Posted on 10/02/2014 6:04:11 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Rep. Cárdenas tells PJM that temporarily freezing visas from affected nations would be "reacting in an alarmed fashion."
WASHINGTON – Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.), a member of the House Budget Committee, said education is the best way for the federal government to respond to the Ebola outbreak, rather than reduce the number of U.S. visas granted to citizens of West Africa nations.
Cárdenas also said the Ebola crisis demonstrates that reducing spending is the wrong approach.
“I think the best response is education. We have the best system of preventative measures in the world but yet at the same time we need to educate the communities, so I think it’s important that we not act in an alarmed fashion but just have responsible, methodical education,” said Cárdenas at the Noche de Gala for the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts on Wednesday night.
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U.S. health officials estimated on Thursday that the Liberian man hospitalized for Ebola in Texas had contact with as many as 100 people. The man was reportedly visiting the U.S. on a tourist visa. Cárdenas was asked if the U.S. should temporarily stop issuing visas to West African nations affected by Ebola.
“Again, that would be reacting in an alarmed fashion. I think that what we ought to do is education domestically and also education abroad and make sure that we have the kind of communication and the honesty with us and other governments that we need to be making sure that they understand the seriousness of it, and then respond after we find out if they are acting responsibly,” Cárdenas responded. “Then, we can go ahead and be more trusting, ......
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There it is.
and 40% of the idiocracy will lap it up as fact.
Democrats, willing to martyr their children (and yours) to protect their party.
What a lunatic! It’s caused by global warming!
What took them so long to think this one up? I guess because they aren’t in session and a long way from their K Street puppetmasters.
You first, Buddy! Educate us by being a guinea pig. Show us what happens when a Congressman happens upon a foreigner exploding vomit in his presence.
Let’s send a committee of Democrat Congressmen to Liberia, headed by Cárdenas, to investigate the disease.
Yeah. Think of how expensive it is to say “NOBODY FROM LIBERIA GETS TO COME HERE”.
That could cost millions of dollars, maybe hundreds of millions. Why, the people who figure this stuff out can’t figure out how to stop Ebola at the border unless they have giant salaries. And new buildings. And, they really aren’t very smart unless they get paid really really well.
This is absolutely the classic conservative vs liberal take. All the people who might have issued common sense directives to exclude individuals from Ebola-present countries LIKE WAS DONE ON ELLIS ISLAND for 100 years, no, they just can’t do that without giant budget increases.
what an utter fool. what a shameless bald-faced lying hack. How can you not just spit in the face of a utterly contemptible person like this?
There is not a single dime of funding, that isn’t already being funded, that could have prevented this when you have a government that refuses to stop letting them travel over here without quarantine.
No it reveales that we need to stop incoming flights from Ebola countreis (which the French and English have done.)
Is there any politician, especially a republican calling for this anyone????
Gag me with a 2 x 4.
No friggin’ common sense....
And there it is people..I have finally figured out what the Dem plan is in regards to Ebola and here it is plain and simple..this is the so-called October surprise..They bring in people infected with Ebola, they spread it around, and the Dems go on TV and blame the GOP for “CDC budget cuts.”
The problem is always that we are not spending enough money (but never THEIR money of course). It certainly could not be that our “precautions” were stupid. This is because liberals CANNOT have a bad idea. If their idea doesn’t work it is because we didn’t do enough of it or throw away enough of our money.
Another Obama red herring. Just like to campaign to get attention off of OBAMACARE — which is a pending disaster for our health, our medical system, our economy and our people.
Who is following it, and worrying about the American people??
If we only had larger teachers unions, we would have fewer sick Liberians entering the country — because Global Warming.
hahahaha
Night crawling pieces of crap.
This guy is either a blithering idiot or a lying POS. Either way he is the face of the Democrat Party.
There is nothing so low that a democrat politician cannot manage to squirm underneath it.
As a group they are lower than whale poop.
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