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Bill Clinton and George W. Bush invested heavily in a global pandemic response network. Barrack Obama continued that approach because it was the prudent thing to do. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. 1/7
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The truth is that we have spent $6.4 trillion on wars in the Middle East and Asia since 2001. Republicans didn't hesitate to send my brethren and me into the line of fire under false pretenses. 2/7
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Doug Collins spent 5 months in Iraq in 2008 as an Air Force Reserve Chaplain. I spent 33 months in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan in 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2012 as an active duty Military Intelligence Satellite Communications Warrant Officer. 3/7
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Let me tell you something that I feel in my bones: we would be a lot better off if that money had been used to guarantee Healthcare, better fund public schools, and put us on a path to a cleaner, brighter future for our children with the Green New Deal. 4/7
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$6,400,000,000,000 spent on needless wars! But funding a war against a virus that impacts all Americans and has taken more than 157,000 lives is too costly? Taking care of our families is too costly? 5/7
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We bailed out Wall Street. We bailed out the Auto industry. We can bail out the real America - those of us who worry about providing for our families and how we're going to pay our bills each month - during a pandemic! 6/7
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This crisis is real and we need real leadership who understand that global pandemics don't care about red states or blue states.
The virus doesn't care - so we must! 7/7
