From March 15th, days after the government restrictions went into crisis mode to May 9th, the latest reporting date at the NHES website, approximately 139,400 NH residents became unemployed. Based on our February workforce of about 780,200, that is just under an 18% unemployment level.
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603 Alliance Editorial: It’s Time to Reopen New Hampshire
[The following editorial is presented on behalf of the 603 Alliance Board of Directors.]
New Hampshire’s “stay at home order” was issued on March 16th. Over two months later, we continue to face serious restrictions that limit our ability to earn a living, that restrain our freedom of assembly, and that restrict our right to worship as we see fit.
President Trump Issues Executive Order to Reduce Regulations to Aid Economic Recovery
In the interest of getting things done, not always my favorite words when it comes to government, President Trump pushed to waive, suspend, or do an end-around on existing bureaucratic barriers. As he advocates for an economic recovery, he is asking agencies, where possible (EO Archived here) to take it one step further.
FreedomWorks Gives Gov Sununu a “C” for Reopening New Hampshire’s Economy
FreedomWorks has issued a governor’s Report Card. They analyzed the various response and reopening strategies in each state on a handful of points (mostly the economic damage) and gave each effort a grade. How did your state do?
ICYMI: Borrowing Trillions to Bail Out States’ Bad Decisions Would Do More Harm Than Good
As our nation grapples with the reality of COVID-19, we must come to grips with another devastating threat — our national debt.
“Business is not the Enemy”
Two months ago, New Hampshire’s unemployment rate was 2.6%. The unemployment rate is now 17 percent, and on Thursday a deputy commissioner for employment security said it probably will hit 20%.
How to Help Your Small Business Survive Lockdown
For many across the United States, the lockdown has been a challenge – emotionally, socially, and commercially. With so few people heading into stores, and fewer trading with your small business online, you’re finding that you’re unable to support your workers and your business interests, and you’re quickly losing profits and slipping into debt. In … Read more
The American Left Stops Loving Sweden ‘cuz “Politics”
Sweden is not a socialist country, but its soft quasi-socialism central planning has long had the American left pining. Let’s do that here! Just ask Bernie of the Bros any question, and they’ll find a way to get Sweden into the conversation. But the American left is mad at Sweden because of its response to COVID-19.
Team Trump’s Newest Ad: We Will Make America Great Again! (America’s Comeback!)
Tom Perez, that DNC chairman-guy who worked so hard to get dopey-gropey Joe Biden, the nomination had an email out this morning about jobs. We’ve “lost” over 20 million jobs last month. Not precisely Mr. DNC chair-guy. But we’ll go with that.
Poll Results – How Soon Should We Open New Hampshire?
We’re back in the poll business, and for our first poll, we asked the question on everyone’s mind. How soon should we reopen New Hampshire? We asked you answered, and here are the results.
Team-Lockdown Still Pushing the Canard that “More Testing” is Needed Before New Hampshire’s Lockdown Can be Lifted
So there is this from earlier today: And this: And a few days ago this: As you may recall, we were told by the “experts” that we had to put the economy in lockdown because “the surge is coming,” “the peak is coming” or some variation on the foregoing … and that absent the lockdown … Read more
GrokPOLL : How Soon Should We Re-Open New Hampshire?
If you ask the folks around here, when should we open New Hampshire, many of them will say, no one had the authority to “close it.” That’s true, but we don’t live there, we live here. And while His Excellency has a plan to slow roll us back, not everyone agrees that’s the best way.
Data Point – how long can businesses last?
Americans are optimistic by nature, and the public is right to hope for the best. But policy makers must prepare for the worst. And that means we must consider options for reopening the economy in a world in which we have not completely controlled the Covid-19 pandemic. Time is of the essence. Every week matters. A … Read more
Got high hopes that Sununu is going to open NH’s economy tomorrow?
I’m betting he doesn’t have the political cojones to undo what he has done and let us adults actually be adults and assess the risks of Life for ourselves. Doing yesterday’s press conference, WMUR clipped this out: Whatever we do we’re going to make sure that we can handle it, and that the system can … Read more
What do COVID-19 And Abortion Have in Common? Both Can Interrupt a Life Not Yet Lived to its Fullest
Democrats are cluttering up my Twitter feed with strawman arguments about saving lives from COVID-19. As if they actually give a damn. They don’t care about lives lost as a result of shutting down the economy. This is therefore not about lives lost if we restart it. Not that they have any credibility on the value of life.
Herd Immunity Sweden Vs. United States
There are three ways to stop any disease: Vaccine; prevention, which is not currently available for coronavirus. Cure; anecdotally, several are available but they are only in use in some places, by some doctors, which is a self infliction of sub-optimization. And finally establishing herd immunity.
Op-Ed: Those at Risk Should Take Caution, As for The Other 98% of the Population…
Every day in the US 8,000 people die (on average) due to normal everyday life – having nothing to do with the Coronavirus. It’s just a fact of 300 million population and an 80-year life span. This means that during the past two months of economic shutdown nearly 500,000 people have died.
The MYTH That New Hampshire Cannot Lift the Lockdown Until We Have …. “More Testing”
This from yesterday: This is the latest excuse from Team-Lockdown to delay lifting the lockdown: “We need more testing!” “We’re flying bind without more testing!” “Until we ge more people tested, … ” BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. The truth is we know all we need to know to lift the lockdown. First, we already know that … Read more
The MYTH That New Hampshire Cannot Lift the Lockdown Because of Massachusetts
Here is his Majesty, Chris Sununu, First of His Name, Lord of NeverTrump and the RINOs, and Protector of the Realm in his fave local paper SeacoastOnline: “People in Massachusetts are crawling out of their skin, they want anything, any reason to get in their car and get out of that state because the epidemic … Read more
Govt: curing the disease but ignoring the cost of the cure?
I’m getting to the point that the next time a medical person says that we can’t open our economies until a cure is found because WE DIDN’T ELECT YOU MEDICAL TECHNOCRATS to govern; speak your opinion – that’s your right, but I REFUSE to be governed by your opinion and your opinion only. This is now a multi-dimensional problem and you’re only yammering about one aspect of it.