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Denying money to prepare for a pandemic is just another Patrician Republican way of thinning the herd of untermensch trying to get a seat at the table. Politics just a bit cynical than usual.
No -- Obama says we're not going to try to limit cases of this being brought into the USA over the borders. It's not in the USA now except for a very few cases where it was brought in from Mexico but don't worry, the borders are as wide open as ever, any one dying of the flu can come here to shop, attend school, visit, party, whatever.
Obama hints that maybe after the disease is brought over here and after Americans start dying THEN they may do some costly programs to stop it's spread but only after it's very widespread here.
Except for the fact that the professor inconveniently spells his name "Laffer", <oerdin>'s post was right on the money. The Laffer Curve is a joke, and so is every version of supply-side trickle-down economics that ever cited it. Too bad that fact has to be explained (over and over and over again) to so many people...
Given the situation with this flu and with the stated desire of the administration to take it very seriously, perhaps they should start by filling the jobs of The Secretary of Health and Human Services, The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. They should have plenty of money sitting around with the three top post sitting vacant.
“When widespread public health emergencies like swine flu surface, it falls largely on three key people to take charge of the government’s response: the secretary of Health and Human Services, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. But nearly 100 days into the Obama administration, all three of those critical posts are vacant.”
Does anyone here, Democrat or Republican, really think that just because the $$$ for pandemic preparedness didn't make into the stimulus package, that it's gone for good? This is whole thread is nothing but mud-slinging. Barry will come up with the money, and I believe we all know that.
Does anyone here, Democrat or Republican, really think that just because the $$$ for pandemic preparedness didn't make into the stimulus package, that it's gone for good? This is whole thread is nothing but mud-slinging. Barry will come up with the money, and I believe we all know that.
That's true. I would also add that even if it had made it into the stimulus package, we would still be facing the swine flu.
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