One of my favorite local businesses is closing forever — because Congress failed to respond to the economic crisis caused by Covid.

I stopped by yesterday to chat with the owner. I’m so angry.

We’re systematically destroying the productive capacity of our country.

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— Stacy Mitchell (@stacyfmitchell) September 1, 2020

Read the whole thread. This is happening all over the country.

As I said months ago, you don’t put an economy on pause. It just does not fucking work like that. For a little while, if you do it just right, you can sort of achieve something like it, though it’s just really just a slowing of the deterioration.

But we didn’t do any of that, really, and so now we will be dealing with our failure and inaction for decades.

Why anyone thinks that economy can be “paused” like a VCR tape from 1987 I have not the first idea. Our education system is utter garbage.