The reason few COVID 19 cases have been found in the US? Only 445 have been tested for it as of Friday, Feb. 28. WHY?

Seems like you missed my point---i.e.:

It's another example of what Trump would like to do if he were king---hence the need for consideration of principles when choosing an elected official.

Now who moved the goal post.  The topic was did CDC budget get cut. 


We do not elect kings.  We know most everything they want to do will have to pass Congress.

This was the principle of wanting to cut the size of the Federal gov.  Something every Rep campaigns on doing.  

Read the question again. NO WHERE DID I WRITE CDC m2c. Why do you INSIST on  talking about an issue NOT under discussion? PLEASE READ WHAT I WROTE. PLEASE.

I admire your ability to move them as easily as candles on a cake.

In the 1964 classic movie Becket, Richard Burton ... Becket / Thomas Becket's mind was characterized by Peter O'Toole's character (Becket's King / Henry II)  as producing the most fertile droppings in England.

I simply sweep up a representative sample of the conclusions that you have previously posted in your comments and answers and then arrange them in an easily recognizable configuration that engenders (hopefully) an accurate gestalt of what you suggest relative to Trump is reality.

Nope. I stick to topic.   And topic was "did the budget get cut"  the answer is NO. 

AND now you are bringing up movies??? Yawn.

No, you don't stick to topic.  You just decide to decide what you think the topic is and then try to restrict what the comments to fit your interpretation.

I guess I should have known you would not realize the significance of the topic of that movie or its relation to other treatments of the historical occurrence, or even the caliber of the actors who played the leading roles: 

Becket or The Honour of God (French: Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu) is a play written in French by Jean Anouilh. It is a depiction of the conflict between Thomas Becket and King Henry II of England leading to Becket's assassination in 1170.

Anouilh's interpretation of the historical story, though often ironic, is more straightforward than T. S. Eliot's play on the same subject, Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot's play on the same subject.

(One thing I enjoy about the extensive amount of knowledge I have acquired that relate to my many interests, it provides me with a wonderfully rich intellectual life.)

Edit---closed the parenthetical statement. This post was edited by tom jackson at March 5, 2020 11:24 AM MST

Topic: budget cuts.

Why is the US caught so flatfooted?
Dumb don gutted programs and departments that were set up to deal with pandemics This post was edited by my2cents at March 5, 2020 12:15 PM MST

You say, "Dumb don gutted programs and departments that were set up to deal with pandemics."

Is that all you intended to comment?.  I started to type "You are absolutely right," but my hands involuntarily cramped at the start of my initial attempts to type the phrase---and I dare not risk that again.

No....that was Rosie's statement.  I was showing that I was on topic. 

I have already showed the statement is false.

Here's your full comment: 

Topic: budget cuts.

Why is the US caught so flatfooted?
Dumb don gutted programs and departments that were set up to deal with pandemics

Then why did you post what you did?

Really???? I should not have to explain that. But here ya go....

1. After I showed budget was not cut.
2. You said I do not stick the topic...I make up topics.
3. You started talking about movies. 
4. I clarified Rosie's topic (her question) was about the budget cuts. 
4.1 I stated the topic
4.2 I showed this by quoting Rosie's question. 

This post was edited by my2cents at March 6, 2020 5:58 PM MST

Here's another movie that Trump would love to star in:  The Man who would be King.

Plot summary  (From Wikipedia)

The narrator of the story is an Indian journalist in 19th century India—Kipling himself, in all but name. Whilst on a tour of some Indian native states he meets two scruffy adventurers, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan. Softened by their stories, he agrees to help them in a minor errand, but later he regrets this and informs the authorities about them—preventing them from blackmailing a minor rajah. A few months later the pair appear at his newspaper office in Lahore. They tell him of a plan they have hatched. They declare that after years of trying their hands at all manner of things, they have decided that "India is not big enough for them". They plan to go to Kafiristan and set themselves up as kings. Dravot will pass as a native and, armed with twenty Martini-Henry rifles, they plan to find a king or chief to help him defeat enemies. Once that is done, they will take over for themselves. They ask the narrator for the use of books, encyclopedias and maps of the area—as a favour, because they are fellow Freemasons, and because he spoiled their blackmail scheme. They also show him a contract they have drawn up between themselves which swears loyalty between the pair and total abstinence from women and alcohol.


Khyber Pass caravan c. 1880s
Two years later, on a scorching hot summer night, Carnehan creeps into the narrator's office. He is a broken man, a crippled beggar clad in rags and he tells an amazing story. Dravot and Carnehan succeeded in becoming kings: traversing treacherous mountains, finding the Kafirs, mustering an army, taking over villages, and dreaming of building a unified nation and even an empire. The Kafirs (pagans, not Muslims) were impressed by the rifles and Dravot's lack of fear of their idols, and acclaimed him as a god, the reincarnation or descendant of Alexander the Great. They show a whiter complexion than others of the area ("so hairy and white and fair it was just shaking hands with old friends") implying their ancient lineage to Alexander himself. The Kafirs practised a form of Masonic ritual, and Dravot's reputation was further cemented when he showed knowledge of Masonic secrets that only the oldest priest remembered.


A Kalash festival
Their schemes were dashed, however, when Dravot (against the advice of Carnehan) decided to marry a Kafir girl. Kingship going to his head, he decided he needed a Queen and then royal children. Terrified at marrying a god, the girl bit Dravot when he tried to kiss her during the wedding ceremony. Seeing him bleed, the priests cried that he was "Neither God nor Devil but a man!" Most of the Kafirs turned against Dravot and Carnehan. A few of his men remained loyal, but the army defected and the two kings were captured.

Dravot, wearing his crown, stood on a rope bridge over a gorge while the Kafirs cut the ropes, and he fell to his death. Carnehan was crucified between two pine trees. When he survived this torture for a whole day, the Kafirs considered it a miracle and let him go. He begged his way back to India.

As proof of his tale, Carnehan shows the narrator Dravot's head, still wearing the golden crown, which he swears never to sell. Carnehan leaves carrying the head. The next day the narrator sees him crawling along the road in the noon sun, with his hat off and gone mad. The narrator sends him to the local asylum. When he inquires two days later, he learns that Carnehan has died of sunstroke. No belongings were found with him

:):):)

SIGH. You did not read and understand my question m2c. Where did I write CDC? I did not. Are you aware there were OTHER agencies SPECIFICALLY that dealt with PANDEMICS? Sigh. This post was edited by RosieG at March 4, 2020 1:46 AM MST

Exactly which agency(s) are you refering to in your question?   And I will find out IF they were cut.