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The Senate (Republicans majority) just passed a bill for economic relief (stimulus). Part of the funds ($25 million) is allocated to give the politicians a raise.
What a joke. The Republican Swamp is alive and well.
Trumps gone if Biden doesn't go full dementia. Unfortunately Biden looks full dementia and rapey. Perhaps they won't have a choice and dems put another candidate in?Who's following the zeitgeist to feel out the direction of the current US mood on the prospects of re-election of the orange incompetent?
Bankruptcy would surely disqualify a Presidential contender? even if delinquent ineptitude obviously does not.
One of the unfolding tragedies of the US health system is that as workers are stood down they lose their health insurance.
So if they have to get treated for COVID 19 they either die and/or go bankrupt .
From, we don't have a problem then > we have a small issue > issue is under control > if 100,000 people have died, we have done a great job.Trump says keeping US Covid-19 deaths to 100,000 would be a ‘very good job’
OMG if only it happened in the U.S.The Senate (Republicans majority) just passed a bill for economic relief (stimulus). Part of the funds ($25 million) is allocated to give the politicians a raise.
What a joke. The Republican Swamp is alive and well.
OMG if only it happened in the U.S.
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news...9157228d8?sv=6eaeab1f29bbe8e8b66b4e3888c173af
From the article:
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard's salary will soar by $90,000 to about $470,000, making her more highly paid than US President Barack Obama and British PM David Cameron.
Only days after the Gillard Government announced plans to slash public spending as part of a savage mini-budget to bring government coffers back into surplus, The Courier-Mail can reveal the base salary for even the most junior parliamentarian will jump from $140,000 to at least $180,000.
What is it about bricks and glass houses.
Don't you just love it.
I feel like not being able raise Robs blood pressure has left a hole in my life. So I'll leave this here:
What has Trump done since this Chinese Virus started plaguing the world.
On January 29, Trump created a White House Coronavirus Task Force.
On January 31, Trump declared Coronavirus to be a public health emergency and implemented a ban on travel from China to the United States.
On February 5 , the Democrats' held its very first Coronavirus hearing in the House, after the impeachment trial had failed to convict the President.
Shortly after, Trump announced further travel restrictions on certain global hot spots namely Iran, South Korea, and eventually, all of Europe.
Returning from travel-restricted countries, Americans were routed to specific airports, where they could be properly screened and, if necessary, isolated.
In March, the president closed the southern and northern borders of the United States to prevent further virus cases or problems from coming here.
Democrats and their supporters started supporting Communist China's talking point that it was “racist” for anyone to called the Chinese Virus. Joe Biden, described Trump's calling it the Chinese Virus both racist and xenophobic. He also stated that he would not have instituted a travel ban like Trump had and would have left the borders open.
February 29, the FDA issued emergency approval for the development of new Coronavirus tests. To achieve this, Trump instructed the agency to cut bureaucratic red tape.
The Department of Health & Human Services provided money to accelerate the production of diagnostic tests. Trump issued orders allowing the agency to “to immediately waive provisions of applicable laws and regulations to give healthcare providers maximum flexibility to respond to the virus and care for patients.”
On March 16, the National Institutes of Health announced the start of a clinical trial aimed at creating a Coronavirus vaccine.
Joe Biden states. “The Obama-Biden Administration set up the White House National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense,” he boasted, “to prepare for future pandemics like COVID-19"
"Donald Trump eliminated it, and now we're paying the price.” Trump's “draconian cuts,” said Biden, were now costing people their lives.
Former NSC official Tim Morrison responded that Trump streamlined the bloated agency, leaving the bio-defense division untouched. Morrison said Trump created "real accountability in the federal government’s expansive bio-defense system,” but accused Trump's detractors of having “misconstrued or intentionally misrepresented” the facts.
On March 4, HHS announced its plan to purchase 500 million N95 respirators for the Strategic National Stockpile.
A week later, President Trump signed an order to make general-use face masks available to healthcare workers.
On March 17, the Department of Defense announced that it would be providing 5 million additional respirator masks as well as 2,000 specialized ventilators.
Democratic candidate Bloomberg said many Americans would have to “pay a heavy cost” for “the president’s management incompetence.”
On March 5, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created new billing codes for Coronavirus tests, to accurately track the public health response.
On March 6, Trump signed Congressional legislation securing $8.3 billion for Coronavirus response efforts — money to cover the costs of public lab testing, isolation and quarantine initiatives, the sanitization of public areas, and vaccine research.
That week, Trump declared a national emergency, which freed up an additional $42 billion to fund the cause.
Speaker Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Schumer released a statement declaring that Trump "continues to manufacture needless chaos within his administration, and it is hampering the government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.”
President Trump met with executives from the banking, health insurance, pharmaceutical, airline, grocery store, and retail store industries, among others to get them to join the war against the virus and help the American people.
On March 10, Trump urged Congress to pass a payroll tax cut.
The same day, the Department of Agriculture announced that it would allow meal-service programs to remain active while schools were closed due to the virus
CMS, after meeting with Trump and V P Pence, announced that Medicare Advantage and Part D plans could waive co-payments for Coronavirus tests and treatment.
According to Democratic candidate Steyer, “Trump’s incompetence” was akin to “a neon sign going like, ‘I stink at my job. Yeah, I am a dummy! Ok?’ by Donald Trump.”
On March 11, The Administration announced that health savings accounts could be used to cover Coronavirus testing and treatment without co-payments.
The same day, Trump directed the Treasury Department to allow Coronavirus-impacted individuals and businesses to defer the payment of taxes that they owed.
Former Virginia Governor Democrat Terry McAuliffe says, “We got a guy in the White House who doesn’t know anything about patriotism, doesn’t know anything about empathy.”
On March 12, Trump tells the Small Business Administration to make available some $50 billion in low-interest disaster loans for businesses impacted by the virus.
That same day, Biden proclaims that by cutting money to the Global Health Security Agenda, the US was not prepared for this pandemic. This was an outright lie. The cuts never happened and in fact, Trump's budget increased an increase for the GHSA.
On March 12, the Administration increased flexibility of unemployment insurance programs, to allow workers to benefit from them.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell pronounced “More people are sick in America tonight because Donald Trump is president. More people are dead and dying in America tonight because Donald Trump is president.”
On March 13, Trump authorized HHS existing rules and regulations be waived so that healthcare providers could respond quickly to the crisis with little to no red tape.
The same day, Trump directed the Energy Department to purchase large quantities of crude oil for the National Strategic Reserve.
The same day, Trump directed the Education Department to waive interest payments on student loans held by the federal government.
On March 14, the Administration negotiated legislation to provide tax credits for businesses choosing to give paid leave to their employees.
Four days later, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that it would temporarily suspend foreclosures and evictions affecting families whose mortgages were insured by FHA.
According to Bloomberg, Trump had “failed to prepare for a deadly pandemic — leaving Americans deeply unsettled” as a result.
The Administration has provided every state with increased flexibility to approve the establishment of Coronavirus testing laboratories as well as drive-through testing sites.
On March 14, the Administration announced it was working with Google to develop a website designed to help Americans learn coronavirus prevention procedures - determine whether or not they needed a test - and where they could get one.
Four days later, the Administration launched a partnership with the Ad Council, various media networks, and a number of digital platforms to produce public service announcements about the Coronavirus.
In March, CMS expanded access to telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries, enabling patients to consult with their doctors remotely while avoiding potential exposure to the virus.
Joe Biden said that the World Health Organization had “offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now,” but Trump “refused them.” This was ANOTHER lie. WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris was quoted as saying “No discussions occurred between WHO and CDC [Centers for Disease Control & Prevention] about WHO providing COVID-19 tests to the United States.”
On March 18, the Administration announced that the U.S. Navy would be deploying two medical ships to help support areas impacted by Coronavirus.
On March 19, Trump signed into law a Congressional bill to not only ensure paid leave benefits to many Americans, but to make free Coronavirus testing available to anyone in need, including the uninsured. The bill also included support for nutrition programs such as the food stamp system.
Democrat Senator Tim Kaine says the president was guilty of“inflammatory China-bashing” and “weeks and weeks of tweeting lies and misinformation about the virus, while the leaders of other nations were taking steps to make sure their populations could be safe."
Former basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar condemned Trump's “failure as a leader” and depicting the president's supporters as nothing more than “cult members” who “mindlessly follow a stern dictatorial father-figure who tells them what to do and think. Like, well, Nazis.”
On March 21, the FDA announced that it had approved a rapid Coronavirus test that would require no training to administer and would yield results in less than an hour.
On March 22, Trump asked multiple car companies to mass produce ventilators to help combat the pandemic.
That same day, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio accused Trump of refusing to “lift a finger to help his hometown” deal with with the coronavirus outbreak. “I can’t be blunt enough, ifthe president doesn’t act, people will die who could have lived otherwise.”
In a March 22 interview, Fox News host Mark Levin said to Dr. Anthony Fauci: “There is this statement by some in the press, some in the opposition party, that the president doesn't follow the science. Is the president following the science?” After replying that in the daily Coronavirus Task Force meetings “we make all of our decisions and recommendations that are based on the science,” Fauci said: “I have never in that room had a situation where I said, scientifically, this is the right thing to do and they said, don't do it. Or [I have never said] scientifically, this is the wrong thing to do, and they did it anyway. Then we get up and we present it to the president. And he asks a lot of questions. That's his nature. He is constantly asking the question, and I never, in the multiple times that I've done that ... He has never overruled me.”
And yet, on that very same day, New York magazine's Jonathan Chait published an article titled “Trump Is Back to Waging War on Science, at the Worst Possible Moment.” The piece concludes with this stinging indictment of the president: “Public-health professionals have had nothing to offer him but facts and science. They never had a chance.”
So German measles aren't a thing?Be nice to know which particular one eyed publication constructed that particular time line of events and activities.
Believe what you want MoXjo. Just don't pretend that anyone with two eyes respects such a selective and twisted narrative.
Hint. It gave itself away when it described COVID 19 as the Chinese virus.
So German measles aren't a thing?
It's still German measles. That's not a kinder reasonThere was a kinder reason for that name.
The illness is called German measles because German physicians wrote the first clear description of it in 1760. Rubella vaccines that prevent this illness first became available in 1969.
https://www.health24.com/Medical/Childhood-diseases/Overview/German-measles-Rubella-20120721
That is something that has got really out of control IMO, ridiculous salaries and what makes it worse is when the dickheads wreck a company they walk away with a handout.What makes it even worse for me is the Qantas honcho could probably pay the lot of them out of his salary
How’s Qantas going?
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