So we're ready to spend how much money trying to wipe out ISIS

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and we've sent 5 ambulances and are setting up a 25 bed hospital to fight Ebola. Depending on private charities; it's a rightwingers dream situation.


US gives 5 ambulances to Sierra Leone; Gates Foundation to spend $50 million on Ebola response
Article by: CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY , Associated Press
Updated: September 10, 2014 - 6:50 PM
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — As the U.S. government and the United Nations both stepped up giving Wednesday to quell the Ebola epidemic sweeping through several West African countries, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced it will spend $50 million on the international effort seeking a vaccine and other therapies.

The United States donated five ambulances Wednesday to help Sierra Leone's fight against Ebola as the West African government acknowledged it can take up to 24 hours to pick up bodies in the spiraling crisis.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's donation is the U.S.-based group's largest to a humanitarian effort. The $50 million includes $10 million the foundation previously committed for emergency operations, treatment and research. The money will be used to purchase supplies and to develop vaccines, therapies and better diagnostic tools.
http://www.startribune.com/world/274591191.html



Ebola in the air? A nightmare that could happen
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/12/health/ebola-airborne/index.html
....The group Doctors Without Borders says Monrovia, Liberia, needs 1,000 beds for Ebola patients but has only 240, and it has had to turn patients away, sending them back to neighborhoods where they could infect more people.

This week, a Pentagon spokesman said the United States is sending a 25-bed field hospital to Monrovia.

"A 25-bed hospital with nobody to staff it? That's not the scale we need to be thinking about," Le Duc said. "It's an absolute embarrassment. When there was a typhoon in the Philippines, the Navy was there in 48 hours and had billions of dollars in resources."

Lately I've been having a recurring thought that I will share here. Some European countries have agricultural centers in Africa to feed their own countries, since their populations have outgrown their ability to feed themselves. China has built a huge, empty city in Africa, as its population is out of space there. Any chance the real reason everybody is pretty much neglecting Africa because they have mixed agendas, and self-interest says a depopulated Africa will make more land available?

[TwilightGardener]

1. It's not the US's primary responsibility to solve the Ebola problem.

Whoever this LeDuc guy is, he's lucky he's getting what he's getting, because in case he hasn't noticed, the US has NATO action going on in Europe, an Asian pivot, one war it's trying to end in Afgh. and another it's spinning up, and there are plenty of other wealthy countries who might step in and help and maybe give the US a break from being world savior--where are they? What a dick.