OTOH, there are people who would be reacting the same way to politicize it even if they had taken a precision scalpel to cut waste without breaking up entire organizations. Cuz everyone has to be in their stupid tribes.

#1 | Posted by sentinel

That depends entirely on if that "precision" cut could be directly tied to worsening disease surveillance and outbreak potential, wouldn't it?

Trump and his Entire Movement are Stupid.

Total Failures in Imagination or planning.

#6 | Posted by Effeteposer

They know they're shielded from their own incompetence.

If Ebola did manage to get here and a sizeable outbreak occur, they wouldn't care. They'd be safe behind their security manned gates and in their luxury penthouses in high rise buildings locked to the general public or at the large, multi acre estates in isolated places like Hawaii or Montana or Colorado.

Hell, they'd probably cheer it as it culled people they view as little more than insects and drains on resources they think should be theirs.

Of course, we have.

You're not exactly ahead of the curve on that one.