Obama Administration Snubs Shutdown of County Public Health; Flu Pandemic Spreads

July 8, 2009 (LPAC)—Dozens of the 3,000 counties across the United States, whose health departments are the front line of bio-defense against disease (vaccinations, disease-surveillance and reporting, food-borne germ testing, sanitation, etc.) have resorted to holding public briefings and issuing press releases to appeal for help, because they are being shut down, in whole or part, under unresolved state budget/economic break-down crises, while the Obama Administration refuses to act, or even to acknowledge the danger. This is the case, despite the official declaration of a worldwide A/H1N1 pandemic made in June by the World Health Organization.

"Now is not the time to cut the budget and play games with money going to public health...when people's lives are at risk," was the comment by Julie Pryde, the administrator of the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District in Illinois, who on June 25, joined health officials from five other counties for a joint press conference to appeal for assistance on anti-flu defense, and for maintaining general functions. In response, the Obama Administration continues its drive for Hitler-style health-care "reform" to cut services and costs, meaning to cut lives.

One week into the new fiscal year for 46 states, Illinois and other state governments are in straits similar to the "California crisis," where drastic cuts in government functions are underway, while Washington watches on.

None of this would have ensued if the emergency policy guidelines from Lyndon LaRouche, issued over the July-September period in 2007, at the start of the crash, had been taken. His "Homeowners and Bank Protection Act" (www.larouchepac.com/hbpa) issued then, spells out the principles and measures required to salvage and restore the physical economy; along with international emergency actions for a new credit system to serve nation-states, not globalization. Even at this late hour, it could be done. If not, doomsday is at hand.