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This is classic starve the beast. There is one party that continuously tries to gut government institutions - like putting Betsy Devos to head education, Wheele

by b0sk 6y ago

This is classic starve the beast. There is one party that continuously tries to gut government institutions - like putting Betsy Devos to head education, Wheeler to head EPA etc etc and then has the gall to say that government institutions don’t work Who gutted the pandemic response unit?

ausbah 6y ago
Trump, Trump did. Edit: Trump's administration did request funding to the "pandemic response team", set up by the Obama administration, be cut. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
- emmelaich 6y ago
  Obama cut it too. Until Ebola.
  - darkerside 6y ago
    Which was handled before it made its way to the US in any significant capacity. Imagine Trump had taken clear and decisive action against COVID in January.
    - emmelaich 6y ago
      Hindsight is easy. > Imagine Trump had taken clear and decisive action against COVID in January Like the travel ban, which he announced on Jan 31?
      - darkerside 6y ago
        Of course hindsight is easy. Does that mean we shouldn't make use of it? And yes, like the travel ban, which clearly was the wrong solution for the problem. I don't blame the Trump administration for failing to predict the future, but I do see that they willfully ignored bad news over and over again and in fact continue to do so even today, which is completely unconscionable.
someguydave 6y ago
The CDC’s budget is $1.2 billion. Can you explain why that’s not enough money to provide good advice on managing respiratory viruses? Why it isn’t enough to manage domestic stockpiles? Why it isn’t enough to monitor domestic production of PPE? Civil servants failed. It had nothing to do with Trump, they failed at the things that their agency was paid to do.
- zaroth 6y ago
  Actually the CDCs budget is nearly $8 billion and about the highest it’s ever been. https://mises.org/wire/cdcs-budget-larger-now-under-obama https://mises.org/wire/cdcs-budget-larger-now-under-obama
raheemm 6y ago
These cuts were made after passing a $1.5 trillion tax cut in 2017.

by b0sk 6y ago

ausbah 6y ago

Trump, Trump did. Edit: Trump's administration did request funding to the "pandemic response team", set up by the Obama administration, be cut. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

emmelaich 6y ago
Obama cut it too. Until Ebola.
- darkerside 6y ago
  Which was handled before it made its way to the US in any significant capacity. Imagine Trump had taken clear and decisive action against COVID in January.
  - emmelaich 6y ago
    Hindsight is easy. > Imagine Trump had taken clear and decisive action against COVID in January Like the travel ban, which he announced on Jan 31?
    - darkerside 6y ago
      Of course hindsight is easy. Does that mean we shouldn't make use of it? And yes, like the travel ban, which clearly was the wrong solution for the problem. I don't blame the Trump administration for failing to predict the future, but I do see that they willfully ignored bad news over and over again and in fact continue to do so even today, which is completely unconscionable.

someguydave 6y ago

The CDC’s budget is $1.2 billion. Can you explain why that’s not enough money to provide good advice on managing respiratory viruses? Why it isn’t enough to manage domestic stockpiles? Why it isn’t enough to monitor domestic production of PPE? Civil servants failed. It had nothing to do with Trump, they failed at the things that their agency was paid to do.

zaroth 6y ago
Actually the CDCs budget is nearly $8 billion and about the highest it’s ever been. https://mises.org/wire/cdcs-budget-larger-now-under-obama https://mises.org/wire/cdcs-budget-larger-now-under-obama

raheemm 6y ago

These cuts were made after passing a $1.5 trillion tax cut in 2017.