Incorrect, YOU were saying that. The other user was saying something different than you, so there is no "we" in this situation. I bundled you two together for ease of talking about the same issue.
Anyhow, my point was in reference to the conversation over what we have missed in the past, not what is going on now. There is and always will be a crisis or potential crisis brewing, because that's just the natural state of leading a country. My point is that we have multiple actions and have in the past been able to accomplish non-issue actions in spite of ALSO fixing the current crisis at hand, therefore "we have a crisis" is a nonapplicable excuse. The true answer is merely that more people prioritize specific non-crisis actions over other non-crisis actions, and therefore it would be more honest to not pretend that "we'll get to it eventually" is a valid answer when it more often than not isn't. People who prioritize specific actions low enough now that they don't spend the extra actions on them aren't likely to suddenly reprioritize higher them later.