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NBA's Ray Allen champions diabetes awareness on Hill [Whatever happened to private funding?]
Politico ^ | 7/11/13 | BREANNA EDWARDS

Posted on 07/11/2013 4:21:29 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

NBA star Ray Allen visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday to testify at a Senate hearing about diabetes, one of the issues closest to him as his son, Walker, is diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

The Miami Heat player has been a staunch advocate for diabetes awareness ever since his son became gravely ill and was diagnosed in 2008 during the NBA Finals, when Allen played for the Boston Celtics. Walker Allen is now 6 years old and a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Children’s Congress Delegate, and his father continues to show support...

Ranking member Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) in her remarks expressed her wishes for continued bipartisan support for the cause, to further research and encourage more helpful breakthroughs.

“It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, an independent or a Green Party member — what matters is that we all work together to focus on the estimated 3 million Americans with Type 1 diabetes,” she said. “Since I founded the Senate Diabetes Caucus, we’ve been successful in working together in a bipartisan manner to triple the funding for diabetes research.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: health; taxes
Err, don't get me wrong, I am aware that diabetes is a grave threat, and even have faced it in my family.

But WHY is this a problem to be solved by taxpayers? Wouldn't there be better and more targeted funding if government bureaucracies were NOT handing out the money?

Collins boasts about tripling funding for research...to me, I wonder how much of that was wasted or not invested in other, more specific causes.

The fact that a mega-rich member of the 1%, a celebrity from the sports world, is on Capitol Hill demanding that MY money be used for his pet cause makes me wonder how he would like ME appropriating HIS salary for things I want done.

Thoughts?

1 posted on 07/11/2013 4:21:29 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

He po-folk.


2 posted on 07/11/2013 4:26:57 AM PDT by swampthang77
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To: SoFloFreeper
When I receive requests in the mail from organizations who want a donation, I return the following note to them in their OWN postage paid envelope:

Sir:

America elected/re elected a man who campaigned for the Presidency calling me rich, greedy and uncaring. He promised you that he'd address all your needs at my expense.

So now, the US government has hired people to take my money from me, FOR you.

As a result, it is impossible for me to continue my usual contributions to charities of MY choice.

If you need assistance, I suggest you contact the people the government has hired to take my money, on your behalf.

Thank you.

3 posted on 07/11/2013 4:33:26 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m with you. Funding medical research at all doesn’t sound much like government purview to me unless we’re talking about some kind of plague that’s a major national threat.


4 posted on 07/11/2013 5:05:15 AM PDT by Impy (Bring back the spoils system.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Ray (like Doc Rivers—good riddance to them both, Celts fans!) is a serious Leftist.


5 posted on 07/11/2013 5:29:28 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’ve become pretty jaded with most charities anymore. I tell them I do not give money to them so they can use it to lobby the government for more money.

I give used clothes and household items to Goodwill, and cash to the Salvation Army.


6 posted on 07/11/2013 5:43:24 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: SoFloFreeper

He is appealing to the PRIVATE club that doles out PUBLIC money as if it was their own.


7 posted on 07/11/2013 7:18:34 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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