Shortly after White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said at a Thursday press briefing that the Strategic National Stockpile is not meant for states’ use, language was scrubbed from and altered on government websites to reflect Kushner’s claim.
“The state still has a stockpile and the notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile,” Kushner said at a briefing about the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use.”
fine, as it relates to supplies, get Kemp, Ivey, DeSantis, Reeves, McMaster, Lee on the record, now.
The King and his Prince will decide which of his subjects will benefit from their generosity. Based on their fealty to the Crown, of course. The others can rot.
This article in Forbes give some feel for that world right now. And a lot of stuff is currently being shipped out of the United States to other countries. From what I can tell, the federal government has not made any effort to block brokers shipping materials abroad for higher bids. The Forbes author reports that on the day he did most of the reporting, hanging out with one broker as he worked, roughly 280 million masks currently in the United States were purchased by foreign buyers and queued up to be shipped abroad. “Most of the masks are leaving the country,” the broker told him.
Hey, remember when we declared war after Pearl Harbor, and FDR – our “Wartime President” – used all the resources of the federal government to help move bullets to the highest bidders in Germany and Japan?
If the Federal Government isn’t going to distribute supplies by using State Governments, then what is the plan for getting supplies to the places experiencing shortages?
-FEMA?
-Trump flying around in AF1 and throwing boxes of masks to adoring throngs?
-sale to the highest bidder through www.kushnermedicalsupplies.con?