David Allen

I watch the show when I get a chance, work schedule prevent frequency. Sometimes I agree with them and sometimes i do not. Maybe I missed it, but I have not heard them discussing the real cause for the economy getting such a beating. This economy is really built on service. A service economy is like a house built of straw: everything is ok until a match is put to it, and then it does not take long for all to be ashes. In contrast, manufacturing jobs and agricultural jobs are real. In a factory all the jobs are real, from the manager at the top to the janitor. All are relevant for the running of the plant. If the factory is closed for a week or more, the jobs are still there and needed when the factory starts up again. Service jobs have to wait for real jobs and other service jobs to come online to have someone to service. So after an incident, such as the Covid-19 virus, the economy quickly folds and takes a while to get up to speed. The people who created this service economy never envisioned it folding like this and so quickly. But it is a reality we all have to accept until the decide to bring the real jobs back to the USA. The service economy feels good when everything is going good (like a basketball spinning of your finger). But when the momentum is lost everything quickly falls. Surely, a service economy can appear to be strong until something happens. A strong economy should be able to withstand the "winds", should it not? So, why was this economy blown down like a straw house? There is a lesson here somewhere. There will be more incidents, sooner or later.