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Flaleftist

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16. Trump spent over $100 million playing golf, but $1 billion is too much to save American lives?

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Thu Mar 26, 2020, 10:43 PM

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White House Considers $1 Billion Price Tag for Ventilators -- and Has Second Thoughts [View all] demmiblue Mar 2020 OP

they'll be coming very soon... stillcool Mar 2020 #1

Coming soon? ... marble falls Mar 2020 #8

you're bad...but.. stillcool Mar 2020 #9

Not even necessary. We will be at zero cases any day now. Flaleftist Mar 2020 #14

And Trump's income tax filings.....LOL N/C DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #23

Begin producing? At this point, beginning? WTF! Firestorm49 Mar 2020 #2

that's $12,500 each, 1 billion divided by 80 K nt msongs Mar 2020 #3

Catastrophe capitalism (nt) William Seger Mar 2020 #5

Is this really happening?? Baitball Blogger Mar 2020 #10

Aren't bidding wars supposed work the other way around? mr_lebowski Mar 2020 #26

A single ventilator can save dozens of lives over the course of a year NickB79 Mar 2020 #11

Which is mid level price. Read artucle a ventilator can cost $4,000 to $40,000. nt iluvtennis Mar 2020 #15

Triple timing existing plants bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 #4

Exactly. Fuck GM. SunSeeker Mar 2020 #20

I've seen articles on a number of small groups of people, very small companies, pangaia Mar 2020 #6

Dyson vacuum plant Scarsdale Mar 2020 #32

Obama/Biden would have kick-started this ASAP. Talitha Mar 2020 #7

Aren't We Giving them a ton of bailout money? tinymontgomery Mar 2020 #12

They will keep promising ventilators, even if they are too cheap to buy them. nt Sloumeau Mar 2020 #13

Vaporlators NBachers Mar 2020 #17

Yes Moisture Vaporators airplaneman Mar 2020 #19

Trump spent over $100 million playing golf, but $1 billion is too much to save American lives? Flaleftist Mar 2020 #16

Screw the 100+ million for golf DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #24

Nice! Tbear Mar 2020 #18

When it came time to 'liberate Iraq', we didn't blink at spending 720 million dollars a day. AtheistCrusader Mar 2020 #21

1 billion is what I estimated a while ago MoonlitKnight Mar 2020 #22

Trump needs bribes McCamy Taylor Mar 2020 #25

Unlike the pics in the OP, this is the proposed Ventec device: Ghost Dog Mar 2020 #27

One billion for Boeing? No problem. Ventilators? Ehh, no. intrepidity Mar 2020 #28

Professor emeritus of making shit up, what could go wrong? Brainfodder Mar 2020 #29

The better strategy is to deploy 3-D printers to make the parts BumRushDaShow Mar 2020 #30

See, a healthy person with a normal working brain can come up with good ideas like this. crickets Mar 2020 #35

I saw a thread early this morning where one company in the UK IS going to do this! BumRushDaShow Mar 2020 #36

Great news - thanks for the link! crickets Mar 2020 #37

Invoke the NDA and set the price. Fire Kushner. Walleye Mar 2020 #31

Trump fiddles while James Dyson of vacuum cleaner fame designed a ventilator in 10 days Vinca Mar 2020 #33

When FUBAR meets Disaster Capitalism clashing with Jared Hestia Mar 2020 #34