You can easily patch the state revenue holes without fixing the pension obligations. You basically give the states the difference between what they were projecting and what the reality is. By doing this, you fix part of the economy keeping up employment until the private sector can come back online. If you let states fall down right now you are going to turn this into a depression. It just means the beginning of Lyft’s troubles.
There is nothing to applaud with his actions or statements. It’s just malicious and gives the rest of the world a chance to out compete America.