Posted on 10/14/2014 7:21:42 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
As I’m sure you know, former White House Chief of Staff and now Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel once quipped, “never let a good crisis go to waste.” And you don’t get a much better crisis than Ebola. The progressive socialists of the Democrat Party are milking it for all its worth, as they see their hopes sinking for the midterm elections.
As reported by The Huffington Post “As the federal government frantically works to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and as it responds to a second diagnosis of the disease at home, one of the country’s top health officials says a vaccine likely would have already been discovered were it not for budget cuts. Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, said that a decade of stagnant spending has “slowed down” research on all items, including vaccinations for infectious diseases.”
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Oh horse puckey. Companies developing ebola vaccines and cures do so with private funds. For example, Monsanto is partially funding Tekmira, a Canadian company very close to testing their vaccine. Tekmira’s stock went from $13 a few weeks ago to $24 more recently. The boobs writing this hit piece apparently do not understand finance.
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