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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy are the states having to bid against each other. This is insane.
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Gov. @AsaHutchinson (R-Ark.): "We're trying to collect our PPE. ... We've been outbid by another state after we had our order confirmed." @chucktodd: Should states have to compete for resources?
"Uh, no. There needs to be we'd like to see a better way."
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,111 posts)Igel
(35,304 posts)Instead of being outbid, the vendor would merely be directed to ship the supplies someplace else.
Everybody assumes that since they perceive their needs as the greatest (being close to something always makes it seem bigger) their needs would certainly win.
I think that subsidiarity is a notion that is completely unfamiliar to most DUers, either in its religious or secular guise, and therefore the entire framework that a large portion of the law and the populace uses seems like complete and total nonsense or mere inchoate caprice.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)But it is a question that should be asked by EVERY damned reporter at his "pressers".
ck4829
(35,076 posts)Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)for the WH to do anything. Twitler etal were trying to figure out how to turn this into a cash cow. They seem to have been successful. Not a corner of hell hot enough.