Posted on 10/15/2014 6:51:33 AM PDT by cotton1706
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:
Mandatory motorcycle helmet laws. CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden appoints a 15-member “Community Preventive Services Task Force” to promote pet Nanny State projects. An obscure Obamacare rule–Section 4003(b)(1)–stealthily increased the task force’s authority to study “any policies, programs, processes or activities designed to affect or otherwise affecting health at the population level.” Last year, the meddling panel extended the agency’s reach into transportation safety with a call to impose a federal universal motorcycle helmet law on the country. Is riding a Harley a disease? Why is this the CDC’s business?
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
Hey, let’s take all this money we’ve been budgeted to develop protocols and procedures to prevent a pandemic in America
and spend it on “studies” about guns, smoking, homosexuality, gender identity and depression, and why lesbians are fat!
Great idea (if your mind has been given over to depravity).
How many patents on Ebola are involved,
issued and pending, involving the CDC and the DNC???
As with Global Warming, follow the money if
treason and hate of the USA are not enough to explain
what is going on.
The nurses & other healthcare workers dealing with Duncan couldn’t even get gowns/suits that were full coverage ..... and the CDC has been messing around with a bunch of PC, leftist malarkey? Heads should roll at a minimum. Duncan should not have been here in the first place, but since Obola’s policies allowed it, the nurses getting Ebola can thank the CDC for LACK of protocol to even breach and getting Ebola as a result. Beyond disgusting.
BTW, why won’t Obola shut off air traffic/passengers from Ebola hot zone countries? It is an idealogical issue .... he is determined to have open borders in this country regardless of any consequences (health risks, economic damage, etc.), so much so that he won’t even make an exception to close them to potential Ebola carriers.
Who is the mystery woman who we are paying to be the Infectious Disease Czar? According to Fox last night, Obama has appointed such a person months ago. Inquiring minds want to know why she has not appeared, leaving the stage for the unconvincing Dr. Frieden. She must be a real ditz.
She was implicated in a scandal involving Ron Perleman and small pox vaccine.
Enterovirus D68 is the BORDER DISEASE!
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