Posted on 03/16/2020 12:15:15 PM PDT by be-baw
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President Trump told a group of governors Monday morning that they should not wait for the federal government to fill the growing demand for respirators needed to help people diagnosed with coronavirus.
“Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” Mr. Trump told the governors during the conference call, a recording of which was shared with The New York Times.
“We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.”
The suggestion surprised some of the governors, who have been scrambling to contain the outbreak and are increasingly looking to the federal government for help with equipment, personnel and financial aid.
Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, whose state is at the center of the domestic outbreak, and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico both reacted angrily to the administration’s slow response to the crisis.
“If one state doesn’t get the resources and materials they need, the entire nation continues to be at risk,” said Ms. Lujan Grisham.
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Can these idiots do anything for themselves? At least freaking try, instead of running to “Daddy Fed” to fix everything for you.
The states will indeed “Hoard” if they think the Feds will pay for everything.
And the NY Times twists it into a problem.
translation: Don’t let people die by sitting there with your thumb up your ass waiting for the leviathan Federal bureaucracy to adjust to conditions.
Inslee and Michelle Lujan Grisham ... democrat governors whining about not having what they need.
Gee... maybe if they can’t be prepared enough to manage an “emergency”, they shouldn’t BE in the position they’re in.
That’s NOT actually the FULL quote but nice try Slimes..boy these idiots hate this President SO much that when he says something they dont quote him ENTIRELY
The Feds don’t own them short of the Military / VA. They are in the hands of the private sector.....hospitals and what not.
“Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, whose state is at the center of the domestic outbreak, and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico both reacted angrily to the administration’s slow response to the crisis.”
President Trump should have waited until a thousand people died before doing anything like their hero Obuttmunch did with the H1N1 flu.
“Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico both reacted angrily to the administration’s slow response to the crisis.”
Trust me, she is literally as dumb as Patty Murray, or a box of rocks. (no insult to rocks)
This gives a train wreck Gov an excuse to blame Trump and make it stick like New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Bianco did to GW Bush with Katrina in 2005
Hey, I have a crazy idea. What if healthcare providers bought them for themselves. You know, like in capitalism...
The fact that hospitals are not desperately buying them tells me they don’t expect to need them.
This is news? I thought these things were already the states’ responsibility, unless they specifically and officially request assistance.
WTF. They think the fed has a stockpile of respirators somewhere?
Inslee is the biggest and rudest of the incompetent State Governor douchebags there is, so I am not surprised he is shocked and angry.
I read somewhere that CPAP machines were in high demand. Does anyone know how this correlates?
How pathetic. Who votes for such incompetent people? If they have toilet paper, they need someone from D.C. to wipe them with it.
MLG is an idiot... and too short to ride most of the attractions at the state fair.
Didn’t Nicole Wallace a supposedly conservative news reader already say this was Trumps Katrina a few weeks ago?
The more they all protest the more I do not believe them.
If the New York Slimes were to state in a headline that it’s light during daytime, and dark at night, I would still need to look out a window to verify that those slime-bags aren’t lying.
The popular media has probably damaged their credibility beyond repair as a whole. I haven’t trusted the NY Slimes for as long as I can remember, thanks my personal research on the way they conspired to bury Ukrainian victims of Stalin, and later the Holocaust. But other so-called “news” organizations, like the alphabet networks and most other popular outlets have become nothing more than the foremost supporters of leftist politicians, to the point where they play the IRA to the politicians’ Sein Fein.
The popular media is certainly causing as much or more damage to the USA than any terrorist organization in history, the only difference being their weapons are broadcasts and printing presses, rather than bombs and guns.
Mark
He told the governors to work through their supply chains with the thought they would get them faster than going through the Feds! He did not tell them to get lost! The NYT is a bunch of liars!
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