A recent labor report from the Labor Department more than 3000000 people filed for Unemployment Benefits in just the us in the United States just last week breaking all previous records including the one set back in october of 1902 but while millions of u. S. Citizens and thousands of industries are facing massive economic turmoil and hardship there is of course one industry that appears to be immune to the economic followed to the covert 19 pandemic i am talking of course about our good friends in the military Industrial Complex yes the Washington Post is reporting that while stores and factories around the country are shutting down and millions are teleworking from home defense contractors have been by and large required to stay open meaning most of the industrys 2500000 employees have continued to work. Why well according to the United States under secretary of defense ellen lord those businesses are considered Critical Infrastructure because while we may be in desperate need for face masks ventilators another life saving medical supplies and equipment we cant stop working on the f. 35 fighter jets or the predator drones or all the other wildly expensive implements of death that our wonderful merchants of death provide merchants of war provide for us this comes despite the United Nations secretary general antonio good better us calling on all governments of the world to put down their guns stating the theory of the virus illustrates the folly of war that is why today im calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world. Somehow tragically i dont believe we are going to heed that message because here in the United States the employees and factory workers toiling away in our department of war are not allowed to protect their health and their lives i mean after all theres taxpayer dollars to waste and bombs to continue building as we start watching the hawks. She was. On a city street you want to. See this joyce state see. Grace see this least systemic deception leak show which i would. Feel. Welcome everyone watching the hawks i wrote to her and joining me now to discuss just how vital the business of war is to a mission turning a virus crisis is the cohost of r. T. Americas boom bust investigative journalist button swan ben always a pleasure. Thanks for having me on so ben the excuse is that we need the military factories and businesses to stay open for National Defense purposes but it isnt something over 2000000 people in the close proximity in factories and offices does not pose a little bit more of a danger given the current enemy that were fighting. Well it absolutely does look you have to go one way or the other with this you either have to believe that yes in fact people need to stay home and therefore create this distance between them governments are saying that meaning the federal government is saying it state governments are saying it and local governments are saying so everyone across the board is in agreement about that i dont necessarily agree with the bar owners and Restaurant Owners dont necessarily agree with them you have you have about 15000000 Service Workers right now who many of them want to go to work but are being told not only shouldnt you go to work but you cannot go to work you have to stay at home order and yet were also being told simultaneously as you said about 2500000 defense contract employees are allowed to go to work because theyre Critical Infrastructure and many of those employees are actually saying they dont want to go to work they want to stay home during this time give them a few weeks off so they dont have to be in such close proximity to other people youre exactly right in fact Union Leaders representing General Dynamics workers up at Bath Iron Works and may. You know told the media you know and they said the work force is essential to being used as sacrificial lambs to meet our needs of to meet the needs of our customer you dont heres my thing with the closing of these factories for 3 to 5 weeks actually represent a danger to our National Defense i personally dont believe they do what do you feel. No absolutely not i dont think theres any any argument that any coherent person could possibly make this say that 3 or 6 or even 8 weeks of not building new you know fighter jets is going to put the United States in harms way of an attack the way the bottom line is we have literally the largest as you know military Defense Budget in the world larger than than everybody else combined and so were so far ahead of everyone else in the world 8 weeks is really going to have an impact its absolutely not and whats really ludicrous about this is this is one of the few positions if you work for one of these defense contractors where you absolutely know your job is going to be there when you come back in 6 or 8 weeks there are so Many Americans right now who are being told you must stay home and they dont know to if theyre going to have a job when the when the into that time comes there are projections right now that as many as 3000000 american jobs will disappear by this summer meaning those are jobs that are not going to come back because the economy will contract so much so if that does take place one of the few groups of people who know that that will not happen to them because theyre guaranteed theyre funding our defense contract employees so give them the time off and then bring them back when the time comes it doesnt make any sense at all it really doesnt matter you know thats one of the scariest things of what happens when you base a bulk of your economy on the Service Industry as youre saying is that when something comes along to disrupt the service then this is where these problems begin this week it appears that you know hopefully the u. S. Congress will pass apparently their 2 trillion dollar stimulus package but i think one of the biggest mysteries. Going is where does all this money come from i mean we hear all the time about how we dont have any room in the budget for health care or student Debt Forgiveness or all these other things but miraculously we suddenly have billions and billions for corporations and taxpayers in this emergency where does this money come from well the money is really coming out of thin air and this is whats really its truly terrifying if you think about a type 2 trillion dollars is roughly half the size of the entire federal budget for the year thats how large of an amount this is but thats not all thats coming in its 2 trillion but the congress is saying were going to approve as you said about 500000000000. 00 is going to go to large corporations about 350000000000. 00 to Small Businesses about 100000000000. 00 would be sin and direct checks to 2 american citizens but thats not all the money there is an additional 4. 00 trillion dollars that the fed has said its going to print and begin loaning out to corporations and to businesses as well now the thing thats supposed to make us all feel better is that the fed is saying well these are loans dont worry these will be repaid at some point so but were talking about in total 6 trillion dollars in a matter of weeks being dumped into the economy and again its money thats coming from nowhere its just being created invented and so when that happens it puts us at significant risk for hyperinflation that a most definitely does you know one of the things that ive been bothered by all week is i almost have to ask this question and tragically it took the virus to really expose this is you know is a is a government or an economy worth keeping if it can shut down for a few weeks in order to survive a catastrophe like this i mean you know i mean like what led into this in the sense that i was arcano me really that week but it could not survive allowing citizens to stay home and as our government been weak that it cannot provide for citizens and the economy in order for them to stay home and be safe for a few weeks. You know its a really good question i think theres a couple of different ways of looking at that i think you can absolutely look at it from the point of view youre stating because thats thats a real question right how is it that you have so little savings in america you have such a dwindling middle class where people are living paycheck to paycheck that they really cant take a few weeks where theyre not working without falling possibly into a spiral of the extreme poverty possibly losing their home or you know being evicted from their apartment so you do have these struggles and theres serious questions about that but i think another question is and this is what really gives me pause is when the calvary comes riding in known as the federal government with their stimulus checks and saying dont worry were here to save the economy what theyre really saying is were here to save parts of the economy and parts of the economy means that not everybody is going to be saved through this there will be businesses that are shut down and that permanently cannot recover from this there is no way the feds can save everyone and so instead what happens is you find that when money like this comes in that ultimately washington is picking winners and losers and that destroys the free market it means if youre the friend of a friend youre the one getting the bailout youre the one getting the money and speaking of friends of friends how about boeing we started the segment talking about defense contractors will boeing their defense contracts are still moving forward meanwhile they have 70000 employees theyve sat down and said you cant continue to work right now and were going to lay you off but simultaneously boeing that created that 737 max jet that killed over 300. 00 people last year and has really destroyed its own company is getting a 60000000000. 00 bailout by the federal government and theyre failures i have nothing to do with coronavirus their failures have to do with the fact that they created a jet that killed people and they laughed about it in email saying that the f. A. A. Wasnt really monitoring them and they could do whatever they wanted but i mean if its crony capitalism at its finest is it not. I mean its tragic that is one of the true. Tragedy has come out of this thank you so much for illuminating our audience with what you have to say today always a pleasure having your arms are. 5 things. Tragically the city that never sleeps new york city and surrounding areas have quickly become one of the major epicenters of the covert 19 pandemic with the New York Times reporting that the city and its suburbs account for approximately 5 percent of all cases globally r t americas Trinity Chavez is in new york city with the latest on how the big apple is taking on this pandemic. Today hospitals in new york struggling under the weight of the pandemic people come in they get into bed it they die the cycle repeats elmhurst hospital in queens the bureau with the most coronavirus cases in the city in the center of the outbreak the hospital confirming at least 13 patient deaths within 24 hours right now its every day its nonstop literally and. Unfortunately its my get to suggestion you have to pick and choose what youre going to do how youre going to do it. As the doctors say a lot of people call it not to be survived to expire and you put the same machine in the not the 1st time as medical staff operates out their limit hundreds of more people wait lining up outside to get tested for coated 19 but Officials Say the 545 bed hospital is overrun and in desperate need of medical supplies yeah though the system is overwhelmed all over the place the shortage of safety gear out one New York Hospital is so dire nurses have resorted to wearing trash bags the situation in new york worsening by the hour the state accounting for roughly half the cases across the country this grim video shows teams setting up a makeshift morgue outside of Bellevue Hospital something that was done during Hurricane Sandy and 911911 was nothing compared to this we were open waiting for patients the combo never came. Ok now they just keep coming however a small sign. Hope Governor Cuomo announcing that for the past few days the rate of hospitalizations is slowing although he cautions that the peak of the crisis could still be about 20 days away i close the schools we closed gathering. We brought in testing and we have dramatically slowed the increase the governor adds that while only about 15 percent of cases have required hospitalisation the state into supports 140000. 00 people will need to be hospitalized warning that he does not have enough beds or lifesaving ventilators so ramp up the Hospital Capacity to make to be able to handle that apex volume and as medical personnel remain on the front lines we are learning that a member of mt sinai is nursing staff who has been treating coronavirus patients has passed away from coven 19 the hospital saying in a Statement Today we lost another hero a compassionate colleague friend and selfless caregiver meantime the Hospital System initiating a procedure called plasmapheresis where they transfer antibodies from patients who have recovered from co the 19 to those who are critically ill from the virus the procedure could be life saving reporting in new york Trinity Chavez r t. 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Shutting down to comply with the states stay at home order to help lessen the spread of the virus nearly 3300000 americans applied for Unemployment Benefits last week almost 5 times the previous record set in 1982 amid a widespread economic shutdown caused by the crown of virus a big portion of those claims coming from the state of california a whopping 1000000 within the last 2 weeks Stephanie Meyers says shes hoping to see a stimulus check arrives soon but cant help but worry about the bills piling up ive been pretty good about Holding Together and i just finally broke down and cried. Because you have to think about whats in that bank account. How youre going to start paying those you know i got home and started making a list you know ok ive got car payment ive got rent the San Francisco area was the 1st region in the country to install a shelter in place order governor given you some signed a stay at home order for the entire state 3 days later new some is praising the proposed chrono virus relief bill currently in california allows up to 400 50. 00 a week for Unemployment Insurance the relief bill would add an additional 600. 00 a week for up to 4 months giving california residents up to 1000. 00 a week liz number of new claims from this is truly unprecedented and that represents the. Its a bit in the nature of what were going through right now there are enoug