Yep: ask your Congressman to ask
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Patrirish, Theskibro,
I am just watching the news and they showed a list of the add ons by Pelosi.
I almost threw up ! This bill is a slap in the face for all Americans !
We just can not pass such a pork full
Bill. Hopefully, President Trump can get around this by taking money from the defense budget or from so other place ?
If President Trump does not win in the
Biggest landslide in our history, it will show
Just how uninformed our voters are.
God Help us if by some chance Trump,
The greatest president in my life time , loses.
Hello Venezuela !
I am just watching the news and they showed a list of the add ons by Pelosi.
I almost threw up ! This bill is a slap in the face for all Americans !
We just can not pass such a pork full
Bill. Hopefully, President Trump can get around this by taking money from the defense budget or from so other place ?
If President Trump does not win in the
Biggest landslide in our history, it will show
Just how uninformed our voters are.
God Help us if by some chance Trump,
The greatest president in my life time , loses.
Hello Venezuela !
Nothing like strong tough leadership!
Democrat presidential front runner Joe Biden has largely gone into hiding as the coronavirus crisis ballooned this week.
CBS News reporter Bo Erickson estimated Biden has been seen publicly for about six minutes since last Friday’s disastrous virtual town hall meeting.
In past week @JoeBiden has only had 1 on-camera public address as COVID escalated. (He spoke for ~6 mins on Tuesday from his home.) He also hosted a tele-town hall w/voters, answered Qs on press call & video chatted w/donors.
Everything else has been statements ripping POTUS.
— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) March 22, 2020
“In past week, Joe Biden has only had 1 on-camera public address as COVID escalated. (He spoke for ~6 mins on Tuesday from his home.),” Erickson wrote on Twitter.
“He also hosted a tele-town hall w/voters, answered Qs on press call & video chatted w/donors. Everything else has been statements ripping POTUS,” he said.
The last public appearance ended awkwardly, when he concluded his remarks, seemed startled by his wife, and then stood on camera for several moments before being called off.
Speculation is that his Mental Asylum is on lockdown! lols
Democrat presidential front runner Joe Biden has largely gone into hiding as the coronavirus crisis ballooned this week.
CBS News reporter Bo Erickson estimated Biden has been seen publicly for about six minutes since last Friday’s disastrous virtual town hall meeting.
In past week @JoeBiden has only had 1 on-camera public address as COVID escalated. (He spoke for ~6 mins on Tuesday from his home.) He also hosted a tele-town hall w/voters, answered Qs on press call & video chatted w/donors.
Everything else has been statements ripping POTUS.
— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) March 22, 2020
“In past week, Joe Biden has only had 1 on-camera public address as COVID escalated. (He spoke for ~6 mins on Tuesday from his home.),” Erickson wrote on Twitter.
“He also hosted a tele-town hall w/voters, answered Qs on press call & video chatted w/donors. Everything else has been statements ripping POTUS,” he said.
The last public appearance ended awkwardly, when he concluded his remarks, seemed startled by his wife, and then stood on camera for several moments before being called off.
Speculation is that his Mental Asylum is on lockdown! lols
VOTE OUT ALL DEMOCRATS! THEY ARE ALL STUPID IDIOTS"
While true in many cases, you can probably add in quite a few Republicans in there as well....
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My head hurts knowing that you and some many others think that a wall would have affected this. Additionally the impeachment issue has nothing to do with the response to covid-19.
To answer the Perse's original question in the OP, the CDC and think tanks that study pandemics did map and prepare for a situation like this as they do every year. The biggest gap in the preparation that wasn't accounted for by everyone domestically is the lack of testing. In theory if testing is not an issue, early detection and the ability to limit community spread at the beginning limits harm. In the current case, testing has been and still is a huge factor. Without sufficient testing the doctors and medics have a limited idea of how severe the issue is/was and weren't able to isolate positive tests from the general public early enough. For MER/SARS/H1N1 and the likes in recent history testing has never been an issue. The reason testing is an issue here is disputed and likely to get political depending on your view of the issue with regards to fault attribution.
Additionally as mentioned by others on the thread, disbanding the pandemic response team of the CDC took an already limited entity and cut resources and capabilities. That doesn't help response or preparedness. No logical reason why that cut was made by the white house.
It’s fundamental. Dems spend n grow government. Reps downsize government.
In the 880-page bill here's some of the pork it contained. . . .
Here is what pelosi put in the CORONAVIRUS bill
$100,000,000 to NASA, because, who knows why.
$20,000,000,000 to the USPS
$300,000,000 to the Endowment for the Arts / because ?
$300,000,000 for the Endowment for the Humanities
$15,000,000 for Veterans Employment Training
$435,000,000 for mental health support
$30,000,000,000 for the Department of Education stabilization fund
$200,000,000 to Safe Schools Emergency Response to Violence Program
$300,000,000 to Public Broadcasting
$500,000,000 to Museums and Libraries
$720,000,000 to Social Security Admin / but get this only 200,000,000 is to help people. The rest is for admin costs
$25,000,000 for Cleaning supplies for the Capitol Building it's on page 136
$7,500,000 to the Smithsonian for additional salaries
$35,000,000 to the JFK Center for performing Arts
$25,000,000 for additional salary for House of Representatives
$3,000,000,000 upgrade to the IT department at the VA
$315,000,000 for State Department Diplomatic Programs
$95,000,000 for the Agency of International Development
$300,000,000 for International Disaster Assistance
$300,000,000 for Migrant and Refugee Assistance pg 147
$90,000,000 for the Peace Corp pg 148
$13,000,000 to Howard University pg 121
9,000,000 Misc Senate Expenses pg 134
$100,000,000 to Essential Air carriers pg 162
$40,000,000,000 goes to the Take Responsibility to Workers and Families Act. Pg 164
$1,000,000,000 Airlines Recycle and Save Program pg 163
$25,000,000 to the FAA for administrative costs pg 165
$492,000,000 to National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) pg 167
$526,000,000 Grants to Amtrak to remain available if needed through 2021 pg 168
Hidden on page 174 the Secretary has 7 days to allocate the funds & notify Congress
$25,000,000,000 for Transit Infrastructure pg 169
$3,000,000 Maritime Administration pg 172
$5,000,000 Salaries and Expensive Office of the Inspector General pg 172
No voter ID to get a ballot, & anonymous “ballot harvesting” pg 650
$2,500,000 Public and Indian Housing pg 175
$5,000,000 Community Planning and Development pg 175
$2,500,000 Office of Housing
$1,500,000,000 Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Office of Public and Indian Housing. 1,000,000,000 of which can be used as "additional administrative and other expenses". pg 176
$720,000,000 to the public housing fund pg 177
$100,000,000 for Community Block Grants for Native Americans pg 183
$250,000,000 for Housing Block Grants for Tribes pg 182
$130,000,000 for AIDS Housing pg 185
$15,000,000,000 for the Community Development Fund pg 188
Only $10,000,000 of which is set aside for infrastructure for fighting infectious disease pg 191
$5,000,000,000 in Homeless Assistance pg 193
$100,000,000,000 for Rental Assistance - pg 198
An additional $7,000,000 enforce the Fair Housing Act - 203
Paid Family Leave for Sickness is 2 paid work weeks pg 213
Emergency Family Leave
Now applies to all employers not just companies over 500 employees pg 208
Guarantees paid leave to employees who have an in-law who gets sick pg 209
Opens up leave for some if you are in a "committed relationships with" pg 212
$1,000,000,000 for more Obamaphones!
This shows me that they don't really think this is a big deal. Business as usual. Use a crisis to rob us blind.
Still reading......
$227,000,000 for grants to States for youth activities pg 80
$261,000,000 for grants to States for dislocated worker employment and training activities, including supportive services and needs-related payments; pg 80
$10,000,000 for Migrant and Seasonal
Farm worker programs
$100,000,000 for ‘‘Job Corps’’,
$15,000,000 for ‘‘Program Administration’’,
$6,500,000, to the ‘‘Wage and Hour Division’’,
$30,000,000, to OSHA
$10,000,000 for Susan Harwood training grants
$1,300,000,000, for ‘‘Primary Health Care’’,
$75,000,000, for ‘‘Student Aid Administration’’,
$9,500,000,000, for ‘higher ed”
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