Posted on 10/14/2014 9:01:15 PM PDT by Abakumov
So now the federal health bureaucrats in charge of controlling diseases and pandemics want more money to do their jobs. Hmph. Maybe if they hadn't been so busy squandering their massive government subsidies on everything but their core mission, we taxpayers might actually feel a twinge of sympathy.
At $7 billion, the Centers for Disease Control 2014 budget is nearly 200 percent bigger now than it was in 2000. Those evil, stingy Republicans actually approved CDC funding increases in January larger than what President Obama requested.
What are we getting for this ever-increasing amount of money? Answer: A power-hungry busybody brigade of politicized blame-mongers.
Money, money, it's always the money. Yet, while Ebola and enterovirus D68 wreak havoc on our health system, the CDC has been busying itself with an ever-widening array of non-disease control campaigns, like these recent crusades:
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Why aren’t the Republicans in the house defunding these because they are not within the parameters of what thenCDC does?
What is amazing and disheartening is that even now, the American people are sitting back in shock and horror, yet the anger and outrage that should be propelling us to go after the people who are responsible for putting all of us at a risk for death, WE ARE SILENT.
Geesh, it is too damn late anymore. Enjoy the time you have left, if you can.
Or how we should ‘get exercise’ while their evil twins in the Democrat party are bringing in disease carrying illegals by the truckload to kill our children.
When this is over we need to de-fund the CDC. Take away their money, buildings and staff. Let them work for a living for once.
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