Posted on 10/07/2014 5:30:01 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
An Ohio Democrat argued that “the real issue” with the Ebola crisis is “a disinvestment in the pubic health infrastructure in the United States.”
“This is a very difficult task and I find it very ironic that the very political party and politicians who are criticizing every single step, every single move that’s being made as I said by some of the best public health officials in the world are the same people that voted to cut, you know, over $500 million from the Centers for Disease Control budget over the last four or five years, over $440 million from the National Institutes of Health that could be doing potential research on these kinds of issues to help solve these problems, you know, the CDC is about a billion dollars less in preparedness money than they had, I think back in 2002,” Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) told MSNBC on Monday.
“So these folks who are lobbing these criticisms at the administration and at the CDC, they’re the very ones that cut the budget.”
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“We’ve got to rebuild our public health infrastructure here in the United States and it’s not as easy as saying, OK, planes can’t come in from Africa into the United States so we’ll just, you know, maybe build another wall and hope that that fixes the problem and it seems these simple solutions don`t work,” he added.
(snip)
“You know, what are you going to do with your big tax cut if you’re in the top 1 percent if you get Ebola? You know?”
Ryan said “it’d be nice” if the GOP would “support the president for a major global public health initiative.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Ohio Dem: ‘What Are You Going to Do with Your Big Tax Cut if You Get Ebola?’
Simple, I am going to pull a “Duncan” by hugging and kissing every Democrat politician and operative I can find.
Another question for Mr. Ryan:
Will obamacare cover expenses for treating patients with Ebola, and then when he says yes, ask him if he’ll resign when it’s announced after the elections that it does not.
They said to put a condom on it.
Actually, that IS the advice! Ebola can survive for 70 days in the semen of ebola survivors.
Male Ebola survivors told: Use a condom (Reuters Tue Oct 7, 2014)
I know, that’s what I was referencing. I forgot to link to the article.
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