Dennis Prager Show - This Shutdown Affects the Poor, Not the Rich.
Aired: 2020-03-30
Duration: 09:22


=== The President's Perspective (09:07) ===

[00:00:00]  It's not at all surprising that the left dismisses worries about the economy as the stock market worries.
[00:00:07]  As if, by the way, the stock market doesn't affect the middle class and the pension plans and the 401ks of people.
[00:00:17]  Only the rich care about the stock market.
[00:00:21]  See, here's the irony.
[00:00:23]  The rich are not affected.
[00:00:29]  And they are often the ones to most support, like Bill Gates.
[00:00:34]  He wants us, did you see that?
[00:00:36]  Was it he wants us through June?
[00:00:43]  Bill Gates, you know, he has a good heart, I have no doubt, but it is irrelevant in life.
[00:00:48]  What is relevant is wisdom.
[00:00:52]  also empathy you I all I think about is is is the guy who was invested in a little business and it's shattered That's what I keep thinking about.
[00:01:05]  The numbers are not even remotely near the numbers of the flu.
[00:01:14]  The president was asked, at what number do you care?
[00:01:20]  What was the question?
[00:01:23]  Something to that effect.
[00:01:26]  He couldn't say it.
[00:01:28]  That's one of the reasons I couldn't be a politician, because I would be even more open than the president.
[00:01:34]  I wouldn't have the same type of tweets, but I would be even more open.
[00:01:38]  I would say, every death is a tragedy, but we don't close society for every death.
[00:01:46]  Otherwise, every year we would have charts with flu deaths.
[00:01:51]  How many of your readers, whoever you are, I know that between 30,000 and 50,000 Americans have died since October from this year's flu.
[00:02:03]  How many?
[00:02:04]  Why aren't there charts on that every year?
[00:02:10]  How many Americans have died thus far from the COVID virus?
[00:02:14]  200-something?
[00:02:17]  No, there's 1,000.
[00:02:19]  Oh, it's 1,000?
[00:02:20]  Oh, it's 200 yesterday, I'm sorry.
[00:02:22]  Yes, 1,000.
[00:02:25]  1,100.
[00:02:28]  Sorry, 1,049?
[00:02:30]  Okay.
[00:02:32]  30,000 to 50,000 have died this flu season.
[00:02:36]  So I have to ask the question, and there is no perfect answer.
[00:02:47]  The left is so ironic.
[00:02:49]  They say, oh, we see nuances.
[00:02:51]  The right doesn't.
[00:02:51]  You don't see nuances.
[00:02:52]  You never see nuances.
[00:02:55]  If you're a good person, you shut down society, right?
[00:02:58]  If you care about life, that's it.
[00:02:59]  That's the Andrew Cuomo view.
[00:03:01]  To save one life will make me happy, everything I've done.
[00:03:05]  We have the quote from him.
[00:03:07]  You want to play it?
[00:03:08]  I think it's important, Sean, that people hear this regularly.
[00:03:15]  And this is about saving lives.
[00:03:18]  And if everything we do saves just one life, I'll be happy.
[00:03:24]  This is the man that Democrats want for president.
[00:03:27]  They're crazy about him.
[00:03:28]  I mean, he's like Saint Andrew.
[00:03:33]  Now, look, first of all, I didn't take it out of context.
[00:03:40]  Secondly, everybody says, everyone who's in public life, whether you're in the media, like me, or you are in politics, says something they regret.
[00:03:50]  And it's not fair to keep playing if they do.
[00:03:56]  But, number one, no one in the media, because the media are not deep, the vast majority of journalists are shallow.
[00:04:06]  And so they don't even think to ask him.
[00:04:09]  I mean, he has press conferences.
[00:04:11]  Sir, do you mean that literally?
[00:04:13]  You would close down New York State to save one life?
[00:04:17]  And if he'd say, no, I was just speaking hyperbolically, I wouldn't play this anymore.
[00:04:23]  if he if he said you know that was hyperbole I was emoting okay end of issue yes if everything we did save one economy well that's the economy is very big The economy is a sort of cold word.
[00:04:46]  For people's hopes, aspirations, abilities to feed their families.
[00:04:53]  This talk, like Bill Gates and others, the mockery of the president.
[00:04:59]  Again, what date was April 12th?
[00:05:01]  Was that the date of Easter this year?
[00:05:05]  And when did the country, essentially, or the big states anyway, go into lockdown?
[00:05:11]  So today is, it started last Monday, correct?
[00:05:15]  A week ago Monday.
[00:05:18]  It's 10 days ago?
[00:05:22]  When did it begin?
[00:05:23]  In Los Angeles?
[00:05:24]  Yeah, in LA, because it's where I live.
[00:05:27]  Because I know I went to my workout a week ago Sunday, and it closed the next day, the Monday.
[00:05:33]  So, what was that date, last Monday?
[00:05:38]  Not this past Monday, the week before.
[00:05:40]  The 19th is Thursday.
[00:05:42]  It was the 16th?
[00:05:44]  Today is the 26th.
[00:05:47]  10 days, yeah.
[00:05:48]  So the 16th.
[00:05:50]  So 16 from 31 is 15. 15 and 11 is 26. So 26, it would be 26 days till Easter.
[00:05:59]  26 days is two days less than four weeks.
[00:06:03]  We were told three weeks.
[00:06:05]  First of all, remember we were told we're two weeks behind Italy?
[00:06:08]  Have you heard that anymore?
[00:06:10]  I haven't seemed to heard that.
[00:06:12]  It's like when President Bush was president, I saw all these bumper stickers in the LA area.
[00:06:19]  Dissent is patriotic.
[00:06:21]  They were all taken down when President Obama became president.
[00:06:24]  All of a sudden, dissent was not patriotic.
[00:06:27]  Dissent was racist.
[00:06:29]  We went from dissent is patriotic, because the left, like, truth is not a left-wing value.
[00:06:35]  It's one of the most important things you could ever know.
[00:06:38]  Otherwise, you will not understand the world in which we live.
[00:06:41]  We went from dissent as patriotic to dissent as racist.
[00:06:46]  Correct?
[00:06:47]  It's incontrovertible, what I just said.
[00:06:51]  So, four weeks will not be enough to end the economic activity in the United States of America for all intents and purposes.
[00:07:03]  And with the warmer weather, the virus has much less of a chance to live.
[00:07:08]  Which reminds me, I have to say, I would be very interested to speak to someone from India.
[00:07:20]  Even the New York Times acknowledged that there are vast numbers of people in India who will not be able to feed themselves or their family.
[00:07:32]  Who literally live from day to day like rickshaw drivers.
[00:07:37]  I've been there four times.
[00:07:40]  I know India pretty well.
[00:07:44]  I don't know that he made the right decision, especially in a hot climate country.
[00:07:49]  There are 694 cases.
[00:07:54]  Cases!
[00:07:55]  That's not deaths.
[00:07:56]  Cases means nothing.
[00:07:58]  Yeah, I know, I know.
[00:08:00]  I think...
[00:08:01]  The pressure on world leaders to act, huh?
[00:08:05]  16 deaths in a country of 1.3 billion?
[00:08:08]  No, that's China.
[00:08:10]  It has 1 billion.
[00:08:12]  Yeah.
[00:08:12]  Billion people.
[00:08:16]  There's going to be some terrible consequence of this socially in India.
[00:08:24]  I don't know how there cannot be.
[00:08:27]  I've never believed that poverty causes crime, but I have always said if you truly are starving, you have no choice but to rob a loaf of bread.
[00:08:36]  Morally, in God's eyes even.
[00:08:38]  There are so many dangers in all of this because it also sets a precedent.
[00:08:51]  And the herd-like mentality that it produces is...

=== Kids Affirming Life (00:29) ===

[00:08:56]  You know, I'm personally not a big fan of college life, let's put it that way.
[00:09:08]  But I understood the kids who wanted to affirm life and dance on the beach in Miami.
[00:09:15]  I have to tell you, the chances of their getting the virus and dying from it are very, very small.