Posted on 10/13/2014 6:30:20 AM PDT by xzins
Democrats have rushed out of the gate with an attack ad against Republicans claiming if only we had spent more money, we would be able to solve the Ebola situation.
It’s a defensive ad that reeks of desperation. At a time when more and more Americans, including millennials, are concluding government just doesn’t work, it probably won’t be effective. And Republicans can respond in kind.
For example, instead of studying Ebola, the National Institutes of Health were studying the propensity of lesbians to be fat.
Then there was the money for a study on wives who calm down quickly.
And the Centers for Disease Control spent its budget on gun violence studies on order of the President as part of his agenda to curtail the second amendment.
The CDC also spent its money to survey what bus riders thought of HIV videos.
Hey, and let’s not forget all the money the CDC spent to convince people to stop smoking and now we need tobacco to manufacture the drug to fight Ebola. Classic.
Of course democrats blame the GOP for ebola. They blame nurses, they blame us common pukes for “fear”, and they blame anything that moves that ain’t them.
We really need to get democrats out of power. They’re going to get us all killed.
I am fat but hetero! Our government is so F****D up.
And don’t forget the hundreds of billions wasted on tracking the melting ice in the Arctic, while the ice in the Antarctic is expanding….but it doesn’t fit the global warming religion’s doctrinal stance. The money is going into phony ‘science.”
LIB COLUMNIST: Ebola Becoming “Political Nightmare” for Democrats
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3214408/posts
The implicit racism in Ebola tragedy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3213505/posts
Purdue professor says Ebola ‘primed’ to go airborne
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3214435/posts
Same old crap we heard about AIDs in the 1980s.
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
This reminds me of Houston. They cannot fill the potholes. They can’t get decent buses and certified drivers for the school kids. No seatbelts, and several busloads of students injured in wrecks, already in September, taken to emergency Rooms in Houston. Seatbelts, and certified trained licensed drivers would help prevent that. Yet there is a four page list of things that the mayor, a fat lesbian married to a woman, spends money on!
Houston Soccer for Success After School Program — $230,000
Live Home Work Assistance — $850,000
New Computer lab in 5th ward — $1,000,000
Bethel Church renovation park — $4.1 million
Homeless and Housing Fund — $1 million
Martin Luther King shrine (Metro) $750,000
High School Student Interns — $100,000
Deluxe Theater renovation $5.5 million
$3,101,439 of your tax dollars on the fifth and final scheduled installment, for repayment of misappropriated HUD grant funding.
Remember in 2008 the city of Houston agreed to use your tax dollars to repay HUD $15.5 million to settle findings that Houston misspent federal grants.
$2.638 million for land to build a Downtown inspirational center.
$100,000 for a pot hole finding cell phone app
$55,109.50 to purchase additional land for Emancipation Park—not counting the $116,837.00 for Emancipation Park from the previous week.
$540,000.00 City of Houston produced work place violence video “run, hide, fight”.
$100,000.00 (State Housing Trust Funds) to Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston for housing assistance for families at-risk of becoming homeless. The President of this “non-Profit” receives $182,739.00.
$7,299.67 to help 5 low income person with rental assistance.
$787,050.00 to a lobbyist for the Texas Legislative Session.
Cathedral Health and Outreach Ministries, in the amount of $51,839.00 for the provision of Homeless Services in connection with the Texas Homeless Housing and Services Program. Executive Director income is $105,345.00.
Contract between the City of Houston and Child Care Council of Greater Houston, providing up to $189,300.00.
$400,000 for a mystery shopper at the airport.
Contract between the City of Houston and Child Care Council of Greater Houston, providing up to $207,818.00.
After School Achievement Program (ASAP) childcare $850,000.00
Multi-Family Residential Project 1500 Prarie — $2 million
Greater Houston Convention and Visitor’s Bureau — $685,000
Houston Soccer for Success After School Program — $230,000.00
Art (through August) — $3,600,000.00
Homeless and Housing Fund — $1,000,000.00
High School Student Interns — $100,000.00
$159,684.96 to the Houston Food Bank to increase public awareness of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (food stamps). Remember the Houston Food Bank has annual revenues of $148 million!
$167,562,00 for software that records and stores individual homeless person data.
$133,415.00 for strategic homeless planning — affordable housing, education, employment, transportation, child care, mental health, food and shelter.
$50,000 for families at-risk of becoming homeless (Memorial Assistance Ministries).
$435,568.00 for moving and storage of household goods for those people benefiting from the City Housing Community Development Department.
$975,000 for an adult day care center.
$70,000 for childcare for homeless families affected by HIV.
$600,000 to the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston from the Housing Opportunities for People With Aids grant fund for multiple rental assistance programs (previously was given $100,000).
$92,490 to SRO Housing Corporation for the operation of a community residence for low-income and homeless persons living with HIV/AIDS.
$200,000 for after school childcare – After School Achievement Program (previously gave $850,000).
$1,237,507 for Sam Houston Park improvements.
$3,350,160.00 to Dean’s Nutritional Food Service for “free” meals and snacks in an After-School Meal.
$499,572.00 for the renovation of a Community Medical, Dental and Imaging Center located at 5012 North Shepherd. In case you didn’t know, Houstonians previously acquired the building earlier this year with $800,428.00 of your tax dollars. And everyone is eligible for free affordable care act?
$439,572.00 to Child Care Council of Greater Houston (a non-profit) for oversight and delivery of a Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Program. Services include abuse deterrence and treatment, prevention of premature sexual activity, cultural enrichment, recreational activities, and more…
$421,410.00 additional to Child Care Council of Greater Houston for full-day care, before or after school care, full-day summer programs, infant care, 24 hour crisis nursery services, and more…
$750,000.00 for after-school program expenditures for use as match to draw down federal child care funds.
$3,478,518.00 to Child Care Council of Greater Houston to address the needs of families who are homeless and at risk of becoming homeless.
$750,000.00 loan to the Greater East End Management District (an appointed board) to install street furniture, trees, solar pedestrian lighting, and street furniture.
$47,000.00 for an enhanced pedestrian and transit supportive environment along Main, Rice University, and Herman Park.
$5,975,000.00 Loan between the City of Houston and Guld Arms Limited to assist with acquisition, demolition and reconstruction of a 160 unit Affordable Housing Community.
$8,500,000.00 to Houston Heights Towers to provide to assist with renovation of a 223 unit Affordable Housing Community for seniors and the disabled.
$81,500.00 for a Special Assistant to the Mayor for Homeless Initiatives.
$300,000.00 of Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ), and appropriating $6,000,000.00 out of TIRZ, to be used for affordable single family and multi-family housing.
$507,750.51 to Aids Foundation Houston, Inc. in Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS Funds for the administration and operation of two community residences.
$123,335.00 to Search Homeless Services, Inc. to provide meals, bus tokens, showers, blankets, gold cards, medical and dental assistance.
$2,051,035.00 in loans to Mayberry Homes Inc. for affordable single-family homes.
Free wifi for the traditionally underserved areas of town.
Free banking for those traditionally without a bank account. All you need is a Mexican matricula card to apply (really).
Of course that begs the question, why are lesbians fat?
“...it probably won’t be effective. And Republicans can respond in kind.”
But they won’t! Beginning to wonder if the DNC has dirt on EVERY key Republican who then orders the underlings to back off from voicing ANY accusations that might hurt the feelings (or election chances) of any liberals. Never have seen such a bunch of limp-wristed wussies.
I suspect causation is the other way around...
they are lesbians because they are fat
“Of course that begs the question, why are lesbians fat?”
Simple: fat is a good match with mean and ugly.
Grant money, please...
and somebody spent a half-million on why fat girls don’t get dates
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/01/FLASHBACK-Obama-administration-dumps-quarantine-rules
THIS should be plastered all over net/media.
Oh no!
Not another Hillary article...
I still want the government to spend money testing my theory as to why lesbians are fat: I think it’s because they eat too much. Where do I apply for the research grant?
Like the ISIS problem — the administration failed to respond quickly enough to Ebola.
The list of all the Stupid PORK projects could not be posted as it would take up the entire internet.
Republicans are just as guilty of approving Stupid Pork. It’s about half and half with Democrats possibly funding slightly more STUPID PORK projects.
Many Stupid Pork projects were unopposed by Republicans ... so even if they did not directly vote for Democrat Stupid Pork they did not oppose it because they wanted the same consideration for their own Stupid Pork.
Therefore, Republicans can’t get into a tit-for-tat with Democrats on funding STUPID PORK.
However, we the people should remind everyone of how much money has been wasted on STUPID PORK. We should resolve ourselves to bring it up in every conversation with everyone we meet. Pick 5-10 STUPID PORK projects (out of several bazillion this should not be hard) and keep bringing those up every time someone mentions that we don’t have money to fight Ebola, or fund schools, or whatever.
As municipalities run out of money, those expenditures are going to be scrutinized very closely. Should be interesting when they start cutting programs; companies and workers have no interest operating in places where the roads are similar to those in Mogadishu...
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