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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Waiting for Wash D.C. to deliver one-size fits all utopian solutions.
OP didn’t just post the article - he made a comment about media bias in the first post, other people also comment.
By now Hillary, Biden or Obama would have us all farting rainbows.
The greatest chaos is in New York, imagine that?
Biden too, never specifically said "banning flights" was xenophobic, just that Trump was xenophobic. Now to you and me, it is obvious he was saying that because of the flight ban, but like Pelosi, even deep into senility, he is enough of a politician to leave himself enough room to weasel out of that. This is what Biden said, We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science not Donald Trumps record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency. That's not something you can cut it into a campaign ad.
Jonathan Allen....
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Jonathan is a Joke
And a Jerk
The US leads the world in fake news media. They think their job is to put Trump to blame for all. Their message is to kill millions of babies along the way.
“...we don’t elect presidents for the good days, we elect them to handle the bad days,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.”
I assume that Swalwell is supporting the presumed democrat candidate for President, Joe Biden as the man to replace Donald Trump. Ole Joe will show everyone how it’s doneif he can ever figure out what ‘it’ is.
Meanwhile, the media, those ever-trusty guardians of the public welfare, are doing everything in their dwindling power to calm the situation and bring order to a potential catastrophe.
2. perhaps next time post it in full so we dont even have to click on the NBC site and give them hits ****
Against FreeRepublic posting rules.
Jonathan Allen was formerly a member of Wasserman-Shultz political action committee. You can count on hi to by totally unbiased.
Wow, he made a comment about media bias. Of course we know it’s biased.
Then why are people complaining about the Drudge Report posting liberal headlines?
1,660 people die from cancer everyday in the US.
You act like the article just gets posted and nothing else. You know why it was posted.
The chaos is coming from liberal governors and mayors. They are working with Pelosi and the MSM to tar and feather President Trump. More so than to enforce the social distancing in their metropolitan areas. They don’t give a rats *** about the people dying in their hospitals as THEY control the tools and PPEs in their state stockpiles. President Trump is having to deal with the meager national stockpiles that were depleted by the Obama/Biden administration. Blaming President Trump is not addressing the needs of our doctors, nurses, and truckers (i.e. the Governor of Pennsylvania war on truckers access to facilities). This November we’ll see if the MSM and the democraps are successful in their war on America.
The Irony of NBC complaining of sowing Chaos must be beyond their comprehension.
“You act like the article just gets posted and nothing else. You know why it was posted.”
You can go to a liberal website and post below it. Why are people complaining about the Drudge Report posting liberal headlines?
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