Posted on 10/12/2014 12:05:28 PM PDT by hope
The Ebola crisis has the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the spotlight. Despite consistent reassurances from CDC head Dr. Tom Frieden that he has the right plan in place to combat Ebola, past mistakes by his organization raises serious questions regarding its competency.
A major part of CDC’s problem is a result of its bureaucracy’s drift into areas away from infectious disease. Obesity, gun violence and alcohol are now topics of concern for the CDC.
In “CDC Mission Creep: A Dangerous and Wasteful Distraction,” FreedomWorks’ Josh Withrow wrote an analysis about the degree to which the CDC has strayed from its original mandate.
Read more at http://deneenborelli.com/2014/10/mission-creep-affected-cdcs-ability-handle-ebola-crisis/#wwtLMW7e5eaet237.99
(Excerpt) Read more at deneenborelli.com ...
The primary goal of all feral government agencies is Musloid outreach.
All other considerations are secondary.
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The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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As a side note to this thread, please consider the following. Even if the CDC was the perfect example of how a federal agency should operate, it remains that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend to pay for the kind of public service that the CDC was established to do.
So as strange as this might sound, patriots need to put on their list of proposed amendments for the next constitutional convention an amendment to establish the CDC.
CDC’s mandate is to make Obama look good.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
I’ve thought since at least 9/11 if not before, that PC will end up getting us all killed.
This disease outbreak has not lessened that concern, it’s heightened it.
Every week Obola and his elite effers allow 1,050 Hot Zonians into this country. Who the hell monitors them for three weeks? Do we even know where they are? Who the hell is running this country?
I’ve got this feeling I’m going to hear Obola come out and say, “Freidy, you’re doing a heck of a job!”
It seemed to work great when Bush came out and said that to “Browny” during Katrina.
The CDC has gone PC and hired a bunch of liberals that are not focusing upon the task with which the CDC was intended. They are not doing the job with which the CDC was formed to do.
Agreed with a caveat: It is legitimately arguable that precluding the entry of an often fatal and highly contagious disease onto American shores is a matter of national defense. Hence: CDC is clearly failing at the one possibly legitimate power it might exercise.
That would be since the days infected carcasses were thrown over city walls.
Remember, these are the same assholes that covered up the MMR vaccine/ autism link and now millions of families across the country have been impacted.
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That's a good point. Disease control services are reasonably justified for the federal entities indicated under the Constitution's Clause 17 of Section 8 of Article I as an example, imo, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, especially for the reason that you indicated.
It remains that the states have never amended the Constitution to grant Congress the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for such services for intrastate-related issues. Therefore any federal government action against ebola concerning intrastate issues is an unconstitutional expansion of federal government powers. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from Supreme Case opinions which not only reflect on this issue, but also show that activist justices are wrong about the constitutionality of unconstitutional federal Obamacare Democratcare.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphasis added] beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.
So I think that the states need to consider amending the Constitution to grant the feds the power to prevent the spread of disease.
No. The Feds should prevent the entry of disease, not the spread within the US (if that's what you mean). Remember: with an incurable infectious pathogen, the only means is containment. That means borders, and the smaller the area the better. Hence, I think the best model is "county health department" as regulated by the States. So in a sense, this is analogous to the old 'good fences make good neighbors' aphorism.
In which case, it properly belongs under the military.
Certainly insofar as involves attacks against troops it already does. The powers that allow the Feds to enforce borders and customs enforcement might fit too.
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