Posted on 04/05/2020 8:31:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - More than two months into what President Donald Trump calls a "war" against COVID-19, his administration's efforts to combat the deadly disease, along with its disastrous effects on the U.S. economy, are often creating more problems than they solve.
Bidding wars for life-saving equipment, a power struggle between Trump's son-in-law and the vice president, political gamesmanship, the centralization of authority and decentralization of accountability, and the creation of new government programs while standing bureaucracies are ignored, have all contributed to chaos within the political, economic and health care systems.
Banks haven't been able to process loan applications for a new Small Business Administration relief program, companies trying to produce personal protective equipment for medical professionals can't get the Federal Emergency Management Administration's attention, and doctors and ventilators at ambulatory surgery centers idled by a soft moratorium on elective operations are on the sidelines.
Those problems are minor compared to the crunch of rising coronavirus cases, the scarcity of ventilators and the possibility that trillions of dollars in aid won't be enough - or well-directed enough - to prevent a catastrophic economic collapse.
It all adds up to a sense that no one is really in charge in the midst of the most daunting crisis the nation has faced in generations.
"This country is re-learning what it understood during the Cold War - we don't elect presidents for the good days, we elect them to handle the bad days," said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif. "Donald Trump is incapable of handling a bad day, let alone a protracted pandemic."
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NBC = Comcast = America’s most dangerous enemy
Comcast must be destroyed
Way to pull together in a crises a-holes.
two months in??
Libera media and Dr Death Fauci created the chaos and panic which
has led to the collapse of our economy.
Something both never did during Obama’s swine flu outbreak.
+1000!! An Armored Calvary Regiment must surround and destroy their HQ. Then burn whats left.
These people are activist traitors to the United States of America.
Elon Musk and his coming Starlink Internet will destroy Comcast.
Boy, there's someone who is going to give a thoughtful, considered opinion.
Posted to wrong thread.
We elect them to handle the bad days,To bad that didn’t work out with Obama twice.
He caused more problem then before he was elected and loved by the media guess the want to return back to the bad old days.
What a sorry lot of Stalin members.
Hmmm..... I’ll have to look that up.
Starlink internet?
The Pandemic must be over because the Drive-By Media is venturing out from under it’s rock
This Chaos! Chaos! Chaos! at least got them off of Russia! Russia! Russia!
But this too is getting old fast.
Chaos is but another word for opportunity. Who takes advantage of it is the predicament we find ourselves in now.
This has to be their message as the President approval numbers continue to climb. I wonder how President Hillary Clinton would be handling this. NBC’s agenda is so transparent.
This is all we’re going to hear. I thought they might have a bit of decency, and wait until the crisis is over, but they have NO decency, and are full of hate, so they are trashing Trump now.
The best way to treat these people is to reelect Trump.
Frankly, this is too easy of a narrative to craft. The big picture is that this Black Swan event and the fallout it has precipitated has created a custom-made opportunity to blame everything on Trump. I think we will need a bigger miracle for Trump to win the re-election than we did for him to win the election in 2016.
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