The CDC for years had that plane under contract but the cost of never used “standby” became too high, so they abandoned it.
I don’t the right and wrong of the budget issues, but here are some of the details.
“And it turns out there’s only one jet in the world — operated by a small private plane charter company in Georgia — with a special transport tube that allows medical personnel to treat Ebola patients while in flight.
The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease and Prevention helped develop the “air transport bio-containment unit” under a multiyear project with the Phoenix Air Group in Georgia in 2006, but the agency later decided that it couldn’t afford to maintain “stand-by” capability, and so the equipment was warehoused, contract records show.”
“While it was once at the beck and call of the CDC under a previous contract, the company recently had to be hired back by the State Department this year at a cost of nearly $5 million for a six-month sole-source contract.
“Had the department not moved very quickly to establish its own exclusive contract, our negotiating position would have shifted, placing [U.S. government] personnel and private citizens at risk,” State Department officials wrote in the contract justification last month.”
..And Obama gave $190 Million to the Dallas Baptist Church Charity to set up housing in 6 cities for the flood of illegal immigrant children from South America.....and another $590 Million to buy a 600 bed luxury hotel in Dallas area.
Here is Obama and his buddy Dallas Judge Jenkins at the signing ceremony:
...and so they are are essentially abandoning 3000 of our troops in West Africa while feather bedding a tens of thousands of illegals.
.....more seethe....