Get the US back to work to prevent government caused depression

The sooner we get back to work, the shorter the recession will be.

President Donald Trump wants to get the U.S. economy back to work as soon as possible — hopefully, by May.

His goal of opening the economy at the soonest possible hour is the right one. Failing to do so could turn this virus-caused recession into a government-prompted depression in no time at all.

There is no doubt this virus is having an unprecedented effect on our nation. We witnessed 3.3 million people become unemployed last week alone, and that’s not counting the zero-hour workers who haven’t applied for assistance.

For comparison, the highest number of weekly claims on record is 695,000 from 1982. That’s in stark contrast from the beginning of the year when the U.S. added an impressive 225,000 jobs in January and 273,000 in February. The coronavirus has been devastating the U.S. economy on a scale not seen since the crisis of 2008.

To mitigate this, last week Congress approved several measures aimed at propping up the economy during the outbreak. Means-tested $1,200 relief checks to U.S. adults, $500 to children in need, and at least $454 billion to the Treasury to support Federal Reserve lending programs to businesses will help Americans contain to make ends meet…