishing the forces that work together to make the economy work; the demand was diminished by stay-at-home orders and the supply was dangerously interrupted by orders to close industries important to quality of life, or in the case of hospitals, shuttering so-called elective surgery, some will suffer—even perish—as the result of not being able to elect to undergo a colonoscopy or a mammogram.

The economy was squelched by Governors but will be liberated by the people. 

Explaining the process in these terms also blames those responsible—politicians and bureaucrats—rather than an inanimate, diffuse, and ethereal “enemy.” Especially as the political class will, as always, shrug off any liability for the heartrending havoc it’s wreaked:

Watch for the Governors, when they feel the heat, to admit that their orders never had the force of law, but were just suggestions.  Din’ch ya know?

The Best of Becky Akers