Posted on 10/23/2014 8:57:51 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The federal government has become a vast cornucopia for people who know how to play the system. If you do, you can enjoy showers of money for doing things that few if any Americans would willingly pay for.
Just to point to a recent instance that made headlines, after Democrats griped that the Center for Disease Control had been crippled in its ability to deal with Ebola because of budget cuts, quite a few writers scrutinized the research that the CDC had been paying for. As Michael Tanner of Cato Institute showed in this column, CDC bureaucrats have been funding research into such crucial questions as why lesbians tend to be overweight while gay men do not, why reruns of Seinfeld are so popular, and how quickly husbands and wives make up after a fight.
Wasteful stuff that doesn’t do anything to combat disease, but at least such research doesn’t threaten our freedom.
But now consider a research project that’s being funded by the National Science Foundation. The project purports to detect what the team of researchers label “social pollution” on the Internet. Specifically, the research focuses on Twitter use with the goal of learning how ideas spread through our culture.
Keep in mind that the mission of the National Science Foundation is to “promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare.” Putting aside the question whether there is any constitutional authority for broad brush spending for the “general welfare,” (Madison would have said there wasn’t), does this research come close to doing so?
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So the Obama government won’t do the things it should do like secure the borders against invasion and disease. But would have the gpovernment do what it should not do, spy on people and damage free speech.
Well then here’s some “truthy” for you Obama. You are the worst president in US history. You are a totalitarian POS and an utter incompetent to boot. So stick that in your truthy file you evil bastard.
Why hasn’t the CDC been researching vaccines for new strains of TB, finding cures for ebola or developing new anti-biotics?
Because hiring a lot of people to put out more studies on how the PC lifestyle is superior and healthier is cheaper than actual medical research, you can manipulate data to fit the political objective, hire more people to do social studies and thus boost crony employment and not actually put anyone at risk like trekking through a hospital and possibly catching a disease.
Your Ministry of Truth advisor is on the way to your place now to re-educate you.
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