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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy is Trump so indecisive about using the Defense Production Act?
Does anyone have any idea?
Is he just indecisive? He doesn't want to make a decision because he would have to be responsible for it?
What happened to transparency?
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,096 posts)Who pays the employees?
He ONLY cares about money...
jls4561
(1,241 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,037 posts)Turin_C3PO
(13,649 posts)Im usually not one for conspiracy theories but Ive thought that maybe hes not helping out because its mostly coastal blue states that are affected so far. I wouldnt put it past him.
Raven123
(4,714 posts)Ohiogal
(31,657 posts)catbyte
(34,165 posts)global1
(25,166 posts)You don't go to McDonalds and tell them to make ventilators. You go to companies that have the technology and the capabilities and ask them.
LaurenOlimina
(1,165 posts)Thus dispelling the central GOP theory of government.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)companies can continue to charge obscene prices for PPE equipment. Really criminally obscene prices. An eighty cent mask can be sold for five dollars. Companies can profit off this disaster. I guess that's not possible if Trump pulls the trigger on the Authority.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)from the most generous perspective to him, he has decided that we're better off with a few eager volunteers than a bunch of conscripts, to put it simply. He will try to sell that philosophy as soon as one of his underlings finds a way to put it on a teleprompter.
procon
(15,805 posts)companies in comparison to the failure of Venezuela. Implying that he is conflating Marxism with a temporary federal emergency order to bring vital production under national control to meet the threat to the whole country.
He knows his cult followers would tar and feather him as a Socialist if he ordered a some manufacturing company to stop producing beer and start making hand sanitizers. Ordering hotels to convert to hospitals, recovery or hospice centers would affect his hotels and impact his profits, so he's not going to do anything that would cost him or affect his investment portfolio.
unblock
(51,973 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Let someone else deal with it. It's the governors' problem.
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