This comes as no surprise to Convention of States volunteers, but now the world is waking up to the fact that private industry is always more efficient and effective than government programs.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious diseases expert, explained yesterday during an Instagram live interview with NBA player Steph Curry that the private sector saved the federal government after the feds bungled the rollout of COVID-19 testing.
“We have hundreds of thousands of tests that are out there now, mostly because we got the private sector involved, of the companies who know how to make it well, make large amounts,” Dr. Fauci told Curry.
Later in the interview, Curry asked Dr. Fauci, “What are the things inhibiting those [the tests] being accessible to the masses?”
“Well, there should be nothing now that’s inhibiting it,” Fauci responded. “But originally, the system, the way it was set up, Steph, was not geared to this kind of massive capability of instantaneously, safely getting a test, getting it done in a really good period of time – not days and days, but hours.”
“Right now, the system is changed, predominately because it’s being handed over to the commercial firms who know how to do it,” the doctor continued. “It started off as a public health measure from the CDC, it now needs to be, and is being handed of to, the commercial group.”
Federal programs and agencies are wasteful, inefficient, and, in this case, may have cost American lives. There is a place for federal bureaucrats, but that place should be extremely limited. Those who wish to expand federal power by nationalizing healthcare or higher education would do well to remember that in this crisis, the private sector picked up where the federal government collapsed.
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A Convention of States can propose constitutional amendments that forever limit the power, scope, and jurisdiction of federal agencies. These amendments can keep the feds in their constitutional box and ensure that they stop trying to control areas of American life that are better left to private citizens.
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H/T Daily Wire
