Were all the fault of the World Health Organization or or the other 2 excuse one of my own personal favorites in political excuse making the a big protests we just didnt see this coming which which might be true of beer in every average every day jane and john q citizen but when you are the House Speaker when you are the Senate Majority leader or near the president of the United States we didnt see it coming is no excuse especially when the very military Industrial Complex that you worship that you and our money over to warn you of this very catastrophe 3 years ago according to a 2017 u. S. Northern command plan out of the pentagon the nation reports that the pentagon was not just well aware of the threat of a nobel influenza but even anticipated the consequence scarcity of ventilators facemask and facemask and hospital beds. Schumer palosi donald rubio cotton and all and all and all the rest my friends labor run out of excuses recent weeks of taught the American People that we are far
Hes also author of prelude to cruise which is winner of the penn joyce author award for poetry and at the 2015 stonewall literature award. Poetry collection is also a finalist for the 2015 National Book critics circle award as well as awards lambda literary and the publishing triangle in 2015. Saeed jones served as cohost of buzzfeeds morning show and served as buzzfeeds lgbt and culture editor. He grew up in lewisville texas and earned a ba at Western Kentucky University and an mfa at Rutgers University in newark. He lives in new york city and tweets at the ferocity. Thank you for being here saeed jones. As a side note, the southern festival of books remains completely free because of Strong Community support and we want to keep it that way. So you can donate on the web. Humanities tennessee. Org or by the southern festival of books or by the collection plate thats been passed around. Saeed is going to read for us. We will have a q a and when we get to the q and aplease use the microp
Every average every day jane and john q citizen but when you are the House Speaker when you are the Senate Majority leader or near the president of the United States we didnt see it coming is no excuse especially when the very military Industrial Complex that you worship that you and our money over to warn you of this very catastrophe 3 years ago according to a 2017 u. S. Northern command plan out of the pentagon the nation reports that the pentagon was not just well aware of the threat of a nobel influenza but even anticipated the consequence scarcity of ventilators facemask and face mask and hospital beds. Schumer palosi donald rubio cotton and all and all and all the rest my friends theyve run out of excuses recent weeks have taught the American People that we are far from in the trillion dollar Security State they have built around us in fact we are out. Cold as we start watching the hawks. You want whats going on the city you streets you want to. Pursue what you see the prices you
National security this year alone the trumpet ministration secured a near record 750000000000. 00 in defense spending but what kind of security are you buying us one a simple virus can crush our economy and Health Care Infrastructure in just a few short weeks naturally the most common answers we as citizens get in return when we ask these questions is either a litany of spoiled toddler like finger pointing like the kind we witnessed this week when us President Donald Trump tried to claim his inadequacies and failures were all the fault of the World Health Organization or or the other excuse one of my own personal favorites in political excuse making the a big protests we just didnt see this coming. Which which might be true appear in every average every day jane and john q citizen but when you were the House Speaker when you were the Senate Majority leader or were near the president of the United States we didnt see it coming is no excuse especially when the very military Industrial Co
Leaders failed to act when they should have in the wake of the tragedy hard questions must always be asked here in the United States of america one of the most important questions begging begging to be asked of our great elected officials from donald trump to nancy pelosi to Mitch Mcconnell is why did you allow this to happen why did over 12000. 00 americans die on your watch especially when you spend 1. 00 trillion dollars of our tax dollars on National Security this year alone the trumpet administration secured a near record 750000000000. 00 in defense spending but what kind of security are you buying us one a simple virus can crush our economy and Health Care Infrastructure in just a few short weeks naturally the most common answers we have citizens get in return when we ask these questions is either a litany. Spoiled toddler like finger pointing like the kind we witnessed this week when u. S. President donald trump tried to claim his an adequate season failures were all the fault o