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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by imglorp on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:20PM (#23408152)
What was the motivation for the cuts? Was it merely difficult to justify spending on a 100-year event that might never come? Or was there a conflict of interest?
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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by yardie on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:43PM (#23408450)
Tax cuts at any cost. Since they can't make small cuts to the large programs (military, SS, Medicare) they make thousands of large cuts to the not so well known programs, CDC, forestry, NEA. Then they go back to their constituents about how many millions and billions in programs they've cut.
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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by _-david-_ on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @05:30PM (#23409042)
>Tax cuts at any cost.

The revenue brought in from taxes increased after the tax cuts.

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-11/55824-CBO-MBR-FY19....

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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by EdwardDiego on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:06PM (#23410072)
Are you implying a direct causative link?
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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by _-david-_ on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @11:17PM (#23411981)
>Are you implying a direct causative link

No.

The person I was responding to was making the claim that budget cuts were made to make tax cuts possible. I was trying to say that the tax cuts did not lower the revenue so budget cuts were not needed to justify the tax cuts.

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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by BlackNitrogen on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:27PM (#23449432)
The per year deficit greatly increased though during that time. we reduced taxes, the economy grew a little more but the deficit really increased. the net is we borrowed from the future to make those tax cut (cause we'll have to back back the extra deficit over time).
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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by redis_mlc on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:27PM (#23408233)
> 100-year event that might never come

SARS-1 (2003) and MERS are recent coronaviruses, and Ebola re-occurs every other year.

SARS-1 had a similar effect on Toronto hospitals as the current COVID-19 on NYC, with staff wiped out.

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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by redis_mlc on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:21PM (#23410234)
Actually, if anybody knows why Ebola keeps re-occurring every 2-3 years (according to the CDC), I'd be curious to know why.

You'd think a disease that fatal (over 50%) would wipe itself out. Or maybe, horrors, it's really that bad!

In 2014, the US had a cluster of Ebola cases, and was totally unprepared, with one patient and 2 nurses getting infected:

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/nurse...

"[nurse] went home in the scrubs she wore while treating Duncan [for Ebola]."

That transmission was via an airline passenger from Liberia.

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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by delecti on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:31PM (#23408298)
Cynically? The best way to show the government is useless, and thus to justify cuts, is to make the government be useless.
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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by sq_ on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @05:21PM (#23408941)
Case in point: the USPS. It's the Republican "starve the beast" strategy [0] (of course, not limited to the US, just commonly seen here).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by loopz on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:23PM (#23408183)
Not caring for anybody but themselves? Why would it be explained.
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