Rick Perry/Poland/Secede

[BettyPoop]

Rick Perry/Poland/Secede/Slashing CDC's Budget

Why doesn't Rick Perry come back from Poland and throw the Center for Disease Control out of Texas? The CDC is big government. Texas is perfectly capable of royally fucking up the ebola response on its own. Let Texas secede, now.

 

[BettyPoop]

Why doesn't Rick Perry come back from Poland and throw the Center for Disease Control out of Texas? The CDC is big government. Texas is perfectly capable of royally fucking up the ebola response on its own. Let Texas secede, now.

I do have to congratulate Rick's fellow Republicans for slashing the CDC's budget.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Why is Perry in Poland?

 

[BettyPoop]

Why is Perry in Poland?

Ebola research?

 

[KingOrfeo]

Ebola research?

Since there's no ebola there . . . that actually makes sense, in a Polish-joke sort of way.

 

[BettyPoop]

Since there's no ebola there . . . that actually makes sense, in a Polish-joke sort of way.

or in a Rick Perry way.

 

[garbage can]

I do have to congratulate Rick's fellow Republicans for slashing the CDC's budget.

I think congress cut the rate of increase of the CDC budget, not the actual budget.

 

[DooleyDarter]

I think congress cut the rate of increase of the CDC budget, not the actual budget.

But the CDC still found the funds to try to find out why monkeys like to throw there shit. The also invested heavily into trying to find out why many lesbians are so fat. Fuck that eboli vaccine, monkeys tossing poo is more important and I really think its more important to find out why bull dykes are so porky.

 

[doowdniw]

Perry makes dirt look smart.

 

[BettyPoop]

But the CDC still found the funds to try to find out why monkeys like to throw there shit. The also invested heavily into trying to find out why many lesbians are so fat. Fuck that eboli vaccine, monkeys tossing poo is more important and I really think its more important to find out why bull dykes are so porky.

There you have it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Actually, the CDC just had a Katrina moment proving once again that no matter who the President is the bloated welfare state cannot work for all of the reasons Libertarians outline.

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The CDC, for example, was busted in 2007 by Oklahoma Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn’s office for a litany of questionable spending decisions.

Among them: spending $1.75 million over seven years on a “Hollywood liaison” whose job was to help movie and television studios develop accurate plot lines about diseases. To pay the position, the CDC tapped into an account that was supposed to be used to develop responses to bio-terrorism.

Making matters worse, the head of the Hollywood liaison office was found to be a former CDC employee who landed in one of the cushiest semi-retirements ever dreamed up by the federal government.

That spending might have brought more scripted realism to House, Grey’s Anatomy and General Hospital, but it didn’t do squat to help combat Ebola or any other real world disease.

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The CDC also spent lavishly on a new headquarters and visitor center that opened in 2006 – even though the agency already had one visitor center, and it’s hard to imagine many tourists wanting to check out something like the CDC.

The agency blew through more than $10 million in new office furniture and built a $200,000 fitness center and $30,000 sauna on-site.

Even when the CDC was combating disease, it was wasting money, Coburn’s team found.

Though the agency spent more than $2.6 billion on grants for HIV and AIDS research over five years, the CDC acknowledged that many of those grants “have no objectives” or were otherwise useless. They kept funding them anyway.

“Many times the answer is to spend more money instead of redirecting the money or eliminating the waste,” Thomas Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonprofit that tracks poor spending decisions by Congress and the federal bureaucracy, told Watchdog.org this week. “Programs that are completely ineffective might get cut by a few percentage points or something, but the wasteful spending still exists.”

And who can forget the CDC’s attempt to eliminate syphilis? In 1999, the agency asked Congress to give them extra funding for a special project meant to practically eliminate syphilis in the United States by 2005.

Congress responded by doubling the CDC’s budget for syphilis-related programs, and the CDC spent that extra money on drag shows and invited porn stars and strippers to speak at public events.

By 2005, not only did syphilis still exist, but the number of reported cases had increased by 68 percent.

This is the same agency that we’re now being told could have prevented Ebola if only it hadn’t seen its funding reduced over the past few years.

“This review of recent CDC expenditures demonstrates that a re-prioritization of CDC funding and a review of the approach to certain types of disease prevention are in order,” Coburn’s team concluded.

Since being embarrassed by Coburn’s report, the CDC’s track record has not exactly improved.

The agency has received more than $3 billion from a new research fund created by the Affordable Care Act, but has spent only $180 million of that bounty on researching dangerous diseases.

Instead, it has budgeted millions of dollars each year for community grants aimed at convincing Americans to make smart choices about their health — essentially, taxpayer-funded advertising telling you to put down that giant soda and eat more salad.

Other grants awarded with Obamacare dollars have helped prop-up farmers markers and fund the installation of bike lanes, all of which are nice things to have — unless they’re coming at the expense of more important priorities, like researching deadly diseases.

The NIH has been no better.

As Mollie Hemingway points out at The Federalist, the NIH has seen its funding increase by 900 percent since 1970 — so much for those “funding slides” Collins was complaining about — and the NIH’s share of Department of Health and Human Services spending will top $958 billion this year.

Again, it comes down to a question of priorities. Because the NIH certainly has enough money to put towards Ebola research, if it wanted to.

Instead, the NIH has funded studies that included feeding cocaine to Japanese quail, finding out why lesbians are fat and getting monkeys sexually aroused.

If the CDC and NIH had more taxpayer money, it’s possible they would use it all to conduct round-the-clock research on an Ebola vaccine. But it’s also possible — maybe even likely, given the history here — that they would blow that extra cash on another round of questionable decisions and then come back to Congress and the American people, pleading poverty and blaming budget cuts for why the important stuff didn’t get done.

http://watchdog.org/177212/cdc-nih-ebola-budget/

Bobby Jindal writes:

Consider the Prevention and Public Health Fund, a new series of annual mandatory appropriations created by Obamacare. Over the past five years, the CDC has received just under $3 billion in transfers from the fund. Yet only 6 percent—$180 million—of that $3 billion went toward building epidemiology and laboratory capacity. Especially given the agency’s postwar roots as the Communicable Disease Center, one would think that “detecting and responding to infectious diseases and other public health threats” warrants a larger funding commitment.

Instead, the Obama administration has focused the CDC on other priorities. While protecting Americans from infectious diseases received only $180 million from the Prevention Fund, the community transformation grant program received nearly three times as much money—$517.3 million over the same five-year period.

The CDC’s website makes clear the objectives of community transformation grants. The program funds neighborhood interventions like “increasing access to healthy foods by supporting local farmers and developing neighborhood grocery stores,” or “promoting improvements in sidewalks and street lighting to make it safe and easy for people to walk and ride bikes.” Bike lanes and farmer’s markets may indeed help a community—but they would do little to combat dangerous diseases like Ebola, SARS or anthrax.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...about-ebola-funding-111820.html#ixzz3GEOphgPV

 

[phrodeau]

But the CDC still found the funds to try to find out why monkeys like to throw there shit. The also invested heavily into trying to find out why many lesbians are so fat. Fuck that eboli vaccine, monkeys tossing poo is more important and I really think its more important to find out why bull dykes are so porky.

Maybe Mary Cheney made them do it.

 

[DooleyDarter]

Maybe Mary Cheney made them do it.

he would have more than likely had them research the digging of buck shot out of an unfortunate hunter

 

[BettyPoop]

And still no word from the governor of Texas?

 

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[KingOrfeo]

Why is Perry in Poland?

Ah, here's why!

 

[BettyPoop]

Rick Perry was visiting Auschwitz in Poland to get ideas for his state's new immigration center.