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Re:How did the U.S. end up with nurses wearing garbage bags? by akie on Friday April 10, 2020 @03:59AM (#22830958)
Guess which factory will be the first to be sold off to private investors if we haven't had a pandemic in, say, 5 years?

You can't run long-term planning like this in a country where one party has short-term gains as one maxim, and limited government as the other.

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Re:How did the U.S. end up with nurses wearing garbage bags? by kazagistar on Friday April 10, 2020 @05:59AM (#22831497)
Both parties have been selling off and privatizing everything possible for decades now. Gut everything into the private market which has the ultimate short term aims for short term efficiency increases is the Liberal prime directive.
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