Not looking for a fight.
Explain this please. I really am having a hard time seeing the good in it...
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Not looking for a fight.
I've learned over my lifetime it's what they aren't telling you. Is the money being spent on what they say? What political agenda is the money supporting? Since money is being cut at the CDC, could it be cut from something else but instead is being cut from that to score political points? Kinda of like the other summer when National Parks were shut down when they didn't have to be to score political points.
I'm not saying that is happening, but I always consider it.
We spend to much, period.
I could end here but I’ll go on.
there is many places I would prefer my tax dollars go to over this. My schools, my vets living on the streets, healthcare reimbursement improvments, etc.
Is that a good cause if in fact that is where the money is going, yes. But again, we spend to much. (ICS says same thing to wife when she wants X that we can’t afford)
I could end here but I’ll go on.
there is many places I would prefer my tax dollars go to over this. My schools, my vets living on the streets, healthcare reimbursement improvments, etc.
Is that a good cause if in fact that is where the money is going, yes. But again, we spend to much. (ICS says same thing to wife when she wants X that we can’t afford)
The CDC is corrupt. If they were doing real research the money would be well spent. Since it's only 6 bureaucrats my gut tells me the money stays in thier pockets, no research is done.
A lot of research money is just laundered. Don't be fooled thinking that real research was happening.
A lot of research money is just laundered. Don't be fooled thinking that real research was happening.
Some researchers, scientists apply for research money . Maybe they get 2M ( example). In many cases none of the money will be spent doing any lab research. They just keep it, but they will compile some data that they find on the web and package it in a report.
And that is how research is done. I worked in r&d my entire adult life. I have seen the cheating and I have seen honest research being done with the scientist taking only a meager sum to live and using the money for real research. There is a lot of junk research. Just look at " climate change ".
And that is how research is done. I worked in r&d my entire adult life. I have seen the cheating and I have seen honest research being done with the scientist taking only a meager sum to live and using the money for real research. There is a lot of junk research. Just look at " climate change ".
Just speculating on my part, while I believe that funding for brain injury research is a noble task, I do wonder if the dollars collected actually end up funding the research.
I kind of think of it as when I spent decades donating to a particular non-profit only to find out that only 3% of the money donated went to fund what I was donating for.
In this case, perhaps the audits were revealing.
I kind of think of it as when I spent decades donating to a particular non-profit only to find out that only 3% of the money donated went to fund what I was donating for.
In this case, perhaps the audits were revealing.
I think I can give about 36 trillion reasons why this and many other spending reductions are not only well-advised but 1000% necessary to avoid an economic collapse by 2035. The reasons:
- If the debt hits $50 trillion - well on its way without massive spending reductions - then interest on the debt will exceed defense spending and Medicare combined.
- If the debt hits $50 trillion, then the United States will have to print obscene amounts of unbacked currency to cover the interest, let alone the actual expenditures.
- If the United States prints tens of trillions of dollars of unbacked currency, real inflation will wipe out all savings and the concomitant increase in social security payments (tied to inflation) will make the rotting corpse of the United States economy unappetizing to even the most robust vultures.
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Geez, dont worry. they will have a new digital currency up and running in no time. It'll be really easy to use.
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i've read so many articles talking about how gov funding is often given out with the conclusion predetermined. The only research from the other side is done by energy companies so it's dismissed out of hand as biased. So a geologist with real data and real samples, funded by an energy company is silenced and a guy who fudges numbers into a computer simulation is hailed as a genius.
You lost me at "www.espn.com"
Thanks for the input here...
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Don't worry. The magic debt fairy will swoop down and erase all debts to everyone,even jizzer's $50 dollars.
Of course we know the democrat plan to avoid destruction. Get those tax rates up to 50% for everyone. It's an emergency and must be done.
Trouble is ,they'll spend it on bullshit and drive us into a collapse. Which then drives us into a full totalitarian government with martial law, to keep the pissed off peasants in check.
that is what i found...
with just 5 people on the panel, seems they could have been more active. Not to say the work they're doing is irrelevant, but it seems they're a bit nonchalant or slow about things. yes, I know research takes time, but what were they doing when they were "close to launching" and "planning to release" and "about to launch" these three projects?
Wasn't the budget for Five Guys $8.25 million per year? Why, yes it was. That's $1.65 million per.
Being the Five Guys on the panel pays a hell of a lot more than being employed by Five Guys, apparently.
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Yeah, but they had to pay their Senators pals to get that grant
The govt can't pay for every friggen' thing any more. We don't have the money. Let the drug companies or foundations raise their own money.