@jmpfaff A core function of the Union is common defense in times of crisis (war, natural disaster, plague) we used shared resources to protect wherever needs it: absurd for each state to stockpile materiel for this type of event when federal government can do so cheaper & more efficiently
NY is under-attack by this outbreak, acute illness is outstripping ICU capacity, NY needs protective gear, tests, ventilators ASAP, but for weeks now federal government has been shorting NY, while sending way more than necessary to Republican states. Breaks core function of Union
President Trump keeps yelling at Democratic states: this is your fault, you should buy more materiel, take care of your citizens. Not only is that the function of the federal government, but states send most of their money to federal government, they don't have the cash ...
And, the federal government has the power to compel production, which states do not, and President Trump (for some fucking reason) continues to not do. So, federal government is taking our common resources & refusing to give it to Democrats: that is bad. But, it gets worse ...
No we find out that Prince Jared & Trump Regime regime are using federal money (our money) to bid against Democratic states for PPE, ventilators, etc. (1) raising costs of product, lining pockets of some rich folks (2) making it impossible for Democratic states to buy anything.
NY sends $25 billion more to US than NY gets back each year, but Trump is (1) not giving NY fair share of common medical materiel (2) using NY's cash to bid against NY, so we cannot even buy our own medical materiel (3) making some assholes rich (4) ensuring deaths of Americans.
What Trump Regime is doing right now is comic book villain-level cruelty & corruption, layered on top of incompetence, authoritarianism, and disloyalty to the US.
