Obama you
may recall plodded along while, delaying the U.S. response to the epidemic that
saw Liberia hit with 9,862 cases of Ebola which left a devastating 4408 dead.
The Times reported that Worldwide there were 25,500 cases and 10,500 dead; so
clearly Liberia was at the epicenter of the death toll, accounting for nearly
half of the dead.
So Obama’s
response was to hire a political hack, Democrat strategist, Ron Klain to be the
Ebola Czar who departed just a short
time into his projected tenure. Next the Community Organizer decided he would
send nearly 3000 members of the military to help set up 11 Ebola Treatment
Units (ETU). The United States outlay for this adventure was $1.4 billion.
So…how many
patients did this project treat? How Many lives did it save? The grand total is
28. No that’s not a typo…28! Do the math; that works out to be $50 million per
patient. These people spend so much time worry about the optics/politics of
things that they delayed the response until after the epidemic had peaked.
This should
be yet another glaring example of how wrong all those folks who believe that
the government has all the answers or solutions to problems. The local, more
nimble and largely privately funded response proved to be not only more
effective, but also less expensive. Imagine these are the clowns who voted to
take over a huge segment of our economy and put themselves in charge of our
healthcare.
Government
is a large, lumbering, slow moving mess that is not equipped to deal with
anything in a timely or effective manner. Private enterprise is a clear cut
more effective and cost effective manner for addressing major problems.
