They need to be prosecuted for price gouging........under a Federal Emergency price gouging is against the law............Auto makers can produce these things.........but that would take time....and building a car hardly is a SANITIZED LAB ENVIRONMENT.....needed to make this product............Where the hell are you going to get them.......the whole world is trying to buy them...........I suppose this is the difference.
Italy has received help from around Europe and China to help there crisis. New York get you lot that just blames them.
New York is going to have a huge problem in a matter of days, Americans are going to die for the lack of ventilators.
We got it 'Let them die'
You gonna shit them...........they will have to innovate or other governors may LEND THEM SOME......but that is a hard sale......the other states give them to New York.......they aren't coming back if they need them.
What ever happened to the days where Americans said "we need 50,000 ventilators" and not only would we have had those ventilators, we would be getting respirators to the world? No one thinks like that anymore. They just hide under their beds and stick out their hands for cash whatever the crisis is.
That what the War Production act does... But Kushner bowed to the lobby and didn't force them to produce them and sell them to the Federal government at a set price...
Instead they produce what they like (i.e. the most profitable) and then let states and other countries bid them to highest price...
A mask that cost 58c three months ago is now going for $7.50...
This is what you are defending...
It would need to be manufacturing for semiconductors to do that...........not kidding...them and food processsing plants have these capabilities now.....Not AUTO makers........Not battery makers either.
Eagle,
Trump needs to use the War Production act now.... Price gouging and speculation is been created with 50 states and foreign countries bidding against each other.....
More Than 750,000 Masks Auctioned for Huge Markup While Hospitals Run Out
Trump has the power to do that right now. We can fight the past later but today this needs to be done and Fauci needs to assign where these need to go to help the country best fight this problem.
Note: Some of the comments here on blaming NY for the problems and leaving them die are disgusting. Yes they are a Democratic state but they are always first to vote for disaster relief for any state red or blue. They are Americans and always think all Americans should help other Americans. I will say if left on there own, other countries might have to step in and help where the US federal government has failed. So you could have UN troops on US soil under humanitarian rights unless the WH actually vetos UN helping there own people.
It is not the War Production Act for that.
The War Production Act is to manufacture critical supplies for fighting a War.......It can be used to force industry to produce more materials for War other than what they normally produce. A lot of hype on this right now.........Not many set up for making the Ventilators right now........and how feasible is it............
This is HYPE.......SO IS YOUR POST.
Defense Production Act allows the Federal government to be able to control the manufacture and distribution of this equipment.
"The Act also authorizes the President to requisition property, force industry to expand production and the supply of basic resources, impose wage and price controls, settle labor disputes, control consumer and real estate credit, establish contractual priorities, and allocate raw materials towards national defense."
This means instead of States bidding against each other like that in Texas, the Feds can just say you have to sell to New York or any body they think will help the country. I know this violates the marketplace economics but so do price gouging laws... This bit is not about hype... That means the Fed can lay down big orders domestically and have contractural priority and pay un-inflated prices...
The WH could also place large orders abroad as well and used that equipment and resources on a National level.
They could also hire nursing staff from abroad and ship them into a state to shore up clusters and then move them to the next cluster. Ireland were considering hiring 1000 Filipino nurses(great nurses) to do just this.