[TornadoAlley3]

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[digger48]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQAsWbg-Qi8

[Clintonfatigued]

Wow, this gives the term “stimulous package” a whole new meaning.

[mylife]

http://www.midnighttrucking.com/

[nmh]

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.

[no dems]

Stopped at a Truck Stop to eat lately? It’s no wonder the fat, old, truckers don’t have any sexually transmitted diseases. Who would have sex with them?

[gitmo]

My experience is that the young bucks new to the industry spend a lot of time with coin-operated beavers, but they either settle down or burn out.

[TASMANIANRED]

Perhaps they should have focused on gay truck drivers instead.

[dalereed]

I'll bet the answers to their questionnaires were at least 2% accurate!

[MrPiper]

Ah yes,,, Lot Lizards..................don’t have an STD to call your own?.... no problem.....we can fix that!

[martin_fierro]

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

I DON'T. WANT. TO KNOW.

[Jeff Chandler]

The difference between a fairy tale and a truck driver story:

A fairy tale begins, “Once upon a time . . .”

A truck driver story begins,”You ain’t gonna believe this sh** . . .”

[chris_bdba]

Gee I could’ve found that out for a lot less money by just crusing the parking lot of ay large truckstop any night of the week and then asking the guy who supplies the machines in the men’s bathrooms how many tmes a month he has to refill it.

[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

[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...