03-27-2020, 01:47 AM
(03-26-2020, 11:36 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Tonight’s Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC focused a lot of attention on a lack of leadership coming from the federal government leaving the 50 states and various government agencies competing for critical resources. Rachel put a lot of emphasis on this lack of finding out where there was the greatest need, and making sure there was a response there. The Massachusetts governor was among those that complained that time and man hours were being wasted trying to get resources which ended up going to the highest bidder. Valid contracts which the states thought answered their needs vanished when the source found a higher bidder.
Trump clearly is a leader when it comes to business ethics -- down to the septic tank.
Quote:That reminded me of something Trump said a few days back. Coordinating the response would inconvenience those who were making the resources available. In other words, Trump could stop the price gouging, but the elites making a profit off of death asked him not to.
Typical 3T practice -- profits over everything, including life. Let the poor die so that elites can indulge their sybaritic desires. It is cruel and ultimately destructive.
Quote:Rachel and MSNBC were not attributing a profit motive, only a lack of needed leadership, but if I am begininng to wonder, perhaps so should others.
Does anyone attribute empathy to our President anymore?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.