Sarah Paine
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And who knows why it didn't happen?
Maybe it wasn't the State Department, but all over the world trying to prevent these things.
Or if you think about the government, it's about setting all these standards to prevent disasters.
Like I've talked to you offline, so this will be repetitive for you.
But like you immunize people to prevent disease.
Can I prove who didn't get what?
No, I can't.
I can talk about people who got bad reactions to it.
But then there's a failure to understand, yeah, there are some bad reactions, but let's look at the much greater number of people who are alive in our own day.
And earlier when President Roosevelt had polio and people were scared to death of getting polio, they understood about the importance of these things and everyone was lining up to get the polio vaccine when Dr. Salk invented it.
And there are other things like having enough meteorologists to predict storms and so you can get people out of summer camps when you need to get the people out of summer camps.
And having appropriate โ spending the government funds to have the appropriate sirens and things.
And what people aren't looking โ they're looking at the expense of doing these things and saying โ
They're preventing disasters.
And people, it's the negative objectives.
So you can't measure the things that fail to happen.
But I assure you, averting a catastrophe, you're saving a lot, probably a lot more than whatever you're spending on the budget.
And I get it.
The U.S.
government needs to be much more efficient.