Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Republicans simply want you to die already.

Well, that's an exaggeration, but it might as well end up that way.  Their area of focus of their budget cuts: NIH (CDC and the NCI), EPA, FDA, USDA, the IRS and health services for the poor and children of the poor.  You can see a summary here and here.  Some other cuts include NASA and the elimination of the Departments of Energy and Education, proposed by Rand Paul. Wow -- are we sliding back to 19th century government?

In essence, Republicans propose cutting funding of cancer research, cutting food safety programs, cutting pollution protections, cutting drug safety and product safety programs, and of course, cutting funding of coordination and management of viral epidemics.

Or in the words of Commodus to Maximus:
"What am I going to do with you? You simply won't...die."

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