U.S. Spent $550,496 on Study...To Learn About the Sex Lives of Truck Drivers

CNSNews.com ^ | July 1, 2010 | Adam Cassandra

[org.whodat]

It is sick, but Dud this study started in 2005, who approved it???

[nmh]

Good question!

[org.whodat]

I believe he is Canadian!

[nmh]

“The project began in September 2005 and is scheduled to end in August 2010. “

Well someone in the Mental Health Department wanted to look busy and relevant. Pork doesn't just go to the everyday sheeple ... I guess ... .

[org.whodat]

At one time in the so called higher education field it was you publish are you die. Today it's you apply for grants are else.

[Trillian]

They’re spending even more here:
$1.44 Million [to study] the ‘Social Milieu’ of Male Prostitutes in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2543904/posts

[MikefromOhio]

Yes, this administration can't spend out money fast enough or foolishly. It typically involves sex and studying homosexuality and prostitutes in the U.S. or foreign countries. It's sick.

Ahem...

The project began in September 2005 and is scheduled to end in August 2010.

Not saying that I disagree with you, but it's not just this administration.....

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Well, let's look at it this way. People getting AIDS (or becoming HIV+ before attaining the full AIDS diagnosis) end up qualifying themselves for the drug regimen loosely referred to as the "AIDS Cocktail", provided by the taxpayer, in most cases. And that costs an average of $12K/patient/year. Just for the pharmaceuticals, let alone the testing. MD visits, other illnesses that happen to travel in concert with AIDS.

In the NYT last week was an article about how high risk populations were burning through funds that states have allocated for their medical insurance and care. A fellow in Fort Lauderdale was concerned about where he would get his drugs if Florida taps out its spending for the program. The NYT plays the violins and repeats this vignette in a number of states, all without calculating the cost to taxpayers. The fellow from Fort Lauderdale admitted he had been on the program for approximately 12 years (or $144,000). That's one person for 12 years.

So the cost of this fellow attaining HIV+ status is $12,000/year for drugs alone, for how many years he has to reach the "normal" life expectancy for a person who is HIV+.

It seems to me that research like this - if it leads to some insight that helps stop the creation of new cases like the fellow from Fort Lauderdale, may be pretty cost effective.

I realize it's galling thing to have to pay for the costs that irresponsible people offload on the taxpayer. It really shouldn't be that way. Given that it is, if research like this reduces the number of people who get in line for that program, I grudgingly say we should go for it. In a better world there would be stronger disincentives for people to effectively take risks with their lives and with other peoples money.

[Redbob]

They’re still desperately trying to show that some group other than queers get and spread AIDS...

[Redbob]

They’re still desperately trying to show that some group other than queers get and spread AIDS...

[Redbob]

They’re still desperately trying to show that some group other than queers get and spread AIDS...

[Redbob]

They’re still desperately trying to show that some group other than queers get and spread AIDS...

[Redbob]

They’re still desperately trying to show that some group other than queers get and spread AIDS...

[Redbob]

They’re still desperately trying to show that some group other than queers get and spread AIDS...

[Redbob]

They’re still desperately trying to show that some group other than queers get and spread AIDS...

[Slings and Arrows]

*coughlotlizardscough*

[Smokin' Joe]

“Overall, we have not found really significant numbers of STDs, and we haven’t found any HIV,” Dr. Laura Bachmann, the principal investigator on the project, told CNSNews.com. “Part of the issue is: I moved in the mean time, so that’s why it’s taking awhile to get it done.”

Kinda tough to keep a CDL if you are getting rear-ended, or doing the 'rear ending'...

[freekitty]

Does our Congress sit around just thinking up these ridiculous titles to bills or amendments hidden in bills when they are really putting the money into private slush funds stolen from the taxpayer to finance their own sorry butts?

[WKUHilltopper]

Keep on truckin’...

Maybe they should spend money to study studies.

[Impy]

Some are married, some like hookers. Some are married and like hookers. There, I just did it for free.