How Obama’s failure to resupply respirators in federal stockpile created a 2020 crisis

justthenews.com ^ | 3/31/2020 | Christine Dolan

[bitt]

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[beethovenfan]

Obunghole didn’t give a $hit. And now he’s criticizing Trump.

[Eagles6]

Well and good but PDJT had 3 years to replenish the supply.

What I don't understand is these doctors and nurses complaining.

Why weren't they aware if they're on the front lines?

They should have individually prepared!

00 Who dropped the ball at the local and hospital level?

6 months ago you could have filled your garage with PPE for the cost of a couple of cable bills.

I'm a lowly EMT and I have enough stuff for my family.

[sport]

obama does what was put in the White House to do: Destroy the United States of America. But you are correct in your assessment that the son of a bitch did not give a shit about America. Neither did the bastards that voted for him.

[shanover]

The system works. This government sucks.

[Skybird]

“...the Obama administration chose to use its “limited funds” in other ways...”
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Like billions in cash on pallets for Iran...

[cba123]

Even now, foreigners are buying up massive amounts of AMERICAN masks.

Read the story, just above this one.

This has been happening for two months!!!

[Eagles6]

Yep.

[stylin19a]

and Joe said he wasn’t involved.

[DoughtyOne]

But when it was over, the administration decided not to
fully restock the respirators, choosing to spend its
$600 million annual budget for the stockpile
on other priorities such as key drugs and
vaccines to deal with smallpox, anthrax and
the like, experts said.

Oh bull stuff. It didn't have to be an either or situation.

Nonsense...

[Spktyr]

That budget isn’t discretionary, and Obama had a cooperative Congress. The Congress saw fit to not fund the replacement masks.

[freebird5850]

Obama is irrelevant. Let’s concentrate with current issues.

[Sacajaweau]

Let’s put a little persepective to this. He didn’t ask for more money to replenish the supply cuz he needed to fund the gimme crowd.

[Eagles6]

So did President Trump, supposedly, for 2 years.

[Spktyr]

1. Russia Russia Russia!
2. Again, Congress. What were they doing to fix this? IIRC, that budget priority is granted by Congress.

[joma89]

Oh gee, will you look at that. Government incompetence helped create a future ‘crisis’.

JoMa

[RatRipper]

My take is that Obama conspired with China to help plan this way back then. . . .

I’m not positive it’s a lie, but the Rats tell far bigger lies every day.

[Wuli]

The domestic market supply is there. The problem is our own domestic need for the masks - our own healthcare industry - is having a supply problem because so much of the U.S. production of the masks is being sold as exports for pandemic-panic buying prices foreigners are willing to pay. A recent Forbes article discussed this.