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I think that the researchers need to come up with a plan, then our government write them reimbursement checks once a month. We can't afford to write a huge blank check for this endeavor. And what happens if the cure if found after only spending $3 million on the problem? Do us taxpayers get an automatic refund on the amount that isn't spent?
We have no extra money. We are already trillions of dollars in debt. And the Zika problem is international in scope, this should be an issue for the UN to work on and for them to ask other nations to donate to the cause.
Anyway, this is probably Mother Nature trying to get rid of the excess numbers of human beings on the planet. So in the meantime, wherever there is the presence of the Zika virus, the women there need to stop having babies until a cure comes.
1. The fact that it may be international in scope doesn't help Americans who are affected by it.
2. There is no "Mother Nature", no "Tooth Fairy", and no "Easter Bunny".
3. So if you live in a state where the mosquito become endemic, you really expect all women in that state not to have babies?
I'm so tired of our liberal Presidents making these grand gestures with our hard earned taxpayer dollars. Stop trying to impress the rest of the world.
So what amount of money is Brazil going to contribute to the problem?
The conservatives are not against fighting this virus!! We just don't want all kinds of things attached to any bill that the Left will attach to force through an agenda that wouldn't otherwise pass.
So conservatives never attach riders to congressional bills?
Come on now. Just a handful of posts back you said: "The Zika bill is healthcare. Why should it not come from money designated for healthcare?" Medicare is money designated for healthcare.
Did you bother to read the bill? It's packed with garbage having nothing whatsoever to do with Zika. For example, it includes a provision for 325 million dollars for undefined “Global Health Programs”. It's just a slush fund.
I would also remind you that Democrats blocked a GOP Zika bill because it DIDN'T include money for Planned Parenthood.
That's a fair criticism.
However, attaching things to bills that have little to do with the bills is a thing that both parties do ALL THE TIME.
Is that meant to be sarcasm, or do you really believe that?
It's not reasonable to label all conservatives as such. However, there are an awfully lot of scientifically related issues where it seems as if much conservative thought ignores science. Things related to the environment, evolution, etc.
The chemical is no more acutely toxic than drugs that we ingest every day. People who were fed a capsule containing a significant dose of the chemical for one-and-a-half years suffered no ill effects, and evidence for DDT causing cancer is so weak as to be in the realm of chance; scientifically nonexistent. It is, in fact, a rather ordinary chemical with a very bad reputation.
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